mobilegreatness.com News & Press Releases

September 7, 2008

mobilegreatness recently suffered an extended period of unexpected downtime due to a hosting problem. The issue has been fixed and messages should now be delivered faster than ever! We apologize for the inconvenience and lack of communication until now.

April 23, 2008

We're excited to announce that we are beginning work on a few new additional free text messaging tools for our millions of users! We don't want to give away everything that we're working on, but we have neglected to update this news section so far this year and wanted to make up for it as soon as possible! We're really focused on additional features that users have been requesting and we've come up with some new ones in the process that we think everyone will appreciate. Free text messaging is just going to get better and better in 2008 at mobilegreatness!

December 24, 2007

Today mobilegreatness.com, one of the largest providers of free text messaging services, is proudly announcing it has now been used to send over one million free text messages collectively from its website, widgets, and iPhone application. Less than just six months ago mobilegreatness was celebrating its 500,000th free text message.

In just over two years since its official launch mobilegreatness has sent more than 1,000,000 free text messages, launched one of the first free MySpace text messaging widgets for social networks, a free Mac OS X Dashboard Widget, a free Windows Vista Sidebar gadget and an iPhone web application.

"Hitting the one million message milestone is huge for us. We sent over a half a million free text messages in the last two quarters of 2007 alone! We want to thank every one of our users for supporting our service."

mobilegreatness ignited the free text messaging revolution in 2005 with the launch of mobilegreatness.com. Today, mobilegreatness continues to be a leader in its field by bringing its service to a magnitude of different platforms.

October 1, 2007

Today mobilegreatness.com is proudly launching its number blocking tool, allowing anyone who chose to stop receiving messages from mobilegreatness users to easily do so. mobilegreatness's public number blocking tool is a significant step for mobilegreatness's message recipients who wish to opt-out of messages. mobilegreatness's new tool also helps prevent harassing or abusive text messages from being sent.

Earlier this year mobilegreatness was the first text messaging service to introduce a harassment filter, blocking messages, that may automatically be deemed inappropriate or harassing, from being sent from mobilegreatness.com.

mobilegreatness is committed to protecting the privacy and safety of its users, and its message recipients, and will continue to add tools as needed or requested by its users.

mobilegreatness's number blocking tool can be found at http://www.mobilegreatness.com/block.php

September 24, 2007

Today mobilegreatness.com, a provider of free SMS text messaging services, is proudly announcing it now offers two-way text messaging from its website, enabling it's users to send free text messages and receive replies to messages at a desired email address. mobilegreatness's update today comes as a result of users requests and months of testing through the use of mobilegreatness's free downloadable desktop widgets and gadgets. mobilegreatness's popular iPhone application for free text messaging also supports two-way text messaging.

"Free two-way text messaging is a significant improvement for our users. Possibly one of the most significant improvements we've ever made to the service." said company officials. "Two-way text messaging enables our users and their message recipients to seamlessly carry on their conversations. We've gotten a lot of requests from users to add this feature so they can receive replies to their messages and we think they'll be pleased that we've added the feature."

mobilegreatness's free two-way text messaging is supported by most large carriers in the United States and Canada with the exception of AT&T, formerly Cingular. AT&T's text messaging gateways currently overwrite the sending address field with their own 5 digit text messaging shortcode, leaving mobilegreatness without a workaround.

July 24, 2007

Today mobilegreatness.com, a provider of free SMS text messaging services, is proudly celebrating its 500,000th free text message being sent from its text messaging service. In under two years, mobilegreatness has been used by its users to send more than half a million free text messages through the use of its web site, MySpace Widget, Mac OS X Dashboard Widget, Windows Vista Gadget and its newly released iPhone application. On any given day mobilegreatness is now sending more than 3,500 free text messages to cell phones across North America and is on track to sending more than 100,000 free text messages within the next 30 days.

"Our growth is phenomenal these days. We received some great press lately which has given us a nice increase in our user base and our reach." said company officials. "We're really excited that we're on track to sending more than 100,000 free texts within the next 30 days or so. It took us almost 15 months to send our first 100,000 text messages and now we're almost doing that a month. It's incredible!"

