Google Voice, the New Version of GrandCentral. Should telcos be worried about Twitter? Advertisement As telecom service providers race to build the next killer application – stealing ideas from Web 2.0, battling over-the-top-video and placing major IPTV bets – could the communications service to beat really be the humble, no-business-model, 140-character-limit, micro-blogging, pseudo-SMS service Twitter?
Events in the past week have only heightened hype around the service. News that Twitter might start charging businesses to send out messages and accumulate followers had the “twitterverse” a-flutter. Get CrunchBase Startup Data Via SMS. We are continuing to see some really useful stuff being hacked together after we released an unrestricted API for the startup data we’ve gathered on CrunchBase.
Last month we wrote about some of our favorite applications using the API. A couple of days ago blogger/venture capitalist Fred Wilson wrote about some of the things he’d like to be able to do on his mobile phone that he can’t do today. TweetSMS to Bring SMS Updates Back to UK Twitter Users. Talk about opportunistic.
Less than 24 hours after Twitter announced that it was no longer sending outbound SMS to users outside the US, Canada, and India, a newly launched service called tweetSMS is planning to offer a comparable solution for “a small fee.” While tweetSMS isn’t live yet, it promises to restore the functionality that has been lost – the ability for users in the UK (and other countries eventually) where outbound SMS is cost prohibitive (according to Twitter) to receive text updates on their mobile. The company behind the project is Stasis Media, and they were interviewed earlier today by the blog ArabCrunch.
Apparently, Stasis Media had a feeling that Twitter would yank outbound SMS internationally, and has been hurrying to piece together a service to fill the void. While no launch date has been set, tweetSMS is currently asking users to submit their email, phone number, and country to be notified when the service goes live. O fim do SMS no Twitter. Torpedo de celular pode ser 'promovido' a mensageiro i. O resultado da parceria entre oito operadoras de telefonia móvel pode ser disponibilizado ao público brasileiro em meados de 2009, segundo a associação comercial global para a indústria móvel (GSMA, na sigla em inglês). Anunciado nesta segunda-feira (4), o acordo propõe a oferta nos telefones celulares de uma plataforma única de comunicação instantânea entre aparelhos de operadoras diferentes.
“Tecnicamente é possível que a iniciativa seja oferecida a partir de meados do ano que vem. Mas a estréia do serviço ainda depende de definições comerciais e técnicas, que serão feitas nos próximos meses”, afirmou ao G1 a portuguesa Ana Tavares, diretora de iniciativas estratégicas da GSMA. Na prática, explicou Ana, essa novidade levará as funcionalidades de mensageiros instantâneos aos celulares dos brasileiros. “É a evolução dos torpedos, que ainda não oferecem uma comunicação em tempo real. Interoperabilidade Já existem atualmente comunicadores voltados aos telefones móveis, como o Nimbuzz. Operadoras brasileiras fazem acordo para troca de mensagens. Oito operadoras de telefonia móvel do Brasil assinaram um acordo para troca de mensagens em tempo real (como programas de comunicação instantânea, instalados em computadores) entre seus assinantes pelo celular.
As empresas Vivo, TIM, Claro, Oi, Brasil Telecom, Sercomtel, Nextel e CTBC trabalham para que o serviço esteja disponível em todo o Brasil, segundo comunicado da GSMA, associação comercial global para a indústria móvel. Bell and Telus billing customers for incoming SMS text messages. While the rest of the US will likely wallow in the shared misery of Canadian subscribers being charged for incoming text messages, our friends to the North are none-too-happy about the situation.
Following in the footsteps of US wireless carriers looking to squeeze every penny out of their American subscriber-base, Bell and Telus have announced that they’ll be billing customers $0.15 (15 cents) for every incoming SMS text message. Those with text messaging bundles will not be affected, but everyone else on a pay-per-text plan will be subject to the new fees.
Regardless of the sender – be they spammer, family member, or evil twin – the person receiving the SMS text message will be charged a heft 15 cent fee per message. The new policy is a severe departure from the carriers’ previous policy of only billing customers for text message that they send, allowing users to receive messages for free. [Via: CBCNews] About The Author Will Park Sell Your Old Cell Phone for Cash. INFO Online - SMS ainda paga o leite das crianças - (16/06/2008)