Zipit Wireless announced today that it will launch a text-messaging plan for its Zipit Wireless Messenger 2 in February of next year.
Instead of launching a fancy-shmancy weather app, the team launched a text and email service where the 'Weather Cat' would deliver the news.
Cola, meanwhile, launched a text messaging app last year with interactive capabilities like calendar- and location-sharing, polling and shared to-do lists.
Downloadable ringtones and screen logos are the most popular purchases, but a broader range of services is becoming available as content that was originally designed for WAP is rejigged for delivery by text message.For example, wcities, a firm whose software enables operators to provide location-based information to mobile-phone users, recently launched a text-message version of its services.
School nurses are often able to engage with students in ways that teachers might not: one team in Kent, for example, has launched a texting service, where students can ask for medical and emotional help via the anonymous comfort of their mobile.
Innobell launching a texting app for Android phone, that adds another layer of apps on top of chat by allowing users to add and share maps to chats, YouTube videos, games and more.
Most recently Ferguson protesters launched a text-message-alert system through MailChimp.
The hunger group launched a texting donation effort January 12 in partnership with AT&T, the mobile phone carrier.
Last week, UNICEF teamed up with a popular Nepali youth radio programme to launch a free text message project geared toward young people.
At my foundation, we are just about to launch an ambitious text-message service allowing the millions of Kenyan women who face gender-based violence to report it in confidence to police officers and paralegals the we are training up right now - some of whom are men who have signed themselves up to this cause.
