News : mBlox and Industry News
mBlox and Industry News
Read what the press is saying about mBlox around the globe:
mBlox in the news
Fri, 2 May 2008 Forbes
Cellphones that could save your life
When fierce storms hit California in early January, submerging streets and felling power lines, Steve Livingston was prepared. Armed with a text message alert from the San Mateo County Office of Emergency Services, he dodged the flood and made it home safely....
Wed, 30 Apr 2008 MocoNews
Fighting Crime 160 Characters at a Time
A widespread text messaging service is launching today that will allow people in the U.S. and Canada to submit anonymous tips involving crimes via text messaging. The service is being powered by mBlox...
Mon, 28 Apr 2008 www.mblox.com mBlox is proud to have been shortlisted for two Mobile Messaging Awards. Winners will be announced at a Gala Awards Dinner to be held at the Mandala Beach Restaurant in Cannes on 8th May.
mBlox Shortlisted for Mobile Messaging Awards
Sat, 26 Apr 2008 mBlox.com mBlox is pleased to have been nominated jointly with Myxer for a 2008 Meffys Award. mBlox and Myxer are niominated for the Music Service Award for Myxer Mobile Music. Winners will be announced at the Meffys awards gala dinner on 8th May in Cannes, France.
mBlox Shortlisted for Meffys Award
Tue, 8 Apr 2008 CNBC With the addition of five major carriers to distribute MySpace alerts via mBlox, more than 90 percent of MySpace users are now able to receive these alerts. MySpace users can register for MySpace text message alerts by logging into http://www.myspace.com, then clicking the "Text Alerts" link displayed on the User Homepage
MySpace Partners with mBlox
Tue, 19 Feb 2008 vnunet.com
Operators hail mobile messaging 2.0
Mobile email, music and multimedia messaging are predicted to soar in Europe as operators become more confident that such services can provide steady and sustained revenue growth...
Mon, 18 Feb 2008 160Characters
Off-Portal Revenue Set To Grow
Carrier off-portal revenues could double in three years to make operators $8 billion from off portal content in 2011 suggests research by mBlox. Mobile content players have been struggling...
Thu, 14 Feb 2008 Mobile Entertainment
mBlox to WAP Bill the Planet
mBlox has teamed with Valista to launch a global WAP billing platform....
Tue, 12 Feb 2008 SMS Text News
mBlox launches global WAP billing platform
mBlox, the world's largest mobile transaction network, has launched a global WAP billing platform. It's launching first in the UK where it's Payforit accredited - meaning it'll work cross-operator. This is rather smart....
Mon, 11 Feb 2008 MocoNews
mBlox Figs
Mobile transaction network mBlox announced it enabled over two billion transactions throughout 2007...
Mon, 11 Feb 2008 Mobile Marketing Magazine
Talking mBlox
mBlox has kicked off the show by revealing that it successfully delivered over 2 billion application-to-person transactions in 2007...
Thu, 31 Jan 2008 160Characters
GSMA 2008 Awards - mBlox shortlisted for Best Mobile Messaging Service
The nominations for the 13th Annual Global Mobile Awards have been released by the GSMA. There are 15 categories which include Best Mobile Messaging Service and Best Use of Mobile for Social & Economic Development...
Mon, 3 Dec 2007 ME
ME Top 50 Exec list revealed
Dustin Moskovitz, co-founder of Facebook, has poked his way into Mobile Entertainment's annual Top 50 content execs list. He joins 49 others from all corners of the globe and all links in the value chain. There are representatives from handset companies, operators, billing providers, D2C specialists, content publishers and more...
Sat, 1 Dec 2007 Wireless Week
Opening Up the Ports
Is the tide turning for off-portal? Slowly but surely, industry professionals see it happening. It's been a quandary for the U.S. off-portal industry. The general theory is off-portal content makes up about 30% of content revenues in the United States, with the other 70% coming from on-portal...
