NotePage SMS, Texting and Messaging Blogs

After trying to perform searches via Google SMS Search last week, many users discovered that the mobile search service had been discontinued.

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This pacemaker sends SMS to doctor if you miss a beat.

Cardiologists say if the first golden hour is not lost in the case of a heart attack, the patient can be saved. Even those who have an implanted pacemaker run the risk of casualty in case an abnormality occurs. There's now available on the market a pacemaker that saves the 'golden hour' as it electronically alerts the patient's doctor to the emergency within minutes.

The device works on the technology of a cellphone. These new pacemakers are fitted with transmitters that may be a hand-held device or placed within a room. As soon as the patients pulse rate goes down or any other emergency happens, the signal is electronically transferred to the transmitter or modem by the pacemaker through electromagnetic rays.

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Pediatric asthma patients who received a daily text message asking about their symptoms or providing information about the ailment demonstrated improved pulmonary function and a better understanding of their condition within four months, say researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology in a new study.

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Text messaging in the U.S. is on the decline, according to a survey released Thursday by CTIA-The Wireless Association. The numbers of SMS text messages sent and received nationally dropped from 2.3 trillion in 2011 to 2.19 trillion in 2012.

While 2.19 trillion may seem like a colossal number and not much less than 2.3 trillion, it is still nearly a 5 percent drop.

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An innovative program combining maternity advice and mobile phones is launching in South Africa, and could affect the lives of millions of mothers and babies. The service has already been launched in Bangladesh, and will soon come to India.

Why not use mobile technology to give health information to plugged-in women, who often hold a child in one hand and a phone in the other?

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Texting is a huge part of our relationships. It makes communication quick and easy, whether we are messaging our partners, family members, and even blind dates. Except, once you hit send there is no going back.

From inappropriate autocorrects to accidentally texting the wrong person, we've all been there. But have yours been this bad?

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DoSomething.org wants to make it easier for high school students to understand just how hard it is to be a teen parent -- and they are doing it through asking teens to adopt a text baby.

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The world talks by texting, and now air-traffic controllers and pilots across Canada are sending each other text messages to speed up flights, reduce delays and boost safety.

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This is really useful for Public Safety Departments and Emergency Management Services! If your road signs can be configured to receive an email, text page or SMS message to update their message, PageGate can do it.

Did You Know PageGate Can Send Text Messages to Road Signs?

The British Red Cross is using innovative mobile phone technology to save lives with location-based messaging in Sierra Leone.

At the touch of a button, the SMS system – called the Trilogy Emergency Relief Application – can reach 36,000 people in a specific location within an hour.

This April, the Red Cross and its telecommunications partner Airtel began using the system to reach around one million Sierra Leoneans with warnings about impending disasters, such as floods and outbreaks of disease, in the first month.

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There is a minor point release available for PageGate. The most recent version is 6.0.5 details of the updates can be seen in the release notes.

Verizon has blacklisted Windstream and is no longer accepting messages from anyone on Windstreams IP address or SMTP Servers. Unfortunately, there is nothing that can directly be done to fix that unless you have access to your own Exchange or other SMTP Server.

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This is good information to send text messages using Comcast.

Follow these settings to Integrate SolarWinds Orion with PageGate.

Humor!
SMS and text messaging cartoons!
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How GroundProbe is Using PageGate
The integration of GroundProbe's mine slop monitoring radar and NotePage's SMS text messaging software provide early warning for the safe evacuation of people and equipment in case of a wall collapse or changes at the mine. Groups of people onsite and offsite can be alerted on their mobile phones and smartphones to any hazards. The integration of Gmonitoring solutions with NotePage software allows staff to be alerted make quick decisions. Having been alerted, mine staff can then assess the risks. http://www.notepage.net/groundprobe.htm

Did You Know PageGate...

Did you know that PageGate can integrate with most Nurse Call stations and alarm panels?
Most Nurse Call Stations and Alarm Panels have a serial output. You can use PageGate's GetSerial module to read in the data from the Call Station or Alarm panel and translate that in to an email, SMS to a cell phone, page to a pager or any combination of the three!

Did you know that PageGate can help save lives?
PageGate can be tied in to computer automated dispatching systems in police departments, fire departments and hospitals, decreasing the amount of time it takes before an emergency responder is made aware of an issue. Almost every CAD system has at least one of the thirteen different data types you can use to tell PageGate to send SMS, pages or email and is an invaluable tool for most Emergency Management Agency.
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Green Tip!
Nix the screen saver, a screen saver does not save energy it infact uses energy and will often prevent a computer from going into it sleep mode.

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will pilot test the efficacy of using basic text messages via mobile phones and Web-based messages via smartphones in public health surveillance for programs such as smoking cessation, according to a notice published in the Federal Register.

The pilot will compare results of the mobile phone survey with those from an older survey method, computer-assisted telephone (call center) interviewing, the CDC announcement said.

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At St. Gabriels Hospital in Malawi, for example, 75 community health workers were trained to use text messages to communicate patient information, appointment reminders, and other health-related notifications to patients. Through this mobile health, or mHealth, initiative, the hospital saved approximately 2,048 hours of worker time and $3,000 in fuel, while doubling the capacity of the tuberculosis treatment program.

