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Mercedes Benz Kent Launches Text Response Initiative
Car dealer group adopts mobile marketing strategy.
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Full Story | 3 views | Posted
on: May 16, 2008, 09:37:11 AM |
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Survey Finds 37% of Gen Y-ers Text While Driving
Shocking SMS statistic revealed
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Full Story | 2 views | Posted
on: May 15, 2008, 03:41:00 PM |
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Thames Valley Police Begin Text Recruitment Drive
One of the Uk’s oldest police forces launches new mobile marketing recruitment initiative.
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Full Story | 33 views | Posted
on: April 30, 2008, 09:25:06 AM |
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'Fatal text' driver jailed for two years
A Pontypool sales executive who killed another driver in a head-on collision, just two minutes after sending a text message, has been jailed for two years.
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Full Story | 32 views | Posted
on: April 29, 2008, 08:54:42 AM |
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Dead Wife Contacts Lancs Man Via SMS
A Lancashire man whose house has a chilling reputation for poltergeist activity claims he is being haunted by text messages from his dead wife, the Blackpool Gazette reports.
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Full Story | 30 views | Posted
on: April 29, 2008, 08:41:55 AM |
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Brooklyn Motor Group PLC Chooses Text Marketer
Midlands based motor retailer, Brooklyn Motors has launched a text response service for its Toyota franchises.
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Full Story | 40 views | Posted
on: April 29, 2008, 08:27:02 AM |
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Research Finds SMS Spam is on the Mobile Menu
Research from messaging security company Cloudmark shows that 66% of UK mobile phone users have been victims of text spam, with the number of 18 to 24 year olds targeted as high as 75% - the highest percentage of any age category.
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Full Story | 37 views | Posted
on: April 24, 2008, 08:02:58 AM |
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Scottish Institute for Enterprise Adopts Text Alerts
Scottish Institute for Enterprise provides a free service for all of Scotland's students to encourage enterprising spirit and skills, and help start-up companies become the businesses of tomorrow.
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Full Story | 81 views | Posted
on: April 08, 2008, 09:16:45 AM |
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SMS Buyer’s Guide
Choosing the right supplier from the mobile marketing industry is frankly a bit of a nightmare.
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Full Story | 177 views | Posted
on: April 03, 2008, 04:21:29 PM |
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Text-to-pee service launched
Finland’s residents now face being caught short during car trips if their phones are out of credit, because the country’s road management agency has introduced an SMS entry system for public toilets.
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Full Story | 104 views | Posted
on: March 31, 2008, 08:58:17 AM |
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Fastest Growing Builders Merchant Adopts Mobile Marketing Strategy
Selco, the trade only merchant have launched an sms marketing campaign aimed at driving its growing customer base into stores with a range of outstanding offers.
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Full Story | 115 views | Posted
on: March 26, 2008, 08:57:57 AM |
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6 Million People Hurt in the UK Last Year While Texting and Talking
Six million people were hurt crashing into lampposts and bins last year while texting and talking on their mobiles, a study found, reports the Mirror and according to ITN, padded lampposts are being trialled in a London street to protect inattentive pedestrians.
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Full Story | 106 views | Posted
on: March 10, 2008, 04:58:50 PM |
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New Zealand Police Want Operators to Archive SMSs
Police in new Zealand are seeking a change in the law to compel the mobile operators to archive text messages sent through their networks for crime fighting purposes. (Operators usually save text messages only 72 hours or a week at the longest).
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Full Story | 98 views | Posted
on: March 10, 2008, 04:54:41 PM |
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Railway Drivers, Guards To Be Instructed Through SMS
Another innovative application of sms text messaging: instructing New Dehli railway drivers and guards through SMS.
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Full Story | 99 views | Posted
on: March 05, 2008, 08:03:29 AM |
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Two Trillion SMS in 2008
The latest annual report from Research and Markets predicts that 2008 will see over 2 trillion text messages sent worldwide.
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Full Story | 141 views | Posted
on: March 05, 2008, 07:44:14 AM |
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Filipinos And Chinese Vie As Top Senders Of Text Messages In 2007
Chinese and Filipinos vie for the distinction as top senders of text messages worldwide.
