Alex Kinch

Mobile technology and entertainment company ROK have just announced they’re behind the ‘Ask Terry’ Q&A text service service launched today on UK sports radio station TalkSPORT.
Commenting on the initiative, Laurence Alexander, CEO of ROK said “TalkSPORT is the perfect medium for reaching keen sports fans who find themselves with a burning question that needs answering.
“Our [...]

Florida-based company Global SMS has just unveiled something they’re calling a ‘text messaging dating companion’, aimed at stopping so-called dating ‘players’.
Based on the simple concept that people cheat and lie while dating and in relationships, the PlayerBlock service provides an outlet for the “playee” to share their experience. This experience is linked to the phone [...]

Yellow Pages Group, New Zealand’s leading directory publisher, today announced that they will launch their WAP2.0 mobile search service in conjunction with mobilePeople and Local Matters.
The new mobile offering will be based on mobilePeople’s liquidTM platform and will enable New Zealanders using the Vodafone live! mobile service to benefit from a wealth of local information [...]

The SpinVox world domination plans continue, with the news that they’ve launched their rather useful voicemail-to-SMS service in South Africa.
The deal, with leading mobile network Vodacom, will be branded in the country as Voicemail2SMS.  “SpinVox is a powerful messaging service that saves customers time by eliminating the need to listen to traditional voicemail,” says Christina [...]

As we’re in the midst of yet another postal strike, it’s rather apt that a District Council in Suffolk has announced they’re embracing the 21st century and communicating with residents by text.
Barbergh District Council, working with solutions provider Avanquest, are to start sending out reminders to residents to pay council tax by text, instead of [...]

In a unique collaboration between Orange World and the 5th Estate mobile portal, Nigel Slater fans will now be able to interact with his new book Eating for England whilst on the move.
The site is being promoted across Orange’s Orange World portal throughout October and is designed to specifically target mobile users that fit Nigel [...]

Hot on the heels of their recent deal with Orange for the provision of it’s targeting and advertising solution to power the operator’s My Personal Offers System, Irish company Xiam Technologies have just announced a deal with Vodafone Ireland.
Vodafone Ireland is using MPOS technology to serve interactive third party advertisements on their newly revamped Mobile [...]

Telefonica – parent company of UK mobile network O2 – yesterday announced a deal to bring Yahoo! oneSearch, Yahoo! Mail and photo sharing community Flickr to more than 100 million mobile customers in 15 countries.
Yahoo! oneSearch is specifically designed for mobile devices, delivering results directly in the first screen and thereby removing the need for [...]

Congratulations to David Warburton, Martin Bowley and all the team at mobile entertainment company Pitch Entertainment Group, for being listed at number six in the recently published 2007 Sunday Times Microsoft Tech Track 100 league table.
The annual ranking assesses sales growth of Britain’s fastest growing un-quoted tech companies, in this case, for the period 2004-2006. [...]

Link: Google Buys Mobile Social Networking Site
Google has brought “certain assets and technology” of the mobile phone based social networking site, Zingku for an undisclosed amount. Zingku says that it was started in 2005 when the founders noticed that teenage/twenty something’s and their friends were engaging in rich media conversations drawing upon the full reach [...]