Sales, Social and Tech

A Facebook acquaintance have highlighted in a Facebook post that the OPT OUT option of Starhub's SMS ad maybe not be working as intended. It seems OPT OUT only works when one complains to the Starhub twitter account. Wrote on Facebook, I have received one SMS dated 27 Jun 2013, and if you look at my opt out at 76333 dated 27 June 2013. By right, I should not be receiving any more unsolicited SMSes from Starhub. However, I have just received another unsolicited SMS from Starhub today, despite I have already sent them an OPTOUT. Either they are lying about their optout option, or they are just continuously spamming me with their offers by paying lip service to a customer's complaint of opting out.  If you are seriously going to implement "Do not call" registry, please get something like this as simple to be enforced.   It was only after a complain was made and tag to Starhub Facebook account was the user removed from the Starhub SMS marketing database. H...

Willy Lim, co-Founder of NetProfitQuest, has ranked the recently launched ME app from MediaCorp as "If you want to learn what NOT TO DO in a mobile app, this is the app to download". Wrote Willy , "But anyways, I decided to give the app a try when I saw the ad THREE weeks ago. Guess what? The app was not even available in the Apple app store until the TV ads has already been running for 2 full weeks. After struggling with it for more than 10 mins, I finally registered.  (Hey, I'm supposed to be mobile app expert and I took 10 mins....) But it told gave me a "You are already registered" error... Clicking on the various icons, I almost fell asleep waiting for the tabs to load.....and ALL the tabs load up to show ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!" Willy also added in his comments that the ME app might be in violation of App Store Review Guidelines:-17.2 Apps that require users to share personal information, such as email address and date of birth, in order ...