NotePage SMS, Texting and Messaging Blogs

The Simple Mail Transfer Protocol SMTP is the most commonly used internet based protocol for third party SMS delivery. Almost every major carrier in the US and Canada supports this protocol and, as a result, this is the most heavily used protocol. The down side to this protocol is that it is effectively Email, which means that there are a lot of issues that can arise from using it.

Why SMTP Messages Fail

A pilot project from the College Foundation of West Virginia send text messages to students with information they need to do college-preparation tasks like filling out financial aid forms or register for the ACT. The project launched last month as a three-year pilot, focusing on a select group of high school seniors across the state.

Higher education officials in West Virginia are reaching out to high school graduates through a medium they know well: text messaging.

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A small pilot study of text message interventions for pregnant women and people with diabetes suggests that people respond positively to receiving text messages from their insurance company.

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There are some behaviors, not only in the messages themselves but also in when and where they are sent, that are completely inexcusable and totally annoying.

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You do not want to talk to me on the phone. How do I know? Because I do not want to talk to you on the phone. Nothing personal, I just can not stand the thing.

I find it intrusive and somehow presumptuous. It sounds off insolently whenever it chooses and expects me to drop whatever I am doing and, well, engage. With others! When I absolutely must, I take the call, but I do not do a very good job of concealing my displeasure. A close family member once offered his opinion that I exhibit the phone manners of a goat, then promptly withdrew the charge — out of fairness to goats.

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Many residents across Virginia were surprised to receive an AMBER Alert text message just after noon on Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2014. According to the Virginia State Police, Wednesday's AMBER Alert was the first alert issued since Virginia opted into the Wireless Emergency Alert program about a year ago.

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Text messages are the new lipstick on the collar, the mislaid credit card bill. Instantaneous and seemingly casual, they can be confirmation of a clandestine affair, a record of the not-so-discreet who sometimes forget that everything digital leaves a footprint.

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It has been hailed for its succinctness and blamed for everything from sore thumbs to the decline of conversation. Love it or hate it, the text message is 20 years old.

The first-ever text message was sent December 3, 1992, by software engineer Neil Papworth, to Vodafone director Richard Jarvis, who received the message on his husky Orbitel 901 cell phone. It read simply, Merry Christmas.

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Webroot found that Android poses a greater security risk than iOS. Webroot identified a 384 percent increase in total threats to Android devices over 2012, and found more than 40 percent of the Android apps analyzed were classified as either malicious, suspicious, or unwanted.

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The Facebook deal for WhatsApp drew attention for its whopping price tag, but has also brought out fresh criticism over security for the billions of messages delivered on the platform.

WhatsApp, which is to be acquired for $19 billion, says on its website that communication between your phone and our server is fully encrypted.

The company warns users need to be aware that when they send messages, the recipient's device may not be secure. But it says it does not store any chat history and that messages are wiped off its system after delivery.

Yet security researchers and others point out that there may be vulnerabilities in the system used by some 450 million people globally.

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There are many different ways to integrate PageGate with other programs and hardware and these forms of integration are invaluable to Public Safety and Emergency Management Systems because it allows you to send pages to pagers, SMS to cell phones, Email to email addresses or any combination of the three. It is a fairly easy process but knowing how to integrate with our software is a key step in understanding what's going to be best for your environment.

Integration Methods for Public Safety

In the Public Safety and Emergency Management world, making sure your messages are always delivered and received is incredibly important. There are many different ways to send messages and it can sometimes be confusing and frustrating to know what to do and how to do it. With that in mind, here are the best methods available to Public Safety and Emergency Management services for sending SMS messages.

Sending Messages for Public Safety

Owning a cell phone has come to be regarded as a necessity in modern society, and with the great advances that have been made in smart phone technology, most of us rely on our phones to help us in an array of situations. While most smart phone owners are acquainted with the helpfulness of features such as navigation apps and mobile broadband, many people have yet to discover the array of uses they may put their phones to in the event of a true emergency. We have compiled a list of 10 things your phone can do in an emergency to shed light on this exciting and important realm of development:

10 Things Your Cell Phone Can Do in An Emergency

Via their Facebook Mobile Apps page, the social media giant has outlined their reasons for needing access to your SMS messages. According tot he post, they want to look in your text messages for a confirmation code they’d send for verifying info. Essentially, Facebook wants to make things like sign-up easier on the end user.