July 17, 2007

Today mobilegreatness.com is proudly launching the first free text messaging web application for iPhone users. mobilegreatness's new iPhone app allows iPhone users to send free text messages from the web, to any mobile phone in the United States or Canada, using an interface fine-tuned for the iPhone's web browser. mobilegreatness's iPhone interface is fast and lightweight and makes use of all available screen space when using the iPhone's on-screen keyboard.

mobilegreatness's free text messaging iPhone app can be found at http://www.mobilegreatness.com/iphone. An Apple iPhone or Safari's Webkit software is required to view the application properly. mobilegreatness's iPhone interface also allows users to receive replies to their texts straight to their email where they can continue their text messaging conversation.

"We've been paying close attention to all the apps coming out for iPhone users. We saw the need for a free text messaging app specifically designed for the iPhone's web browser and we jumped all over it." said company officials. "We went out and bought an iPhone last week and made this web app top priority. We wanted to make sure that we were the first to launch a free texting app for all the iPhone users to take advantage of. We think it'll be a hit and only get better over time."

More information about mobilegreatness.com's new free SMS iPhone app can be found at http://www.apple.com/webapps/socialnetworking/sendsmsmessages.html.

July 6, 2007

Today mobilegreatness.com has been updated to offer better support for the "new" AT&T, which includes former Cingular Wireless and former AT&T Wireless subscribers. This also means improved free text messaging to Apple iPhone users!

July 2, 2007

Today mobilegreatness.com is proud to announce it now supports free text messaging to Centennial wireless subscribers in the United States and Puerto Rico. mobilegreatness's update comes as a direct result of feedback and testing from site users. Centennial wireless is one of the most popular CDMA wireless network operators in Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic.

"We had a lot of requests from our growing user base in Puerto Rico to add support for Centennial subscribers. We worked directly with a few of these users and we're able to add support for Centennial very quickly thanks to their help." said company officials.

mobilegreatness's update today also increases the reach of its free MySpace widget, free Mac OS X widget and free Windows Vista gadget.

June 30, 2007

mobilegreatness is growing faster than ever! We used to think it was great that we were sending 10,000 messages a month and now, less than a year later, we're sending upwards of 80,000 free text messages a month! With a free web widget, free Mac OS X Dashboard widget, free Windows Vista Gadget and some secret applications to come, we're ramping things up and expect to be sending more than 100,000 free texts a month in the next few months!

Here are some official stats from mobilegreatness:

429,895 free texts sent to date
80,364 free texts sent in the past 30 days
20,168 free texts sent in the past 7 days
2,321 free texts sent in the past 24 hours

69,601 free texts sent to date from the OS X widget
16,866 free texts sent from the OS X widget in the past 30 days
4,455 free texts sent from the OS X widget in the past 7 days
374 free texts sent from the OS X widget in the past 24 hours

12,127 widget downloads!

14,341 free texts sent from the Vista gadget
8,478 free texts sent from the Vista gadget in the past 30 days
2,611 free texts sent from the Vista gadget in the past 7 days
421 free texts sent from the Vista gadget in the past 24 hours

1,170 Vista gadget downloads!
(The Vista gadget numbers are low because, unlike Apple, Microsoft doesn't link directly to our file)

June 1, 2007

Today mobilegreatness.com is launching a new page with a comprehensive list of text messaging abbreviations. All you will ever need to know about abbreviations can now be found at mobilegreatness.com. Our new abbreviations list is a great reference if you come across an unknown abbreviation, so be sure to bookmark our page!

May 14, 2007

mobilegreatness.com, the leader in free text messaging, is proud to announce that it is the first free text messaging service to implement filters to prevent harassing and threatening text messages from being delivered to recipients. mobilegreatness.com's filter is the first step the company is taking to keep free text messaging services safe for message recipients.

"We've had some concerns brought to our attention recently by some of our users and some of those who have received messages from our users. We want to proactively address these concerns and make sure that we're doing everything we can to keep everyone happy, and more importantly, safe." said company officials in an interview for this press release.

mobilegreatness.com is the first free text messaging service anywhere, to proactively fight abuse and harassment by adding specialized filters.

