From the monthly archives:

August 2009

Looking at Vox Sciences

by Dan Lane 28th August 2009

I’m sure every one of our readers is familiar with the controversy surrounding voice to text provider SpinVox. One alternative provider has come to light recently in Vox Sciences, I took a look at their service and sat down with the co-founders to find out more. A quick look at the Vox Sciences website shows [...]

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Another look at Truphone

by Jonathan Jensen 26th August 2009

I’ve been using Truphone on various Nokia S60 handsets for about 2 ½ years now, both for low cost international calls and because it delivered great quality mobile WiFi coverage for me at home when my main mobile service provider didn’t (I have now moved MNO to Vodafone to solve the home coverage issue). Truphone [...]

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Hutchison Whampoa invests in Spotify, INQ Mobile CEO joins board

by Dan Lane 21st August 2009

News just in that Hutchison Whampoa head honcho Li Ka-shing has invested some of his hard earned pennies into the plucky young music streaming startup Spotify. We don’t know exactly how much but it was enough to get a seat on the Spotify board which he has given to none other than Frank Meehan, the [...]

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Dan Lane Hates Mobile (Mobile roundup)

by Dan Lane 21st August 2009

Another Audioboo from me, this time I talk about the new Nokia N900 Tablet phone thing and ramble about SpinVox, Palringo, an exciting new Android handset and I mention making fun of people who look different (pot, kettle, black) in order to get a plug in for James Whatley and his Lucozade Challenge. This ends [...]

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The Blackberry Curve 8520 review

by Vikki Chowney 20th August 2009

So, I’ve been playing with a BlackBerry Curve 8520 for the past week or so, and have had a somewhat interesting experience. For my sins, I’ll admit to you that I’ve never played with a BlackBerry for more than just a few minutes. I’ve always found the roller ball to be so horribly over sensitive, [...]

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SpinVox goes free in the UK

by Dan Lane 19th August 2009

SpinVox have removed all charges for UK users of their Voicemail to E-Mail transcription service. Previously the service was charged at £5 per month. The blog TweetOsphere posted an e-mail sent last week from a SpinVox customer service rep saying “I am happy to advise that all our UK accounts are now complimentary”, the representative [...]

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The Million project; a Marketer's dream come true

by Vikki Chowney 15th August 2009

I read a piece yesterday about the Million project in New York (named as such to reference the city’s 1.1 million students), which is an incentive-based scheme that rewards good behaviour and grades with mobile credit. In their words, the project aims to provide ‘short-term incentives to motivate students, increase classroom participation and contribute to [...]

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Evernote and Nokia Stickers 'n Free Stuff

by Ben Smith 9th August 2009

Would you like some free stuff? You would? Well read on… Because it just so happens free stuff is what we got… and in the form of stickers too… which we all know are more highly prized by bloggers than cash or human affection. To celebrate quite how much we love Evernote here at The [...]

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