As we settle into the New Year and focus on a productive 2010, mediaburst are kicking off with a complete new website and a revamp of our key products. With such significant changes to our branding it’s certainly worth some background to the decisions we’ve made.
As well as launching a new website we’ve also started 2010 with a revamp of our key products. Including textburst, the API, OMS, and email to SMS.
Despite PhonepayPlus’s (PPP) best efforts to remove the charlatans form the premium rate SMS industry, a quick glance at their recent adjudications shows there are still organisations willing to flout the rules, and there are still suppliers that support them. continue reading Clean up the Premium Rate SMS Industry
Firstly, Happy New Year to all!
We’ve got an exciting year ahead and we’re getting straight into it. The new website will be live later in January and at the same time textburst will take on a whole new appearance.
There’s a demo available so feel free to click around and let us know what you think?
Don’t be fooled though, it’s a demo, it doesn’t actually send messages.
View the textburst demo continue reading Textburst online SMS update
As a standard SMS can only contain 160 7-bit GSM characters, Concatenated SMS are used to send long SMS. Concatenation allows a sender to send more than one SMS which then get stuck together automatically by the phone to appear as one message.
continue reading Concatenated SMS
Just a quick note to all our customers that the SMS API document is now online.
Gone are the days of huge pdf files and big print runs. The Online version is well structured so you can easily find the sections you need. If you need something specific then there is also a handy search facility.
To make life easy there is a large bank of example code covering all the different integration protocols.
Additionally, the online guide covers both SMS and MMS.
Having signed up to twitter, started following some interesting contacts, and accumulated a few hundred followers. It seems to me what started out an SMS service for micro blogging is now just another vehicle for SPAM.
continue reading Twitter = SPAM
Today we welcome our first guest author on the mediaburst blog.
The X-Factor for new online media brands today is who you partner with not how much money you have to spend.
With the tech team buried in code redeveloping our online SMS product, Textburst, I thought it worth highlighting some of the usability improvements in the mill.
continue reading Textburst Development Update
VTUK, the UK’s leading independent property software provider, announces that users of GEMINI V7, its letting and management software, will now be able to take advantage of a new and improved SMS service.
continue reading VTUK Choose O2 and Mediaburst
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.