Tag Archives: sms

PayPal Introduces Mobile Access For The PayPal Security Key

PayPal today announced a new way for members to add even more security to their PayPal accounts using their mobile phones. Customers can now choose to receive a unique six-digit security code via text message to their mobile phones prior to logging in to their accounts.

Read full storyComments { 0 }

GoMobi! chooses TynTec’s global SMS platform

Okay, short message service (SMS) is still being  a killer service around the world.  GoMobi! has selected mobile messaging operator TynTec to provide international SMS sending capabilities. The company will use TynTec’s high-quality SMS to send ‘WAP push’ links to its new subscribers.

Read full storyComments { 0 }

AT&T Reports Largest Text Messaging Spike in Company History on Election Night

As media called the presidential race on Tuesday, Americans fired off text messages at a record pace. AT&T today reported that in the hour following the announcement, text messaging traffic across its network surged about 44 percent – the highest spike in company history.

Read full storyComments { 0 }

BubbleTALK named Best Messaging Service by MobileVillage

Bubble Motion today announced that its service, BubbleTALK, has won the Gold Star Mobile Star Award from MobileVillage for Best Consumer Messaging Service. “The Mobile Star Award confirms Bubble Motion’s position as the global leader in Voice SMS,” said Thomas Clayton, CEO of Bubble Motion.

Read full storyComments { 0 }

SMS based adverts for culinary, fashion increase

SMS advertising is becoming more popular now, particularly among European culinary and fashion fans. comScore reports that European users preferred receiving SMS advertisements for consumer goods such as food, fashion, restaurants, travel and financial services.

Read full storyComments { 0 }

Gmail SMS Chat Delay for Bug Fixes

The SMS Chat feature, we reported yesterday was indeed available but was pulled later due to some bugs. Google product manager Leo Dirac has posted the info on Gmail blog, stating that the add-on will be back to the Gmail Labs list in 2 weeks time.

Read full storyComments { 1 }

Google Gmail Adding SMS Chat Capability

According to Webmonkey, Google has created an experimental feature to enable sms chat between your friends’ mobile number and you. The feature will be available for all Gmail users from Thursday evening according to the source. It can be activated through the Labs tab in Gmail settings section. I still can’t find the options in my Gmail [...]

Read full storyComments { 1 }

Synchronica SimpleMail Provides “Push Mail” via SMS

Synchronica today announced Synchronica SimpleMail, a new consumer push email (CPE) solution that brings mobile email to almost 100 percent of handsets in use today. Synchronica SimpleMail includes ‘Email to SMS’ and ‘Email to MMS’ gateways and a client-less solution for WAP/xHTML browser access.

Read full storyComments { 0 }

LG Kicks Off Mobile World Cup Competition

It’s time to start exercising your thumbs as LG Electronics launches the LG Mobile World Cup, giving participants a chance to show off the speed and accuracy of their text messaging skills. The competition began in Korea on October 27 and in Brazil closer to the end of the year. One of the competition by [...]

Read full storyComments { 0 }

Self-Destructing SMS Text Messaging Application for Blackberry Phones Available from BigString

A new Short Message Service (SMS) text messaging application for BlackBerry phones that permits both personal and business users to send self-destructing text messages and pictures, has been released by BigString Corporation. In addition to providing BigString’s self-destructing features to SMS text users, the application also permits sending self-destructing messages to multiple recipients through the [...]

Read full storyComments { 3 }