This week's edition of The Fonecast takes a look at mobile payments, OS updates, SMS revenue and Bing meeting BlackBerry.
We also turn the clock back a couple of years to 2009, when former Olympic athlete Steve Backley talked to us about his mobile phone business.
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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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Mark Bridge writes:
This week my lovely wife made a rare error in leaving her mobile phone behind when she left the house. Fortunately I was working at home, so I was able to answer her calls and relay her messages. But it got me thinking. What were the alternatives?
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A new report from Juniper Research forecasts that revenue from text messages sent to or from an application - so-called Application-to-Person or A2P SMS - will exceed $70 billion within five years.
In addition, worldwide revenue from A2P messages will overtake that of person-to-person texting in 2016.
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Vodafone is sponsoring hundreds of London taxis, putting 'universal' mobile phone chargers in them and also introducing m-payments.
The taxis will be wrapped in a Union Jack design, as will Heathrow Express trains. It's part of a 'London Calling' advertising campaign focussed on the network's performance in the city.
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