Alex Kinch

Yes I know, it’s another piece of Skype news – but this time it’s not related to the iPhone
I’ve just been talking to @jamesbody on Twitter about a possible announcement of some new lovely Skype/3 INQ handsets tomorrow. Whilst I appreciate it’s April Fool’s Day in less than 12 hours time, and any [...]

So many social networking services, so many apps – and only so much your poor mobile (and brain) can handle at once if you want access to all of them on the move. However, this might be about to change if Yahoo! have their way.
The Yahoo! OneConnect app, which is expected to launch in the [...]

According to New Media Age, £7.8m was raised via SMS donations for this year’s Comic Relief Red Nose Day charity event.
The service, which ran from 27th February until the closure of the event itself in the early hours of 14th March, was managed by mobile agencies MIG and Buongiorno, and generated 4.75m mobile interactions over [...]

Just in case you hadn’t got the message by now, Skype have launched their long-awaited app for the Apple iPhone. So far, so good. But if you’re in Canada, it’s not so good – Skype won’t be launching it there.
According to Skype PR Chaim Haas, there’s “patent-licence restrictions” in play that’s stopping them offering the [...]

It’s Tuesday, and already the Twitterverse is jam-packed full of references to the new Skype iPhone application – mostly from people exclaiming excitedly that they’ve managed to install it without their handset turning into the technological equivalent of a Norwegian Blue parrot.
However, once you filter out the noise there’s an interesting rumour abound. Apparently once [...]

Got a great idea for a new mobile site or service? Perhaps you’re part of a start-up working on something really neat in the mobile space? If so, how do you fancy the chance to get your hands on a share of €150,000?
Vodafone Mobile Clicks 2009 is a joint Anglo-Dutch competion to inspire start-up businesses [...]

Whilst nearly 25% of parents in Wales would quite happily give their ten year old a mobile, one mother in North Carolina decided to ban her 14 and 11 year olds from texting.
Text messaging is a dominant form of teenage communication, but reports of cyber bullying and texting-related driving accidents have some parents questioning whether [...]

A survey by BBC Wales has found that nearly one in four Welsh children under the age of 10 would be allowed to have a mobile.
The research, by Beaufort Omnibus, asked: “At what age should children have their first mobile phone?” 23% of parents said they’d be quite happy with an under 10 having one, [...]

I’ve caught a few bits of press coverage recently about an interesting organisation called Zer01 Mobile. So far all the stories seem to be along the same lines – unlimited calling and data anywhere within the US for just $69.95 a month. It’s sort of like an MVNO, but with a twist – as the [...]

Ethnic-targetting MVNO Lebara have just announced the launch of their service in Australia – and as usual mobile operator Vodafone are providing the radio network.
In case you’re interested, calls start at five Australian cents a minute, and international texting is just 15c per message. I haven’t had a chance to see how this compares with [...]