A Telecom, Paging, Text Messaging and SMS Blog from NotePageTelecom Industry News and Software Tips for Text Messengers. Daily information and news related to telecommunications, paging, text messaging, and sms messaging. Includes news announcements from the industry and tips related to text messaging and SMS.Unlimited Wireless- February 26, 2008 ATT Inc , the biggest U.S. mobile service, said on Tuesday it would offer unlimited mobile phone calls for a flat rate of $99.99 a month, hours after Verizon Wireless announced a similar plan.http://www.notepage.net/blog.htm#807 Cellular TV Taking Off in Japan- February 25, 2008 Shipments of cell phones compatible with Japans mobile digital TV service have surged to more than 20 million units in fewer than two years since launch, according to industry data released last Wednesday.http://www.notepage.net/blog.htm#806 T-Mobile Favors Yahoo- February 20, 2008 T-Mobile announced on last Tuesday that it will soon begin using Yahoo as its preferred mobile search provider in Europe, ending the operators existing relationship with Google for mobile search.http://www.notepage.net/blog.htm#805 RIM Reliability Problems- February 19, 2008 Research In Motion, maker of the popular BlackBerry smartphone, said last Tuesday it was trying to locate the cause of a service disruption that left subscribers with only intermittent access to e-mail and other data services for three hours. Service problems started about 3:30 p.m. EST on Monday, and lasted until about 6:30 p.m. EST, RIM said in an e-mailed statement. BlackBerry subscribers, most of whom are business people, did not lose any messages during the interruption, and voice...http://www.notepage.net/blog.htm#804 Portable Google Search- February 18, 2008 Finnish mobile phone giant Nokia said on Tuesday it had reached an agreement with Google to incorporate the Google search engine in its handsets.http://www.notepage.net/blog.htm#803 Text a Message of Love- February 14, 2008 There is no doubt that on Valentines Day the text messages sent will contain anecdotal notes of affection. We even had a customer inquiry about scheduling love notes to be sent every hour on February 14th!http://www.notepage.net/blog.htm#802 Mobile World Congress- February 13, 2008 The most established names in telecoms, Internet and media gathered in Barcelona Monday for the Mobile World Congress, one of the worlds biggest events for the mobile phone industry. Attention at the trade show, which runs until Thursday, is likely to focus on how to encourage users in developed countries to use their phones for more than simply making calls.http://www.notepage.net/blog.htm#801 Recycling Cell Phones- February 12, 2008 We recycle our soda cans and our newspapers, so why do not we recycle our cell phones U.S. consumers who bought new mobile phones recycled the old ones in the fourth quarter of 2007 at double the rate of the third quarter, a market research firm said Tuesday. But the overall number of recyclers remained low at less than one in 10. complete articlehttp://www.notepage.net/blog.htm#800 Cell Phones to Get Widgets- February 11, 2008 Widgets, or small Web applications that supply useful information direct to the desktop, could soon be appearing on your cell phone screen. complete articlehttp://www.notepage.net/blog.htm#799 NotePager Pro Featured on Software Deal of the Day- February 6, 2008 For the next 24 hours NotePager Pro standalone software to send text messages to pagers and cell phones is featured on the Software Deal of the Day website. NotePager Pro is 50% off for only 24 hours.http://www.notepage.net/blog.htm#798 |