The industry has certainly come a long way since France 1998, when there was no i-mode, SMS or data services. In the UK, Vodafone is offering SMS services on full time and halftime scores and each goal the England team scores.
Since launching our Digital Blunders special report we've been inundated with your email and SMS howlers. During the conversation I decided to text the Northern lass - with quite a saucy SMS. He asked if I could send over the images that I'd done...
How strangers push information to our most personal devices is a touchy subject.silicon.com readers have in the past spoken out against spam texted to mobile phones over SMS (Bluejacking could also be termed texting, we've been told) and use of...
Once finished, the interface specification for mobile messaging will work with both plain SMS, or Short Message Service, and with MMS, or Multimedia Messaging Service, which is typically used to send images and music.
At the moment the web payment option is used by 28 per cent of drivers, Paypoint by 28 per cent, SMS by 23 per cent and the call centre by 14 per cent. Last year 3.5 million payments were made by SMS, with 170,000 drivers signed up to use it.
The tills can send an SMS to a mobile or an email over the wireless service telling the customer a delivery is imminent. If they are at home you can send them an email or SMS. If I get a call at 3am I can zoom in and pin point something in real...