Archive for April, 2009

American duo sends record breaking 217.000 SMS

And you thought that you send too many SMS in a month? (replace ‘you’ by ‘your teenage kids’ if you’re over 40) Two friends from Pennsylvania have send a stunning amount of 217.000 messages to each other during the month of March.  That’s 7.000 SMS per day, in case you’re wondering. Nick (29) and Doug [ READ MORE ]

SMS Parking: Schaarbeek in, Gent out

Paying your parking ticket by SMS; it’s one of the most successful examples of SMS payment in Belgium. Especially in Antwerp, where it was first introduced, it’s been a success. Ghent followed soon after, but the service there has now stopped, after experiencing technical problems since February.   NCS Crandy, the company behind the service in [ READ MORE ]

Police angry at Touring Mobilis commercials

Looks like not everybody is happy with the new radio commercials of our SMS Flits service for Touring Mobilis. Het Nieuwsblad: Politie woest op nieuwe ‘bespottelijke’ reclamespot van Touring Mobilis Het Belang van Limburg: Nooit meer geflitst&#[ READ MORE ]

MobileWeb builds SMS Flits service for Touring Mobilis

Touring Mobilis introduces the Flits Alarm, a new mobile service allowing consumers to receive the location of traffic radars by SMS. After sending a SMS with the keyword FLITS and his postal code to the shortcode 9180, the user receives a message back, containing all traffic radars in a 50 kilometer radius. It’s also possible [ READ MORE ]

Stop your stolen car by SMS

A month ago, we were driving our car with an iPhone, so why not stop a car by SMS? Students engineering at the University of Saskatchewan , Canada have worked out a system that can be very useful if your car got stolen.  Basically, you send a SMS to the board computer of your car [ READ MORE ]

Mastercard launches ATM Hunter app

American iPhone users can now find the nearest ATM cash machine, thanks to the ATM Hunter, an application by Mastercard which has become available on the Apple App Store. The application uses the iPhone localisation technology to track the whereabouts of the user and to give him information on the ATM machines available in the [ READ MORE ]

Belgian ban on combined sales judged illegal by Europe

Might Belgium finally be getting rid of the ban on combined sales? The European Court has judged this ban is not conform the European legislation and should be lifted. As we’ve argued many times before, allowing combined sales would open up a lot of marketing opportunities. The ban that exists in Belgium has come under [ READ MORE ]

Euro Parliament approves lower SMS tariffs

Yesterday afternoon, the European Parliament has almost unanimously approved the lowering of a European maximum on international voice calls and the inrtoduction of a maximum on the price of a SMS and surfing. As of July 2009, sending a SMS from a foreign country (within the Union) should cost maximum 11 eurocent.  Today, this is [ READ MORE ]

Mobile music: from ringtones to full MP3

I’ve discussed it before: the ring tone industry is no longer what it used to be.  With today’s mobile devices, we no longer have to endure those irritating polyphonic  ring tones, but we can instead download full MP3 of our favorite songs onto our mobile, use them as tones or simple use our phone as [ READ MORE ]

BBC launches beta version of Mobile TV

The BBC unveiled a beta version of its Live TV streaming television service optimized for mobile handsets including the Nokia N96 and Nokia 5800. The mobile TV trial nevertheless faces some serious limitations.  Content is broadcast at a resolution of  just 176×144 to guarantee compatibility across a wide range of handsets. Moreover, the service is [ READ MORE ]

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