Google Sees 500,000 Android Devices Activated Every Day

Posted by admin on 29/Jun/2011 in Application Watch | 0 comments

Google is activating half a million Android devices a day, a big jump in just the last couple months, a sign of growing momentum for the platform.

Google’s VP of mobile Andy Rubin tweeted out the new milestone, saying activations are growing 4.4 percent week over week.

At Google I/O in early May, the company boasted that activations were up to 400,000 a day with 100 million cumulative device activations, representing 36 OEMS, 215 Carriers and 310 devices. The pace of growth has been staggering for Android, which hit the 100,000 activations per day milestone in May 2010. By December 2010, that number was up to 300,000 a day.

Read Full Article On Gigaom.com

SMS My Customers 2-way SMS Gateway Going Well

Posted by admin on 4/Apr/2011 in Advertising & Marketing, Application Watch | 0 comments

Last June we added a post about the upcoming launch of the SMS My Customers 2-way SMS Gateway. We have just spoken to the sites owners and they have told us that it is going gangbusters!

Nick Goritsas from SMS My Customers has told us that they have a  load of customers and to date their feedback is all positive. They have signed resellers and have added a whole pile of features to the SMS Gateway and have a lot more new features being rolled out in the next few months.

If you are currently a subscriber of any other Australian SMS Gateways you owe it to yourself to check this one out SMS My Customers. If you are currently a reseller of other SMS Gateways then it might be time for you to jump on board.

Vulnerabilities Found In Banking Apps

Posted by admin on 5/Nov/2010 in Application Watch, In The News, Security Alert Log | 0 comments

Security holes in Android and iPhone apps from PayPal, Bank of America, Chase, Wells Fargo, and more could give attackers access to financial data.

Smartphone banking applications from Bank of America, Chase, PayPal, TD Ameritrade, USAA and Wells Fargo have bugs that an attacker could exploit to steal people’s personal financial information. So said digital forensics firm viaForensics in a security warning released Thursday. The security flaw was not found in the firm’s testing of a Vanguard Group smartphone banking app.

Read Full article on Informationweek web site

Queensland University of Technology selects CellTrust Global SMS Gateway Platform for First of Kind Pilot for New Mothers

Posted by admin on 12/Oct/2010 in Application Watch, In The News, Press Releases | 0 comments

Queensland University of Technology’s “Mumbubconnect” Selects CellTrust’s Global SMS Platform Delivering Two-Way Text Messages to Breastfeeding Mothers across Australia.

SCOTTSDALE, ARIZONA, USA and SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA – October 12, 2010 – CellTrust Corporation, the world’s largest provider of SecureSMS™ (Secure SMS) for mobile phones (www.celltrust.com), announced today that its GlobalSMS platform solution has been selected by the Queensland University of Technology (QUT), for the world’s first text message pilot program to offer breastfeeding support for new mothers in Australia.

The “Mumbubconnect” trial, concepted and engineered by Andre La Porte, a Digital Media and Social Marketing Specialist in Brisbane, Australia, for a team from QUT’s School of Public Health and the School of Advertising, Marketing and Public Relations, is the first of its kind to use two-way SMS to provide support for breastfeeding mothers. The text messages provide a direct link with breastfeeding women and offer support, encouragement and advice when needed. For example if a mother responds to a text message indicating she is struggling with breastfeeding, she will be sent an encouraging response, along with hints on how to get through the difficult times. This pilot program aims to facilitate QUT’s research and ultimately to increase breastfeeding rates among new mothers.

“Our research found that text messages are an ideal way to communicate with new mothers, because they send and receive messages on their mobile devices throughout the day,” said Mr. La Porte. “CellTrust Australia had our system up and running in less than two hours and it’s easy to use. I was astonished to find that a particular vendor would have to build a specific SMS platform application from scratch, and that other vendors with existing technology had platforms that were complicated to program and manage.”

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SMS My Customers – New Aussie 2-Way SMS Gateway Launch Soon

Posted by admin on 8/Jun/2010 in Application Watch | 1 comment

We’ve been given a sneak preview of a new 2-Way SMS Gateway set to launch very soon in Australia. The application is using the CellTrust 2-Way SMS Gateway as it’s delivery platform and having seen the customer web portals for both SMS My Customers and CellTrust I have to say that the SMS My Customers is a breakthrough in terms of end user functionality and ease of use.

The SMS My Customers 2-Way SMS Gateway will be live and available for customers to log on and use within the next two weeks. If you are currently a subscriber of any other Australian SMS Gateways you owe it to yourself to check this one out when it becomes available.

