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09/30/2019 Encrypted SMS & Text Messaging

What is Encryption?

Encryption is an effective way to ensure data security. Encryption uses an algorithm to scramble (or encrypt) data, it then uses a "key" for the receiving party to unscramble (or decrypt) the text or data. A traditional text message is plaintext, and can easily be read and may even be intercepted. An encrypted message requires a key to decrypt.

Encrypted SMS & Text Messaging

09/27/2019 How text messaging is helping prevent colon cancer, expert explains

Not everyone who signs up for a colonoscopy actually shows up for the procedure. KYWs Lynne Adkins reports on a simple way doctors are trying to change that.

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09/25/2019 Twitter clamps down on tweeting via text messages

Twitter users who like to tweet directly from their text messaging app will, at least for a while, have to settle for a different way to get their messages out into the world.

Twitter has turned off the text tweeting ability in most of the world after a couple of high-profile accounts were hacked, including the one belonging to CEO Jack Dorsey.

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09/18/2019 9 Clever Ways To Use Text Messaging In Your Business

The top five reasons why consumers opt in to a brand’s text messages are:

- coupons or deals (77%)

- personal alerts (50%)

- being in the loop (48%)

- more meaningful content (33%)

- no need to visit a physical location/website/app for information (31%)

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09/06/2019 Text Messaging & Communication Software for Health Care Professionals X

Text messaging is used a variety of ways in the Health Care Industry. Some of the industry specific uses for PageGate include:

- Emergency Alerts and Security Notifications
- Notification for Transplant Teams
- Bed Monitoring and Management Notifications
- Elopement Notifications
- Appointment Reminders and Alerts
- Notification of Scheduled Tests and Procedures
- Critical Alerts When Lab Tests are Available or Completed
- Notification of Patient Education Opportunities
- Mandatory Training or Continuing Education Notifications
- Staff Communication and Announcements
- Easy Communication in Mass Casualty Events
- Critical Incident Notifications
- Improve Decision Making with Information
- Fundraising Notifications

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09/04/2019 Text Messaging Can Help Weight Loss, Study Says

In a pioneering study published in Computers, Informatics, and Nursing in 2013, text messaging was isolated and tested as a weight loss tool: the small study divided 28 overweight and obese adults in a community-based weight loss program in the Richmond area into control and experimental groups. The experimental group received text messages tailored to aid in the weight loss process twice per week throughout the 12 week duration of the study.

Text Messaging Can Help Weight Loss, Study Says

09/02/2019 Did you know PageGate Can be Used Without Carrier Specific Information?

NotePage, Inc. is pleased to announce our PageGate software can now utilize a new carrier lookup service called Data24-7. Data24-7 is a carrier lookup service, which means you don't have to know the carrier of the cell phone numbers you would like PageGate to send messages to. With this service, PageGate can perform on the fly lookups of your cell phone numbers, matching them against the carrier list provided by Data24-7.

Additionally if you are using PageGate with cellular hardware you do not need to know the carrier associated with each number you are sending messages to!

Did you know PageGate Can be Used Without Carrier Specific Information?

08/30/2019 How Message Volume Impacts Cellular Hardware

Cellular hardware is, by far, the fastest and most reliable method of sending SMS with PageGate. However, the hardware itself has its own limitations on how fast it can push the traffic to the outside world.

Typically speaking, cellular hardware will be able to accept one message for delivery every 2 or 3 seconds, which means that the upper delivery rate on most cellular hardware is between 20 and 30 messages per minute. If you try to push more traffic than the device is capable of handling, you'll receive a CMS Error 500 indicating that the device has been overloaded and that can cause message delivery headaches like missed messages.

How Message Volume Impacts Cellular Hardware