O2 Recycle, the two-year-old project that pays customers for old phones and raises money for charity, has launched a week-long challenge to set a new world record.
The O2-supported scheme is asking mobile phone users to visit their nearest O2 store from 7th to 13th October 2011 and donate an old mobile phone.
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The Vodafone Foundation charity has launched the EU Smart Accessibility Awards, offering a €200,000 prize fund to application developers who help improve the lives of older people and people with disabilities across the European Union.
There are €50,000 prizes for the best Android application in four different categories:
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Vodafone UK and fund-raising website JustGiving have launched a free text donation service called JustTextGiving by Vodafone.
There are no set-up or running costs for participating charities and no network charges for people making donations. Any of Britain's 184,000 charities can apply for a unique 6-character code that'll enable them to receive SMS donations of up to £10.
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This week's edition of The Fonecast takes its usual look at the latest mobile industry news headlines, covering charity SMS messages, a new purchasing partnership, m-commerce, NFC and international calls.
Plus, with our 250th podcast just a few weeks away, we turn the clock back to 2006... when we discussed the topic of 'voicemail hacking'.
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This week's edition of The Fonecast covers text message donations, network partnerships, mobile payments and the latest innovations. There's also a look back at a feature from 2006 in which we discussed the still-current topic of voicemail hacking.
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