Alex Kinch

As banks around the world continue to benefit from interactive text alerts to reduce fraud, reduce call center costs, and ultimately increase revenue, Infotechnology Solutions has chosen Clickatell to offer interactive text alerts to banking customers in Nigeria – one of the fastest growing African economies. Banks can offer customers real time SMS alerts with [...]

Amongst all the doom and gloom, consumers will have something to be happy about from this July – as Euro MPs today voted overwhemingly to cut the cost of data and SMS roaming charges.
In a 646 for and 22 against vote, sending a text whilst roaming in Europe will now fall to a maximum of [...]

Irish messaging specialists Anam have announced it is further extending its Smart Services Applications for SMS across the globe by providing two leading operators with the ability to deploy its solutions.
The deals with the unnamed operators in Cambodia and Estonia come after Anam’s recent announcement during Mobile World Congress in February that it had signed [...]

Interesting news from the Middle East. The Dubai Public Prosecution (DPP) have launched a new SMS service that allows interested parties to find out details of specific cases.
All you have to do is send a text to the DPP’s number with some details – like case type, case number, and year, and for the equivalent [...]

Reallymoving.com the leading comparison site for home movers has launched a new service for its partners. From today, reallymoving.com partners – removals firms, chartered surveyors, Home Information Pack Providers, Domestic Energy Assessors (who provide Energy Performance Certificates) and Home Report providers in Scotland – can opt to receive their leads instantly by text from reallymoving.com [...]

If you’ve a Lebara Mobile customer in the UK, here’s a little ray of financial sunshine amongst all the doom and gloom of the credit crunch.
During April Lebara UK customers can phone other Lebara customers for free for the first 15 minutes, and text each other for free too.
According to Lebara COO Tim Wort, “This [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

If you’ve been lamenting the loss of SMS support for Twitter here in the UK, you might be pleased with this recent announcement:
Vodafone UK has signed an agreement with Twitter allowing customers to send and receive SMS updates at no additional cost. Sending tweets from your mobile will be part of your normal text messaging [...]

I remember writing about the ups and downs of Plus SMS for MIR back in 2007 – looks like they’re still around and still in the headlines:
Plus SMS to seek money from shareholders | National Business Review (NBR) New Zealand – Business, News, Arts, Media, Share Market and More.
Text messaging technology firm Plus SMS is [...]