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Send Free International Text Messages with Jaxtr
A few days ago, the folks over at Gizmodo pointed out a new way to reach your international contacts. Using Jaxtr, which is primarily a free phone-to-web-to-phone international calling service, you can now send free text messages to cellphones all over the world. While Giz rightly points out some limitations—no...
Tags: E-mail, Cellular Phones, Online Communications, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, David Goldenberg, Text Message, Folk
Blog posts 2008-04-23
Want a Fast Response? Send a Text Message
Forget voice mail. Forget e-mail. If you want the fastest possible response to your question, send a text message. Don't take my word for it (though I've been preaching the business benefits of text messaging for, like, ever) -- there's research to back it up: According to a survey...
Tags: Text Message, Voicemail, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Telecommunications, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Rick Broida
Blog posts 2008-10-27

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Want a Fast Response? Send a Text Message
Want a Fast Response? Send a Text MessageRE: Want a Fast Response? Send a Text MessageLnk for "productive uses for text messaging" just goes back to the surveyRE: Want a Fast Response? Send a Text MessageSo it does. Fixed! Thanks.RE: Want a Fast Response? Send a Text MessageIn some situations,...
Tags: Fast Response
Discussion threads 2008-10-27
U r sckd: worker fired by text message
LONDON AFP — A company has defended its decision to sack one of its staff by text message, claiming it was keeping in touch with youth culture. Katy Tanner, a 21-year-old sales assistant, received the message while she was off work with a migraine, the South Wales Echo newspaper...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Quality, SALES, worker
Research articles 2006-08-04
Washington Continues to Investigate Text Message Pricing
Sam Diaz submits: Congress continued to take the wireless carriers to the mat over the wrong issue, specifically the cost of a text message. Now, it looks like there may be an effort to pin them down on a matter that will likely resonate with a greater...
Tags: Telecom, Sam Diaz, AT&T Corp., Verizon Communications Inc., Verizon Wireless
External links 2009-06-17
CLX's PollCast, Powered By Air2Web, Averages 70% Response Rate From Text Message Campaigns
ATLANTA -- CLX, a wireless permission based marketing company, is using Air2Web's 2Notify solution to develop and power its opt-in text message application, PollCastTM. Over 20 instant market intelligence polls have been conducted for major retailers, consumer brands, and marketing companies, and the subscriber base is providing over a 70%...
Research articles 2004-10-19
Loans by text message send young Swedes spiralling into debt
STOCKHOLM AFP — Fire off a simple text message, wait 15 minutes and presto, 300 euros land in your account; the simplicity of obtaining SMS loans in Sweden is increasingly luring youths into debt. "The first SMS loan was given in the middle of March 2006," said Janne Aakerlund,...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, NETWORKING, SMS, Sweden, Telephony
Research articles 2008-03-11
Text Message Advertising: Response Rates and Branding Effects
The development of internet-based mobile electronic commerce mcommerce has been slow, but commercial applications for text messages have developed rapidly. This paper explores the role of SMS or text message advertising. Although SMS advertising is strictly a form of telemarketing, it shares features with e-mail marketing and mcommerce. An analysis...
Tags: Advertisement, SMS, Henry Stewart Publications, SMS Advertising, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Telephony, Telemarketing, Branding, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Networking, Marketing, Marketing Research
White papers 2005-02-16
Heineken's text message pitch
INTERBREW, WHICH brews the Heineken beer brand in the UK, is hoping that the popularity of text messaging will help it boost sales of the drink when it launches a text message trivia pub game today. The game will be available in 500 pubs across the UK until mid-July. Punters...
Tags: Heineken N.V.
Research articles 2001-06-18
Send a Text-Message Reminder to Your Inbox with Kwiry
As regular Business Hacks readers know, I'm a big fan of using Jott for personal reminders: If I remember something I need to do and I'm driving down the highway at the time, a quick call to Jott sends a reminder to my inbox. But what if I'm in the...
