Phone Service Pioneer Seeks Six Digits to Get to Market 'Lightbulb Moment' Led to Development of Text-Based Answers Technology
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By SHARON WARD  A RESEARCHER at Edinburgh University is hoping to raise GBP 600,000 in venture-capital funding and EU grants to develop the technology for a new type of information service for mobile phone users.
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Six-month study will allow passengers to send messages and make calls.
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iqzone, inc., creator of the world's first  mobile service for broadcasting and searching classified ads from mobile  phones, today announced the company's newest  features to complement its groundbreaking consumer Snap Send Sell&#8482;  service.
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A Silicon Valley start-up is  gearing up to embed free, Web-based telephone services on a  variety of popular social networking and blogging services,  including MySpace, Friendster and Blogger.
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By Michelle Theriault, The Bellingham Herald, Bellingham, Wash.  Sep. 24--On a recent afternoon, Dave Shockley learns to text message.   It's not as if Shockley's unfamiliar with cell phones.
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t may be known as caller ID spoofing, but it is evidently no laughing matter. Three days after the start-up company Star38 began offering a service that fools caller ID systems, the founder, Jason Jepson, has decided to sell the business.
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(InfoWorld) - IBM's India Research Lab has developed a location-based service for mobile phone users that helps mobile users to connect with both fixed and mobile businesses in their vicinity. When deployed by mobile phone service providers, the business finder technology allows a consumer to find and use the nearest, most highly rated and available service vendors like plumbers, electricians, carpenters or doctors, a spokesman for IBM India Research said Tuesday. The technology has already gone through pilot trials with some mobile service providers, the spokesman said. IBM is currently in talks with service providers for the commercial deployment of the technology, he added. "As a research organization, we are not directly involved in the commercialization of the technology," he said. The business finder technology combines geographic information system (GIS) applications and data analysis with mobile telephone networks to provide information to a consumer who is looking for a specific nearby service, IBM said. Â  The technology stands out from others in its ability to connect to mobile businesses and vendors that may be in the vicinity when a service is required, the spokesman said. The ability to rate vendors and businesses on a number of parameters including reputation is an added benefit, he added. It combines various attributes including location, reputation, dynamic workload and feedback from consumers to match consumers with the closest available vendors. The underlying technology allows telecommunications service providers to track and update data sources including mobility, presence and reputation of service vendors, IBM added.Â  The business finder technology has a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and is based on IMS (Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem) telecommunications standards. The technology could be hosted by a network operator or deployed as a third-party service to different operators. IBM India Research Lab has operations in Delhi and Bangalore. Some of the research of the lab is in the area of bridging the digital divide and e-governance projects. It is for example working on the National Health Data Network (NHDN), a project with the Indian government to establish standards-driven, secure and cost-sensitive infrastructure to coordinate health care information.
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A Silicon Valley start-up is gearing up to embed free, Web-based telephone services on a variety of popular social networking and blogging services, including MySpace, Friendster and Blogger.
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A new language is being developed by cell phone-addicted teens based on predictive text.
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A startup called Ribbit is launching a platform designed to let developers create telephony applications they can embed in Web pages and Web-based services.
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Anoop Gupta, who led efforts to unify phone and IM communications for businesses, takes on a tech policy job.
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Three word comment: I want one!  A TwitterGram, recorded through my iPhone, explains why Google's phone will be important, and why I want one.  My email address got cut off at the end, darn it, it's dave dot winer at gmail dot com.
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Itâs not easy to escape a two-year cellphone contract. But it can be done by turning to the innovators on the Internet.
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By David Hayes, The Kansas City Star, Mo.  Dec. 15--Rob Sweeney isn't your traditional triple tapper. At 52, he's a  quite a bit older than the typical consumer tapping out a text message on a  cell phone.
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New communications technology could spawn future products. Could your purse tell you to bring an umbrella?
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A new way to avoid telemarketers: a caller ID system that allows you to assign colors to specific phone numbers.
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The founder of a US Caller ID falsification service is selling up, just days after setting up in business.