Wed, 21 Nov 2007 iMedia Connection
How to mobilize a TV audience
From the first time home viewers sent text messages via their mobile phones to vote for their favorite "American Idol," they were clearly hooked. The first night, 50,000 votes were cast, and the numbers continue to climb...
Wed, 31 Oct 2007 NOC
Mobile messaging market booming as UGC, social networking and participation drive market 23 October 2007
The mobile messaging market is on fire, according to industry insiders, with rapid growth in social networking, participation media and a raft of new and clever applications driving it along...
Wed, 24 Oct 2007 Digital50.com
mBlox Ranked 12th in Deloitte's US Wireless Fast 50
mBlox, the world's largest mobile transaction network, has been ranked 12th on Deloitte's US Wireless Fast 50, a ranking of the 50 fastest growing wireless companies by Deloitte & Touche USA LLP, one of the nation's leading professional services organizations...
Tue, 16 Oct 2007 TMCnet
mBlox Partners With Mobile Complete to Help Power the Next Generation of Mobile Business Applications
mBlox Partners With Mobile Complete to Help Power the Next Generation of Mobile Business Applications SAN FRANCISCO & SUNNYVALE, Calif. --(Business...
Thu, 11 Oct 2007 Hollywood Reporter
Digital debate heats up as MIPCOM winds down
think about money each time they use it,' he said. MBlox executive chairman Andrew Bud suggested a sender-pays model to avoid consumers getting...
Mon, 17 Sep 2007 160Characters
Messaging Aid For NGOs
Mobile technology organisation kiwanja.net has launched nGOmobile, a free to enter competition to help grassroots NGOs take advantage of text...
Tue, 4 Sep 2007 Computer world
A2P msgs tk 4 us biz
Although its common elsewhere for businesses to send application-to-person (A2P) text messages to cell phones, U.S. carriers have been slow to offer the service, says Steven Livingston, chief marketing officer at mBlox Inc. in Sunnyvale, Calif ...
Tue, 4 Sep 2007 FinExtra
UK telcos launch mobile payments system
The UK's major mobile phone operators - Orange, Vodafone, T-Mobile, 3 and O2 - have launched a payment system that allows subscribers to use their handsets to pay for low value...
Mon, 3 Sep 2007 Personal Computer World
Ebay launches text bidding service
Service that was available in Spain comes to the...
Sat, 1 Sep 2007 TMCnet
Mobility: Content: A cut above
(Total Telecom Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge) Innovation in the premium SMS market is being stifled by mobile operator revenue-sharing models, with smaller content providers and aggregators being hit the...
Thu, 30 Aug 2007 Brand Republic
EBay rolls out mobile bidding
LONDON - EBay is launching mobile bidding in the UK, France and Belgium, allowing users to monitor auctioned goods while on the...
Thu, 30 Aug 2007 160Characters
SMS Extends eBay Bids
Bids on eBay can now be monitored re-bids submitted with SMS in the UK, France, and Belgium. The new service means that people bidding on eBay can stay on top of the progress of their bid, via mobile alerts that are sent automatically to their phone when they are out...
Sat, 25 Aug 2007 IP Communications
ClickandBuy Taps mBlox for Worldwide SMS Project
ClickandBuy, a hosted ePayments provider for digital content and services, announced its new SMS worldwide service from mBlox, which will enable text-messaging services for consumers and merchants throughout Europe and the United...
Tue, 21 Aug 2007 RCR Wireless News
The wild, wild west is on its way out
1 Advertisement Editor's Note: Welcome to Reality Check, a feature for RCR Wireless News' new weekly e-mail service, Mobile Content and Culture. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile content industry to give their insights into the...
Mon, 20 Aug 2007 Digital WebCast
ClickandBuy Chooses mBlox for Worldwide SMS Project
NEW YORK, BUSINESS WIRE -- ClickandBuy, a hosted ePayments provider for digital content and services, today announced its new SMS worldwide service from mBlox, which will enable text-messaging services for consumers and merchants throughout Europe and the United...