Friday 23 March 2007

Take the 159 bus into London!

Last week I got on the 159 bus into London.
You've probably seen those pretty red busses on TV.

When I got on, I decided to go up to the top floor.
A few people were already sitting there, another
few came up with me. There were only about 10
people sitting there.



As one does when there aren't other people obstacling
seats, I distributed myself over a couple of seats.

As soon as I sat down a skinny shortish guy, with gelled, spiky
dark hair, sitting on the other side of
the aisle picks up his cell phone and starts yapping.
He was gay, which obviously doesn't matter, it was just
immediately obvious that he was the skinny, bitchy sort
no one really likes, but everyone is scared of.

I am nosy, and if I am honest, I wouldn't mind
having ear extensions so that I could pull out my ears at
will and place them just in front of somebodys mouth.
A 4-5 meters extension would be just fine.
In short, I wouldn't have minded listening to a funny bitchy
conversation to brighten up my journey. But what a dissapointment,
it turns out he is just the half-baked variant of a bitchy man,
his mode of behaviour is just being perpetually
petulant. Yet still, credit to anyone who can report his whereabouts
whilst pouting.

As soon as he hung up, he dialled another number and
started a brand new equally boring yet very loud conversation.

Within a minute 6 out of 10 people had their phones out and
were letting things hang out on their phones. My ears started
spinning at that point.

I was really taken aback by this sudden volume increase.
I am not used to that, as I rarely travel on public transport.
I had heard and read about it though.
I turned around looking every phone conversationalist in the
eye and doing my disbelieving, mocking über-citizen
bit, which didn't work one bit by the way.

Next thing, my phone rings and I am suddenly the one
saying: "I'm on the bus ...."

I am getting to my point, slowly but surely.

The solution to unwanted public noise increase due to
phone use is a mobile phone jammer, I thought.
Wouldn't you love it?

What I am really interested in, are small handheld
phone jammers. Let me know if you have any on
offer, I know already around 20 people who are
ready to pay for such a tool. I am happy to resell
them.

Thursday 15 March 2007

How to change a lazy persons life in 5 minutes

My oh my, I found a great site that wants you
to play with it all day long.

If you can squeeze 5 minutes into your lunch
hour, do exactly as I say.

Don't click on the Zlio link yet -
wait until I've told you what it's all about.

These Zlio people reckon we're all greedy and
in for an easy ride to make LOADSAMONEY.
And you know what, they've seen straight
to the bottom of my soul.

Zlio lets you setup shop in literally 5 minutes.
It is not a run of the mill e-commerce cart where
you've got to fiddle around for a day or two to
make it work. Zlio is for real amateur affiliates,
it is for real life idiots
.

As I am interested in mobile phone software
I have geared my Zlio shop towards these type
of toys. You can see a product I chose for my
shop when you look below the title of my blog.

As a Zlio shopkeeper, I have access to an
abundance of retailers who want me as their
reseller.
A short list of retailers:
Skype, Sony, Apple Amazon.

I have obviously not sold anything yet from
my Zlio shop site, as I set up shop 5 minutes ago.
I therefore don't know how reliable they are with regards to
outpayment to their affiliates.

But I hear that they are going around hat in
hand and are about to get $3.5 million from
some venture Capital company.

Click here to have a look at Zlio and then
sign up.

Thursday 8 March 2007

Wal Mart technician caught intercepting SMS !

Wow, what a scandal, hot on the heels of my blog
entry a couple of weeks ago about SMS espionage.

Here we have it again, but now from the biggest
kid on the block. A technologuy at Wal Mart
has been caught intercepting calls and SMS text
messages from a journalist working for the New
Yorker over a four months period.

Why did he do it, nobody knows and Wal Mart states
categorically that they don't have anything to do
with it.



How did he do it? I'd like to know. The only options
I can think of are these:
1. he stole people' Sim cards,
2. he checked SMS that were sent via PC's or MAcs
retrospectively,
3. he worked for a mobile service provider,
4. he was using Rexspy,
5. or he bought the GSM interceptor
http://www.endoacustica.com/gsm_interceptor.htm


The only programme I am aware off which doesn't
require full body armour for SMS protection, but
just a little adjustment on your handset to protect
against nosey intruders is the product Kryptext.

But Kryptext only works on Symbian phones, but not
yet on the Symbian 3 series.

Everyone should have Kryptext on their phone.
Handango is currently selling Kryptext in
their shop.
Click on the link below and get it now.
It's only $14 for your security.

http://www.handango.com/PlatformProductDetail.jsp?siteId=1&platformId=4&N=7&productId=141685&merch=bought_also_bought&HDGO_ad=bab_141685&HDGO_au=1&HDGO_ae=c

Wednesday 7 March 2007

Yahoo's Mixd experiment is over

I mentioned the launch of Mixd in November 2006.
But it now looks as if Yahoo is keeping their
fingers out of the SMS business. Why?

My guess is that IM on mobile phones should
be enough to excite the "Youth" at which
Mixd was squarely aimed at.

I find the move pretty decisive and if I was
a hillibilly investor I would be so impressed
that I would buy their shares.

On the other hand The Youth of today may
choose to cry over the loss of yet another
possibility to lose oneself in non-sensical
chatter %-).

Thursday 1 March 2007

By not using Internet SMS on your phone you'll lose money

I keep scratching my head why it's still news
to a lot of people that having the
Internet on your mobile phone
means that you can get SMS at much cheaper rates.

What seems to be still most exciting is downloading
music or games I guess.
It is about time that the most popular feature on
a mobile phone, SMS, is getting the Internet treatment.

As I live in foreign lands I am constantly using
10pText.co.uk to send soppy SMS messages back to
my folk at home.

10pText.co.uk also works on my journeys around Europe.

10pText.co.uk offers a two thirds of the price off
what I used to pay my provider Orange.
Even if you include the price for the data being
sent back and forth I am saving 2/3.


As the Internet on mobile phones is here to stay
I reckon that this the most logical step SMS
is going to take is onwards, forwards and upwards.

Happy texting to all foreigners and holiday makers!