Tag Archives: MMS
Guest Post: The power of messaging
Why it so important in today’s hyper-connected world
by Arnold Rijpma, vp for business development with Acision
This Summer [2012], over 400,000 people descended upon London to witness sporting history being made before their very eyes. Currently, with the Premier League and the Rugby Union in full swing, we can see that during truly global events, fans at home and abroad use their mobile devices to send text and picture messages of the action as it happens. Or they browse the internet to get the latest news and follow results. Although Facebook and Twitter are great ways of sharing instant snaps and statements publicly, SMS and MMS are widely used (and in demand) to share private thoughts and pictures between family and friends around the world. Continue reading
Posted in Mobile Messaging, Mobile Operators
Tagged acision, Arnold Rijpma, BBM, im, MMS, OTT, RCM, Rich Communication Messaging, SMS, Whatsapp
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Mobilethink helps operators retrieve lost revenues from cheap phones
Rating: Fake IMEIs no longer problem for customer call centres
Mobile device configuration specialist Mobilethink believes it has found a way for mobile operators to recover revenues from handsets with ‘invalid’ IMEI numbers. The company claims thatin 2011 handsets sold by ’no-name’ manufacturers in China and India presently account for more sales than Samsung, Apple and LG combined. The problem is that these ultra-low cost GSM devices aren’t sold with a unique identification number (IMEI) – with manufacturers frequently re-using ‘old’ IMEI numbers. This causes the call centres of afflicted network operators serious issues in attempting to attach handsets properly to their networks when their IMEIs are fake. Mobilethink beleives it has over come this problem with the first generic settings solution for devices with invalid IMEIs. Continue reading
Posted in China, Mobile Devices, Mobile Operators, india
Tagged brand-less, data, device configuration, gartner, IMEI, MMS, mobilethink, revenues, Thomas Yde Frederiksen
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O2 Launches Twitter MMS in the UK
Press release
O2 has announced that it has joined forces with Twitter to make it even easier for its customers to share photos from their mobiles via Twitter. As of September 21st [2011], O2 customers can upload and share photos with their Twitter followers simply by sending them via MMS to a shortcode. Continue reading
Posted in Mobile Messaging, Press Release
Tagged bluevia, MMS, o2, telefonica, twitter
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Mobile advertising supports music: Mogreet and Musicians Corner
There’s a very cool weekly gathering in Nashville, called Musician’s Corner. For a few months during the year, every Saturday there is a free outdoor concert where new talent can play for an audience of music lovers. The Musician’s Corner has now signed up with Mogreet to promote the events over mobile. Continue reading
Posted in Mobile Ad&Mktg, Mobile Marketing, Mobile Music, mobile news
Tagged advertising, marketing, messaging, MMS, mobile, mobile advertising, Mobile Marketing, Mobile Messaging, mogreet, Music, musicians corner, nashville, SMS
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Mobile Barcode Company JAGTAG receives Intelligent Mobile Ad Serving Patent
A press release hit my radar last week and it has taken me a while to understand fully the potential of the patent.
What is it?
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Posted in Mobile Ad&Mktg, Mobile Marketing, Mobile barcodes, mobile coupons, mobile news
Tagged jagtag, MMS, mobile advertising, Mobile Marketing, patents
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Completely mobile newspaper launches in Africa
A major co-operation between three companies has seen the launch of a completely mobile-based newspaper in sub-Saharan Africa. Safaricom, one of the biggest telecoms operators in Africa, has teamed up with Chinese technology provider Huawei and the Xinhua News Agency to create a daily news service based around MMS Continue reading
Posted in China, Mobile Content, Mobile Messaging, mobile news
Tagged Africa, China, Huawei, Kenya, MMS, mobile news, mobile newspaper, Safaricom, xinhua
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Mobile marketing and advertising top news: loyalty, mass marketing and integration
Welcome to Thursday’s round-up of the top stories in mobile advertising and marketing, from GoMo News! Cost-Per-Action mobile advertising gets another service provider; loyalty-enabler Sundrop gets almost a million in funding; “fast goods” become ever more reliant on mobile, and much, much more… Continue reading
Posted in Mobile Ad&Mktg, Mobile Marketing, mobile news
Tagged admobix, advertising, cpa, Email, gartner, marketing, MMS, mobile, mobile advertising, Mobile Marketing, SMS, sundrop mobile
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Mobile marketing and advertising top news: magazines, cars and YOUR salary
Welcome to the GoMo News round-up of the best in mobile advertising and marketing stories! There’s an under-the-bonnet look at wages in the industry, along with magazine-style MMS and more… Continue reading
Posted in Mobile Ad&Mktg, Mobile Marketing, mobile news
Tagged advertising, China, China Mobile, ford, marketing, Microsoft, MMS, mobile advertising, Mobile Marketing
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Mobile advertising and marketing hot news: social, video and MMS
Welcome to GoMo News, where we have the daily round-up of the hottest mobile marketing and advertising stories! Read on for mobile video ads, interactive MMS and more… Continue reading
Posted in Mobile Ad&Mktg, Mobile Marketing, mobile news
Tagged advertising, airg, dating, iVdopia, marketing, MMS, mobile, mobile advertising, Mobile Marketing, mobile video, mogreet, offermobi, video
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Mobilink rolls its mobile messaging into data with Acision
Mobilink is the largest mobile operator in Pakistan – and it has just announced that it will be using data to improve its messaging services. With data and messaging company Acision, it will be managing consumer SMS and MMS through Internet technology. Continue reading
Posted in Mobile Messaging, Mobile Operators, Mobile Web, mobile news
Tagged acision, Carrier, IP, messaging, MMS, mobile, mobile data, mobile operator, mobilink, network, SMS
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Mobile marketing and advertising hot stories: video, SMS, AT&T, Verizon
Here’s our round-up of the hot mobile advertising and marketing stories from this morning. We’ve got moves from AT&T and Verizon; a video advertising double whammy from Jumptap and iVdopia; SMS and MMS advertising; and more… Continue reading
Posted in Mobile Ad&Mktg, Mobile Marketing, Mobile Operators, at&t, mobile news, verizon
Tagged advertising, at&t, iVdopia, jumptap, marketing, MMS, mobile, mobile advertising, Mobile Marketing, SMS, verizon, video
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AMC converts content to mobile for MENA
Rating: Arabization for all flavours of mobile including MMS
Talk about specialist niches, Arab Mobile Content (AMC) is taking content mainly in English and then turning it into a mobile friendly format for distribution in the Middle East and North African (MENA) regions. The company appears to be based in Cornwall and its latest deal is [...]
Posted in Mobile Content, mobile news
Tagged Aardvark Records, arabization, BBC, mABLE, Maroc Telecom, MENA, MMS, qtel, STC
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Winwap technologies turns 15
Rating: Is it really that long ago that the world first gave us WAP?
How time flies. Probably one of the oldest specialist mobile software houses in the business, announced it has just turned 15 years old. Winwap joined the mobile web community by creating the world’s first WAP browser to run on PCs back in1999.
Subsequently, [...]
Posted in China, mobile browsers
Tagged Arena, brew, client software, Email, MMS, TD-SCDMA, Winwap Technologies
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