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.China Investigates Text Messaging Spam- March 25, 2008 Chinese authorities said Monday they are investigating complaints that millions of cell phone users were spammed with unwanted text messages from advertisers. The uproar over what China's media has dubbed Text-message Gate has drawn apologies from a major advertiser and the country's biggest mobile phone carrier, China Mobile. The commercial text messages were sent to more than 200 million mobile phone users through two companies China Mobile and its smaller rival, China Unicom. China.http://www.notepage.net/blog.htm#814 FCC Auction- March 24, 2008 The Federal Communications Commission auction for the 700-MHz wireless spectrum is over, and the winners are known. One obvious winner is the FCC itself, which exceeded its initial estimate of $10 billion with a $19.59 billion total.http://www.notepage.net/blog.htm#813 A Mobile Iraq- March 23, 2008 Saddam Hussein deemed Iraqis could live without modern technology such as mobile phones and the Internet. Now that his regime has been swept away, they are finding they just can not get enough of it.http://www.notepage.net/blog.htm#812 Nokia Music Store in Germany- March 12, 2008 Nokia opened on Monday its online music store in Germany, the second such store for the worlds largest cell phone maker, which plans to open the stores in nine more countries by mid-2008.http://www.notepage.net/blog.htm#811 Students Slow to Adopt Alerts- March 11, 2008 The massacre at Virginia Tech last year sent colleges nationwide scrambling to improve how they get alerts to students during crises on campus. One solution: Text messages sent to cell phones. But while hundreds of campuses have adopted text alerts, most students are not embracing the system even in an age when they consider their mobile phones indispensable. Students Slow to Adopt Text Alertshttp://www.notepage.net/blog.htm#810 Lawmakers Debate Mobile Consumer Rights Bill- March 10, 2008 A proposed consumer rights bill for mobile telephone service drew mixed reviews during a hearing in Congress Wednesday, with detractors saying the legislation would place too much regulation on a competitive industry. The draft legislation, floated by Representative Ed Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat, calls for the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to make rules requiring mobile carriers to offer unsubsidized handsets to customers, to offer service with no early termination fees and to..http://www.notepage.net/blog.htm#809 Smart Phone War- March 3, 2008 The battle for smartphone supremacy is about intensify after Apple Inc. said last week that developers will learn the details needed to create third-party software for its iPhone. Apples move is viewed by analysts as a way to bolster sales of the massively popular smartphone, which have been declining lately. But its mention yesterday of additional enterprise features may have serious implications for Research In Motion BlackBerry devices. complete articlehttp://www.notepage.net/blog.htm#808 |