Archive Category: SMS
May 30, 2004 | Permalink | m-Travel.com
Orange offers 2-way SMS 'find nearest' service
By Ken Smith | Editor, SmartTravelNews.com
LONDON -- Let's say that you're new to the city, or lost, or too far into the evening, and you are trying to find just one more place to party. If you are a subscriber to the UK's Orange mobile phone service, all you have to do is send the one-word text message "pub" to the Orange SMS short code 300, then a wireless navigation and location-based services system powered by Webraska will fix your location and reply with a text message telling you of the nearest pub.
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May 27, 2004 | Permalink | m-Travel.com
Mobile wake-up call to the travel industry
By Mike Grenville | 160characters.org
"Don't wait for 3G," said Vodafone, calling on the travel industry to take advantage of the mobile technology that is already there and that consumers are using. "SMS is the prevailing communications method of this millenium so far and the travel industry can no longer afford to ignore it," was the view from Vodafone at EyeforTravel's European Travel Distribution Summit in London last week.
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July 31, 2003 | Permalink | m-Travel.com
Show tickets sold on mobile phone in Singapore
TEL AVIV -- Worldwide, there are 300 million people use the Internet, but some 500 million pack a mobile phone. With these numbers in mind, the Israeli company RegiSoft has been developing ticket sales on mobile devices, and now the first such wireless transaction system is up and running in Singapore. RegiSoft announces the successful completion of the first show offering ticket sales using mobile devices at Esplanade Theatres on the Bay, Singapore’s national performing arts center, selling all the tickets allocated to using this revolutionary method.
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June 10, 2003 | Permalink | m-Travel.com
Mobile credit card authentication to be developed
TORONTO -- Arcot Systems Inc., a provider of systems for securing digital identities, and Diversinet, a provider of secured mobile solutions, have jointly agreed to develop and co-market systems for mobile authentication of online credit card transactions.
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April 22, 2003 | Permalink | m-Travel.com
Air2Web offers new instant messaging product
ATLANTA -- While the travel industry has been somewhat slow in embracing wireless technology during the current global economic slump, some experts are saying that instant messaging (IM) could be the application that gets the ball rolling. Air2Web, a leading wireless platform provider, has launched a new product called 2IM, which the company says is the market's first mobile instant messaging (IM) solution to integrate popular public and corporate IM services.
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April 4, 2003 | Permalink | m-Travel.com
Travel seller lastminute.com offers SMS newsletter
LONDON -- European online travel seller lastminute.com has contracted with InfoSpace to provide an SMS newsletter service for mobile phone users. The weekly newsletter will be used by lastminute.com as a marketing tool to increase sales from customers visiting its web and WAP portals.
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March 19, 2003 | Permalink | m-Travel.com
Less voice, more data seen for wireless profits
NEW ORLEANS -- As mobile operators and vendors gather this week at CTIA Wireless 2003, the trade show held by the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association, analysis and consulting company Ovum sees merit in their strategy to decrease their reliance on voice revenues in favor of data services such as short text messages (SMS), wireless multimedia (MMS) and wireless instant messages (IM).
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February 28, 2003 | Permalink | m-Travel.com
Air of optimism and new technology at 3GSM
By Mike Grenville | CEO, 160Characters Association
CANNES, France -- With 26,000 attendees nearly 600 vendors at the 3GSM World Congress last week, it was hard for it not to make an impression. Just making sense of what was where and happening when was the first challenge for such a large event with 576 vendors from 35 countries, spanning five halls and 25,000 square meters.
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February 19, 2003 | Permalink | m-Travel.com
Blogging software for mobile phones launched
By Ken Smith | Editor, SmartTravelNews.com
CANNES, France -- Text messaging and taking and sending small-file photos with a mobile phone are not yet popular in the United States, but much of the rest of the world is wildly enthusiastic. If the exhibits and talk in the aisles at the 3GSM World Congress this week are an indication of the next big thing, then we may soon see many new applications in handheld mobile communications. The mobile phone is not just for voice any longer.
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January 17, 2003 | Permalink | m-Travel.com
Wireless navigation, mapping product launched
GOTHENBURG, Sweden -- Wayfinder Systems, a global provider of wireless navigation, mapping and traffic information services and technologies, launched its new Wayfinder wireless navigation product at Comdex Scandinavia this week. Itinerary Systems changed the company name to Wayfinder Systems last week.
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