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Win two free nights accommodation
Posted by MattE on 03 Jul 2010 | Tagged as: General
Accommodation Plus, the free to use hotel booking site for Australia and New Zealand needs a name for their site mascot.
The prize is two nights accommodation including breakfast at any Metro Hotel, Apartment, Resort or Inn of your choice!
What is SMS text messaging?
Posted by MattE on 08 Jun 2010 | Tagged as: Business, Communications, General, Marketing, SMS, consumer engagement
SMS, or short message service, is a fast communication channel for businesses of all types that allows great opportunity for innovative marketing and communications.
SMS has become a mainstream means of communication, reaching consumers on their mobile phones. SMS messaging has become an increasingly integral component of communicating customers who either buy your goods or make use of your services, plus for internal communications.
How to reduce the cost of using your mobile phone overseas
Posted by MattE on 30 May 2010 | Tagged as: Communications, General, SMS
While there are many websites that can help you reduce the costs of overseas travel on aspects like hotels, airfares, car hire and tours, many people come home to a shock when they receive their mobile phone bill after using it while set to global roaming.
Many countries are notorious for their costs of telecommunications, especially when you have set your phone to global roaming.
Several years ago on a trip to The UK and France, after minimal outbound and inbound calls I was unpleasantly surprised at my next mobile phone bill.
Woolworths to stop credit option on debit card transactions
Posted by MattE on 18 Apr 2010 | Tagged as: Business, General
It seems the cost of shopping at Woolworths supermarkets is about to get a little more expensive if you use a Visa or Mastercard debit card with news that the supermarket giant will no longer be allowing people to use the credit option when using debit cards.
As reported in Inside Retailing
“The only change for customers using Visa Debit and MasterCard Debit cards will soon be the need to press either the `cheque’ or `savings’ buttons to access their funds through the Australian-owned eftpos network, rather than the international credit card network,” Woolworths said.
10 ways our free SMS toolbar button can make your life easier
Posted by MattE on 06 Apr 2010 | Tagged as: General, Media
Need to send a quick txt message but hate typing it out on your phone keypad? Want to send messages cheaper? Technology makes both these scenarios easier and from the comfort of you desktop.
SMS Central has a great little free app in its user interface that allows you to place a toolbar button on your browser that allows fast and convenient sending of text messages.
Here are 10 reasons why you should get your toolbar button:
Original Do Not Call registrations are now expiring
Posted by MattE on 25 Mar 2010 | Tagged as: Communications, General
If you registered on the Australian Do Not Call Register when it first commenced, then your registration is about to expire.
If you provided an email address at the time of registration then you should or will soon receive a reminder in your email box.
If not, or to be sure, then visit www.donotcall.gov.au and re-register.
Now all re need to have is some additional tightening of who can call you.
compareOFFICE 2009 released
Posted by MattE on 31 Jul 2009 | Tagged as: Business, General
If you’re considering Microsoft® Office, but would like to evaluate other, more price friendly options… We suggest looking at compareOFFICE 2009. With powerful functionality and intuitive ease of use, compareOFFICE 2009 satisfies personal and business requirements of a fully integrated office software package.
Do everything, from brochures and manuals, mailmerge letters, create graphics to presentations and databases.
Will Bing search become a household name?
Posted by MattE on 10 Jul 2009 | Tagged as: General, Marketing, Web
I was reading an article the other day about the progressive inroads that Microsoft’s new search engine Bing is having is the search world.
Admittedly they are still a long way behind and only have a small sector of the market, but its popularity is slowly increasing. If you have not seen it yet, check it out.
Reports are that Microsoft has spent 100 million dollars on advertising to get the new search engine into people’s faces.
But is Microsoft its own worst enemy? I ask this because while Bing is being promoted as a product brand, it is also being branded as a Microsoft product. Seems the powers that be at Microsoft just cannot resist keeping one branding hand on their new baby.
Mobile service to extend to Mount Everest
Posted by MattE on 08 May 2009 | Tagged as: General, SMS
The ease of providing telephone services in the mobile spectrum compared to land-line based services is clearly demonstrated by this plan from the Nepal Government.
A Nepali telecom firm plans to expand its mobile phone services to the top of Mount Everest, benefiting climbers on the world’s highest mountain, a company official said last week, the Age reports.
Hundreds of climbers, who go to the 8850-metre Mount Everest every year, depend on expensive satellite phones to speak with their families as the remote Himalayan region does not have communication facilities.
Backup of hard drives essential activity
Posted by MattE on 25 Apr 2009 | Tagged as: General
If you have ever suffered a hard drive failure, you know how disastrous it is. You have accumulated dozens of personal settings on your PC not to mention important personal documents, such as tax returns, emails and digital images.
Over the month/s years you have installed numerous applications and unique settings for each user. All this is lost if and when your PC fails or your computer or hard drive is damaged by a virus.
Can you say with confidence that you are effectively protected and can recover from a computing disaster quickly and easily? With Acronis True Image Home 2009 installed on your PC you can!
