Archive for the ‘Mobile’ Category
Thursday, October 6th, 2005
My first encounter with a vendo machine was in John Hay, circa 1980. They had Dr. Pepper in can in exchange for a dime.
Fast forward 25 years where I have three vendo stories to share. First is the Vendo text. Second is the vendo internet kiosks in Singapore. Third ...
Posted in Mobile, Wireless | 13 Comments »
Tuesday, October 4th, 2005
Mobile subscribers (1.1 billion) exceeded fixed-line subscribers for the first time in 2002
There are now 1.7 billion mobile subscribers. Less than 0.5 percent remains on analogue networks.
odafone with 165 million customers is the largest multinational operator
GSM networks account for 75 percent of the world's digital mobile customers.
The SMS standard was ...
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Saturday, October 1st, 2005
Look what I got from my bank! An SMS message. Grabe, close na talaga kami, textmates na kami!
From: +639178910000
Message:
BPI CARD:Your credit card acct is past due.Pls call 8989247 or send reply to 09178910000,text BCC[space] your card no & message
First thought: Uy, BPI found a way to remind clients to pay. ...
Posted in Mobile | 7 Comments »
Monday, September 19th, 2005
I have discussed a lot with my brother, Elmer, and we envisioned mobile search services. Two ways we imagined it (I no longer could not distinguish which ideas are mine and which are his, thus I refer to these ideas as ours).
First is an automated search engine. The search ...
Posted in Edong's Dreams, Mobile | 1 Comment »
