Tagged: SMS & News
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Dublin tech firm Openmind named as finalist in CTIA Emerging Tech Awards News
02.05.2013 Irish software company Openmind - which transmits 1bn SMS messages a day for 120 mobile carriers - has been named as a finalist in the 2013 Emerging Technology (E-Tech) Awards... -
Facebook reveals ‘Home’ – it’s not a phone but could transform all smartphones News
04.04.2013 Facebook didn’t reveal a brand new phone today per se, but an Android-based feature set called ‘Home’, which it expects to sit on the home screen of all smartphones and will...Categories: Software & Web Development, Software, Networking & Telecoms, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Internet, Digital Media, Consumer Tech, Computers, Apps -
Openmind app brings SMS text messaging to Android tablet computers News
02.04.2013 Dublin software company Openmind, whose technology transmits more than 1bn SMS messages a day across 120 operator networks, has brought out its first consumer-facing app...Categories: Wireless Communications, Phones, Mobility, Mobile, Internet, Consumer Tech, Computers, Apps -
Irish take naturally to in-flight mobile services News
05.03.2013 Irish people love to talk and so it makes sense that since an in-flight mobile service was launched by AeroMobile more than 900 calls, 25,000 text messages and 10,000 mobile... -
Tech start-up of the week: YellowSchedule News
03.03.2013 Our start-up to watch this week is YellowSchedule, a new cloud-based appointment and client customer relationship management (CRM) platform targeted at service providers that... -
Bill Shocker malware infects over 600,000 Android smartphones in China News
31.01.2013 One of the most costly viruses ever unleashed has been discovered and has already impacted more than 600,000 Android devices in China. The malware, which threatens to go global,... -
Likecharity enables 100pc of text donations to reach charities in Ireland News
23.01.2013 We in Ireland are a generous lot, donating more than €500m annually to some 8,000 charities across the country. Making donations has never been easier in the mobile age with...Categories: Mobile, Communications -
WhatsApp processed record 18bn messages on New Year’s Eve News
03.01.2013 It’s looking to be a happy new year indeed for communications app WhatsApp, which smashed its own record number of messages processed in a single day on New Year’s Eve. -
Beware of Late Late Toy Show SMS scam - UK cyber thieves target Irish consumers News
28.11.2012 Consumers in Ireland are being alerted to a premium rate number scam by UK cyber-criminals, whereby unsuspecting punters are being manipulated into believing they have won... -
Analysys Mason’s 2013 telecoms forecast - LTE, social SMS and smartphones News
19.12.2012 The 4G networks based on Long Term Evolution (LTE) will become a commercial reality in 2013 but its economic impact in the first 12 months will be limited. That’s one of the... -
You don’t need a Facebook account to use the new Messenger for Android app News
04.12.2012 Facebook’s popular Messenger for Android app has been given an interesting update that means anyone can send messages to their phone contacts, even if they don’t have a Facebook...Categories: Wireless Communications, Software & Web Development, Social Media, Phones, Mobility, Mobile, Internet, Digital Media, Consumer Tech, CIO, Apps -
Happy bday 2U: SMS turns 20 News
03.12.2012 Today marks 20 years since the birth of short message service, or SMS as we better know it. With a simple “Merry Christmas” sent on 3 December 1992, software programmer Neil...Categories: Communications, Mobile -
NI government awards stg£20m e-government contract to BT News
20.11.2012 BT has been awarded a stg£20m contract from the Northern Ireland government to improve the public’s access to government services through online, mobile and social media. -
O2 Media introduces new text and email messaging service for SMEs News
25.10.2012 O2 Media, a division of Telefónica Ireland that specialises in mobile marketing, has launched Communicate, a new service for small to medium-sized businesses to create, send and... -
Facebook Messenger for Android gets a new look, adds SMS functionality News
21.09.2012 Android users get two treats from Facebook today: an update to the Facebook app and the stand-alone Facebook Messenger app that not only makes the service look better, but also... -
Technology business week: credit unions to get online banking, Apple reshuffles management News
03.09.2012 In our roundup of top business tech stories from the past week, the Credit Unions in Ireland are going to start offering online banking services, Vodafone kicks off a new... -
UPC pushes out bulk SMS service for businesses News
31.08.2012 Cable operator UPC has taken an interesting plunge into the mobile space (the first of many to come?) with a new bulk SMS messaging service for businesses. -
iOS SMS spoofing flaw revealed by security researcher News
17.08.2012 A French security researcher called Pod2G has claimed to have discovered a new flaw that lets hackers spoof their identities via SMS messages and ask for private information by... -
Music industry of the future News
02.08.2012 With fears that music fans are becoming less likely to pay for music in the digital age, the industry needs new ideas, and there are those who are finding new ways to make and... -
#London2012 – Networks can’t handle Olympian volume of texts News
30.07.2012 Spectators at the men’s cycling road race on Sunday were asked to refrain from texting during the event unless it was urgent, as overloaded data networks caused problems for...