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For the IT teams and developers out there that use infrastructure monitoring software you’ll be pleased to hear we’ve released an SMS plug-in for Nagios.
Very simply, the plug-in provides a gateway so you can receive Nagios SMS alerts and notification.
It uses the Nagios pager confirmation to send SMS through our HTTP Gateway.
You can see more details on Nagios’s site and we should appear on the Nagios official plugins directory pretty soon.
We advertise 3 key products on the home page plus a solution just for software developers generally referred to as an API.
As all of the solutions allow you to send text messages, what’s the difference between them and which one is applicable to you? continue reading Choosing SMS software
Here’s a post about the latest updates we’ve released to our online SMS products including textburst and O2 Online Text. These updates were primarily focussed on making everything work faster. continue reading Speeding up textburst
With the rise of both blogging and mobile marketing it seems logical that there should be some quality mobile marketing blogs out there. But alas, there is a lot of self promoting rubbish too. So before you get lost searching in Google here are 10 of the best, in no particular order. continue reading 10 Mobile Marketing Blogs
We’ve been notified that there is to be SMS outage on Orange network next Wednesday, 7th April 2010.
The notification has come direct from Orange and will occur while they carry out changes to their SMS network.
During the outage there will be a total loss of SMS services on the Orange network for approximately 3 hours, starting at midnight 7th April and ending at 3am on Thursday 8th April. continue reading Orange Network Outage on 7th April.
Recently we have been receiving a lot of communication from various SMS aggregators keen to establish a relationship with us to supply our MT SMS.
So in a slight attempt to clarify the position here it is: continue reading No new SMS suppliers thanks
Since putting the new version of Textburst version live in January we’ve done 7 additional updates. These updates cover all the mediaburst and O2 branded products such as textburst and Online Text. Here’s a rundown of what we’ve done: continue reading Textburst updates
Redesigning a web app can be quite a complicated process and the redesign of Textburst was no exception. It involved lots of different steps and numerous design iterations before the final product was released.
You must have all seen it by now. Car manufacturers including SMS shortcodes and keywords on their TV adverts so you can text in for more information. And good on them too, it’s the right thing to do…..but can we learn from their mistakes? continue reading How car manufacturers get mobile marketing wrong
On Tuesday 16th February we’re going to install new firewalls in our Manchester data centre. While we do the work we’ll be operating all services through our Derby site and turn off Manchester.
This work follows on from our network upgrades in Derby last week and will bring our network fully up-to-date. continue reading Further network upgrades
Thoughts and opinions on the mobile industry.
In addition to our bespoke mobile marketing services we offer a number of popular web based products
Our web-based application to send and receive SMS, upload contacts and personalise messages.
Send and receive SMS from Microsoft Outlook 7 using its inbuilt functionality. No plugins, no downloads.
Use your email application to send SMS messages. Simple.
Integrate your software into our SMS gateway.
You might find our Mobile site useful.