Alex Kinch

Link: BBC NEWS | Entertainment | ITV ‘misled viewers on phone-ins’
So TV broadcaster ITV have just finished an internal A review into their use of premium SMS and phone services.. and guess what? They’ve figured that they screwed up, and overcharged a stack of people. Ok so they didn’t exactly say those words – preferring [...]

Link: I h8 txt msgs: How texting is wrecking our language | the Daily Mail
It must be a slow news day over at the Daily Mail. With no apparent stories of immigrants stealing our jobs, paedophiles ravaging our kids or any other general threat to the pretend ‘la la land’ middle England readership that the [...]

The internet is about collaboration, community, and the sharing of information, right? Even more so with blogging – which is why we love writing this site so much. However, what’s not really fair is ripping off the whole blog, removing all references to SMS Text News and republishing it under your own name.
Quoting our stuff [...]

I used to love my Good mobile email. Having seen Ewan wax lyrically about it in previous blogs, I took the plunge in April, got myself a Nokia E61 and a Good-enabled account with Fasthosts.
It was all lovely and dandy for a while, but in the last few months it’s gone completely to pot. The [...]

Link: BCNG Portals Page (R)
Welcome to the picturesque town of Maple Ridge, about 45 minutes East of Vancouver. Surrounded by magnificent mountains, pastoral meadows and beautiful lakes, it’s a great place to take a vacation (so says the area website). However, bad things are afoot in Maple Ridge. Residents are getting worrying text messages telling [...]

A few friends of mine have HTC phones. HTC? You know, the guys that make that nice Touch handset – the one that Ewan quite likes. I’ve really been into Symbian phones over the past few years (both S60 and UIQ), and never really considered a Windows Mobile device. However if someone had asked me [...]

It’s July (just in case you hadn’t noticed), and time for the industry to clear off for two months. That means it’s all very quiet out there in the world of mobile at the moment. Very quiet indeed. The only real thing happening is the iPhone PR steam roller is in it’s usual frenzy – [...]

Link: PC World – iPhone Activation Disasters
What with other rather more pressing issues keeping the news broadcasters busy the past few days, you’d be forgiven for forgetting the iPhone launched on Friday just gone. So how has it gone so far? Rather badly, it seems.
There’s reports doing the rounds that many quite delighted purchasers of [...]

Link: BBC NEWS | Education | Mobile phones ‘offensive weapons’
Expect this to turn up in the Daily Mail tomorrow..
A teaching union is calling for mobile phones to be classed as potentially offensive weapons.  NASUWT general secretary Chris Keates said the way pupils misused them to bully their teachers meant they should be banned from school [...]

Had this in from SMS Text News reader Reuben Raveendran, talking about his experiences with the new Vodafone Mobile Internet service. He’s very kindly allowed us to quote his email, so over to Reuben..
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On Wednesday last week I called up Vodafone to add the £7.50 “Mobile Internet” bundle to my account and [...]