Archive for September, 2007
Friday, September 21st, 2007
The iphone journey to Europe count down is still on. Currently iphone seems to be the mobile talk of the town in Europe especially amongst mobile subscribers of Orange and T-mobile who happen to be the only legitimate ones who can join the iphone family.
Apple has confirmed T-Mobile as the network provider for the iPhone in Germany. T-Mobile signed the deal with Apple on 19 September to make it the exclusive German carrier for the iPhone when it launches on 9 November.
German consumers will have to pay €399 for the 8GB iPhone, and sign a two-year contract with T-Mobile.
Meanwhile France Telecom also confirmed on Thursday that it would be the official mobile wireless provider of Apple’s iPhone in France.
The Times Online also reports that Apple is planning a double production of iphone. Read more here >>>
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Tuesday, September 18th, 2007
After a successful launch of the iphone on the US mobile market followed by its One Millionth sale, Apple continues its journey into the world mobile market.
Apple’s next stop with iphone is the UK and it’s scheduled to hit the shelves on November 9th 2007.
Interesting enough Apple will continue with its Only-One-Network game in UK which could live to see the day of light in US. Customers will be able to buy iPhones through O2 (the exclusive UK carrier) and The Carphone Warehouse.
CEO Steve Jobs announced the partnership with O2 UK at one of Apple’s London retail stores, and set the price of the iPhone at $537, which includes value-added taxes.
O2 will offer three different subscriber plans, called “tariffs” in the U.K., that range from $70 to $110 monthly. Those plans include 200 to 1,200 calling minutes, and 200 to 500 text messages in their allotments.
UK citizens would now have to wait for seven more weeks to start enjoying some of the intriguing features on the iphone.
Now the gig is that, if you are not on O2, then you would have to forget about using iphone in UK, at least for now.
But if you really want to join the iphone family then you might want to consider switching from your current mobile network to the O2 network which has nearly 18 million British subscribers.
On the other hand you if you want to go the hard way, then you might want to consider reaching out to the iPhone Dev Wiki on how to get your UNLOCKED iphone.
Apple plans to sell over 1 million iphones by the end of the year and a total of 10 million in 2008.
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Tuesday, September 18th, 2007
I just read on Problogger that Google has just launched a new service which enables publishers with Mobile websites to monetize them.
AdSense publishers who are logging into their AdSense accounts today will notice a new link in their Overview page - AdSense for Mobile - Get Started. Source: Problogger.net
This means you are supposed to see the link after you log on. Hurriedly I logged on to see how best I could start utilizing this tool.
I got to the page and realized the link wasn’t showing on my page. LOL
For a moment, I thought it was just a prank Darren Rowse was playing on us, but knowing the credibility he has in the blogosphere, I did a double-check by opening the Adsense Setup Page. Below Adsense Setup Page was a text marked with an astericks.
• We do not currently offer AdSense for Mobile in Ghana.
Obviously that means Adsense for Mobile is currently not available to Publishers in Ghana and “perhaps” other countries outside America.
NB: Ghana is located in West Africa.
So for publishers in America and Its environs, its time to start going mobile with Adsense, but if you happen to be in my shoes, you will just have hold on and wait patiently till Adsense for Mobile reaches you.
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Monday, September 17th, 2007
I just chanced on Mobikade a FREE SMS text service in the UK which allows users to send SMS text messages via their web site for free.
Mobikade is an online mobile social networking which provides free sms messages, mobile contents and free branded mobile games.
Like their slogan goes, “By typing in a few words, you and your friends can keep and share track of where you are and what are you doing”, there is no other website than this one to visit when you are looking at sending free text messages online.
In order to send free SMS, you must be a registered Mobikade member. Your will need 30 points to send each SMS.
On registering your free account you get a total of 300 points which means you can automatically send 10 free sms text messages the moment you register your account!
How to collect points on mobikade
Register to become a Mobikade user (300 points)
Inviting a friend to Mobikade (150 points)
Logging in (10points)
Updating what’s up now? (10 points)
Creating a new group (10 points)
Posting comments on a group page (10 points)
Adding a friend to your friend list (10 points)
Sending Mobikade mails (5 points)
Benefits
The points you get will be recorded on your Mobikade account. Collecting these points gives you the chance to win fabulous prizes such as real brand bags, PSP, WII, ipod, brand perfume… every month! Interesting isn’t it?
If you are an SMS Fanatic based in UK then you can Join Mobikade Now and start sending some Free SMS.
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Monday, September 17th, 2007
Text messaging, or texting as it’s commonly known, became part of our daily lives because of mobile phone usage. It has even taken a bigger dimension and it is now one of the hottest marketing tools in the business industry.
Text message marketing has over the past few years proven to be a very efficient, effective, direct and personal marketing tool for selling products.
