Short messaging services role in managing and runn

RSS Feed Homepage

Announcement: Changes in business model
2007-07-19 04:12:00
It is our pleasure to announce that we are going to expand the business model of MessageVista Communication. This expansion includes but not limited to changing the infrastructure and the technology in delivering text messages and contents. The changes will be so massive that we expect these changes will lead us to a better position ...
More About: Business , Announcement , Model , Chang , Chan

Win an iPod nano 2GB
2007-04-06 18:43:00
Effective today, we launched a draw to give out an iPod nano 2 GB. To be qualified for this draw, you must meet the following criteria by the end of July 2007: Create a new account, upgrade it to either ‘Silver’ or ‘Gold’ package and maintain it for minimum 6 months to enroll in the draw ...
More About: Ipod , Ipod nano , Nano

Telus Canada issue
2007-04-03 03:41:00
Attention to the customers who are sending text messages to Telus Cana da network: Unfortunately delivering text messages to this network has encountered some inconsistencies which are out of our control. Those text messages might be marked as ‘delivered’ and charged but not delivered in fact. So, the customers must take their own precautions and risks in delivering ...
More About: Nada , Issue

Excluding Bell Canada
2007-03-30 02:27:00
Due to some problems in delivering text messages to Bell Cana da cell phones, we decided to exclude this carriers from our coverage list effective immediately. Once the connection is restored to Bell Canada, we will update our coverage database. Therefore, our Canadian customers or the customers who are targeting Canada must bear this issue in their ...
More About: Nada

The reduced price list introduced
2006-12-13 15:09:10
We have reduced the price of each text message credit in all available packages as of December 10th, 2006. The new price table will remain in effect as long as MessageVista Communication’s business model requires that. We have a strong forecast that we can support the new reduced prices in a long run.
More About: Rice , List , Price , Reduce , Redu

Sponsoring Free Text Messaging Service (www.TextIsSMS.com)
2006-12-08 15:05:01
It is our pleasure to announce that we have become the sponsor of a real free text messaging program. The program offers a web-to-mobile ad-free text messaging services so that Text IsSMS visitors can send text messages to more than 190 countries through the world. In fact, the coverage of this service is exactly the same as our gateway’s. The text messages themselves are free of any advertising contents, but the costs of sending text messages are compensated from on-website advertising campaigns and sponsors’ websites.
More About: Service , Free , Essa , Ring

Error# 203 has been eliminated from API
2006-12-08 15:05:01
We used to have an account type called ‘Developers’ in our old business model. In that model, developers could use our connectivity API but with the restriction of 140-character text message. We were attaching the phrase “Powered by MessageVista” to that account type text message upon multicasting. Since we have changed our account types to the current packages which are  ‘Bronze’, ‘Silver’ and ‘Gold’, all users can send text messages without any restrictions. The error code No.203 generated by API due the above reason is no longer exist and we decided to cross it our in our API documentation. Thus, if you are a developer, please download the API documentation revision No.8 or higher.
More About: Error , Been , Nate , Mina , Has Been

txtTel.com
2006-12-08 15:05:01
We got a shorter (non-official) domain name, easy to type in and had it point to our website. So, everybody can access to our website from www.txttel.com too.

Our home page
2006-08-30 20:45:12
We decided to change our website’s home page because it looked a bit heavy. We came up with a lighter version of a home page so that most of our products and services are listed and visible at the first glance. We believe that this home page is  an intuitive and more encouraging environment to our customers and visitors.
More About: Home , Page , Home Page , Gathering

MMS Push support
2006-08-29 20:36:05
MMS push functionality support has been added to our documentation. MMS Push was under test for a while and once we made sure that it is stable enough, we decided to include MMS Push in our API documentation. So, our customers who are interested in providing MMS contents to their own clients can enjoy our gateway’s MMS capability.
More About: Port , Support

zTexter, A free and open source desktop application to send
2006-08-21 20:27:04
Today we released the initial version of an open source desktop application called zTexter that send short messages worldwide using MessageVista’s gateway’s .NET Web Service. This application is written in C# and its source code is availlable to public to download, develop, compile and distribute. Users who are planning to use this application must comply with Free -BSD license model to be able to develop, compile and distribute the application. To learn more about zTexter Desktop SMS Messanger, please visit its dedicated website by clicking here.
More About: Open Source , Cat , Open

