What an interesting year! Since I joined the formerly SMS Text News/MIR team in July of this year, a lot has happened. But there has also been so much more too… And here are some of my highlights, or should I say, more notable occurrences! The iPhone 3G! This was bound to appear somewhere, and so I

We have officially begun the task of collating the MIR Annual 2008. If you recall we did the SMS Text News Annual last year — and I thoroughly enjoyed seeing an array of our content in print. This year we’re doing it again, only this time, we’re changing the format slightly. First of

As part of MIR’s ShoZu campaign, I’ve decided to pick out a few photo and video destinations that catch my attention in our inaugural ShoZu Destination of The Week feature. This week? TypePad. An excellent blogging platform, TypePad was the home to our very first mobile site — SMS Text News. For a good year or

Over at Mobile Industry Review (formerly known as SMS Text News), Ewan MacLeod has started to compile the Who’s Who of the mobile industry. An extract of the full list is below - see mobileindustryreview.com for the growing list. Patrick Smith, Joshua PR Sue Forbes, Motorola Good Technology Group Steve Ives, Taptu Rodrigue Ullens, Voxbone Nick Ris, MX Telecom

In an effort to promote its highly touted ‘Comes with Music‘ service, Nokia, the leading handset manufacturer has now started placing special benches at various public places in the UK. SMS Text News reports via Music Radar. The benches are actually a clever advertising medium to promote their ‘Comes with Music’ service here in the UK. These benches are fitted with Nokia’s handsets and headph...

This week the guys are giving out the awards for the best of 2008 - The Mobile Industry Review Show Awards, NOT the SMS Text News Awards! Enjoy! Mobile Industry Review Show - 2008 Awards Special from Mobile Industry Review on Vimeo.

It’s time for the Mobile Industry Review 2008 Awards (formerly known as the SMS Text News Awards — before we changed our name). It took us a long time. Months, in fact.  Regular meetings, arguments, distractions, testing, pondering… but it’s here. Yesterday the MIR Show team headed down to a swanky hotel in London to film the

The Italian Supreme Court has ruled against Telecom Italia's attempt to fire an employee who sent more than 12,000 private text messages from his work phone. UPI via SMS Text News. "The Cassation Court overturned a 2002 ruling by a Naples tribunal that permitted the telecommunications company to fire the employee, identified as Carlo T., after he incurred more than $2,000 in text messaging ch...

Over at SMS Text News, Ricky Chotai has introduced a new feature to the blog, the S60 Application Review. This week in the inaugural post, he looks at FlipSilent on the N95. Having explained how it works (silence an incoming call or alarm by turning the device over), Ricky gives his opinion of the app. He

Kudos to Matthew Bennett who has already sent us three different videos, filmed, if I’m not very much mistaken, on a Nokia N95. Stands to reason as Matthew runs NSeriesUS.com. Matthew has pointed the camera at himself and filmed the following lines: - “You’re watching Mobile Industry Review, not SMS Text News” - “And now