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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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Dan Lane's State of Mobile AudioBoo

by Dan Lane 7th August 2009

I thought I’d try my hand at this AudioBoo lark and so I present to you five whole minutes of my inane ramblings about mobile in which I talk about; AudioBoo, Nokia, Apple, Palm, Google, INQ and SpinVox. I also point out the vastly contrasting head sizes of two industry figureheads: Christina Domecq of aforementioned [...]

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SpinVox: Demo Day

by Ben Smith 5th August 2009

Along with a number of other bloggers and ‘proper’ journalists we went to SpinVox HQ in Marlow yesterday to get ‘hands on’ and ‘see for ourselves’.  The session – initially planned to run for an hour – wrapped up after around 90 minutes with the arrival of a second group who were to see the [...]

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I'm getting a BlackBerry Curve 8520…

by Vikki Chowney 5th August 2009

…but only on trial. You see, after a massive scheduling FAIL from yours truly, I missed the BlackBerry Curve 8520 launch yesterday. However, after being released in the US and Canada (then simultaneously in India), Research In Motion (RIM) has formally introduced its new handset to the UK market. The 8520 is a slightly cheaper, [...]

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SpinVox Visit – it's coming

by Ben Smith 5th August 2009

A quick and somewhat late-night post to let you know that we do have a write-up coming of our visit to SpinVox yesterday to see their system in operation.  There have already been several posts by other attendees, but we want to provide a little more of the background information we think those who’ve been [...]

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Yes. INQ have launched some Twitter phones.

by Ben Smith 4th August 2009

Less of a surprise than it might have been after we caught INQ staff twittering freely from handsets shown by Twitter as ‘My INQ Mobile’ and already confirmed by INQ big-cheese Frank Meehan in a tweet of his own, INQ have today announced the INQ Chat and the INQ Mini – a QWERTY and slim [...]

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