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Programmatic SMS

What is the best way to programmatically send an SMS text message? Are there any free Web Service based SMS gateways? I know that if I happen to know the user's carrier (Sprint, AT&T, etc), I can send an SMS by emailing an address based on phone number + carrier. I would like a good solution that does not require me to know the carrier...

How to programmatically send SMS on the iPhone?

Does anybody know if it's possible, and how, to programmatically send a SMS from the iPhone, with the official SDK / Cocoa Touch? ...

'Reliable' SMS Unicode & GSM Encoding in PHP

(Updated a little) I'm not very experienced with internationalisation using PHP, it must be said, and a deal of searching didn't really provide the answers I was looking for. I'm in need of working out a reliable way to convert only 'relevant' text to Unicode to send in an SMS message, using PHP (just temporarily, whilst a service is r...

ASP.NET and sending SMS/making phone calls

I have a scenario where I need to make a call to a telephone(landline/mobile) or send SMS to a particular set of users only using ASP.NET and C#. The web application is not a mobile application. How do I go about doing these? What typically would be the hardware requirements? I would be extremely grateful if you could provide me with p...

How do we get arround Apple's decission to skip sms templates for iPhone?

Old title : How to code an iPhone app that will send predefined smses to predefined numbers? Many people I am sure use a smart netbank that lets you transfer money from your savings account to your credit card account, or just ask for the saldo, using just SMS. I have been doing this for a few years now on my 10 year old nokia phone. It...

How do you handle unsolicited responses (like incoming calls) when handling sms with a gsm modem

I have tried to develop a gsm modem library for handling sms built around system.io.ports.serialport. it does not handle unsolicited responses very well, in particular incomming calls. i resort to sending AT hangup commands for each incoming call, however the unsolicited responses can popup even while you are doing other processing. this...

What can you use to get an application to be able to receive SMS message?

Do you need to use some kind of provider? Can you setup your own SMS server? Does any open source solutions exist? I am an SMS newbie so any insight on how this is accomplished would be great. I am partial to Java but any language is fine. ...

Text message receiving API - UK and USA

Looking for a cheap way of receiving text messages by HTTP POST or other easy way. I want it to be standard rate dedicated number (no keyword). I've looked at http://totext.net/ and it looks good for a UK number. Any other recommendations? Also, any recommendations for a US number? ...

What is the best way to handle incoming SMS messages?

I have a client who wants a solution to allow delivery people to text (SMS messaging) in that they have completed a pick up at a particular location. What I'm looking for is Code to read an imbound SMS message or a SMS component if appropiate. This would allow me to create a windows service to read the message and update a SQL record ac...

Are there any MVC web frameworks that support multiple request types?

In every MVC framework I've tried (Rails, Merb, Waves, Spring, and Struts), the idea of a Request (and Response) is tied to the HTTP notion of a Request. That is, even if there is an AbstractRequest that is a superclass of Request, the AbstractRequest has things like headers, request method (GET, POST, etc.), and all of the other things...

Is there a PHP security framework that protects phone numbers as well as passwords?

I understand the mantra of "don't roll your own" when it comes to site security frameworks. For most cases anyway. I'm going to be collaborating on a site that integrates text-messaging into the system. I'd like to use an existing, well-tested security framework to protect the users data, but I need it to also protect a users phone nu...

SMS + Web app: Providers of SMS "Long codes" for use by U.S. carrier subscribers within U.S.?

Q.: How to get a cellular phone SMS "Long code" for use by U.S. carrier subscribers within U.S.? Background: I'm building a web app that receives queries from/sends answers to cell phones. The app design (and business model) expects to communicate with cell devices via SMS, addressing the web app via an SMS "Long code" (VMN or MSISDN). ...

RoR + SMS: Rails web app architecture to send/receive SMS?

Q.: What web app architecture works well receiving/sending SMS text messages? By "architecture, I mean specific architecture, not generally, such as MVC. Background: I'm building a web app that receives queries from/sends answers to cell phones. The app design (and business model) expects to communicate with cell devices via SMS text me...

Using Microsoft SMS Sender to send out smses in batch?

I understand that we can use SMS Sender in command line mode. But i been getting this error same as this article http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/wireless/2003/10/10/sms.html The smssender.exe will use the last device that was successfully used to send messages in the Windows version of SMS Sender. But I tried it many times, and smssende...

SMS alerting to respond to error situations faster

What is the easiest way to set up an SMS alerting system so that I will receive notification if my server doesn't respond or a GET query doesn't return correct content? ...

Using Microsoft SMS Sender to send out smses in batch?

I understand that we can use SMS Sender in command line mode. But i been getting this error same as this article http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/wireless/2003/10/10/sms.html The smssender.exe will use the last device that was successfully used to send messages in the Windows version of SMS Sender. But I tried it many times, and smssende...

Which SMS aggregators also provide voicemail services?

Hi all, I am researching companies that provide both SMS and voicemail services via an API call. I want to be able to contact users (most of whom are US-based) via both text-message and voicemail. The idea is that our web server would connect to the SMS/voicemail provider's server (e.g. using HTTP post) and then send the message to the ...

Developing applications for Nokia 5310

EDIT: Is there any other phone systems that allow connecting into the native messaging system to read input in the composer? ...

Free SMS API

Anyone know of a free SMS API I can integrate in my web application that will enable my users to send a limited amount of free SMS messages? ...

Incoming SMS - redirect to server via HTTP

Hi I am looking for a windows application which will receive SMS via a GSM modem. The application needs to forward the 'raw' PDU via HTTP Post to a page on our server. The app needs to deal receive a confirmation reciept from our server and deal with undelivered PDU strings. I would be happy for someone to quote for building this stra...