Having enjoyed a packet of McCoys Sausage Striker flavour crisps I just tried to enter the SMS based on-pack promotion to win a fantastic Football Trip, and I struggled.
Not only are the entry instructions printed in black text on a dark red background rendering it almost unreadable. But the instructions are so complex.
See for yourself. continue reading McCoys SMS On Pack Promotion
This week sees the 100th release of our SMS API. Some of these releases added major new features such as MMS, some didn’t make it past our test servers and others fixed bugs or made everything that little bit faster. continue reading Our SMS API is 100
If you’re having trouble finding the Outlook Mobile Service options in Outlook 2007 then it might be that the functionality wasn’t enabled during setup.
Fortunately it’s pretty simple to get those options to appear.
I admit that I’ve become obsessed with my iphone. My wife says I never put it down, but I argue that’s partly because if I did she’d chuck it in the bin.
I’ve now downloaded a huge range of applications from free fun stuff like the obligatory ipint thingy, games such as Monkey Ball and Angry Birds, to a few productivity apps.
But it got me thinking: which is the best app? What do I use most regularly? continue reading The best mobile application ever…
We are often asked if we are able to white label our services. If you’re not up on the terminology ‘white label’ means to take our existing services and brand them up as if they are someone else’s, we’ll call them the ‘reseller’. But the question is, should we do this? continue reading To white label or not?
A number of customers have been requesting an iphone version of textburst so they can run SMS Marketing campaigns when they’re out and about or for business continuity scenarios when you can’t get to a PC.
To put textburst onto our smartphones the first step has to be a site optimised specifically for the most popular devices. iphone and blackberry sping to mind instantly. continue reading Online SMS, on your iphone android blackberry…
Yep, you heard it here first. We’re working on the smartphone version of our most popular Bulk SMS software.
In recent months the number of requests for a iphone/smartphone version have been increasing. So too has the usage of textburst from the whole range of internet enabled devices.
So it’s moved up the priority list, and we’re on with it.
I’ll get some screenshots posted in my next blog.
Exciting times ahead!
Everyone’s got a TV as well, but it’s not always switched on. And even when it is switched on they might not be watching the channel your expensive advert is on. continue reading The 4 Reasons Why Businesses Should Be Thinking Mobile
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
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.