http://blog.zygocommunications.com Its a group thing Thu, 02 Oct 2008 09:50:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://blog.zygocommunications.com/2008/08/19/zygotweet/ 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 ... http://blog.zygocommunications.com/2008/08/13/another-award/ 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 ... http://blog.zygocommunications.com/2008/08/11/group-payment-made-easy-the-wigadoo-way/ 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 and keep in ... http://blog.zygocommunications.com/2008/07/07/the-mobile-survival-kit-for-festivals/ 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 ... http://blog.zygocommunications.com/2008/06/05/zumbido-stockholm-challenge-2008/ 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 ... http://blog.zygocommunications.com/2008/04/28/zygo-wins-red-herring-top-100-tech-companies-in-europe-award/ 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 ... http://blog.zygocommunications.com/2008/04/16/zygo-honoured-with-red-herring-europe-100-award/ 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 ... http://blog.zygocommunications.com/2008/03/27/zygohubs-launch-press-release/ Malta , March 20, 2008 – Red Herring today announced that Zygo Communications was named a Finalist of 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 impressive list of submissions from ... http://blog.zygocommunications.com/2008/03/25/zygo-is-red-herring-100-finalist/ .....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 ... http://blog.zygocommunications.com/2008/02/06/and-the-nominations-are/