When it comes to technology, much of my generation has grown up with it, accepted it, and loved it. We accept, readily, just about every new gadget and widget someone comes out with. Last night I was with a good friend and he was showing me some of the widgets (more like “junk”) he’d downloaded […]
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I recently read a post by Stan Schroeder of Mashable. His point was so good, I just had to post about it. His article entitled, “The Importance of Being an Early Adopter,” really hit home to me as I read through his article. He speaks specifically of Twitter and its now commanding influence in the […]
Times Square in New York City is transformed into the legendary Mount Everest on 15 and 16 February, celebrating the newest addition to Disney’s Animal Kingdom in Florida: Mount Everest. [via Arthur de Wolf’s Disney Comics Worldwide Blog and PRNewswire]
The show, “Everest in the City, is a 57-story spectacular which will bring the […]
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“Physorg has a paper comparing the cost of text messaging versus the cost of getting data from Hubble Space Telescope. From the article: ‘The maximum size for a text message is 160 characters, which takes 140 bytes because there are only 7 bits per character in the text messaging system, and we assume the average […]
There are hundreds of websites which offer sending SMS services in India & US but most of these dont work out because you need to buy some SMS credits and run these services and some of these buy paid credits on customers behalf and make the money back from the member’s subscriptions or advertising on […]
I stumbled upon a site today that allows you to send SMS worldwide for free. Super cool idea. The company is called Peekamo, a privately-held corporation based in Toronto Canada allows free text messaging internationally. They also integrate into social networks. The company was founded in 2006 by mobile phone technologist and enthusiast Al Sajoo. […]
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The world of SMS marketing is, in reality, very similar to that of internet marketing: traffic drives profits. The more traffic one has, the greater the profits. It is for this reason that implementation of a text-to-screen SMS mobile system with a digital signage network or screen really ads value.
How it Works
Text to Screen gives […]
Just some updates in the SMS industry today.
* There are now more cell phones in Australia than there are people.
* 60% of phones in China are “knock-off” brands.
* There are now more mobile phones users in Africa than North America.
Random facts of the day I know. I also read an article that […]
In the world of SMS marketing there are a couple of important factors: sms short codes and keywords attached to those short codes. How hard is it to procure a short code? Well, it’s not that hard. It just takes some money and some time. Short code procurement takes about 4 to 6 weeks to […]
Text to Screen or Tagg, as Projective Marketing calls it, is an interactive and viral way for consumers to text messages to screens on public display. Text to Screen also allows for interactive games to be played on public display. Because there is an incentive or reason for consumers to text and keep on texting […]
