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This year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona was all about Application Stores. Finally all the big names in the mobile world are responding to Apple’s success with the iPhone application store. It’s about time too, but as to whether the responses from O2, Android, Nokia etc. are more than just lip service, only time will tell.

It should be good news for anyone who creates mobile applications and as we’ll soon have our very own mobile application that you can download for free, it should be good news for us too. Application stores are just another way for us to tell people how to not pay for dialing 0870 and 0845 numbers.

The only question for us, and it’s a big question, is whether the mobile operators like O2 will allow an application like ours into their store. Remember that the main purpose of our application is to deprive mobile operators from the profit they currently make from 20p/minute 08 numbers which could be dialed for free using our application.

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We came second.

It was pretty close though.

Congratulations Palringo!

It really was close, like a few votes, but in general the voting was pretty low for all 7 contestants. Not very surprising as voting was only open between sometime Friday and midday the following Monday.

Also, interesting to note that if everyone of Palringo’s employees had voted, they would have wiped the floor.

Anyway, thanks for everyone who voted for saynotopremum!

Calling all developers! we’ve just launched the Open API to saynotopremium (beta). With a developer key you can now search our database for numbers using either a name or a premium number, (the same functionality as the front page of the site). The API responses are in JSON or XML. Check out the API tab for more info.

If you’re interested in developing software that makes use of the API, send a mail to [api at saynotopremium.co.uk]

Google’s “Did you mean” is playing up. How annoying. If you type “saynotopremium” in Google, it assumes you made a mistake and suggests you actually meant “saynoto premium” (with a space). That’s all well and good but now it takes up the top two results with suggestions for the ‘correct’ (actually incorrect) spelling of saynoto premium even though there was no actual spelling mistake.

So in essence we’ve been knocked off our own top spot by our own name’s spelling mistake - saynoto [space] premium is like some evil doppleganger.

I don’t know how it works but hopefully I can get this post as the top suggestion for the “saynoto premium” search and for that mater “say no to premium” too. See if it worked here.

We found out today that BT has decided to scrap it’s charges on 0870 and 0845 numbers! This is obviously moving in the right direction and hopefully other landline providers will follow.

It’s not all good news though, 0844 and 0871 numbers will still be charged as usual which still leaves the consumer with the annoying task of remembering which numbers are which. It also does nothing for mobile users who are still being charged to call ‘free’ 0800 numbers.

Still, generally the more news this issue generates the better because many companies don’t realise the implications for their customers of having an 08 contact number, having been misold the product in the first place. Worse still many people don’t even know that they are being charged to dial 0800 numbers from their mobile, so the fight continues!

See our call charges guide for a reminder of the diferent number types.