Alex Kinch

Link: Report: South Korean Telcos Rake In $1.5 Billion SMS Earnings In Three Years | September 30, 2007 | AHN
Three major mobile phone companies in South Korea have earned a combined $1.5 billion from their short messaging service from 2004 to 2006, the local media said.
The report indicated SK Telecom Co. as the top SMS [...]

Link: BBC NEWS | Technology | Apple iPhone warning proves true
Plenty of chatter around the Internet this lunchtime that the new version of Apple’s iPhone software is merrily bricking handsets that’ve been modified to work on networks other than AT&T.
If you’ve got an unlocked handset, my tip is *NOT* to upgrade the software until things [...]

Link: Deutsche Telekom buys Orange Netherlands for €1.3 billion – International Herald Tribune
As reported here a couple of weeks ago, T-Mobile parent company Deutsche Telekom have concluded a deal to buy the Dutch operations and network of Orange for €1.3 billion (about $1.8 billion, or £900m).
According to reports, Deutsche Telekom expects the takeover to result [...]

Recently launched youth-focused MVNO Blyk has deployed GB’s ID3 solution for customer authentication to protect against ID theft and ensure customer data is accurate for advertiser clients.
As the first ad-funded mobile network in Europe, Blyk has paid extensive attention to its customer authentication process to ensure best user experience and quality of its member data [...]

Link: Consumer Data Bolt On – Tariffs – Mobiles & Tariffs – O2
SMS Text News reader Barry got in touch just now to highlight O2’s rather stupid ‘unlimited’ data offering. They’re trying to hard to match similar options from T-Mobile and Three, but manage to completely screw it up by throwing in loads of conditions [...]

LHM Media, which specialises in mobile entertainment and marketing, is celebrating its second birthday in style after scoring a major contract with Everton Football Club that will see them develop a mobile portal for fans to view goals, images, music and latest news.
Supported by Business Link West Midlands, this breakthrough is [...]

Orange has signed an agreement with Xiam Technologies, for the provision of its My Personal Offers System (MPOS) which will give customers real-time recommendations across the Orange World Portal.  MPOS will help Orange World customers to discover personalised content that is relevant to their own specific interests.MPOS will ensure Orange customers discover and consume a [...]

First Hop announced today the availability of new releases of all the key products in the First Hop Wireless Broker suite. The integrated suite of First Hop products form a powerful service delivery platform for personalised content services, 3rd party content provider management, and intelligent promotions.
While new types of technologies and infrastructure, such as Mobile [...]

I’ve been meaning to write a bit about these guys before – but what with other recent high profile mobile related events it’s been a bit busy around these parts.
Anyway, let me introduce Skill-Pill Mobile Learning. The concept is quite simple – they give you two minute-long ‘pep talks’ on a selection of business topics [...]

Voice to text provider SpinVox have signed a deal with mobile and landline operator SaskTel to bring their voicemail to SMS service to Canada.
Available on both the SaskTel cellular network and SaskTel’s wireline telephone network, Voice Mail to Text service automatically converts voicemail messages to text and sends the text message to the recipient for [...]