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Comcast has recently made a change to their internet service that will require you to update your settings in NotePager Pro and PageGate. These will be your new SMTP Settings:

SMTP Server: smtp.comcast.net
Port: 587
Authentication: LOGIN or PLAIN, use your full Comcast Email address and password.

Step by step instructions to upgrade PageGate version 5 to version 6.

Ohio ethics rules permit lawyers to use text messages to solicit employment from prospective clients so long as they comply with certain standards that regulate the content of such communications and with several potentially applicable laws, the Ohio Supreme Courts ethics board advised April 5

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Did you know that PageGate can integrate with most Nurse Call stations and alarm panels? Most Nurse Call Stations and Alarm Panels have a serial output. You can use PageGate's GetSerial module to read in the data from the Call Station or Alarm panel and translate that in to an email, SMS to a cell phone, page to a pager or any combination of the three!

Did You Know PageGate...

Did you know that PageGate can help save lives? PageGate can be tied in to computer automated dispatching systems in police departments, fire departments and hospitals, decreasing the amount of time it takes before an emergency responder is made aware of an issue.

Did You Know PageGate Saves Lives?

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The Wireless Emergency Alerts cover extreme weather warnings like tornadoes and floods; messages from local Emergency Management, such as evacuations; AMBER alerts; and Presidential alerts during a national crisis.<br />
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National Weather Service Warning Coordination Meteorologist Carol Christenson in Duluth says all cell phone carriers are taking part across the country, although it might not work on older cell phones.<br />
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The Pearland Independent School District is gearing up to launch its new SMS text messaging system directed toward parents of students in the district.

According to a press release, the messaging system will provide parents with timely and relevant information regarding things such as school cancelations, delays and emergency notifications.

This act is commonly called SMS spoofing and has both legitimate uses setting the company name, your own mobile number or a product name from which the message is being sent and illegitimate uses (such as impersonating another person, company or product).

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Most Nurse Call Stations and Alarm Panels have a serial output. You can use PageGates GetSerial module to read in the data from the Call Station or Alarm panel and translate that in to an email, SMS to a cell phone, page to a pager or any combination of the three!

Did You Know PageGate...

A new computer system could allow people to vote in elections by text message.

Inventors say the process would keep voters anonymous and claim ballots can be counted accurately and checked for fraud.

Glasgow University scientists hope the Handivote system will lead to higher turn-outs among younger people who are used to texting their votes for reality TV shows.

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A mobile communications company is suing Apple for allegedly infringing on its patents with messaging services on devices like the iPhone and the iPad, patent blog Patently Apple reported today.

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Rescuing a victim of human trafficking may come down to a text message.

Polaris Project, a non-profit group that runs the national human trafficking hotline, begins accepting text messages Thursday in an effort to expand its reach. Victims, survivors and others wishing to connect with the groups staff can send a text to BeFree or 233733.

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Nearly half of adults surveyed, 49 percent, said they text and drive — even though nearly all of them say they know the habit is dangerous. Ninety-eight percent of adult drivers surveyed said they know that distracted driving is not safe. But the trend actually appears to be on the rise, AT&T said, as six out of 10 drivers said they never texted behind the wheel just three years ago.

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They stream in a couple of dozen times a week, cries for help in bursts of text to DoSomething.org, a nonprofit more used to texting out details to teens on good causes and campaigns than receiving them from young people in crisis.

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Unicef has signed a partnership agreement with Mozambiques mobile operator Mcel and the Ministry of Health that will see Mcel subscribers receive Facts for Life text messages once a month. The SMS for Life project will help MISAU raise public awareness and knowledge around best practices that prevent disease, injuries and violence against children and stress the importance of using health facilities.

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From our computers to handsets, we have always been told to keep a backup of data on our digital devices. Problem is that it’s not a false alarm, because time to time we do get in to the misery of losing some of our important data. So today we would guide you along the way of backing up your precious and perhaps, memorable SMS and MMS stored in your Android phone.

In the default backup system of Android, while you can backup most of the data including contacts and wi-fi settings, unluckily backing up of SMS & MMS is not an option. Hence we would be using a third party app from Play Store to get around that problem and backup SMS and MMS on Android device.

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Text messaging has taken its place as the front runner for most communication that takes place these days. Most of us put our thumbs to good use long before we even consider giving our vocal cords some exercise. And like almost everything else people have found their own specific texting style which shines through their texts.

Mobistealth has painted a fun picture of text messaging with texters it thinks are the most common these days. Which one of these texters do you know?

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In a hearing before the House Judiciary Subcommittee Tuesday, a panel of technology law experts called on Congress to pass legislation mandating the long-term retention of every Americans text messages and emails in case of a future criminal investigation.

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People who are living off the grid can pay for electricity to charge their cellphone by sending a text message, which is the cheapest method found so far.

According to Times Of India, Buffalo Grid, a London-based company, has introduced a solar-powered cellphone charging station, and it is activated by text message.

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Whether your ex has started seeing someone else or not, here are a few texts he must never receive from you. In the interest of sanity; his and yours:

1) The lovelorn text: I still love or miss you
Why not? People love to hear that, goes the common counterargument. Maybe, but it is not a good idea in the ex zone, unless there are chances of a reconciliation. If even one of you is in a relationship again, such texts are a huge no-no.

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Did you know PageGate can send text messages to Facebook?

College Counseling Cartoon with Text Messaging Humor!