As an example of advertisers trying to introduce themselves on any mobile medium they can, Relevantis has introduced a new platform that uses branded paid icons on interactive maps to get the message out. The service is aimed at user’s accessing the maps via their mobile device, as well as on their in-car navigation system. [...]
Now, you don’t have to make rounds of the municipal office or go on-line to find out about your property tax bills. Help will be available on your mobile through an SMS, reports the Times of India. “The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) is launching a new system in which citizens would get details of their [...]
This year’s most talked about SMS, purportedly send by French President Nicolas Sarkozy to his ex-wife Cecila eight days before his marriage to singer Carla Bruni saying: “If you come back, I’ll cancel everything” – has been made into a song by Jeanne Cherhal and posted on her MySpace page. So far it’s been viewed [...]
The winter may bring with it romantic comedies featuring Hugh Grant, but the downside is the drop in temperature. Fortunately, the Webasto Thermo Top E Parking Heater allows users to send a text message to a car where it is installed, which then kicks it into action, ensuring your car is warm to the touch [...]
Users of social network sites like Facebook will soon be sharing their exact whereabouts with their friends in real-time, owing to new technology that uses the mobile phone as a tracking device, experts say. The AFP reports. A new social network site, Gypsii, which launched this week at Mobile World Congress 2008 in Barcelona, allows [...]
D:Scribe is a digital fountain pen that allows users to send SMS and email messages from paper. Just write out the message and circle the person’s name to send. This does away with a keypad and allows you to focus on communicating in a more personal way from anywhere as long as you have a [...]
R U cycle? Book! Fancy an adds down the sub? There’s a gr8 new carnage. It may look like gobbledegook, but the most streetwise of teenagers would have no trouble translating and responding to it in kind. A new language is being developed by cell phone-addicted kids based on the predictive text of their treasured [...]
Cell phone customers will have a powerful crime-reporting tool when an Ottawa technology expert rolls out his special tip-scrambling software to Crime Stoppers branches across the country. Eric Jacksch says by the end of March, tipsters in Canada can text message information to authorities under the cloak of anonymity that has become synonymous with Crime [...]
Classifieds can now be sent in via text messaging thanks to SMS Pal, a text message classified ad company. The service costs 99 cents for every listing and is charged back as a premium SMS message to the user’s carrier. The classified ads run on line at smspal.com and in local participating newspapers.Based in my [...]
Almost 99 percent of the U.S. population has access to at least one or more mobile phone provider, and 80 percent of Americans now subscribe to wireless service, according to a Monday report from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Looking at census information and maps from Memphis-based American Roamer, which produces details maps of network [...]
