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Text reminders for doctors' appointments
News Ealing Primary Care Trust (PCT) is rolling out text message reminders across 22 surgeries as GPs try to reduce the number of missed appointments.silicon.com Public Sector To use the free service, patients register their mobile phone numbers at... [23 Nov 2006]
Pay-by-text parking comes to York
News Drivers will be able to call - and in the future send a text message - to a number given in car parks around the city. However, motorists will pay extra for their mobile service - a surcharge of 20p will be added to each parking fee over £2 and... [05 Sep 2006]
UK and Korea to swap mobile telly tips
News Quentin Howard, CEO of the WorldDAB Forum, said: "The message I take to the EU, to the broadcasters, to the manufacturers is that multi-standard is not a barrier. Korea has had DMB broadcasts since 2005, with two million TV-phones to be sold by the... [05 Jun 2006]
Text me a tenner - mobile phone banking comes of age
News He adds: "In the first wave it will be about balances but our aspiration - and we have the ability in place - is to move money between different accounts by mobile phone and send each other money by text message. [13 Dec 2005]
O2's i-mode to launch next month
News To tempt users to experiment with the mini-internet service, O2 will be offering browsing on a pay per megabyte basis and email as pay per message at the same price as SMS or MMS, if sent with an attachment. [26 Sep 2005]
London tubes do real-time travel info with Orange
News Passengers will be able to send a text message to a premium rate number - for example, TUBE CENTRAL to 60835 - to get a status update. Transport for London (TfL) has struck a deal that will see Orange become the first company to offer mobile... [27 Apr 2004]
AQA - a mobile start-up that answers any question
News A start-up has promised to deliver "the ultimate data service" by providing the answer to any conceivable question - via a text message. I wanted to do something different, providing a service that customers would really, really like - something... [22 Apr 2004]
Mobile operators give users a crappy New Year
News But Per-Johan Lundin, head of marketing at Sicap believes SMS may have been a misleading acronym around New Year as the short message service became "the slow message service". Worse still one operator failed to deliver the message at all, though... [05 Jan 2004]
Track your staff using their mobiles
News For example, employers must get written permission from employees they wish to monitor, consent which is then double checked via a text message to the phone in question in Mapaphone's case. While the 192.com service looks to the consumer as much as... [26 Nov 2003]
Clarity in their pricing - it's the least we can ask for from operators
Comment Watchdog Oftel has looked into roaming costs for voice calls in the past - using the examples of Britons visiting France and Ireland - and has a boring but sensible message: Consumers should check prices before going away. [24 Jul 2003]
Virgin Mobile hails storming quarter
News Virgin Mobile's prominent product-placement in its record stores means it has easy access to young consumers and its cheap-rate text message tariffs means it appeals strongly to text-happy teens. Virgin Mobile has become the people's network... [21 Jul 2003]
IM threat to SMS revenue
News Benefits of IM over SMS - besides price - include presence management, larger limits on characters in each message and multi-party dialogues. Once this starts to happen, it will be very difficult to change the way wireless IM is priced without... [14 Jul 2003]
Tony Hallett's After These Messages: Nokia, Vodafone and MMS touching our lives
Comment Apart from the mixed media message about what MMS stands for from operators (O2's strap - "Invent your own language" - is apt), we have some polished TV ads supposedly showing us real-world user scenarios. [04 Apr 2003]
Tony Hallett's After These Messages: The case for '3'
Comment Should we be surprised the same brandmeisters are getting across an attractive message again this time? And the punch line this time - video messaging, another upcoming '3' service feature. In his new series, silicon.com's Tony Hallett plans to... [25 Feb 2003]
The silicon.com Weekly Round-Up: 21.02.03
Comment If you're an O2 subscriber and you go to that part of its website, you'll see this message: "Unfortunately, we regret that the 'Email to mobile' service has been temporarily suspended. At a minimum, senders should not be allowed to misrepresent... [21 Feb 2003]
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