Changes in sending verification code to users? cell phones
2006-08-18 20:24:03
We used to send a verification code to the user who was signing up to make sure about his identity. This code was being sent once the user’s sign up process finishes successfully. We decided to make a slight change in this procedure so that the verification code is sent right after making the first payment ever. On the other hand, once the user makes a payment successfully, no matter for the gateway fee or for credit purchase a verification code is sent out to his or her cell phone if this payment is the first user’s payment. Verification code is used to unlock user’s account and he or she can enter this code in the dashboard page to have our system unlock user’s access.
More About: Phone , Cell Phones , Cat , Cell Phone , Phones

Gateway access fees lowered
2006-08-09 20:12:02
In a business decision that we made today, we decided to reduce our gateway access fees dramatically. The reason to come up with such a decision is due to expanding our network by employing some new routes and aggregators. This allows us to introduce new lower rates in our gateway access packages by maintaining the per-message-charge occurring on our customers’ accounts upon delivering the short message. For e.g. business used to pay a $330 fee per year to sign up for ‘Gold’ package; but now, they only have to pay as low as $110 per year for this package to access our gateway. This new alteration in our business model will encourage our existing and new customers to use our gateway more to send short messages worldwide so that they can make more profit on their own mobile applications. We believe that this decision will make our paces faster to become more successful in SMS business.
More About: Gate , Fees , Access , Gateway , Lower

Gateway access fees became optional
2006-08-06 20:06:07
Effective July 19th, 2006, We have made some changes in our business model by substituting the previous privileges including Individuals?, Developers? and Businesses? with the new packages called ?Bronze?, ?Silver? and ?Gold?. Previously, the users under Individuals? category were not able to send short messages using our gateway API. Only Developers? and Businesses? account owners were able to get connected to our gateway using the designated API?s. But in the new model, we have eliminated this restriction so that all users regardless of their chosen packages can use our API?s to connect to our gateway to send text messages. As of now, paying gateway access fees is optional and users do not have to pay this fee or be subscribed to any packages to access our gateway either through API or any applications. But we highly recommend that users select either ‘Silver’ or ‘Gold’ packages to enjoy a considerable saving if they are planning to send a large...
More About: Gate , Fees , Access , Gateway , Opti

From today businesses can have their own 2-way SMS gateway
2006-08-06 20:06:07
Today was a very important day for MessageVista Communication as it released a new product called ‘Kaadoos’. Kaadoos is a 2-way GSM SMS gateway with WAP capability that helps businesses to possess and control their own short messaging system in their site. Kaadoos gateway supports different protocols in GSM worlds to connect to one or multiple SMS centers or relay centers. Where a SMS center is not available, the gateway can start communicating with GSM network usinng GSM modems. In this case, the only required item is an active and working SIM card. This gateway can save lots of money in sending or receiving messages for business in a long run as businesses do not have to purchase credits from gateway companies or aggregators and also pay monthly fees. Another advantage of this gateway is its user communication and administration method. All administration instructions and communications can be done via HTTP channels on some certain ports. For e.g. similar to our existi...
More About: Gate , Business , Businesse , Today , Esse

Gateway access fee was waived
2006-08-06 20:06:07
Effective today (July 3,2006) we decided to waive monthly gateway access fee for the individuals who want to proceed with sending bulk or trigger short messages worldwide. This decision was made in order to minimize the cost of sending SMS for our non-commercial users who want to send text messages occasionally. We hope that this approach helps our valued customers reduce their costs and increases their satisfaction with our services.
More About: Gate , Access , Gateway