May 7, 2007

Today mobilegreatness.com is proudly announcing that it is now offering improved support and reliability when sending free text messages to Fido and Rogers Wireless subscribers, two of Canada's largest wireless carriers. Fido is also owned and operated by Rogers Wireless.

May 1, 2007

Today mobilegreatness.com, the leader in free text messaging, is proudly announcing it has been updated with support for over 20,000 new mobile telephone number exchanges across North America. mobilegreatness.com's update means there is now increased support and reliability for the newest cell phone numbers throughout North America. AT&T formerly Cingular, Sprint, Nextel, Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile, Alltel, Cellular One, Dobson, and Boost Mobile numbers now have increased reliability with mobilegreatness.com' s free text messaging service.

"Mobile exchanges are the most frequently added exchanges in North America. With more and more cell phone users, there comes the need for more mobile numbers and new exchanges for these numbers. With our latest update, we've seen the biggest increase in additional mobile exchanges in a long time, meaning our users are now able to send messages to more people than ever before!" said company officials.

mobilegreatness.com's newest update also increases reliability for its free MySpace widget, Mac OS X Dashboard Widget and Microsoft Windows Vista Sidebar Gadget.

April 10, 2007

mobilegreatness.com is proudly launching its free text messaging Sidebar Gadget for Microsoft Windows Vista. mobilegreatness.com's new Vista Gadget allows its users to send free text messages to cell phones in the United States and Canada directly from their Microsoft Windows Vista desktop. mobilegreatness's Vista Sidebar Gadget is completely free to download and use with no limitations.

Earlier this year mobilegreatness.com launched its text messaging Widget for Mac OS X, enabling users to send free texts from their OS X desktop. mobilegreatness's Mac OS X Widget and Windows Vista Gadget both enable users to receive replies to their messages at their desired email address, a feature exclusively available at this time through the Widget and Gadget.

"We're excited to officially release our Windows Vista Gadget for all our Windows users and to compliment our OS X Widget. We want to be able to offer our service to as many people as possible!", said company officials.

mobilegreatness's Vista Sidebar Gadget supports all major and regional carriers in the United States and Canada, and does not require users to know their recipients mobile carrier. mobilegreatness does not share or sell any numbers or information gathered from its service, as some free text messaging sites do.

To download mobilegreatness.com's free text messaging Sidebar Gadget for Microsoft Windows Vista visit http://www.mobilegreatness.com/vista-gadget.php.

April 5, 2007

Today mobilegreatness.com added a new feature to its homepage displaying the amount of free message sent in real-time. As of writing this mobilegreatness has sent over 235,000 free texts!

March 19, 2007

mobilegreatness.com announced today that its free text messaging site has now sent over 200,000 completely free text messages to mobile phone users across the United States and Canada. mobilegreatness is now sending more than 35,000 free SMS text messages per month from its flagship site, mobilegreatness.com.

mobilegreatness.com's increase in traffic and message volume can be attributed to the recent release of its free text messaging widget for Mac OS X. The widget has been downloaded by more than 5000 users in just a few weeks after its release. mobilegreatness.com's new OS X widget is great for users that do not have a cell phone or for users that do not want to pay their carriers up to 15 cents to send a text message directly from their cell phone.

mobilegreatness.com is also announcing that it is now accepting direct advertisement requests from companies interested in advertising its product on mobilegreatness.com's web site or through text messages sent from mobilegreatness.com.

February 19, 2007

mobilegreatness.com announced today that it is now offering a completely free text messaging Dashboard widget for Mac OS X. mobilegreatness.com's new Macintosh OS X widget for Apple computers, allows users to send free text messages right from their desktop. The program also allows users to receive replies to their text messages directly via email, a first for mobilegreatness.com.

"We're really excited to finally be releasing this widget, because we've personally been looking forward to this for some time now. We love Mac OS X. So we really wanted to expand our service beyond the web and share it with fellow Apple users.", said company officials.

mobilegreatness.com's new OS X widget is great for users that do not have a cell phone or for users that do not want to pay their carriers up to 15 cents to send a text message directly from their cell phone. mobilegreatness.com is more advanced than other free text messaging sites, as it does not require users to know the cellular carrier of the phone they are sending text messages to.

mobilegreatness.com's Mac OS X Dashboard widget supports all major and regional carriers in the United States and Canada with an auto carrier detect feature.

