Red Oxygen enables enterprises to combine the ease of use and ubiquity of email with the convenience and mobility of SMS, providing full address book and calendar integration.  This facilitates mobile workforces with advanced functionality such as scheduled SMS, calendar reminders, email replies and CC-to-email.

In addition, Red Oxygen also offers bulk message delivery, single number reception and premium SMS services. TynTec will help Red Oxygen to provide users of these services with high quality message delivery, guaranteeing that every message sent will arrive within 15 seconds.

Additionally, according to a statistic announced at US trade association, CTIA, wireless subscribers continue to capture and send more pictures and other multi-media messages, more than 5.6 billion MMS messages in the first half of 2008 – almost as many as were sent in all of 2007.

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Entry into Belgium is part of Blyk’s next wave of European expansion that was announced last week.

Targeting at 16-24 year olds mobile phone users, Blyk has run over 900 campaigns in the UK for brands such as Coca Cola, STA Travel, Penguin, Buena Vista, L’Oreal and music artists The Kooks and Alphabeat.

It’s the very innovative mobile service and business model.

Seems this service will get more fans since it can guarantee that phone users will be not annoyed with “ads spam”. They just receive information about the brands they like.

For advertisers, Blyk is a new media channel and direct access to the young user market. The statistics convinced us: the service’s average response rate of 29 percent, an extremely high level for any media platform.

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Mobile messaging services provider TynTec today announces that it has been selected by Australian SMS gateway PromptSMS to provide high-reliability messaging for mission critical health sector applications.

Michael Kowalzik, CEO of TynTec, revealed that standard SMS would simply not be fast enough to be used in a critical application such as alerting doctors of patient incidents. “However, because TynTec can guarantee near-real-time delivery, PromptSMS’s health sector clients can now take advantage of the cost benefits and ease-of-use that SMS offers.”

PromptSMS is an established SMS gateway that specialises in working with business in the health sector. The company works with five 24-hour emergency doctor call centres which will use TynTec’s SMS to alert doctors to patient incidents.

According to Stephen Conrad, Director, PromptSMS, the doctor alerting system is very valuable for his emergency call centre clients because it lets them manage their resources cost effectively and without the need for new infrastructure.

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The award winners will be presented at the Gala Awards Dinner in Cannes on May 8, 2008 — in the second day of the Global Messaging Congress.

“We’re proud to be recognized as a leading provider of mobile business applications for our proven work providing enterprise messaging around the world,” said Pieter de Villiers, CEO of Clickatell.

The 2008 Mobile Messaging awards cover the whole range of mobile messaging from SMS and MMS, to IM, email and voice-messaging.

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At the moment, SMS is generally being offered to enterprises without specified service level agreements defining the reliability, security and traceability of messaging.  The widespread adoption of SLA’s by the enterprise mobile messaging community would enable buyers to quickly benchmark services and make educated decisions about suppliers.

TynTec is a mobile messaging operator, offering enterprise quality SMS services to companies such as O2, British Airways and Skype.

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Mobile Instant Messaging (MIM) is set to cannibalize SMS (texting) and eventually email from PC, a survey from TNS Technology has found. The TNS Global Telecoms Insight (GTI) study, which interviewed 17,000 respondents across 30 countries, has found that once mobile users adopt MIM it overtakes other messaging tools to become the primary non-voice method of interacting – with potentially dramatic consequences for service and network providers’ revenue.

Among those who use MIM, it is the most used feature on their phone: 61% use it daily, compared to only 55% who use SMS daily and only 12% who use email on their mobile.

Yes, I often to use MIM (especially Yahoo Messenger and BlackBerry Messenger) to communicate with my friends, instead of SMS. It’s extremely cheap and effortless!

Let’s move on!

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Blyk, the new mobile network for 16-24 year olds funded by advertising, gives members free texts and minutes every month which equates to an individual saving of over £280 each year – with no contract, no hidden costs or fees – in return for receiving up to six highly targeted advertising messages per day from brands including Xbox, Adidas, STA Travel, Penguin, Brylcreem, Boots, COI and RSPCA.

The service has signed up over 100,000 members since its launch in the UK at the end of September, 2007. According to Shaun Gregory, UK CEO, young people have embraced Blyk because it makes phone bills and contracts a thing of the past. “We believe that communication should be free, like most other forms of media in the UK.”

This service does not annoy its users with “ads spam” at all, so that they’d love to use it. They just receive information about the brands they like. For advertisers, Blyk is a new media channel and direct access to the young user market.

Blyk was co-founded in 2006 by Pekka Ala-Pietilä and Antti Öhrling and has offices in Helsinki, Finland and London, UK.  Blyk is now operating in the UK, with other European markets to follow.

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