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Full Story | 127 views | Posted
on: March 05, 2008, 07:42:52 AM |
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Chinese Politican Calls for a Ban on Text Voting
A Chinese politician, Zhao Linzhong has called for SMS voting to be banned as it "breeds corruption". He said that such activities are serious in nature and affect the morality of the people.
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Full Story | 102 views | Posted
on: March 05, 2008, 07:41:09 AM |
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Interchange Opts for Text Alerts
Leading foreign currency exchange specialist Interchange improves service with sms currency alerts
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Full Story | 218 views | Posted
on: February 28, 2008, 09:10:59 AM |
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Graduates 'sms' in job l3tt3rs
UNIVERSITY graduates are using text message abbreviations and gaming slang in their job applications, prompting alarmed employers and education institutions to run special courses in written communication.
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Full Story | 131 views | Posted
on: February 27, 2008, 09:39:43 AM |
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France's President Sarkozy Sues Over Fake SMS
Following the publication of an SMS, allegedly sent by France's President, Nicolas Sarkozy by the Nouvel Observateur newspaper - the President has launched legal action against the publication. Cellular News reports
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Full Story | 136 views | Posted
on: February 27, 2008, 09:20:39 AM |
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More Texts Please We're British
The Mobile Data Association (MDA) has released its first quarterly report of the year.
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Full Story | 121 views | Posted
on: February 27, 2008, 09:19:15 AM |
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Intrepid Travel Adopt Text Response For Advertising Campaign
Youth travel company Intrepid are now text enabling their national advertising campaign for the first time.
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Full Story | 143 views | Posted
on: February 27, 2008, 09:17:33 AM |
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Philippine SMS Tax Scrapped
A texters SMS revolt led by Consumer group TXTPower has forced the Philippine government to abandon plans to impose a tax on text messages
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Full Story | 176 views | Posted
on: January 22, 2008, 08:50:29 AM |
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Police To Use Text Message Tactics to Snare Rape Suspects
Police and prosecutors in rape cases are set to experiment with controversial techniques designed to make suspects incriminate themselves through phone calls or text messages. The Guardian reports.
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Full Story | 190 views | Posted
on: January 21, 2008, 08:02:00 AM |
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Lebanese Ready To Text
Although Lebanese phone penetration is the lowest in the region, almost all those that do have access to a phone send SMS.
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Full Story | 177 views | Posted
on: January 21, 2008, 07:54:44 AM |
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Spend-a-penny SMS Service Starts Flowing
If you’re caught short in central London tonight then just text Westminster Council (WC), because it has launched a loo-locating texting service.
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Full Story | 220 views | Posted
on: January 03, 2008, 09:28:20 AM |
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Mobile Marketing and the Recruitment Process
Despite impressive growth, the use of mobile marketing has remained firmly on the margins of most marketing and communications strategies.
Strikingly the use of a text response in the recruitment process is still fairly uncommon.
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Full Story | 391 views | Posted
on: December 21, 2007, 11:31:50 AM |
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2.3 Trilion SMSs will be sent in 2008
Gartner says 2.3 trillion text messages will be sent across major markets worldwide in 2008.
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Full Story | 247 views | Posted
on: December 18, 2007, 12:42:10 PM |
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Dixons Group Raises Funds in Charity Text to Win Competition
Members of staff raise Christamas cheer.
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Full Story | 304 views | Posted
on: December 18, 2007, 08:36:54 AM |
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SMS Takes To The Air
Airline passengers will send over 60 million text messages in 2010, according to Freesky Research
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Full Story | 219 views | Posted
on: December 18, 2007, 08:15:28 AM |
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Text Messaging Celebrates 15th Birthday
In December 1992, Airwide Solutions was responsible for delivering the first ever SMS.
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Full Story | 216 views | Posted
on: December 13, 2007, 08:59:24 AM |
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One Billion Texts Sent Each Month Over Orange
Orange has found that mobile data services have generated nearly 22 per cent of network revenue in the last nine months.
