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Archive for April, 2009

Vodafone offer free mobile broadband for a day

Customers of Vodafone UK are to get a new flat rate 50p daily rate for mobile data starting from May 1st – and to launch the offer the operator is offering free browsing for 24 hours.

Mobile phone sales plummet in 2009, but Apple bucks the trend

With the recent gloomy financial results from Nokia, Sony Ericsson and Motorola, the news that phone sales have plummeted by 13% in the first quarter of 2009 was to be expected. However, Apple has continued to buck the trend with strong sales of it’s iPhone handset.

SIM4travel offers United Mobile Customers a Way Forward

SIM4travel, a Truphone company and the leading supplier of global travel SIM cards, is offering United Mobile customers affected by the termination of the United Mobile service a free SIM4travel SIM with free £5 credit when they top-up £10.

N97 widget competition winners announced

The winners of Nokia’s N97 Widget competition have been announced. So far so good, but hang on a second.. the N97 isn’t out until June? That apparently didn’t stop Nokia having a 24-hour Hackathon event a few days ago in Monaco, where handset developers from around the world were pitted against each other to win [...]

Vodafone UK join the Twitterverse

Whilst Vodafone’s UK press office have been twittering for a while, the company have only just setup their own consumer-facing profile.
It’s still early days – at the time of writing they had 90 followers and were following 51 people – but it’s a step in the right direction. Whether it’ll be used for one way [...]

XConnect Names Richard Shockey, ENUM Pioneer and IP Communications Expert, To Advisory Board

Appointment Expands IP Communications Routing and Addressing Knowledge
LONDON – April 28, 2009 – Richard Shockey, a pioneer in ENUM (Electronic NUMbering) and expert in VoIP (Voice over IP), has joined the advisory board of XConnect, the leader in VoIP and Next Generation Network (NGN) interconnection services. 
Shockey is a founder and has been co-chair since [...]

Clickatell Nominated for Prestigious World Technology Award

Company Honored as Innovative with Greatest Likely Long-Term Significance in Communications and Technology Sector
New York, April 28, 2009 – The World Technology Network (WTN) announced that Clickatell has been selected as a nominee for a 2009 World Technology Award, presented by the World Technology Network, in association with TIME magazine, Fortune magazine, and Science magazine, [...]

Dialogue Continues International Expansion With New Office & WAP Billing In South Africa

Leading provider of interactive mobile solutions, Dialogue Communications, has continued its international growth trend with the opening of a new office in South Africa. The new office, based in Cape Town, extends Dialogue’s reach into three continents, and will focus on bringing more comprehensive SMS and WAP billing solutions to the South African market.
Dialogue will [...]

Truphone 3.0 for the iPhone brings it all together

New architecture delivers improved user experience, simplified management and performance boost
• User experience now slicker and more intuitive than ever before
• Account management outpaces anything else now on the market
• Application faster than ever before – now native on the handset
• Radically improved call quality to make it what we believe is the best in [...]

Palringo adds Groups Gallery, enabling anyone to find and join the Palringo community through groups more easily.

Core Facts

Palringo’s Groups Gallery is a browsable directory that makes it easy for people to find Palringo groups they’d like to join and participate in.
The addition of Groups Gallery means that Palringo groups are significantly more useful than before: until today there was no way to find out about specific groups other than by [...]