Text Message Blog

Amdocs a leading provider of customer experience systems, has acquired MX Telecom, a leading mobile
payments and messaging aggregator with operations in Europe, US and Australia. Under the terms of the agreement, Amdocs has acquired MX Telecom for approximately $104 million in cash, net of debt and cash.
MX Telecom will become part of Amdocs’ OpenMarket, [...]

SALT LAKE CITY and LAS VEGAS-March 22, 2010- Safe Driving Systems, LLC. (www.safedrivingsystems.com) will demonstrate how to eliminate the dangers of mobile phone calls and texting while driving using Key2SafeDrivingTM at the International CTIA Wireless 2010® show.
Key2SafeDriving is available for general release for BlackBerry®, Windows Mobile® and SymbianTM powered mobile phones. Other operating systems and [...]

Direct mail and email remain viable ways to market, even though mobile marketing continues to proliferate.  One of the advantages of direct mail is that you can purchase a list and send mail to that list, contrary to text message marketing where an opt-in is required.
Telemarketing also is beneficial because you can purchase a telemarketing [...]

Porn star Joslyn James has released the text messages that Tiger Woods allegedly sent to her in the Fall of 2009.
James, in fact, has even created a web site called Texting Joslyn James.  It must be getting an awful lot of hits this morning, because I haven’t been able to get into it.  (”That’s what she [...]

Over 60,000 cell phone users who had signed up to receive “promotional messages” from Nextones.com to
receive a free ringtone also received a text message on January 18, 2006 that advertised a Stephen King book.
This was potentially in violation to the required opt-in process that must be part of all mobile marketing.  Just because you signed [...]

While attending the Search Engine Strategies Show in Chicago in December, I purchased a book called
“Mobile Marketing” by Alex Michael and Ben Salter.
The book was informative, but having been published in 2006, it was somewhat outdated.  It did, however, give me a good overview of what the marketplace looked like five years ago, especially the [...]

Parents can now sign up for a free service that will notify them by text message if a registered sex offender moves into their zip code.
Previously, parents had to check an online database to see the list of sex offenders in their area, but now that information will be pushed to them by text message [...]

When it comes to choosing a host for your web site, there are simply so many choices.  Prices seem to continually be in decline in this industry so you can really get a good deal.
The problem is that, while you can get a good deal, the web hosting service needs to be reliable and easy [...]