PR SMS provider, 6336, launches TV ads

Rating: It’s no about Illumimati, it’s for pub quiz cheats

In the UK, it is quite common to have a SMS service built into a TV ad campaign. It’s highly unusual to have a Premium rate SMS service as the central message of the TV ad campaign. But that’s what 63336 has decided to do with its “I am one of the 63336″ TV adverts.

Updated data zapping for Windows Mobile

Rating: Delete that sensitive data via SMS

Given the bad publicity stemming from the accidental loss of sensitive data, British software developer, Aiko Solutions, has released a new version of its SecuWipe app. The app is aimed at Windows phones and Windows CE terminals.

Want to IM your friends while playing mobile games? Colibria might have the answer…

“We’re not really interested in being fancy on the front end. We’re just creating a solid Android IM client”. So says Guy Reiffer, VP of Marketing for Colibria. He was taking me through the details of some of the work Colibria has done recently - including the “Canvas” application for facebook (see our article from earlier this week) and an IM client for Android that can be integrated into anything that runs on an Android device.

MWC: Flirtomatic keeps it clean for US networks, isn’t all that impressed with the iPhone

I’ve always been interested in Flirtomatic. It’s one of those mobile services that pops up again and again when people talk about success stories in the mobile industry. But my interest has always been from afar. But today I got to sit down with Gary Cohen, Head of Flirtomatic for North America, and we got talk about some of the specifics for the service - like what it needs to do to stay sweet with operators, and where intends to go from here. I’ve always wanted to know more about the nitty gritty of how Flirtomatic actually works, and Gary answered all of my questions.

@MWC: All eyes on Neustar with a new mobile barcode clearing house and gomocode site

They say copying is the best form of flattery and we here at GoMo News are delighted by the new pilot programme site coming from Neutstar: www.gomocode.com.

Today, Neustar has announced the launch of its Mobile Barcode

Want easier texting? T-Mobile is preloading Swype mobile touch screen tech

It’s a little hard to describe what Swype does, because it’s a very visual technology. Basically, it makes writing texts on touchscreen devices WAYS faster. Instead of hitting each individual button to write a word, you use your thumb to draw a single line on the screen - a line that connects every letter you want in the word. Swype then uses predictive texting to place that word on the screen. And today Swype is announcing a huge win - T-Mobile USA has announced that it will be pre-loading the tech on its touch screen devices.

Cheap, useful mobile phones from Synchronica - function is more important than form

GoMo News has been following Synchronica for a long time now - mainly as a provider of mobile email services for extremely low-tech phones. But the company has kicked it up to the next level today, with the announcement of MessagePhones. Rather than just release cheap messaging services for low-tech phones, Synchronica has released two devices specially designed to take advantage of new, low-cost mobile messaging options.

Digital love: the mobile industry gears up for Valentines Day

Christmas and Valentines Day really pull a big reaction of messaging in the mobile industry. MMS providers go into hyper-publicity mode, reminding everyone that you can send a cute animation to your loved ones rather than a card. So, as we’re within a week of Valentines Day, I’ve been getting a lot of press contacts about the day. And out of the many press releases, I’ve found two that I find rather interesting. MMS analytics provider Amethon looks at MMS content, and mobile navigation company CoPilot launches a Love Search function.

What do you call a mix between voice messaging and mobile social networking? Bubbly!

Mobile messaging experts Bubble Motion has announced a new social network based around its voice messaging platform. Called “Bubbly” it combines mobile social networking with voice messaging to create a “Voice-Blog” service.

For those who want to make mobile calls from Facebook, Colibria presents Canvas

Here’s an interesting convergence - messaging expert Colibria has launched a Facebook application that will allow users of the social network to call and message their mobile contacts right from Facebook.

The Chicago Blackhawks and Vibes Media Score with Mobile Marketing

Vibes Media, the Chicago-based industry leader in interactive mobile marketing worked with the Chicago Blackhawks, one of the NHL’s premier organizations, to deliver a mobile fan group that has helped revolutionize how the team interacts with its fans.

Is Twitter too big to fail? That whale can’t afford it.

If you are reading this site (a news blog about mobiles) then you almost certainly know what the Fail Whale is. If not, here’s the short version: it’s the image of a whale that heralds a Twitter crash. This doesn’t just cause a sudden panic amongst people who can’t live without Twitter - it also generates genuine revenue loss for the thousands of services that run on the Twitter API, and hurts Twitters over-all image.

Massive SMS based mobile social network closes another $12 million in funding

If you’re not based in India, you probably won’t have heard of SMS GupShup. Nevertheless, this is probably the largest mobile social network in the world - and it works off the back of old, reliable SMS. And today it has announced the securing of $12 million in funding - in addition to the roughly $25 million it has already gotten.

Are mobile voice and SMS becoming redundant? UK users waste 45% of their plans

Money Supermarket is an on-line price comparison hub - the site compares products and services across a huge number of areas like travel, energy, home and car insurance… and mobile. It has just released its fourth Mobile Money report, and has found that on average British users waste almost half of their mobile plan [...]

Competition reveals fastest tools for sending mobile text: your thumbs

How much would you think it’s worth to be a fast texter? For two Korean teenagers, the answer was $50,000 dollars each. Korean mobile manufacturer LG ran a world championship texting competition in New York city - and the winning two man team one a cool 100k.

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