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Full Story | 220 views | Posted
on: December 13, 2007, 08:54:03 AM |
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SMS Text Message Helpline For Indian Farmers
New mobile marketing application found
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Full Story | 215 views | Posted
on: December 13, 2007, 08:46:53 AM |
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Chinese Send 429 Billion Text Messages in 2006
Cellphone users in China sent 429 billion sms text messages in 2006
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Full Story | 228 views | Posted
on: December 13, 2007, 08:40:11 AM |
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Man Vindicated After Being Fired For Texting In Sick
An SMS Story we can learn from!
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Full Story | 308 views | Posted
on: November 27, 2007, 08:15:33 AM |
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Mobile Phones To Become London's Common Currency
Leave your Oyster Card at home
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Full Story | 241 views | Posted
on: November 27, 2007, 08:11:49 AM |
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Hard Rock Café Chooses Text Marketer For Charity Event
Putting the rock back in Rocktober!
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Full Story | 336 views | Posted
on: November 13, 2007, 05:12:18 PM |
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Britons Sending 1bn Texts Weekly
Britons are now sending more than one billion sms text messages per week according to the latest figures from the Mobile Data Association (MDA).
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Full Story | 273 views | Posted
on: November 08, 2007, 08:48:54 AM |
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South West Trains Starts SMS Recruitment Drive
South West Trains, uses text response as part of a current recruitment initiative.
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Full Story | 329 views | Posted
on: November 08, 2007, 08:40:37 AM |
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SMS Campaign To Help Out California Fire Victims
The Wireless Foundation and the Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund have joined forces to help California wildfire victims through a fund raising text message campaign.
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Full Story | 285 views | Posted
on: October 31, 2007, 07:42:51 AM |
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Bill Clinton Sent His First SMS On Tuesday. Preposterous
Better late than never..
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Full Story | 290 views | Posted
on: October 31, 2007, 07:40:25 AM |
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Smexting: Texting while smoking
Smexting v. Texting while smoking, often outside a bar.
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Full Story | 291 views | Posted
on: October 31, 2007, 07:35:59 AM |
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US Reporter Sends 21,000 Texts In A Week;Wins $5k
She who texts, wins.....
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Full Story | 274 views | Posted
on: October 31, 2007, 07:33:28 AM |
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Chez Gerard Goes Mobile
Restaurant chain Chez Gerard devise mobile marketing strategy for the first time.
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Full Story | 352 views | Posted
on: October 17, 2007, 08:25:10 AM |
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Airwide Survey Reveals Progress, But...
The survey, conducted by research firm Vanson Bourne in July 2007, found that 28% of companies surveyed have already launched live SMS campaigns, and 18% have launched live MMS campaigns.
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Full Story | 277 views | Posted
on: October 16, 2007, 08:08:45 AM |
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Baby You Can Spam My Phone
Bluetooth marketing is in the news again, following the Information Commissioners Office’s decision to update its guidance for marketers on the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003.
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Full Story | 292 views | Posted
on: October 16, 2007, 08:01:27 AM |
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Verizon Wireless Bars Abortion-Rights Group's Texting
Verizon Wireless is refusing to carry text messages from a prominent abortion-rights group, citing its internal restrictions on sms content that is "highly controversial," the carrier said. The Wall Street Journal reports.
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Full Story | 300 views | Posted
on: October 03, 2007, 08:42:21 AM |
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Ethiopia Restores SMS
Banned since the contested elections in 2005, SMS has at last been turned back on in Ethiopia in time for Ethiopia's new millennium.
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Full Story | 292 views | Posted
on: October 03, 2007, 08:39:34 AM |
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SMS Alert Used In NY College Following Gunman Arrest
Students at John's University in New York were warned about a man walking onto the campus with a loaded rifle 16 minutes after he had done so.
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Full Story | 286 views | Posted
on: October 03, 2007, 08:29:39 AM |
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Doggers Dogged Over The Dog and Bone
Text alert service digs itself a hole
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Full Story | 294 views | Posted
on: October 03, 2007, 08:22:18 AM |
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