Tags: Jott, Wiki, Microsoft Outlook, E-mail, Search, Groupware, Microsoft Office, Online Communications, Office Suites, Software, Enterprise Software, Rick Broida
Blog posts 2008-04-03
Hoax text message spreads tsunami terror in Indonesia
KUPANG, Indonesia AFP — Thousands of people fled their homes in panic on the Indonesian coast after hoax text messages spread warning them that a tsunami will hit the region, journalists and officials said Wednesday. "The possibility is that a tsunami may take place on June 7," said part...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, coast, Indonesia, journalist, NETWORKING, Telephony, tsunami
Research articles 2007-06-06
Watchdog helps consumers get the message.(consumer rights show to perform public opinion polls using text message)(Brief Article)
TV MEETS THE WEB-C2003 Van Dusseldorp & Partners - http://www.vandusseldorp.com/ Watchdog, BBC television's popular consumer rights show, has become the first British television programme to conduct public opinion polls via text message. The innovative approach comes after the increasing dissatisfaction ...
Tags: British Broadcasting Corp., TVs, Watchdog
Research articles 2003-01-15
Want to pull a cute big spender?; Innovative location-based text message service from Metro, CrushGuide and Mobile Commerce provides guide to 2000 top bar and pub venues in London.
M2 PRESSWIRE-26 September 2002-Mobile Commerce: Want to pull a cute big spender?; Innovative location-based text message service from Metro, CrushGuide and Mobile Commerce provides guide to 2000 top bar and pub venues in London C1994-2002 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:09262002 ...
Tags: O2 Plc., Vodafone Group Plc.
Research articles 2002-09-26
AGENCY.COM's applied concepts lab introduces first pub text message trivia; Interbrew UK to use mobile trivia game to promote Heineken beer in pubs throughout the United Kingdom.
M2 PRESSWIRE-18 June 2001-AGENCY.COM: AGENCY.COM's applied concepts lab introduces first pub text message trivia; Interbrew UK to use mobile trivia game to promote Heineken beer in pubs throughout the United Kingdom C1994-2001 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:18062001 London, UK --...
Tags: Agency.com, Heineken N.V.
Research articles 2001-06-18
Domino's, Papa John's look to build clientele via text message ordering
ANN ARBOR, MICH. -- A new system through which Domino's Pizza customers can place orders by sending text messages from their Web-enabled cell phones is giving the chain's new online ordering capability a mid-single-digit percentage boost in volume, sources at the chain indicate. The near-5-percent sales increase and apparent...
Tags: Domino's Inc.
Research articles 2007-12-10
STUFF TO LAUNCH SHOPTEXT SERVICE; VALUE-ADDED FEATURE FOR ADVERTISERS WILL ALLOW READERS TO PURCHASE ITEMS OR ORDER SAMPLES WITH A TEXT MESSAGE.(Stuff magazine)
Byline: David Lipke NEW YORK - Readers may soon be able to buy stuff from the pages of Stuff with a simple text message. Starting with the September issue, the magazine plans to introduce a new service called ShopText into...
Tags: Stuff Magazine
Research articles 2007-05-21
Text message probed in woman's disappearance
CHICAGO AP -- Authorities investigating the disappearance of a former suburban Chicago police officer's wife have obtained a warrant seeking information to identify who sent a racy text message to her cell phone. Drew Peterson's attorney, Joel Brodsky, said Thursday that a message sent to Stacy Peterson's cell...
Tags: Peterson's
Research articles 2008-01-18
Pay Your Taxes via Text Message
Pay Your Taxes via Text MessageAlready implemented in SwedenYou've been able to do this in Sweden for the last couple of years. It's working fine as far as I know, even though I've never tried it myself I use the web option instead.Anders
Tags: tax
Discussion threads 2008-04-03
For Innovating America's First Anonymous Text Message Tip Line, Hill Holliday & VeriSign Earn Top Honors in National Technology Competition
America's first tip line that lets citizens use their mobile phones to anonymously text message tips to police has earned an award from the Massachusetts Innovation & Technology Exchange MITX. Developed for the Boston Police Department by Hill Holliday (NYSE: IPG), the groundbreaking system is powered by VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ:...
Tags: VeriSign Inc.
Research articles 2007-11-27
Telenor users set text message record
NORDIC BUSINESS REPORT-3 January 2002-Telenor users set text message record C1994-2002 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com
Tags: Telenor
Research articles 2002-01-03
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