To download mobilegreatness's Dashboard widget, visit http://www.mobilegreatness.com/widget.php.

December 28, 2006

mobilegreatness.com announced today that it has now sent over 100,000 completely free text messages to mobile phone users across the United States and Canada. mobilegreatness is now sending over 13,000 completely free text messages per month.

"We're extremely excited to have reached the 100,000 message milestone so quickly. If you calculate the cost our site has saved users, the number would be around $10,000. That's a huge savings!", said company officials in a recent interview. "We're really excited to just continue building our brand name and focus on what we do best, which is of course, free text messaging. We have some great plans for what we'd like to do and add in 2007."

mobilegreatness.com's increase in traffic and volume can be attributed to its MySpace text messaging widget released earlier this summer. mobilegreatness's MySpace widget enables MySpace users to place html code on their profiles, allowing friends to send text messages directly to their cell phones. mobilegreatness.com's widget ensures privacy by keeping the users telephone number completely masked.

July 5, 2006

mobilegreatness.com announced today it is now offering a code generator enabling users to generate html code to place on their own web site or MySpace profile that allows users to send text messages to their cell phones. mobilegreatness.com's new code generator also keeps users telephone numbers private and secure from unwanted individuals, displaying users numbers as a random alphanumeric string.

"mobilegreatness's new code generator is great. I placed it on my MySpace profile and now my friends can send me text messages when they need to get in touch with me, but I'm not online," said beta tester, Josh Carlson. "It's also nice that I don't have to sacrifice my privacy when using the service, since no one can see my phone number."

mobilegreatness.com also announced today that its service has now sent over 30,000 completely free text messages to mobile phone users in the U.S. and Canada.

December 13, 2005

mobilegreatness.com is proud to announce that in its first three months of operation, users have used the website to send over 10,000 completely free text messages to mobile phone users. mobilegreatness launched its completely free text messaging service for Internet users in the United States and Canada on September 1, 2005. mobilegreatness's goal is to make web-based text messaging free and as easy as possible, with everything done in one easy step, on one simple web page.

"mobilegreatness is great. I don't have a cell phone but I'm still able to send my teenage son text messages from your website. Thanks for providing me with this free service," a user wrote in a recent email.

"We are excited about being able to offer this free service to so many users and see them taking advantage of it as readily they are," said company officials. "mobilegreatness's usage has exceeded our initial expectations by handling 10,000 messages in just three months. Reaching this goal so quickly has gotten us very excited about our service, and we want users to know that we have some great upgrades coming in the near future."

September 23, 2005

mobilegreatness is proud to announce it has expanded it's support for sending completely free text messages to Cingular and former AT&T Wireless customers. mobilegreatness now offers more reliable delivery when sending messages to Cingular and former AT&T Wireless subscribers. Cingular, which acquired AT&T Wireless in late 2004, is the nations largest wireless carrier with a combined customer base of 50 million subscribers.

mobilegreatness has also updated it's database to offer improved support for smaller regional mobile carriers throughout the country.

September 6, 2005

mobilegreatness is proud to announce that its web based text messaging service, which launched just last week, has already allowed users to send over 250 free messages to cell phones in the Louisiana area. Over 1/3 of mobilegreatness's messages have been targeted to cell phones in the 504 and 985 area codes, the center of last weeks devastating hurricane.

"Thank you for your service, it's helped me send messages to get in touch with my family, when I was worried about their whereabouts." one user wrote in an email to company officials over the weekend.

mobilegreatness is thrilled to be able to assist in communication between family members and friends in this time of need. mobilegreatness.com offers free text messaging to anyone and encourages users to take advantage of the service in order to get in touch with family and friends after last weeks hurricane.

September 1, 2005

mobilegreatness proudly launches its completely free text messaging solution for web users. mobilegreatness.com makes web based text messaging free and as easy as possible, with everything done in one easy step, on one web page.

"mobilegreatness is great. Normally it would cost me 10 cents every time I send a text message directly from my cell phone to a friend," said beta tester, Josh Carlson. "But when I use mobilegreatness, everything is free!"