The marketing efficiency of SMS Messages has gone up so high that, even some media houses like CNN, BBC, CBS and many others have resorted to using SMS Mobile Alerts to drive traffic to their websites.
Having deployed high grade web and software applications with SMS in my carrier as a web developer, these articles will share some experiences and tips on developing SMS web applications, SMS software applications and also features on subscribing to any of the major Bulk SMS Providers.
The articles will also elaborate on easier ways and skills on deploying solutions for sending normal text messages either from a PC or a website using an SMS gateway.
There will be sections for marketing professionals who are looking at advertising their products using SMS.
Tips will also be given to ordinary web users who have the craze for looking for websites on the internet where they can send free text messages.
There will also be reviews on most of the Bulk SMS Providers to compare give the pros and cons of using their services.
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Sunday, September 16th, 2007
Apple introduced their latest brand of cellular phone – The iphone onto the US market to compete with already existing mobile phones mid of this year.
After two or so months after its launch, it has sold a whooping one million units already.
Last week, Apple announced a price cut of $200 for all iphone, but earlier buyers are crying foul already after paying so much for their iphone when it hit the market.
It can also be recalled that late August 2007, Robert Hotz a 17-year-old boy announced that he had been able to unlock his iphone.
This meant that the bond between AT&T and Apple had been broken by this boy, now allowing anyone who had a sim-card on other networks to be able their iphones.
Mobile critics thought this could affect the sales of iphones but interestingly many people are still rushing for their iphones after the price cut.
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Saturday, September 15th, 2007
This tutorial shows you how to send a simple email in PHP. The PHP function you will use is “mail()”.
The mail function is boolean, that is to say it returns either a true or a false. If the mail sending is successful, it returns True and if its is unsuccessful it returns a False.
How to initialize the function
bool mail (string $to, string $subject, string $message [, string $additional_headers [, string $additional_parameters]] )
// string $to - This is the first parameter of the mail() function, it represents the recipient of the email
// string $subject - This is the second parameter of the mail() function, it represents the subject of the email
// string $message - This is the third parameter of the mail() function, it represents the message or main content of the email
// string $additional_headers - This is the fourth parameter of the mail() function . It is an optional parameter which shows the email headers
// string $additional_parameters - This is the last parameter of the mail() function . It is an optional parameter which shows additional information about the email
The Code:
><?php
$email_sender = “recipient@email.com”;
$email_subject = “Sending Basic Emails in PHP”;
$email_content = “This a basic tutorial on www.mboateng.com which shows users how to send a simple email using the mail() function in PHP”;
if(mail($email_recipient, $email_subject, $email_content)){
echo “Email has been sent.”;
} else {
echo “Email sending failed.”;
}
?>
Output:
If the email is successfully sent the output print : “Email has been sent.”However on a failure the output prints: “Email sending failed.”
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Saturday, September 15th, 2007
The first lesson on this blog is a tutorial on how to count the number of Upper Case letters in a given string. Thanks to the number functions in PHP, it was done without much stress.
The PHP functions to use are “preg_match_all” and “count”.
preg_match_all
(This PHP Function searches all matches for the supplied pattern and stores them in the supplied array)
How to initialize the function
int preg_match_all(pattern, subject, matches[, order]);
count
This PHP function returns the number of elements in a variable or an array.
How to initialize the function
int count(variable);
The Code:
<?php
//$your_string - the variable which stores the main string you are going to do the search on
// $total_upper_case_count - the variable which stores the count of all upper case numbers
//$your_match - the variable (array) which stores all the matches
$your_string = “This Is Where Your Main String Goes”;
preg_match_all(’/[A-Z]/’, $your_string, $your_match) ;
$total_upper_case_count = count($your_match [0]);
echo “Total Upper Case Count = ” . $total_upper_case_count;
?>
This example will give this Result:
Total Upper Case Count = 7
Doing the Opposite:
On the other hand if you want to RATHER COUNT THE TOTAL NUMBER OF LOWER-CASE LETTERS IN THE STRING, you will just need to edit the code preg_match_all(’/[A-Z]/’, $your_string, $your_match) ; by changing ‘/[A-Z]/’ to ‘/[a-z]/’
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Saturday, September 15th, 2007
After about 10 years of learning web designing the hard way, I have decided to put up this personal page to teach newbies of web designing who probably are currently going through what I went through during my early stages of learning how to design my own pages.
Interesting enough, the web has improved drastically to the extent that, today web designing learners don’t have to go thru the rigid way of hand-coding all their application.
This blog is going to offer up-to-date lessons and information about the various web designing tools.
On this blog, one can learn just anything about the various web languages, research an API, or find a helpful code snippet for a particular language be it Ajax ,ASP, ASP.NET, C#, CFML, Flash, JavaScript, PHP, Python (125) and Ruby on Rails.
Welcome to my world of web designing and programming.
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