http://www.inveslogic.com/tags/sms Blog Articles Tagged with 'sms' at http://www.inveslogic.com en http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1124757?rsstype=tag&tag=sms Judging the Launchpad startups.Here s the end-of-the-day portion of the show that many of us have been waiting for all day: the Launchpad, where a dozen startups get a few minutes to convince us they rock.Here are our lovely judges. All four scored... Thu, 18 Sep 2008 21:14:49 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1124757?rsstype=tag&tag=sms http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1124694?rsstype=tag&tag=sms GigaOM Mobilize conference: Mobile social network panelFor the mobile social networking panel, I thought it might be helpful to condense the various remarks each speaker made to sum up their particular social network s take on mobile. Not to say th... Thu, 18 Sep 2008 18:28:50 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1124694?rsstype=tag&tag=sms http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1124558?rsstype=tag&tag=sms We just finished a panel on mobile user experience with some excellent ideas about specific opportunities for startups to build mobile software. Here s the rough transcript: Thinking Experientially panel at Mobilize.Dylan Tweney, Gadget Lab, Wired.... Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:04:41 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1124558?rsstype=tag&tag=sms http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/etf-investor/1123120?rsstype=tag&tag=sms Australian company Sims Group (SMS), the world s largest publicly listed scrap metal recycler - thanks to its $1.85-billion acquisition in March this year of US metals recycler Metal Management - has announced spectacular profit growth in its 2007-... Mon, 15 Sep 2008 17:49:00 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/etf-investor/1123120?rsstype=tag&tag=sms http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1121776?rsstype=tag&tag=sms As gas prices have soared, more commuters have made the switch to carpooling, and they re turning to a host of free web-based services from government-sponsored transit programs to iPhone apps and widgets to meet their needs. But the plet... Fri, 12 Sep 2008 01:01:57 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1121776?rsstype=tag&tag=sms http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1120067?rsstype=tag&tag=sms I m hanging out at DEMO the next few days, and wanted to start off with a quick rundown of the mobile apps launching at the show. With 72 companies to check out in San Diego, plus the competing coverage out of the TechCrunch50, I figured I should k... Sun, 07 Sep 2008 21:43:41 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1120067?rsstype=tag&tag=sms http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/alec-saunders-log/1116401?rsstype=tag&tag=sms This morning we talked about some of the stories that are emerging about the use of technology in politics. Barack Obama s use of SMS to announce Joe Biden as his running mate, Microsoft s deployment of a voter registration application on XBOX,... Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:08:39 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/alec-saunders-log/1116401?rsstype=tag&tag=sms http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1115023?rsstype=tag&tag=sms Barack Obama s text message is the big story here. Brian outlined the historical importance in an earlier post. Now we have more data about the text-message itself, thanks to Nielsen Mobile who describes it as the single largest mobile marketing... Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:34:04 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1115023?rsstype=tag&tag=sms http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1115028?rsstype=tag&tag=sms Barack Obama s now-famous text-message announcement of his VP pick reveals something about the candidate that should really worry the Republicans. What it reveals is not that he s a smart technologist. If he was, he would have known that sending ... Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:27:56 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1115028?rsstype=tag&tag=sms http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/jupiter-research/1115170?rsstype=tag&tag=sms I had read some of my colleagues comments about the importance of digital in the US Presidential elections: see here and here.However, after a week in the US, I now realize how strong a component mobile has become in the digital communication campaig... Mon, 25 Aug 2008 11:49:46 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/jupiter-research/1115170?rsstype=tag&tag=sms http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/jupiter-research/1115173?rsstype=tag&tag=sms First Data believes that contactless stickers its so-called-GO-Tags will be a game-changer in the race to mobile proximity payments. Go-Tags are flexible RF antennae, linked to a prepaid account, designed to be affixed to consumers cellphones.... Fri, 22 Aug 2008 08:29:48 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/jupiter-research/1115173?rsstype=tag&tag=sms http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/alec-saunders-log/1113371?rsstype=tag&tag=sms Image via CrunchBase, source unknown SMS email provider Teleflip is shutting down their Flipmail service on Friday. When they premiered at DEMO in 2007, the premise was that everyone could have email on their mobile phone, without having to buy a s... Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:47:53 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/alec-saunders-log/1113371?rsstype=tag&tag=sms http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1112598?rsstype=tag&tag=sms Judging by the geek cocktail buzz I keep hearing over RocketOn, the web-based parallel virtual world being developed by the Bay Area startup with the same name, I m not the only one excited about its Sept. 15th launch. RocketOn CEO Steve Hof... Fri, 08 Aug 2008 19:55:06 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1112598?rsstype=tag&tag=sms http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/silicon-beat/1106362?rsstype=tag&tag=sms The third party site traffic analytic tools were unanimous: usage of Twitter went down fairly substantially during the middle of June. That tends to happen when you service simply doesn t work. This lead many to proclaim that other services such as... Mon, 07 Jul 2008 22:44:06 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/silicon-beat/1106362?rsstype=tag&tag=sms http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/alec-saunders-log/1106019?rsstype=tag&tag=sms SquawkBox for July 7, 2008Today on the show we had a very lively discussion on the topic of Is Voicemail Dead? revolving around Michael Arrington s post Think Before You Voicemail and Andy Abramson s followup.Discussion included: is v... Mon, 07 Jul 2008 21:19:59 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/alec-saunders-log/1106019?rsstype=tag&tag=sms http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/voip-weblog/1106714?rsstype=tag&tag=sms Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Gretchen CarrollVoicemail is a feature that seems to come with just about every VoIP solution out there. While it's been a staple on landlines as well, the one thing that VoIP companies bring to the table is sending voi... Sun, 06 Jul 2008 04:14:40 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/voip-weblog/1106714?rsstype=tag&tag=sms http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/tech-crunch/1106492?rsstype=tag&tag=sms Webaroo Technology has raised a $10 million round of funding for their product SMSGupShup, an SMS-based community site in India, according to Pluggd.in. The round, the third for the company, was co-led by Helion Venture Partners and Charles River Ve... Sat, 05 Jul 2008 18:30:17 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/tech-crunch/1106492?rsstype=tag&tag=sms http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/voip-watch/1106703?rsstype=tag&tag=sms TechCrunch founder/Editor, Michael Arrington has a piece on voice mail which is very much on the money.It's on the money because he's presenting a viewpoint based on real world experiences. I'm pretty much in the same boat, though I don't get nearly ... Sat, 05 Jul 2008 16:58:21 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/voip-watch/1106703?rsstype=tag&tag=sms http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/tech-crunch/1106494?rsstype=tag&tag=sms Voicemail is dead. Please tell everyone so they ll stop using it.When I first started out in the real world in the mid-nineties voicemail was an important productivity tool. I remember people talking about the pros and cons of various enterprise vo... Sat, 05 Jul 2008 12:00:34 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/tech-crunch/1106494?rsstype=tag&tag=sms http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/silicon-valley-watcher/1106374?rsstype=tag&tag=sms A strange thing often happens when I write. I sit down thinking about the structure of a news story or a news analysis and I often come up with different ideas and thoughts. I often find that I think through my fingers as I type.This evening my fin... 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