A new product announcement!
2006-08-06 20:06:07
We have provided a customized gateway (software and hardware) supporting GSM networks. This gateway is suitable for any business sizes that have medium volume messages to send around and offers a solution for the companies who want to keep the control of their own SMS platform fully. A brief specifications of this gateway is as below: Supporting sending and receiving short messages (2-way messaging). WAP push to browse internet. communicating with other gateways and SMS centers. Customizable for different businesses. Users can easily configure the gateway by a ‘config’ file however we are doing our best to provide a user friendly interface. This product is under an extensive test to make sure that all expected functionalities are working properly. Once we have released it officially, we will announce that on MessageVista’s website.
More About: Men , Product , Announcement , Cement , Prod

Fast, seamless,real-time, anytime and anywhere!
2006-08-06 20:06:07
One of the advantages of online SMS is enhancing your customer relationship management. All advantages of easy contact without taking up time, is brough to you by this approach so that you can focus on your core business and improve efficiency. Centrally-driven multiple messaging is an effective and efficient way to communicate within your organisation, particularly if your employees or sales persons are on the road. We can summarize online SMS benefits for your business just in a few words: Fast , seamless,real-time, anytime and anywhere.
More About: Time , Real , Here , Less

The beauty of .NET web services in mobile world
2006-08-06 20:06:07
.NET Web Service s is a contemporary way to expose .NET classes across a TCP/IP network using a combination of SOAP, HTTP and XML. .NET Web Services is available via a web site that hosts the services by performing a SOAP request so that it enables the developers to instantiate the remote classes within any HTTP client application. One of the advantages of employing .NET Web Services in developing distributed applications is eliminating recompiling the entire client code after any modifications made on the remote object or core class as long as the connection prototype or interface remains intact. For e.g. if a bug is discovered and fixed in one of the methods inside the remote class hosted on a web service site, the fixes will remain hidden from client side so that the client will not have to compile his/her code to observe the bug fixes. The advantages of .NET web services described in the introduction can be considered as an alternative or a new way to get mobile car...
More About: Beauty , Mobile , World

Why did we decide to get a weblog?
2006-08-06 20:06:07
Well, we have a commercial website and we have posted whatever is required to fullfil our clients wishes. Somtimes some ideas cross our people’s mind that they think it would be better to share it with public. We thought to post those ideas gradually on our website but we realized that it could create us some disadvantages like loosing the main mission of the site which is our cyber store. Other disadvantages may have kicked in like archiving the articles, categorizing, and so on. We realized that the best way to have our team members share their “Wireless!” ideas is hosting and launching a weblog to fulfill this wish. We chose Wordpress as a kick start solution. So all requirements like archiving, categorizing, etc. are handled automatically and just we type in our ideas! This weblog let our employees compete to each other in posting their ideas and creativity. Therefore, we’ve got another wing in running our business.
More About: Weblog , Blog , Cide

Sample SMS applications
2006-08-06 20:06:07
Security companies: Security companies can connect their residential and commercial control panels to the gateways like MessageVista gateway by HTTP protocol to send notifications on occurring any burglary alarm, fire or tamper. Stock market: People can receive a notification on their handsets if a particular share price reaches to a specific price. Server monitoring: Companies can monitor their servers (web servers, web sites, email servers, database servers, etc.) by a dedicated software which is connected to a gateway like MessageVista gateway. Controlling a house appliances: By sending instructions to a gateway like MessageVista by a ...
More About: Applications , Cat , Application , Sample

A SMS desktop application
2006-08-06 20:06:07
We are planning to release a free desktop application in a few days to send short messages worldwide. This desktop application is a .NET application that can be installed on Windows NT 4.0 or higher operating systems. Existing MessageVista users can use their username and password to have this desktop application send, flash or schedule a short message to one or multiple cell phone around the world. So far we do not have any plan to port this application to Linux using Mono. If we feel that this is a requirement in the market, we will definitely assign some resources to proceed with Linux support. Please stay tuned as the desktop application will be available to download from both our website and Download.com.
More About: Desktop , Cat , Application , Desk