SMS Message to any Cell Phone

Short Messaging Service or SMS is a nice common denominator among mobile devices that will help bring more functionality and less silo applications. Thus far in North America we have met with hostility from some quarters as we push intelligent Email to SMS. However the analysts are beginning to understand our brand of intelligent mobile messaging. The view is that intelligent Email to SMS where you filter as much as possible so you get 20 relevant/critical emails instead of 200 on your mobile phone and you intelligently summarize so you can maximize the use of… Continue reading

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Forward Email to SMS text

Many people have asked in the last while how can they get their emails on a mobile phone? Of course, the mobile carriers are encouraging them all to use a service and a device such as a Blackberry, iPhone or Treo and sign up for a pricey data plan that can run as high as $70+ per month. That is overkill for what the typical user needs!
A lot of people are walking around with what could be called a vanilla-type mobile phone that supports SMS. SMS is text-based ‘ Short Messaging Service’ that allows all the 2.5 Billion… Continue reading

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Intelligent mobile messaging

Carriers and ISPs are looking for sticky applications to deal with churn but are still stuck on pushing more down the pipe rather than taking a more intelligent approach to content. Three major device competitors – Blackberry, Nokia and Motorola all have different shticks as the expression goes. At last fall’s CTIA Wireless I.T. and Entertainment show in San Francisco, Nokia featured a number of partners including the usual practical business applications and fun ones like games on the phone such as Heroes and Miami CSI.

The most encouraging news for smart Email-to-SMS vendors like Amika Mobile is the… Continue reading

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Personalized mobile phone

Over the decade I have been using mobile devices to view email, I have noticed how users get completely addicted to their devices. I recall walking around with a Nokia flip phone - circa 2000 that I finally gave up for a Motorola phone circa 2004! I still think both vendors offer great phones. Today, I walk around with a Pearl from Blackberry. 2007 marks the first time in a decade that I have accepted a Blackberry as a phone and as an email device. I had both. I get the Gist of Email from various sources… Continue reading

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Emergency alerts through SMS

Wireless access to email, phone and other critical content is not an extravagance for today’s mobile users — it is a necessity, especially when community safety is involved. When emergency events occur in a community, such as shootings and lockdowns on campus and in buildings, there is an urgent need for the broadcast and delivery of emergency alerts through SMS to community members within minutes, if not seconds. Such emergency notification requires urgent broadcasts of point-to-multipoint messages.

The Amika Mobility Server (AMS) provides a text message-based alert broadcasting system for campus, city, or geographically distributed areas, sending… Continue reading

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