SMS Delivery Status is Important In a week they proudly announced a record drop in unemployment, the French government have been forced to admit the figures were rather too good. Turns out that they miscounted the jobless by around 25,000 due to SFR having a technical issue.  It turns out that the automated texts sent via SFR to French… Read More

Better SMS SPAM Blocking Coming to the UK… Interesting to learn that one of the large UK networks has a new product coming online soon – automated detection and blocking of SIM Farms and grey routes. (Grey routes being non-interconnected routes). So a new product that most customers will have no awareness of at all,… Read More

Programmers’ Day Today is the 256th (0x100 or 2^8th) day of the year. Programmers’ Day is an officially recognised day in Russia – Dmitry Medvedev issued an executive order establishing it as a new professional holiday back in 2009. It’s fair to say that without programmers much of what we take for granted in the… Read More

Thinking Big? Nokia over the course of 150 years grew from small paper making beginnings to the leading producer of mobile phone hardware, and an ear-worm ringtone that millions are still to this day, trying to get out of their heads.  Today they gave up.  Game over. Two companies with an evolution of products which… Read More