Companies operating in the European Union may have to obtain the consent of mobile phone users before sending commercial messages via SMS, following a landmark ruling in Brussels last week. At the moment, there are no restrictions on the use of SMS...
The British Academy has awarded SMS Chess top honours in its interactive awards. The SMS Chess application, developed by Purple Software, scooped top gong in the mobile game category. The Academy, more famous for its TV and film awards has been...
Around eight per cent of patients do not turn up when the are supposed to, but outpatients clinics using SMS-based appointment reminder systems have cut non-attendance rates by 30 per cent, even when take-up of the texting service was as low as 20...
First, traditional notions of hierarchy and senior/subordinate relationships. The hierarchy that underpins formal communications is eroding, and the next generation is immersed in immediate informal communications such as IM, email and blogs.
European mobile operators should brace themselves for enforced price cuts for SMS roaming, predicts an analyst. Stainthorpe said operators have decided cutting SMS roaming rates is not in their short term financial interest as it generates sizeable...
And said regulation for SMS roaming will be on the way this autumn. I will therefore recommend to my fellow commissioners that we propose a regulation of SMS roaming in October. Tom Phillips, chief government and regulatory affairs officer at the...