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Advancements in technology have allowed Crime Stoppers to launch two programs allowing people to send tips anonymously from smartphones.

Crime Stoppers, which covers Wichita, Clay and Archer counties and includes 16 campus programs, relies on tips from the community to solve crimes, and tips are always anonymous. An application called TipSubmit allows iPhone or Android phone users to download the application and submit tips anonymously with dialogue.

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Okay, I suppose some people still do, but if you are like me, texting is the new calling, and the few calls you do make are along the lines of, I will text you when I get there. With that in mind, it is a good idea to make sure you’re getting your message across as clearly as possible through text. Here are some ways to do just that.

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While San Francisco might be know for its thriving startup culture, it’s also known for having a larger-than-average homeless population. Rose Broome is one resident who could not ignore the problem any longer, which is why she created Handup, a text messaging platform that makes it easier to give to the homeless.

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In fact, according to the Mobile Marketing Association, 97 percent of text messages are read within the first three minutes of delivery, making it a much more efficient way to work. In contrast to texting, email is often going unanswered. Almost three-quarters of respondents said they used text messaging to communicate with co-workers – and the success of that communication has led to an increased acceptance of texting and regular use with customers, partners and prospects.

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I have a distinct memory of convincing a friend to stand guard outside of a public restroom while I tried to break into the seemingly impenetrable toilet paper dispensers to steal a roll for our dorm room. At the time, $7.00 for a pack of toilet paper seemed like highway robbery. In other words, literally throwing money down the toilet.

We were constantly trying to find new ways to make and save money. My roommate and I both had jobs at the phonathon on campus where we spent hours in a windowless basement doing data entry, calling alumni during their dinner hour and addressing and stamping hundreds of letters each day. The worst part of it all was that at the end of the month, my paycheck would magically disappear.

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If you have noticed the apparent omnipresence of cell phones, as most of us surely have, it likely will not surprise you that about 86% of the worlds roughly seven billion people have access to a mobile phone, or that 80% of cell phone owners use their devices to send and receive text messages. You may also be unsurprised to learn that the vast majority of texts are sent by teenagers under eighteen, and that the average teen from this group sends over 3,300 texts each month. The story that these numbers tell is hardly something we do not know: while Generation X grew up with face-to-face communication and calls from the landline, the social sphere of today's youth exists on LCD screens.

Is Text Messaging Ruining Our Youth?

SMS moves beyond push marketing to enable two-way communication between Sales and Customers

Text messaging, once used exclusively by teens to express themselves in just a few characters (LOL, OMG, BFF…) is growing up fast. In a sign of just how mainstream texting has become, older adults now make up the fastest-growing new population of texters, according to the Pew Internet & Life Project.

Not surprisingly, given this adoption by adults, texting is now steadily making its way into the workplace. With the increase in BYOD and BYOA (Bring your own App) redefining office environments, texting has become a staple of day-to-day communication between colleagues and even customers.

But what comes next? Well, predictions are always fun, but inherently dangerous —for instance, who is actually driving the Jetsons hovercraft car of the future that was promised all those years ago? With that caveat, I am going to offer some predictions that will be grounded in actual marketplace events and trends, along with a sneak peak at some proprietary data that my company, HeyWire Business, will release in January. The focus of these predictions is the continued emergence of mobile communications in the workplace and the evolving expectations of employees and customers who continue to embrace this technology.

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Phone Rules; Contracts for Parents
Owning and using a phone requires a level of responsibility. With this responsibility, however, comes more opportunities to make mistakes, and greater accountability for those mistakes. If your child is receiving their first phone or first smartphone, show them the following set of rules to make sure that they know your role in their use of the phone, understand what appropriate phone etiquette and conduct is, and will use their phones responsibly.
https://www.notepage.net/learning-center/phone-rules-contracts-for-parents.htm

Did You Know...

