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After 10 years in mobile messaging and having run 160c for 9 years, the time has come to say goodbye and cease publication of the 160characters.org website and newsletter.
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Reported by Mike Grenville on Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:43, United Kingdom
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| Products & Services: SMS Hangs Up on Phone Thieves
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A simple SMS can protect confidential data when Symbian and Windows mobile phones are stolen with new software from F-Secure.
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Reported by Mike Grenville on Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:57, World
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| Comment: Mobile Social Messaging will Drive 2010
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Amid signs of economic recovery, 2010 will be the year when mobile operators worldwide protect their existing revenue channels, while exploring new ones. Data services will play an even more important role in 2010, supported by an enlarged mobile messaging landscape that in addition to SMS, will also encompass mobile Email, mobile Social Networking, and Instant Messaging. Contrary to what many analysts believe, the device platform landscape will not consolidate, but further diversify as new platforms like Maemo, LiMo and Android take their market share. As the battle between operators, device manufacturers and Internet portals for value added services intensifies, operators will play their strongest card – their billing relationship with the user.
Synchronica’s CEO Carsten Brinkschulte shares his vision of the mobile messaging industry for 2010
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Reported by Industry Comment on Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:41, World
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| Comment: Cheaper cellphone calls to drive SMS uptake in 2010
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The possible reduction in mobile call charges in South Africa will change consumer behaviour says Pieter Streicher, Managing Director of BulkSMS.com.
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Reported by Industry Comment on Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:17, South Africa
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After 10 years in mobile messaging and having run 160c for 9 years, the time has come to say goodbye and cease publication of the 160characters.org website and newsletter.
Although SMS itself is 17 years old, the mobile messaging industry is not a great deal more than ten years old and the first players such as Derdak and mBlox have been celebrating their 10 years in the business. Over these ten years mobile messaging, and SMS in particular, has become an intergral part of modern life. In spite of continued predictions of its demise over the years, SMS continues to defy gravity and its use grows as users find more ways in can be used.
Something that is installed on almost every phone shipped worldwide will always be very hard to compete with unless it has something utterly compelling to offer. Primarily a mobile phone is a communicatioins device and text messaging is a key feature of that. So the future of mobile messaging in all its various forms continues to offer much potential.
Today two thirds of the population of the planet have a mobile phone and all of them can both make a receive phone calls and send and receive text messages. The world has never been so closely connected. The full implications of this I believe have still not fully been grasped.
Thanks
I would like to thank the many people, event partners, advertisers, award entrants and of course subscribers and paid members who have supported 160characters over the years. There are too many individuals to list here but in particular I would like to thank Andrew Bud, mBlox; Mike Short. MDA & O2; Robert Hamiliton, Google; Helen Keegan Beep marketing and Rachel Graves at theinternetteam.ltd.uk.
The decision to end writing for 160c is mixed with a certain amount of sadness and relief! I plan to arrange a farewell event in London in March, so if you'd like to sponsor that event please get in touch.
Community Focus
My focus now will be on helping communities respond to the many challenges we face as a society of Peak Oil, Climate Change, global ecomonics based on growth. This will be primarily through the Transition movement which I have been involved with since its early days. My first priority now is completion of a book I am co-author of: TRANSITION COMMUNITIES: a pocket guide.
If you are interested to take over 160character.org please get in touch!
Mike Grenville
mike@160characters.org
01342 825169
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