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smartSMS from cloud.IQ combines SMS & voice for marketers
Rating:Helps drive higher customer engagement levels
A new digital marketing app that enables any organisation to simultaneously engage with its customers through two core communication channels: – text and voice, has just been launched. The new app, smartSMS, from cloud.IQ integrates SMS with human dialogue and interaction. The company claims that to date only the largest of organisations have been able to afford to use SMS in a semi-automated way due to the cost and complexity of the systems on the market. With smartSMS organisations will be able to combine voice call backs with SMS – and text is considered the most reliable, responsive and cost effective marketing channel according to Ofcom’s 2011 [ eighth] annual Communications Market Report. Continue reading
Posted in Mobile Ad&Mktg, SMS, mobile cloud, mobile news
Tagged cloud.IQ, James Critchley, ofcom, smartSMS, text, voice
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Talk to your oven via a mobile phone
Rating: OK, AGA “All ovens off”
It’s the stuff that science fiction stories were made of in the Sixties but now thanks to Everything Everywhere and AGA Rangemaster, it really is possible to ‘talk’ to an oven. You can choose to do so via text, mobile app (Android and iOS) or even via a web portal. So if you want to possess the ultimate in high tech cooking, you are going to have to get yourself an AGA iTotal Control oven with its built-in Orange SIM card. Everything Everywhere is citing this partnership as a sure sign that M2M (machine-to-machine) communications really are going mainstream. Continue reading
Will services like BBM be the death of SMS?
Rating: Apparently not because there’s something called RCS-e
There’s been a great deal of doom and gloom cast over the fast growth of instant messging (IM) services such as BlackBerry Messenger (BBM), Apple’s iMessage, MXit, WhatsApp, Facebook Chat and Skype. Some are predicting that these so-called OTT (Over The Top) messaging services will spell the end for SMS/text. One figure banded about is the fact that last month [October 2011], it was revealed that over one billion messages are now being sent in a single day via the popular WhatsApp app. These developments have to be put in context and one such commentator is Tom Veldman, director of product marketing with Acision. He argues that the imminent demise of SMS at the hands of OTT service is an over-exaggeration. Continue reading
SMS will dominate mobile messaging for years to come
In the blaze of light coming from smartphones in developed countries, it can often be easy to get carried away with new technologies. Mobile IM and mobile email, in particular, seem like scene-stealing services. But when GoMo News talked to Pamela Clark-Dickson, Senior analyst for Mobile Content and Applications at Informa Telecoms (and Editor for its Mobile Messaging Analyst newsletter), we got a very different picture – one in which SMS will remain the dominant force in mobile messaging for a long time yet. Continue reading
Posted in Featured, Mobile Messaging, Mobile Operators, mobile news
Tagged informa, messaging, mobile, Mobile Messaging, mobile networks, Mobile Operators, mobile text, SMS, text
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Swype vs. Swiftkey: the mobile text speed test
I encountered a new app yesterday – it’s called Swiftkey. It has taken the concept of predictive text and bumped it up to the next level. Instead of just predicting the word you’re currently typing, it also predicts the next word you’ll type. You just tap the correct prediction, and it puts the word in automatically. If the predictions are correct, it massively increases the speed at which you type. If it’s not right, then you’re still typing no slower than usual. I decided to put it through it’s paces against my favourite text input app – Swype. Continue reading
Posted in Mobile Messaging, Mobile applications, mobile news
Tagged mobile, mobile app, mobile application, mobile device, mobile text, smartphone, speed test, Swiftkey, swype, text, text input
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Battle the Tube strike with your mobile
Rating: Forewarned is forearmed
Imagine our dismay when we woke up to the news that the unions working on London’s Underground railway – affectionately known as The Tube – were striking today. Just when we wanted to visit the Planet of the Apps Europe 2010 conference and exhibition at Le Meridien hotel in London’s Piccadilly. The obvious thing to do is to get as much information on the disruption via your trusty smartphone. We found that the body in charge of the Tube – Transport for London (Tfl) – offers a variety of means of obtaining information from you handset. Continue reading
Posted in Mobile Web, SMS, android, iphone
Tagged android, iphone, Kpop Team, strike, text, Tfl, Transport for London, Tube, usablenet, Visual IT
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Apps are no threat to SMS – Clickatell on why mobile text will never die
