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Jeremy Piven Offered $1 Million Spokesman Deal From Text Messaging Company
EzTexting.com, a SMS text messaging company, said on Friday that is is offering actor Jeremy Piven $1 million to become its new corporate spokesperson.
Last month, according to OK Magazine, the Entourage star collected a bunch of girls' numbers at Britney Spears' birthday party -- then sent out a mass text saying, "Come to my room - whoever responds first gets me for the night." The, uh, lucky winner is now his new girlfriend, model-turned-waitress Ashley Chandos.
EzTexting.com provides small to medium-sized businesses with a platform to send mass text messages to a target group of contacts.
According to All Your TV, Piven's "booty call" might not be the way that most people would use its service, but the company apparently sees his recent story as a good hook for their service. As the company notes in their press release, "Piven is living proof that a mass text can reach your target audience instantly and provide meaningful results."
Auctioning off lucky cell phone numbers for charity
To celebrate its user base breaking 500,000, Sichuan Suining Mobile, an affiliate of China Mobile, held a mobile phone number auction to raise funds for local charities and raised over RMB 150,000 (around $ 19,000), according to ChinaTech News.
"In China, numbers like 8 and 9 are considered auspicious, while a number like 4 is considered very unlucky. Because of this, phone numbers containing multiple 8's or 9's are more desired than numbers with too many 4's."
Related "lucky number" sales stories:
-- The world's most expensive phone number was sold in Qatar for $ 2.8 million
-- A mobile phone number in Bahrain has been put on sale for $13,200, because it has an unusual number sequence. Abdullah al-Hammadi, who specialises in mobiles and car licence plates, told AFP news agency the number 9111119 was coveted by Bahrain's "in-crowd". "
-- In Switzerland, Orange is also selling "premium" numbers, but the cost is considerably less $250-$400.
-- A Chinese bidder who offered to pay 9 million yuan ($ 1.1 million) for a "lucky" mobile phone number. The number, 135 8585 8585, when prounounced in Chinese sounds like "let me be rich be rich be rich be rich". Numbers related to birthdays and lucky numbers generally sell between 100 yuan ($12.-) and 100,000 yuan ($12'000.-)
And chilling:
-- Killer numbers. Nigerians are panicking over rumours that it is possible for a GSM phone to kill people. "Local media reported that the stories claiming people have died after they received phone calls from certain numbers owned by the local GSM operator, Vmobile.
Phone Number sells in Qatar for $ 2.8 million
According to The Register, via Smart Mobs, the world's most expensive phone number was auctioned for charity yesterday in Qatar.
The number, 666 6666, sold for £1.5m ($2.8m).
Why is the number 6 considered lucky? Click here to find out - and for all Apple fans, the first Apple Compute was sold for $666.66.
Related: - Numbers count:
-- A mobile phone number in Bahrain has been put on sale for $13,200, because it has an unusual number sequence. Abdullah al-Hammadi, who specialises in mobiles and car licence plates, told AFP news agency the number 9111119 was coveted by Bahrain's "in-crowd". "
-- In Switzerland, Orange is also selling "premium" numbers, but the cost is considerably less $250-$400.
-- A Chinese bidder who offered to pay 9 million yuan ($ 1.1 million) for a "lucky" mobile phone number<. The number, 135 8585 8585, when prounounced in Chinese sounds like "let me be rich be rich be rich be rich". Numbers related to birthdays and lucky numbers generally sell between 100 yuan ($12.-) and 100,000 yuan ($12'000.-)
And chilling:
-- Killer numbers. Nigerians are panicking over rumours that it is possible for a GSM phone to kill people. "Local media reported that the stories claiming people have died after they received phone calls from certain numbers owned by the local GSM operator, Vmobile.
The number of your dreams
Recently launched in the Netherlands, Simverkoop.nl is a "market place" for phone numbers. For prices ranging from 10 to 200 euros you can buy the "number of your dreams." According to the company, there's a real need for "beautiful" numbers...
In China, numbers count
In China, numbers count. Yesterday Engadget reported on a torture rack-like stretching machine to grow a few inches in what appears to be a national height craze, because "taller people have more opportunity for promotion." This morning Ananova writes...
Killer GSM phones
Nigerians are panicking over rumours that it is possible for a GSM phone to kill people, elders in Uganda concur that cell phones are a symptom of madness and lucky numbers.
Bahrain hot for cool phone number
There is a huge market in the wealthy Gulf state for unusual mobile phone numbers and car license plates because of their value as status symbols.
let me be rich be rich be rich be rich For $1 Million
No, I'm not ranting...an online bidder in China has offered to pay 9 million yuan (US$1.1 million) for a "lucky" mobile phone number. The winning bid for the phone number, 135 8585 8585 which when prounounced in Chinese will sound...
SMS Spam: You are the lucky winner of a $30,000 lottery
An entirely bogus SMS is circulating in Australia advising of a US $30,000 lottery windfall and instructing recipients to log on to a website with a username and password contained in the message, According to smh.com, the lottery spam...
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