August 19th, 2008 | Posted by Nigel Shardlow
Last Wednesday, Twitter announced that it was going to stop delivering SMS messages over its UK number, mainly because of the cost. As they say, and we well know, “Mobile operators in most of the world charge users to send updates”. We thought this was a shame, because as we have said before, we really like the Twitter service, so we stepped in and set up a web site called ZygoTweet to gauge the appetite of Twitter users for a low-cost replacement SMS interface that we, Zygo, would build. Response so far has been encouraging, and we’re well underway with our technical investigations.
We’re looking into developing a service that will use a version of the billing platform we use for ZygoHubs, with message credits bought in advance, because this will give users the best value. We’re not going to rush the development process, so we’re not promising a launch date yet - but watch this space for more news. And if you haven’t registered your interest yet, head over to www.zygotweet.com.
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August 13th, 2008 | Posted by Nigel Shardlow
This is one we found out about by looking at where the traffic to our site was coming from. Zygo has won the Always On Global 250 Award, the tech blog’s “list of the hottest, most disrupting private companies in technology”. As they put it, “this year’s AO Global 250 reflects a set of trends …
August 11th, 2008 | Posted by Nigel Shardlow
Recently we met up with two of the founders of Wigadoo, Andy Cockburn and John Connolly. Wigadoo is the perfect service for when you’re trying to organise a group trip where everyone has to chip in to cover the cost of flights and hotels. I’ve done this in the past and found myself …
July 7th, 2008 | Posted by Jeremy Krantz
The MSK
Load your mobile with the ultimate survival kit
London – 02/07/2008: Mobyko, Zygo and Texperts, three of the UK’s most innovative mobile players, have teamed up to launch the MSK (Mobile Survival Kit - www.mobilesurvivalkit.com). Designed to provide festival goers with everything they need to stay safe …
June 5th, 2008 | Posted by Nigel Shardlow
Last summer, we were invited by our friends at SHM, a social change consultancy, to work with them on a project called Zumbido, which was set up to develop solutions to the problem of social isolation. The pilot was set up in Mexico, and focused on a community with a particularly acute …
April 28th, 2008 | Posted by Nigel Shardlow
From the 15th to the 17th of April Jeremy and I were in Malta with some very cool European tech startups and European VCs to see whether we would make the cut as one of the Top 100 Tech Companies in Europe as voted by Red Herring magazine’s editorial team.
As Red Herring puts it:
“For 10 …
April 16th, 2008 | Posted by Nigel Shardlow
Award Recognizes the 100 “Most Promising” Companies Driving the Future of Technology
Malta, April 15, 2008 – Red Herring today announced that Zygo Communications is a recipient of the Red Herring 100 Europe, an award given to the top 100 private technology companies based in the EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) region each year.
“This year’s …
March 27th, 2008 | Posted by Jeremy Krantz
ZygoHubs Launches
One Group, One Unique Number To Keep You In Touch
London: Tuesday 25th March 2008 – Zygo, today announces the launch of its new group communication service ZygoHubs which offers a unique service enabling groups to stay in touch instantly over their mobiles.
ZygoHubs
• Allows anyone to set up their own group messaging …
February 6th, 2008 | Posted by Jeremy Krantz
…..forget the BAFTAs, forget the OSCARs, we’re talking Mobile Awards!
It’s been an exciting 2008 so far here at Zygo HQ. We’re moments away from taking the covers off our new consumer ZygoHubs service (more about that in the next blog) but we’ve had a great start to the year already as we’ve been …