CLIFFS.IN a website by the S.S.R Groups – S.S.R Groups is offering free SMS to any mobile phone in India if you allow them to send the contextual advertisement with them. From what I have read on their website, they seem to mimicking the Google Adwords model.
Sean Blagsvedt and Rajesh Veeraraghavan of Microsoft Research India (blog) presented at ETel last week. They told us about some amazing work they have been doing with mobile phones and SMS servers.
The SMS servers are being used to power an MSR project designed to test replacing PCs with SMS servers in the village of Warana (map). Mobile phones are used by farmers to access their data. In their system mobile phones become the client and SMS is used to communicate with the server.
This is a new product called PREPAID RETAIL WEB SMS which also the user to purchase a Prepaid card from market & send MULTIPLE SMS to Freinds associates from Web by the click of a button. This can also be used to send SMS to TV Channels to enter contests & win prizes. The Beta Version is available with me you can write to me cjmaster@kainaazinfotec.com who whould like to fund this project are also welcomed. Demos are also availble. - c j master
SMS (also known as text-messaging) has grown into a very popular method of communication. It has been around in Europe and Asia since the early nineties and its use is steadily increasing in the US as well.
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