Did you know that you can configure 2-way messaging with a cellular modem?
PageGate can use a cellular modem to send SMS messages directly to cell phones and the recipients can reply to the message. PageGate can then take the replies and forward them wherever you want them to go.

Did you Know That You Can Tie an RSS Feed into PageGate?
Using our RSS2SQL PHP script, you can have your RSS Feed write information to an SQL database. You can then use linked tables to tie that SQL database to PageGate's database.

Did you know that PageGate can be integrated with almost any CAD system?
SunGard's OSSI, Tritechs VisionAir, Interact Public Safety, RedAlert, ErLogix, does not matter! PageGate can be integrated with any of them to automate message delivery.

Did you know that you can use PageGate to receive information in 10 different formats?
PageGate can listen in for messages from a variety of sources, everything from direct input from an alarm panel to CGI parameter from a website. Chances are, if you need to send message notifications, PageGate can integrate with whatever you need.

Did you know you can use PageGate to notify your user base when you update your website with new content?
By generating a text file in a special directory, you can have it tell PageGate to automatically send an update notification for anyone in your user base.

Do You Know NotePage, Inc has been around since 1996?
That is right, we have been round for nearly 20 years!

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Building a Successful Community
Building an online community demands time and sustained effort. While numbers are not everything when it comes to communities, there are several tricks that can increase the number of subscribers to your forum. However, it is important to note that a large number of members does not determine the success of a community; a smaller number of active and interested members can often result in a very successful online community.
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Develop Content Worth Linking To
All webmasters have heard the adage, content is king. However, the struggle to discern what types of content to develop is one that webmasters have yet to conquer. If you are familiar with this dilemma, you should know that Googles latest algorithm changes cause Google to assess how visitors interact with a website. This data from a visitors experience is now used in organic search ranking. Therefore, you must create content that visitors will not only click on, but that they will spend time reading and even return to. For content development success, develop content not only worth linking to, but worth spending time on! http://www.small-business-software.net/developing-content-worth-linking-to.htm

More love notes to copy and paste for Valentines Day

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Copy and paste to text these sweet text love notes!

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If you have teenagers in your house, you may find this hard to believe, but texting is on the decline.

For the first time ever, traditional texting — the kind you do through your cell phone provider — has dropped in Britain.

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Text message reminders about the influenza vaccine increased uptake among low-income pregnant women, particularly in the third trimester, according to a study recently published in the American Journal of Public Health.

Researchers at Columbia Universitys Mailman School of Public Health followed 1,187 obstetric patients from five community-based clinics in New York City. The women in the intervention group received five weekly text messages about the importance of the vaccine and two text message appointment reminders. Both groups received standard automated reminders of their appointments by telephone.

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Text messaging is a quick and effective way to get recreational athletes to report injuries, according to a new Australian study.

Playing recreational sports is a good way to get more exercise, researchers said. But little is known about injuries at that level.

What's more, injury prevention strategies that work at the elite level are not necessarily relevant to recreational leagues - which have different types of players, different training loads and a different style of play, according to the studys lead author.

They recruited 139 football players from four Australian community clubs at the beginning of the 2012 season. The researchers sent texts to players a day or two after each weekly match, asking if the player had suffered any new injuries. If he responded yes, the researchers called him and recorded the details of the injury.

During the 18-week season, the researchers sent out 2,516 text messages. A total of 171 injuries were reported by 92 football players.

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As my colleague Andrew Kramer reported, protesters and journalists standing in the vicinity of fighting between the riot police and demonstrators in Kiev on Tuesday received an ominous text message on their phones: Dear subscriber, you are registered as a participant in a mass disturbance.

While it was unsigned, and local phone companies denied sending it, the text message — which echoed language in a new law making it a crime to participate in protests deemed violent — was widely read as a warning from the government.

Although it is unclear exactly what impact the message had on the stalwart protesters standing in the cold, the we-are-watching-you subtext provoked shivers far beyond Ukraine as news of it spread online.

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Some cities are installing texting zones on the sides of highways to provide a place for safe texting. We hope those texters are using their phones to text rather than the new delivery system discovered by York University researchers: vodka!

Before we dive into the science here, we have an important question. If you could text one phrase using vodka as a medium, what would that phrase be?

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