Mobile phone users can expect the cost of sending text messages from abroad in the EU to be much cheaper next summer. The European Commission today proposed to reduce the price of roaming text messages by 60% as of 1 July 2009. EU citizens travelling in other EU countries should pay no more than €0.11 [...]
Text messaging is still a big business for the telco players. Guaranteed SMS delivery, for instance, could be a valuable service for the enterprise customers. Mobile messaging operator TynTec today announces a deal to provide high quality message delivery for Corporate SMS provider Red Oxygen. The deal ensures that Red Oxygen’s SMS services such as [...]
Swype has just been unveiled at the TechCrunch50 event this week. Created by Dr. Cliff Kushler, the co-inventor of the T9 predictive text technology, Swype aims to provide you a faster and easier way to input text on any touch screen.
MessageSling today announced a new voice messaging solution that allows consumers to receive and send voice and dictated text messages using simple voice commands. Freeing people from the restrictions of traditional voicemail, MessageSling’s voice-activated service allows drivers to keep their hands on the wheel while staying on top of their messages.
Zi Corporation today announced Samsung has integrated Zi Corporation’s eZiText and Decuma text entry solutions onto its L258 and G618 handsets in China. Decuma Chinese V4.1 handwriting recognition technology bundled with predictive text entry software eZiText, to provide Samsung with a complete text input solution. Samsung L258
Visa and eight North American financial institutions – PNC Bank, SunTrust Bank, U.S. Bank, Wachovia, and Wells Fargo in the United States, and Royal Bank of Canada, TD Bank Financial Group, and Vancity in Canada – have agreed to initiate a pilot program with up to a total of 2,000 participants to test the delivery [...]
Orange has completed a trial with SMS-embedded ads in Switzerland to leverage the mobile advertising potential in European markets. Customers who signed up (opt in) to the trial were offered a discount on their invoice in return for insertion of advertising in the SMS they received. Advertising was inserted at the bottom of the message [...]
The 2.5 billion text messages sent every year by roaming customers in the EU cost over 10 times more than domestic short messages (SMS), show figures released today by the European Commission. The average cost of a roaming text message in the EU between October 2007 and March 2008 was €0.29 according to the European [...]
The Second Annual LG National Texting Competition has come to a close, and LG U.S.A. has crowned another victor in their quest for fast and furious thumbs. On July 9, New York City was taken by whirlwind as the fastest texters from all over the country participated in a grueling battle of the thumbs for [...]
Berlin based nova media unveiled ‘Phone plugins’ today, a utility to quick-dial a selected number and quick-send a text message with one click from any program in Mac OS X Leopard. Phone plugins includes its own Bluetooth wizard to connect a cell phone to the Mac.
