Alex Kinch

Link: Truphone Blog – Internet telephony on Nokia mobile phones
Following on from our exclusive coverage on the new version of Truphone, it’s now out of beta and is ready to go.
Some cool new features include:

VOIP over 3G
Presence support
Free SMS to other Truphone users
Multiple SIM management for travellers

More at www.truphone.com

Link: Nokia offers mobile photo printing – vnunet.com
Nokia has launched a photo printing service to allow Nseries users to upload images and place an order directly from their smartphones.
Users can select the images in the phone’s gallery application and insert the postal address and other requested information. The order is then processed by CeWe Color [...]

Link: BBC NEWS | Technology | Apple iPhone faces serious rivals
It’s been the subject of more hype and hullabaloo than any other mobile phone – but the iPhone won’t be available in Britain until late 2007.
But phone manufacturers aren’t just sitting and waiting for the new arrival to storm their market. They claim they already [...]

Britons travelling abroad to exotic destinations are now able to receive immediate and free travel health information regarding malaria thanks to a new text messaging service developed by mobile healthcare specialist iPLATO. The service, funded by GlaxoSmithKline Travel Health as part of the Malaria Awareness Campaign, allows travellers to text in the name of their [...]

Link: Send SMS officially in Leopard’s iChat – The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
Reader CrazyRower sends word of something small, but cool coming to iChat in Leopard. According to screenshots from an account named after Apple’s favorite designer, sending a message to an SMS number is now builtin to the iChat File menu.
As we’ve reported before, [...]

Unless you’ve been living in a cave for the last 24 hours, you probably know that Tony Blair has quit as the UK Prime Minister, to be replaced by Gordon Brown. He’s not even been in the job a whole day, but already calls are being made for him to… get his own ringtone!
Last week [...]

Link: Manchester NHS uses SMS for Stop Smoking Campaign :: PublicTechnology.net :: e-Government & public sector IT news + job vacancies:
Smokers in Manchester can now text the NHS Stop Smoking Service and receive stop smoking support, thanks to a deal with Mobifi.
It is being used in a number of different campaigns and by utilising different [...]

Jersey Airtel, a subsidiary of the Bharti Group, today announced the launch of its mobile services on the Island. The Company will offer market-leading products and services under the Airtel-Vodafone brand to customers on the Island, over its full 2G, 3G and HSDPA enhanced network.
To celebrate the launch, Mr. Sunil Bharti Mittal, Chairman & Group [...]

Mobile entertainment company ROK have just announced they’ve inked a deal with American broadcaster NBC to bring their CNBC Europe channel to mobiles.
“We’re delighted to have CNBC Europe as a flagship channel on ROK TV” said Jonathan kendrick, Chairman of ROK “as we know there is a huge and as-yet untapped demand for live and [...]

American TV network CBS had a quick sneak peek and review of the iPhone this morning. It’s on YouTube for your viewing pleasure – unfortunately as embedding has been disabled I couldn’t post it here. Worth a watch though, even if it’s only to see some of the features that’ve been talked about before on [...]