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Rethinking the Fold

One of the considerations on the new site is whether to include more content by elongating the page thereby requiring users to scroll through information.
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Progress with Firewalls

We’ve now ordered our new firewalls, we’ve gone with a pair of Cisco ASA5510s for the data centres and an ASA5505 for our office. We chose the Cisco firewalls for a few reasons I’ll explain below.
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API Delivery Receipt Error codes

We have now enabled each of our non-billed SMS routes to support the delivery receipt error codes that were previously only on our premium rate (reverse billed) SMS.
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Information Accuracy

Something that really gets to me is when you find very important but very inaccurate information, or even worse, an absence of or low importance placed on critical information.
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High Resilience Platform

Today marks the completion of the transfer of all Mediaburst customers onto their high capacity, ultimate resilience platform.
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The Great Site Ripoff

Every now and then the copy from our website gets, well, copied. One thing you can’t avoid when you appear near the top of Google for the term “Mobile Marketing” is being available for those researching that particular subject while doing their own website.
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Web Illustrations

One of the issues we struggle with is visual representations of our services.

The stereotypical representation of a text message is some kind of mobile phone or an envelope on a mobile phone screen, the image is usually an icon or photo from one of the online photostock sites. The problem with this concept is its overuse leading to many SMS suppliers displaying remarkably similar icons or even worse, the same stock images.
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Google Wave explained in 8 minutes

At last we have a short demo of Google Wave, much more watchable than the original 80 minute presentation.
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Time to Change the Web.

Over the past 6 months we’ve been looking at and listening to our customers, seeing how they use our products, and how they interact with us.
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