FDA ruling on mobile image viewers could shake iPhone app market

Posted by admin on 4/Apr/2010 in Application Watch, In The News | 0 comments

In January a moment that all kinds of mobile application developers have long feared finally arrived.

When the FDA decided that an iPhone image viewer from Cleveland-based vendor MIMvista was a class III medical device that requires pre-market approval.

Read the full article here on the Fierce Mobile Healthcare web site.

Jack Dorsey of Twitter Fame Expands in to Mobile Payment Services

Posted by admin on 29/Dec/2009 in Application Watch | 0 comments

Jack Dorsey the co-founder of the increasingly popular social networking site Twitter is set to expand in to mobile payment services.

Dorsey has beta launched Square offering users tools to accept credit and debit card purchases without using traditionally available card services and hardware. Square is currently available on Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch. Dorsey is aiming to release Square across other platforms in 2010. Square allows users to accept and swipe cards using a small device plugged in to their mobile phones audio jack. Square plans to focus more on the service than on the hardware whilst offering users no contracts, no monthly fees and without any hidden costs.

Click here for more information about Square.

Unemployed Using Web 2.0 to Get Jobs

Posted by admin on 21/Dec/2009 in Application Watch, In The News | 0 comments

I was just reading back through the blogs at the Sydney Morning Herald web site and I came across an article posted back in March about how unemployed people are increasingly using Web 2.0 to get a job.

It got me thinking that an enterprising developer/company would be able to build an application using CellTrust Secure SMS to communicate securely with those people using Web 2.0 sites. When it comes to things such as resumes and employment information, that’s the exact type of data that needs to be transmitted securely. A lot of employment site currently are using SMS, but not securely.

Read the full article on the Sydney Morning Herald web site.

Fierce Mobile Healthcare Article: Mobile Email, SMS Opening Up Patient Physician Communication Channels

Posted by admin on 18/Dec/2009 in Application Watch, In The News | 0 comments

Fierce Mobile Healthcare have published an interesting article about how mobile email and SMS are opening up patient-physician communication channels. This fits in nicely with what we have been blogging about for months.

Here’s an excerpt from the article,

And if doctors are comfortable with email, it could only be a matter of time until they also embrace SMS text messaging. Public health agencies, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, are exploring SMS as a quick means of communicating health information to large groups of people. “In an emergency situation, people may not have access to the Internet or mobile phone calls, but they could still have access to mobile texts,” CDC e-health marketing chief Janice R. Nall is quoted as saying.

CellTrust are Already Working in This Area – CellTrust Secure Mobile Healthcare Solution

Providing healthcare organisations, vendors and patients with a solution to securely receive and exchange patient information, generate critical physician notifications, ask patient related questions in real-time and deliver prevention/intervention education to patients with complete confidence of a HIPAA compliant pathway has become an essential part of healthcare delivery and workflow.

Secure Health Messaging is a suite of Mobile Healthcare applications built on highly encrypted CellTrust SecureSMS text messaging technology that enhances delivery of real-time Protected Health Information (PHI) to healthcare providers’ and patients’ mobile devices.

By opening up HIPAA compliant two-way mobile communication via text messaging, hospitals, healthcare vendors, Medical Answering Service providers, Pharmacies and insurance companies can reduce cost, improve response time and advance the quality and delivery of healthcare.

Designed to easily integrate with existing EMRs, CRMs, lab systems and email exchange servers, Secure Health Messaging removes security or compliance obstacles to receive text messages with real-time PHI from multiple applications supported by Health Information Technology vendors.

Click here to read the full on article on the Fierce Mobile Healthcare web site.

Texts improve treatment adherence – FierceBiotechIT

Posted by admin on 1/Dec/2009 in Application Watch | 0 comments

There is an interesting article by George Miller from FierceBiotechIT about how text messaging can improve patients treatment adherence.

Here is an excerpt from the article,

Daily text-message reminders have yielded a 2x improvement in adherence to a treatment regimen among subjects in a dermatology study. Those who received the texts had an average daily adherence rate of 56 percent for sunscreen application, while those who received no text messages had a 30 percent rate.

Link to the full article: Texts improve treatment adherence – FierceBiotechIT.

CellTrust have some applications that can help prevention & intervention health messaging that is HIPAA compliant, PHI secure text messaging, anytime, anyplace, for any mobile phone. It can turn patient mobile phone into a prevention and intervention devices.