CellTrust Corporation Launches Worldwide Availability of SecureSMS Gateway at Mobile World Congress 2008

Posted by admin on 6/Feb/2008 in Press Releases | 0 comments

Mobile Security Experts Launch First SecureSMS Gateway to Supply Growing Commercial Demand for Innovative, Multi-faceted Mobile Software & Services

SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ. February 6, 2008 CellTrust Corporation (www.celltrust.com), a leading provider of mobile software and services for the secure and trusted exchange of information on mobile devices, today announced that its CellTrust SecureSMS Gateway is immediately available for worldwide distribution and implementation. CellTrust’s SecureSMS Gateway, which will be demonstrated at the Mobile World Congress 2008 Showstoppers Event* on February 10 in Barcelona, Spain, allows businesses to exchange critical information with customers in a trusted environment on the mobile device. Setting itself apart from consumer-grade SMS, the Company’s SecureSMS Gateway gives the message sender the ability to confirm when text messages are delivered and/or read via a highly encrypted, tamper-proof transfer process with no size limitations along with remote wipe functionality that ensures users can wipe the handset if it is lost or stolen.

Government agencies as well as businesses in financial services/banking, education, travel and the mobile advertising/marketing sectors desiring to take advantage of the ubiquitous nature of SMS but which require a secure, reliable and highly confidential messaging and marketing approach can now take advantage of CellTrust SecureSMS. According to Mobile Marketing Association (www.mmaglobal.com) research, 89 percent of major brands plan to market via mobile phones in 2008.

According to Yankee Group Analyst Andrew Jaquith, As demand for business-grade mobility and messaging increases, mobile devices will need security features with higher levels of assurance. Business services like mobile authentication, financial information feeds, and secure message delivery, for example, demand more security than what consumer-grade, unencrypted SMS can deliver. (more…)

Harlem Success Academy Achieves Close To 100 Percent Parental Involvement Through Mobility

Posted by admin on 16/Jan/2008 in Press Releases | 0 comments

Harlem Success Academy Selects CellTrust Corporation’s Advanced SMS Gateway as Technology Foundation for Mobile Messaging Program.

Scottsdale, Arizona . — January 16, 2008 — CellTrust Corporation (www.celltrust.com) today announced that its world-class SMS Gateway in use by year-old New York charter school Harlem Success Academy (www.harlemsuccess.org) has returned definitive and positive mobile marketing metrics. Harlem Success Academy reports close to 100 percent parental involvement during its inaugural 2006-2007 school year and attributes much of this high level of success to its SMS solution from CellTrust. Harlem Success Academy now educates 280 kindergarten through second grade students and will open 40 more schools serving high need communities in New York City over the next decade.

Harlem Success Academy’s parental involvement metric was largely achieved through regular and timely text messages sent via CellTrust’s advanced and secure SMS Gateway. The text messages concerned upcoming events and family academic venues, administrative procedures, attendance, recruitment, and grades/homework assignments, to name a few.

“One of the key factors in choosing a mobile solutions provider was ease of use,” said Harlem Success Academy’s Director of External Affairs Jenny Sedlis. “We needed to create messages and alerts on a moment’s notice, send them to our parent community, and know they got there.”

Harlem Success Academy chose an SMS solution from CellTrust because it was easy to implement and cost-effective. Many of the students’ parents don’t have access to the Internet and can’t respond to email or access the school’s website from home. Moreover, many of the students’ parents work fulltime, thus the cell phone was selected as the school’s communication method of choice. (more…)