SMS Text News

SMS Text News

Weekly mobile news and opinion review, together with conversation from Ewan MacLeod, James Whatley and guests.

Episodes

Episode 14

July 20, 2008 • 49 mins
With special guest Alfie Dennen from Moblog the team discuss the new Moblog platform, Three's hoodie-hating store, Christmas in July, the iPhone (heard of it?) app store, O2's continuing epic-fail to provide Dan a service, an update on everyone's favourite toy - the personal mobile network - and a special follow-up feature on James's brand evangelism post this week with some tips for Carphone Warehouse (no carphones, not a warehous...
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Episode 13

July 13, 2008 • 43 mins
This week we talk about unlimited drinks Dublin, review the kit that the mobile geek at Glastonbury used (that's James by the way), talk about Flirtomatic's move into the German market, Ewan's 'mobile hell hole post' and our favourite new things in the regular 'things of the week' slot. ...oh and one other thing too... what was that now...?
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Special Edition: iPhone 3G Queue-cast

July 12, 2008 • 8 mins
Special Edition iPhone3G Launch Edition: Dan Lane reports live from the Apple store on the collective balls-up that O2 and Carphone Warehouse made of the iPhone 3G launch. Little did he know at the time of recording he had almost another 4 hours to wait...
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SMS Text News Podcast - Episode 12

July 6, 2008 • 43 mins
Mr MacLeod is back from his desert island this week and we're back in SMS Text News Towers too - normal service has been resumed. This week we preview Ewan's write-ups on the technology he took with him - the stuff that made it through customs and the stuff that didn't. We also celebrate Orange's entry to the 21st century with a sensible data tariff and their latest customer, talk about Yahoo's developer platform 'Blueprint', han...
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Episode 11

June 29, 2008 • 69 mins
This week Ewan's still on his desert island, James is in a muddy field (Glastonbury apparently) so Ben and Dan talk to special guest Jay Fenton on subjects including the Nokia buy-out of Symbian, Nokia's problem with product leaks, the new 'UK network' UK01 and the furore over Roger's tariffs for the iPhone in Canada plus 'things of the week'.
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Episode 10

June 22, 2008 • 45 mins
This week Ewan's still on his desert island but has managed to send us an update anyway. Ben, James and Dan discuss the launch of Nokia's E71, Dan's self-build phone, James' upcoming Glastonbury trip, Canadian mobile data, proposals for incoming call charges by an EU commissioner, Unlimited Drinks Dublin as well as the usual shouts and 'things of the week'.
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Episode 9

June 15, 2008 • 56 mins
Ewan's off this week on his way to a desert island with enough mobile hardware to confuse them at Heathrow airport. In his absence the team discuss a number of the recent and forthcoming events (including our very own 'Unlimited Drinks'), review the Jawbone headset, discuss CLI-spoofing outfit Spookcall, get excited about budget S60 handsets and highlight their 'things of the week'. Recorded by phone, this episode has extra smoot...
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Episode 8

June 9, 2008 • 66 mins
This is the 8th installment of the podcast, recorded on Friday 6th June. With a cast of thousands (well 5 at peak) it's another big’un (60mins or there about) and well over 30 additional minutes hit the edit-room floor (metaphorically, I used a laptop) this week. I hope you agree the bits left over are worth it. Dan is more audible this week, although the sound is still ‘authentic’… we discuss Ofcom’s proposed ‘voluntary code’ for...
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Special Report! Episode 7

June 6, 2008 • 38 mins
David Hogben of NinetyTen on the mobile industry and what's kicking with their new service, BuddyPing.
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SPECIAL REPORT! Episode 6

June 4, 2008 • 70 mins
We interrupt our podcast schedule to bring you this exclusive chat with mobile social networking guru, Justin Davies of NinetyTen. NinetyTen are the people behind BuddyPing.com (also the kind sponsors of the Unlimited Drinks London event next week).
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Episode 5

May 31, 2008 • 59 mins
60 minutes of joy featuring Dan Lane, Ben Smith and James Whatley.
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Episode 4

May 23, 2008 • 46 mins
This week we ridicule mobile operator, Orange and take lots of listener questions and do our best to answer them. Our applications of the week.... Aren't. That's a surprise.
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Episode 3

May 19, 2008 • 41 mins
Featuring Ben Smith and Dan Lane, Chief Technology Officer of Howler Technologies -- and see if you can spot where the batteries ran out...
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Episode 1

May 16, 2008 • 32 mins
SMS Text News 'draft' episode -- the first one we ever produced!
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SMS Text News Podcast Episode 2

May 9, 2008 • 38 mins
The second in the series of podcasts from SMS Text News featuring Ewan MacLeod, James Whatley and Ben Smith. We've put in a few of the sweeper jingles a few more times for the fun of it... hope you enjoy. Please send us your feedback at www.smstextnews.com!
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