NotePage SMS, Texting and Messaging Blogs

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PageGate v6 is now available!
The host of new features includes: basic two way support for cellular modems, support for newer operating systems, and improved support for USB devices. A complete list of the enhancements can be found at https://www.notepage.net/release.htm

PageGate can be downloaded from https://www.notepage.net/download/pgsetup.exe

Upgrades are free to all customers who have purchased PageGate within the last 90 days email us your existing 4-6 digit serial number and your order number, and we will email you back an updated keycode. If you are unsure of your purchase date, please contact us at sales@notepage.com and we will help you figure it out.

Upgrades are also free to all Priority Support customers, if you are current with support simply email us your existing 4-6 digit serial number to receive a key for the new version.

All other customers can upgrade from PageGate version 5 for only $100.00, you can order online at http://sites.fastspring.com/notepage/product/6up be sure to have your 4-6 digit serial number ready when you order. We are also offering a limited time discount on Priority Support. Annual Priority Support can be purchased for only $295.00 ($100.00 off the normal price if purchased at the same time of the v6 upgrade).

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Top Telecom Carrier Settings
Checkout the quick list of settings to send text messages using the top Telecom Carriers https://www.notepage.net/top-carrier-settings-for-sending-messages.htm

Did You Know Series
Have you explored PageGate's full potential? There are many incredibly useful features of PageGate that do not get a lot of visibility. These articles are dedicated to changing that because, really, who does not like neat features?
https://www.notepage.net/did-you-know-pagegate.htm

Integration
Integrate a SCADA system with PageGate software to send alarm messages to cell phones, smartphones or pagers using dial-up modems, an in-house paging terminal or cellular modems. Respond quickly when monitoring water and wastewater treatment, oil and gas pipelines, flood control systems, electrical power transmission, wind farms, and large communication systems.

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Project HOPE and Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation have teamed up to implement a text messaging program in Mexico City that will help educate low-income pregnant women and new mothers about gestational diabetes.

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The Dubai Tourism Board is considering to educate Saudi tourists on traffic laws in the UAE following violations by Saudi drivers.

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African rugby player, Francois Hougaard, who may or may not have once dated the woman Oscar Pistorius shot and killed, Reeva Steenkamp. According to one report, Pistorius and Steenkamp were fighting over a text message from Hougaard early Thursday morning, shortly before her death.

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Mobile industry watchers have been predicting the death of the humble text message for over a decade, but a raft of recent research confirms that SMS is very much alive and kicking.

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NotePage, Inc. releases a new version of their powerful text messaging server software.

NotePage, Inc. is pleased to announce the release of PageGate version 6. PageGate is a complete wireless text messaging and SMS solution that incorporates a wide variety of messaging protocols for sending messages to mobile phones, wireless devices, fax machines and pagers.

PageGate allows critical alerts to be sent instantly to wireless devices regardless of the recipients locations. PageGate supports group messaging and preprogrammed alerts, so that with the press of a single button notification can be sent to defined groups of individuals. The new version of PageGate includes: basic two way support for cellular modems, support for newer operating systems, and improved support for USB devices.

PageGate Press Release

Text messaging got off to a slow start in the U.S. in 1996, but it has grown immensely popular with nearly 75 percent of Americans texting.

Its made an impact on law and crime, social unrest and politics.

And now the short message is taking on teenagers and their most intimate questions.

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Text messaging is ubiquitous in modern life. Now, a text messaging program is available to help patients with advanced prostate cancer understand their treatment.

PROST8CARE is the joint creation of Mobile Commons, a mobile strategy and software company, Sanofi US, and the Prostate Cancer Foundation (PCF). The content of the program was developed by a board of oncologists and oncology nurses in partnership with PCF.

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St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church in Crystal Lake used text messaging during its Ash Wednesday services to try to retain some of those visitors.

At the end of the service, the Rev. Jerome Koutnik told those with cellphones to text the word Saint Thomas to 84576 to receive information about upcoming services.

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Facebook Texts is a feature that enables users to get certain Facebook notifications via text message. After you link your mobile phone and number to Facebook, you can have Facebook messages delivered to your phone as texts. Responding to Facebook messages via text is similar to responding to any other text, only the recipient is a Facebook friend instead of a phone. Determine which Facebook notifications come to your phone as texts by visiting the Notifications tab on your Facebook Account Settings menu.

A 60-year-old Longmont man was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of violating bail bond conditions and a protection order. According to reports, the man told his probation officer he exchanged text messages with the woman who had a protection order against him. The woman initiated contact, the man told police. The man told police he was not aware that responding to a message violated the protection order.

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A quick text message helped police arrest a suspected hold-up robber in Portlands Hollywood District Saturday.

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Did you know that PageGate can receive email, then turn around and send it back out as an SMS Message or a page to a pager?

Learn How!

There is nothing more romantic than having your boyfriend for the first time express his undying love for you...unless it is over a text message.

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Most of us have taken steps to protect our home and business computers with anti-virus software and firewalls. Now that cell phones are used as handheld computing devices, we need to start thinking about smart security measures for our smartphones.

For example, if you receive a text message claiming you have won a $1,000 Target gift card or urging you to download a hot, new web game for free, the Washington State Attorney Generals Office urges you not to fall for it. In a consumer alert, the Attorney Generals Office warns of a malicious smartphone application called SpamSoldier that infects through links in text messages.

Smartphone Security Measures

Chinese people on average sent fewer text messages in 2012 than they did in 2011, according to statistics released by Chinas Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. Yes, the total number of texts sent rose year-on-year but just over two percent, but that’s because the number of mobile users grew by 11 percent in 2012; the per-person number of texts sent actually dropped by nine percent.

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Great Text Messaging Infographic - Is text messaging destroying the English Language?

By Jan. 24, 2014, all telephone and wireless companies must upgrade their networks to support text messaging communication with Canadians who have hearing and speech impairments. The service may become available before then in areas where the upgrades are completed early.

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In the Phillipines reporting human trafficking activities is your area is now just a text away.

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Here are 10 common handwringers that are easy-to-fix thanks to our solutions and your smartphone.

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Investigators studied whether teenagers would be interested in receiving texts about health on their phones and how they would like those messages presented.

For one-year period, researchers studied 177 adolescents, ages 12-18 and discovered that most teens were open to receiving such texts, but the way in which they were worded made a big difference.

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Off-duty 911 operator Coryse Hercules used text messaging to alert police that a fellow passenger on a Staten Island bus was carrying firearms in his bag .

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