SMS GupShup raises $10M for text-message social networks. Beerud Sheth, a serial entrepreneur in India, figured out the way to reach the most people was not through computers or smartphones. It was through old-fashioned text messages on aging feature cell phones. His Mumbai, India-based company, SMS GupShup has set up social networks in India that work via text messages. Now it has become India’s largest social network with more than 50 million users and the company is announcing today it has raised $10 million in a new round of funding.
“It’s a low-tech platform,” Sheth said in an interview. “But its weakness is its strength. It is inexpensive and reaches 5 billion users around the world. With our approach, you trade off ubiquity with richness and complexity.” The fifth round was led by Tenaya Capital and it includes existing investors Globespan Capital Partners, Helion Ventures, and Charles River Ventures. Sheth said the company will use the money to move into new markets and expand its team. With Twilio, SMS short codes aren’t just for big companies any more. SMS service enabler, Twilio, brought its new short code SMS product out of testing today and showed it off onstage at the MobileBeat 2011 conference in San Francisco. Short codes, in essence, are 6-digit numbers that can be marketed to customers as a quick way to contact a company.
But Twilio says they’re incredibly underused. Twilio chief executive, Jeff Lawson likened them to the Ghost Busters twinkie. The small twinkie is the amount of short codes we are using now, the 35-foot long twinkie represents the short codes available for use. Twilio blames the lack of widespread short code adoption on the price and application process. “Companies think short codes are only for the big players,” said Lawson. There are two roadblocks in integrating short codes with your company’s marketing. Twilio is similar to an aggregator, but its mission is to simplify the short code application process and enable smaller companies to join the SMS noise. 'War Texting' SMS attack to steal a car or control SCADA systems? Developing your SMS Text Message Database « McCormick Mobile Media. January 29, 2010 by mccormickmobilemedia I had two meeting this week where the first question was, “how many names are in your databases and how much does it cost?”
Frankly, this is the most common question I get and two things happen every time: First, the look of dissappointment when I say “I don’t have any databases. Everyone starts at zero.” Then, the look of reason when I say, “if I could sell you a 5,000 cell phone numbers of people who lived in this area and their first interaction with your brand was an unsolicited text message who do you think they would respond? How would you respond if you were on the list?” Here’s some ideas to develop your database: The Ask, i.e. For national advertisers including a Text offer in an ad is as important as the phone # and URL. The Incentive. The Contest. You can also give away tickets to an event/concert that your audience would enjoy. The Vote & The Survey. These are types of promotions and recommendations we help our clients with everyday.
How to Read SMS/MMS in UIQ. MMS Architecture. The Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) is organized over a set of several network elements. One objective of MMS is to deliver a messaging service interoperable with existing mobile messaging system like SMS and EMS but which is also interoperable with existing fixed messaging system such as E-mail Service. The MMS architecture includes the software messaging application in the MMS capable mobile device necessary for the composition sending and receipt of the message.
In addition other elements in the network infrastructure are required to route messages, to adapt the content of messages to capabilities of receiving devices etc. The MMS user Agent is the software application shipped with the mobile handset which allow the composition, viewing, sending and retrieval of multimedia messages. The MMS environment (MMSE) refers to the set of MMS elements under the control of a single administration (MMS provider) in charge of providing the service to the MMS subscribers. Mobile Communications | Syniverse Technologies. Teen texting research. Text messaging. Text messaging, or texting, is the act of composing and sending a brief, electronic message between two or more mobile phones, or fixed or portable devices over a phone network.
The term originally referred to messages sent using the Short Message Service (SMS). It has grown to include messages containing image, video, and sound content (known as MMS messages). The sender of a text message is known as a texter, while the service itself has different colloquialisms depending on the region. It may simply be referred to as a text in North America, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand and the Philippines, an SMS in most of mainland Europe, and a TMS or SMS in the Middle East, Africa and Asia. Text messages can be used to interact with automated systems to, for example, order products or services, or participate in contests.
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Updated November 16, 2016 / Posted March 01, 2004 By Vangie Beal This chat guide lists more than 1,460 text message and online chat abbreviations to help you translate today's texting lingo. With the popularity and rise in use of online text-based communications came the emergence of a new texting language, tailored to the immediacy and compactness of these new communication media. Today, text and chat abbreviations are used in Facebook, Twitter, instant messaging, email, Internet and online gaming services, chat rooms, discussion boards and mobile phone text messaging (SMS). While it does seem incredible that there are thousands of text abbreviations, keep in mind that different chat abbreviations are used by different groups of people.
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