Tag archive: Mike Short

Back in 1999, Britons sent a billion text messages from their mobile phones during the entire year. According to a new study they now send that many texts every week.   The figure has evenshocked the Mobile Data Association, which had predicted around 42 billion texts for 2007.   It's a lot more convenient for a business now to notify lots oftheir employees about an urgent message using a text message," Mike Short, head of… Read More

As of Saturday, if you were paying for parking or a train ticket in the UK and it cost less than $20, you had a new way to pay for it – via your mobile phone.   A new payment system calledPayForIt allows users to securely pay for low-cost items and services, with the amount spent added on to the user’s monthly phone bill. It’s beenadopted by all five of the major UK mobile networks.   Essentially, it standardizes the… Read More