Messaging

Receiving SMS Messages via Shortcodes & Keywords

mokil — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 14:31:14 +0000

Back around 1998, more and more billboards started to display some odd messages, along the lines of "Visit us on the web at www.companyname.com". This was a major shift in advertising and gave marketers another avenue to explore. It was, of course, the beginning of the Internet's move from academia to the mainstream, and the proliferation of Web sites seemed to happen almost overnight.

Handling SMS delivery receipts

mokil — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:54:49 +0000

Recently, we looked at how to send SMS messages using a standard HTTP POST-based API. As was intimated at the time, most APIs also allow you to process delivery receipts for the messages you send. This allows you to determine the status of the message, i.e. delivered, failed, expired etc. Let's take a look at how this all works.

Sending SMS Messages - A Quick Recap

Sending SMS from Apps and Webapps

mokil — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 14:27:29 +0000

It’s easy to send SMS messages from any Web site or application, but it’s surprising how few sites/applications actually do this. Integrating SMS into your system gives it something extra, and allows your system to enhance the mobile experience for the user. In this article, we’ll look at how an SMS message can be sent from any system, and at a few providers who offer this functionality.

Choosing an SMS Provider

There are essentially three types of SMS provider:

Mobile Network (e.g. Vodafone, Three)
Aggregator
SMS Messaging Company

Sending SMS with SMPP, Kannel and Java

senthadev@gmail.com — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 11:30:28 +0000

There are many technologies and protocols that can be used to send and receive SMS from an application. This article focuses on sending SMS via a Short Message Service Center (SMSC), with the help of the Kannel SMS gateway.

In order for an application to send a SMS, it generally has to communicate with a Mobile Network Operator (MNO) over the Internet. To understand in more detail consider the following example.

A Media service provider wants to send a program timetable as an SMS to its end customers. The application is running on a Linux based java application server.

SMS Messaging in Android

weimenglee — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:20:12 +0000

It would be safe to say that nearly every mobile phone sold in the past decade has SMS messaging capabilities. In fact, SMS messaging is one great killer application for the mobile phone and it has created a steady revenue stream for mobile operators. Understanding how to use SMS messaging in your application can provide you with many ideas to create the next killer application.

One web 2.0 - social edition

jonarne — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 11:30:37 +0000

I bet I am not the only one wondering what Nokia was going to announce yesterday... In addition to the N97, Nokia Messaging was the big news. Put short, Nokia Messaging is enabling a bunch of IM-like services on the phone. In my mind this is an important change in the traditional mind pattern device manufacturers, and MNOs, have had until the iPhone.

MMS is a usability disaster

ronan — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:59:35 +0000

I can't remember the last time I got an MMS message. Ewan of SMS Text News reminds me why: MMS: Still a piece of shit

Email configuration via SMS

Julien Buratto — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:21:46 +0000

Many of you will have experienced how a call to a network operator has resulted in an SMS containing configuration settings being sent to your phone. In this article we will look at how to configure a mobile phone's email account settings via SMS. Many phones support POP3 and IMAP accounts; in this example we are going to configure a simple POP3 account.

To check emails, an access point (APN) is also needed, so we will also configure an internet connection.

Mobile Web Design

admin — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 18:04:15 +0000

A special treat for mobiForge users. We have the pleasure of bringing you a number of excerpts from Cameron Moll's recently published book Mobile Web Design.

Mobile Web Design is aimed at anyone "in a position to develop for, manage, or give advice regarding your organization’s foray into—or extended development of—a web strategy for mobile devices".

The book covers a variety of topics related to mobile web design, starting with some background and the current state-of-the-art, and stresses the importance of context when developing for mobile.

Mobile Web Design - Beyond Simple XHTML Pages I

cameronmoll — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 16:12:02 +0000

When developing content for mobile devices, it's important to look beyond simple XHTML/CSS pages and even beyond the browser. The interplay between web content and mobile user can occur in a variety of ways, some of which are often more efficient, affordable, or universal than browser-based interaction--even some of which are not delivered through the web but through other content delivery channels. This chapter exposes a few approaches for developing a well-rounded mobile strategy.