Archive for the ‘Mobile Services’ Category

combo - one social interface to rule them all (on your iphone)

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

I've been a member of Combo for some time now. The service is still in beta. Not the Gmail kind of beta where they have millions of users who don't quite know why it's still beta. It's a true beta - complete with cool, innovative features and bugs alike. Combo provides ...

Windows Live Messenger Gets SMS (finally)

Wednesday, November 21st, 2007

I ususally use GAIM as my instant messenger application. When choosing to send an IM to a mobile phone I use my AIM account. It's easy, simply send any message to +1XXXYYYZZZZ (where XYZ is a 10-digit cell phone number). Conveniently, your message arrives on your buddy's handset and ...

nazi ringtones!?!? - problems with affiliate search marketing

Friday, October 19th, 2007

It's hard to believe that anyone would sell Nazi ringtones. But according to this landing page they are available by SendMe Mobile, Thumbplay, and FunMobile. Wow. Who knew? Now really?!? Which company in their right mind would offer such content? This is a typical case of a search affiliate who would ...

Verizon Wireless to Share Your Data (for advertising?) - Opt-Out Now

Monday, October 15th, 2007

Verizon Wireless has quietly made a change to their privacy policy. This to allow data mininig to improve customer service and allegedly to enable targeted advertisements. They won't be sharing your name or phone number, but they plan on sharing your call history and handset information. At issue is so-called Customer ...

ATT Smart Limits Puts Parents In Control of Cell Billing and Usage; Angers Children

Wednesday, September 5th, 2007

It looks like ATT has finally listened to parents' call to be able to have more control over their Family Plans. Smart Limits is an optional feature priced at $4.99/month which allows parents to limit minutes, messaging, and access to premium content such as ringtones on a phone number by ...

Barack The Vote with your Mobile

Thursday, June 21st, 2007

I must admit. I saw that on a t-shirt. Barack Obama has launched an SMS service to support his presidential campaign. He’s made it easy to join: People just send “Go” to OBAMA (62262)...ah, the benefit of a five-letter name. The service will keep voters apprised of campaign events such as local ...

What (TF) happened to my iGoogle homepage

Wednesday, June 20th, 2007

Sometime yesterday afternoon (around 4pm EST) I started losing my Google homepage tabs!! Has this happened to anyone else out there? I had 5 tabs altogether and with over 50 feeds and several widgets. Arghh. Back in October, I lost my mobile Google Homepage, but at least the web version was still there. Now ...

GotVoice: Visual Voicemail w/o an iPhone

Wednesday, June 13th, 2007

Want to see your voicemail? Don't have an iPhone? No problem, with wap and a 3rd party service called GotVoice you can have visual voicemail on your uncool un-iPhone. Traditional voice mail is a pain since you have to go through and at least listen to part of each message to ...

Free Spiderman 3 Wallpaper

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007

Get a free Spiderman 3 wallpaper for your cell phone; or whatever suits your fancy at Yowgo's image search. Yowgo, with the help of Mixxer, lets you search for images, crop them, and send them to your own or a friend's mobile phone. Here are some example image searches: Spiderman ...

Digg Mobile

Thursday, May 3rd, 2007

Found these links on this clever blog about a person who wants to uninstall everything on his PC and use only web-based apps. It's not really Digg Mobile, but rather Digg made mobile. Digg River DiggPadDigg Anywhere Dig-Dug mobile Pocket Digg Read: My Uninstalled Life