As the mobile app space becomes more crowded and frantic, everyone seems to be yelling about the next, sexiest application. it can be easy to lose sight of the more reliable technology. Mobile texts, or SMS, are being used more than ever these days – not just for people to communicate, but as an advertising channel; a response mechanism for brands; and an advanced mobile services platform. To get more insight into the developing role of SMS, we sat down with Pieter de Villiers, founder of Clickatell; a ten year veteran of the mobile messaging industry, and the first company to create a web-to-mobile messaging service. Continue reading
Posted in Mobile Messaging, Mobile applications, SMS, mobile news
Tagged App, application, Clickatell, mobile, mobile app, mobile application, mobile text, SMS, text
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Check your facts on mobile: NBC and ChaCha team up
FCU: Fact Checker’s Unit was a 2008 short comedy film with a fantastic premise: two overzealous fact checkers for a magazine break into Bill Murray’s house to determine whether or not it’s true that he loves milk. NBC studios have turned that short movie into a digital series of the same name – and it has teamed up with “mobile answering” service ChaCha to provide users with information about the show. Continue reading
Posted in Mobile Marketing, Mobile Messaging, Mobile Search, mobile news
Tagged chacha, mobile, Mobile Search, mobile text, nbc, search, SMS, text
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Mobile abuse: teens and parents are both naughty when texting
Mobile phone maker LG has run a survey about SMS that it calls the “Text Ed Survey“. It’s designed to give parents a better idea of what it is that teenagers actually use their texts for. And it has turned up some surprising results about the parents as well! Continue reading
Posted in LG, Mobile Messaging, Mobile Stats, mobile news
Tagged LG, mobile, mobile text, parent, sexting, SMS, survey, teens, text
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Swype test on Android: God, I love it
Swype has gone into live beta for Android phones today – it will probably only stay that way for a few days, so get over to http://beta.swype.com/ if you’ve got an Android. GoMo News got a live test of Swype when at MWC this year, and I loved it. I’ve been waiting to get it on my Nexus One ever since, and today I finally have. More details after the break.
Posted in Mobile applications, android, mobile news
Tagged android, mobile app, mobile application, mobile text, nexus one, SMS, swype, text
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Twitter is taking care of its own mobile business
The 140 character limit of tweets is no accident. Since it replicates the size of text messages, rather than being a limitation it has allowed Twitter usage to explode through one of the most-used channels in the world: SMS. And with the announcement last Friday that Twitter has bought its very own SMS company, you can expect SMS-based tweets to become even smoother. Continue reading
Posted in Mobile Messaging, mobile news
Tagged cloudhopper, mobile, mobile comms, mobile device, mobile sms, mobile text, SMS, text, tweets, twitter
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Spam or censorship? IBM throws a hand behind SMS filtering
SMS has been the source of a bit of PR shuffling from IBM this week. The international software and hardware manufacturer has been defending its creation of an anti-spam SMS solution for China Mobile. Continue reading
Posted in Mobile Messaging, Mobile Operators, mobile news
Tagged China Mobile, Ibm, mobile, mobile carrier, mobile network, mobile operator, mobile text, SMS, spam, spam sms, text
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Mobile bullying sees Acision joining the fight
Bullying over mobile phones is one of those areas that you would think should have been tackled already. And yet today one of the big boys of the mobile messaging world, Acision, has announced an operator level service to help with what it calls the “unmet need” for anti-bullying measures. Continue reading
Posted in Mobile Messaging, mobile news
Tagged acision, bullying, echometrix, mobile, mobile carrier, mobile network, mobile operator, mobile sms, mobile text, SMS, text
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Nuance announces “trace” input for text… sounds like it’s been swyped from somewhere
They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. In which case, Swype should be pretty damn flattered right now. Nuance is better known for it’s voice powered applications on mobile, but it also has a range of T9 predictive text applications. And with the possibility that text entry might be revolutionised by Swype, I guess Nuance decided it wants some of that action. Continue reading
Posted in Mobile Messaging, mobile news
Tagged mobile, mobile device, Mobile Messaging, mobile sms, mobile text, nuance, SMS, swype, t9, text, text entry
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