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RSS textingSOA? Get the business involved, say IT chiefs
News Vanco is using SeeBeyond's SOA-based Sun Java Integration Suite to buff up the company's business process management - including a problem management system allowing customers to inform Vanco of their troubles via a variety of means, such as email... [23 Mar 2007]
Leader: Roaming rates - more work needed
Leader Listen to a lot of the debate - especially out of Brussels - or ad campaigns and it is easy to view this as a consumer issue - about texting from beaches, perhaps. It is fitting that in this week of the annual 3GSM World Congress a major mobile... [14 Feb 2007]
Stories of the month - January 2007
News And the mobile texting craze is going to continue. Stories about work generated lots of interest in January - perhaps because it is traditionally the month when everyone starts looking around for new jobs. [31 Jan 2007]
Photos: Top 10 mobile design classics
Photo The 7600 was also a significant indication that Nokia had begun to wake up to the fact that phones were becoming more than just candybars for talking and texting. As well as ushering in the era of phones as design icons, the Xelibri also marked... [27 Nov 2006]
Text reminders for doctors' appointments
News Martin said the texting system improves service without adding extra work for healthcare staff, and integrates with existing systems used by GPs to book appointments and clinics. Patients in west London will soon be getting text messages when they... [23 Nov 2006]
Pay-by-text parking comes to York
News Drivers will also be reminded when their time is nearly up by text and can then extend their session by dialling or texting the same number. Taking the car to York? Ditch coins for your parking and get out your mobile instead. [05 Sep 2006]
Texts to reveal who committed crimes?
News Psychologists at the University of Leicester are researching how individuals can be identified by their texting style in a bid to make better use of the data mobile phones contain. We're trying to get the individual differences in texting styles. [11 Aug 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 11.08.06
Round-Up But worse than that, it was actually carried out on behalf of Channel 4, which this week returned four Big Brother housemates to our screens who had previously been evicted by viewers texting their votes to the show. [11 Aug 2006]
Ever had text on an airplane?
News The price is based on Virgin's standard texting price of $2.50 to send a text and $2 to receive one. Virgin Atlantic has announced travellers of a curious nature will be able to engage both their minds and their thumbs with a new text service. [09 Aug 2006]
Barclays signs up F-Secure for free AV package
News As an additional safety feature, Barclays will also offer an SMS texting service that will notify customers of online banking activity. Barclays Bank is offering F-Secure's basic antivirus package to its 1.6 million active online customers for two... [30 May 2006]
Data services' take-up lacklustre - even in Asia-Pac
News Even some of the most mobile-savvy markets in the world are shunning mobile data services, analysts have found. New research by IDC has discovered that non-SMS data services in the Asia-Pacific region are used by less than 10 per cent of consumers. [03 Mar 2006]
Mobile and Wireless - Making Life Easier for the Small Business
White Paper Most small business owners and employees will own a mobile device but it's still a common misperception that they are just for making voice calls, and texting. In fact, mobile and wireless technology can enable even the smallest organization to... [16 Feb 2006]
Big shoes to fill - what next for the new government CIO?
News Digital TV and texting are also being looked at to improve services. Watmore has stepped up the career ladder to head the Prime Minister's Delivery Unit, and will advise Tony Blair on public services - but will still oversee a large part of work he... [12 Jan 2006]
Courts chase criminals with SMS
News The texting service had its first outing in Staffordshire during a fines blitz, dubbed Operation Payback Three. The DCA said because texting was so successful, it may form part of the National Enforcement Service to be tested later this year. [03 Jan 2006]
Text me a tenner - mobile phone banking comes of age
News But a later phase could see customers texting each other cash. Who wants a mobile phone that could print you a few extra tenners when your wallet empties out during a night out? OK, the bad news is we're not there yet but mobile phone banking... [13 Dec 2005]
