I read Irish start-up to revolutionise in-game payments at E3 last week, and I was quite impressed. Well done!
My only reservation would be that SMS feels like a fading technology to me, but perhaps it can succeed with the intended target audience!
Tags: SMS
There was lots of talk about Apple‘s announcement of iOS 5 last week. For an overview of the new features read See new features included in iOS 5.
The most interests aspects are:
I am not an iDevice user, but I am becoming more impressed :)
Finally, Google Android vs. Apple iOS: Handicapping the 2011 death match gives a good comparison of iOS and Android.
Tags: Apple, Facebook, SMS, Twitter
Vodafone has updated its Irish website recently. The two changes that excite me the most are:
- I can now send 600 free SMS messages every month! I send the majority of my SMS messages online!
- I can now send SMS messages to mobile phones in other countries.
The timing of these changes is perfect for me to send all my Christmas greetings :)
Tags: Ireland, SMS, Vodafone
I was delighted to read that the EU states set to agree to cap cost of texting from abroad. Under this proposed legislation the maximum cost of sending a text message while roaming within the EU will be capped at 11c! That is significantly lower than my current rate!
The proposed legislation also includes a cap of 1€ per MB of data while roaming within the EU. I think that this would benefit a lot of business travellers. However, it would not be of any use to me, because I am always able to use WiFi when I am abroad.
In general I feel that the telcos have not yet embraced the concept of the single European market, and they are still charging their customers extremely heavily for intra-EU services. It is unfortunate that it requires legislation to force the telcos to reduce their charges, but if that is what is required then it must be done!
Tags: SMS, WiFi