How does it work?

(1) Text Message Alerts: Follow-up on important events via text message alerts. Select what you wante to track (news, weather, stocks, favorite blogs, package tracking etc.), enter trigger words, and choose time and number of alerts you want to receive per day.



Available alert categories: Sports Scores, Player Stats, Weather, Stock Quotes, Horoscopes, Celebrity Gossip, Celebrity Birthdays, Health Tips, RSS News Feeds, Package Tracking, Craigslist, Personal reminder

(2) Text Message Search: Instantly lookup specific information by sending short text message. Type in a search term and send a text message to 4INFO (44636) Type a search term in the message body. Your serach term may vary depending on what type of information you want to lookup (stocks, weather, flight status etc.).



Available search categories: sports scores, player stats, stock quotes, wifi hotspots, package tracking, weather, yellow pages, news, flight status, city search, TV Guide, movie show times, drink recipes, price lookup, jokes, joke, horoscopes, pickup lines, celebrity gossip.

Additional Features:

• RSS Alerts: Monitor updates from your favorite blogs and websites.
• Customization: Choose time and number of alerts you want to receive per day.
• Create as many alerts as you like. Manage, modify or edit your alerts online.
• If you want to test message search functionality right now you can do it from here.

[Video] 4info Intro

Check out 4info @ [ www.4Info.net ]

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Viigo Features

• Channels: Navigate through various channels/service categories and subscribe to ones that interest you.
• Local Events: Stay up-to-date on local events (music bands, theater events, sport events, etc.).
• Global News: Get latest headlines from all over the world.
• Sports News: Get latest global scores and news, or only monitor your favorite team.
• Weather Application: Quickly access local weather reports.
• FeedReader: Subscribe to RSS feeds of your favorite websites and blogs (Youtube, Makeuseof, Digg, etc.).
• Track Packages: Track your mail packages from popular mail/package carriers.
• Traffic Updates: Get up-to-date information on highway traffic, and public transportation information.
• Runs on most of the popular phones (Blackberry, Windows Mobile, Java, etc.).
• Keypad shortcuts: For quicker navigation.
• One click article emailing.
• Ability to synchronize to your Google Reader account.
• Note: Viigo Personal is completely free to use, however carrier data charges may apply for the application download and later data transfers.

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Yahoo! Go Features

• Easily access Yahoo Services directly from mobile phone.
• Search Engine: Access Yahoo web search
• Flickr: Acces and View your Flickr albums and pictures.
• Yahoo Mail: View, Manage and Reply to your emails. All changes will be automatically synchronized with online Yahoo account.
• News: Latest Global, Entertainment, Sports and Finance News.
• FeedReader: Add feeds from favorite blogs/websites.
• Weather Tool: Configure quick weather access for your zip code.
• Access Local Maps and Business Listings i.e. restaurants, pizzerias, etc., with direct dial feature.
• Supports over 120 mobile phones. Custom iPhone version available.
• Try Yahoo! Go right from the web interface here (no registration required@yahoo.)
• Important: Yahoo! Go is a free service however depending on your carrier and mobile service plan data-transfer fees may apply.

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Plusmo Features

• RSS reader: Read you favorite blogs/websites from your mobile.
• Save articles or forward to with friends.
• Over 20.000 widgets (Games, Clock, Calendar, Top YouTube videos, Flickr pictures, etc) to choose from.
• Browse widgets by category (Fun, Technology, Fashions, Sports, News, etc.)
• Create your own widgets by combining several feeds into one.
• OPML Import: import subscriptions from other RSS readers (MyYahoo, Bloglines, etc).
• Works with most mobile phones. iPhone optimized.
• Bloggers: Option to mobilize you blog into a mobile widget.
• Note: Plusmo is completely free, however depending on your carrier data connection charges may apply.

Plusmo video demos:

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Flurry Overview

• Access all your email accounts from Mobile.
• Import your contacts for quicker message compose.
• Subscribe to news and follow-up on blogs. Share favorite items with friends.
• Embed Flurry subscribe button on your website.
• Text message notifications when you get new emails.
• Send pictures from your phone.
• Used in over 200 countries worldwide.
• Any Questions? Check out demo tour (incl. screenshots) or go to FAQ page.

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TelePixie Features

• Reminder/wake-up calls – schedule one time wake up call or fixed calls on a daily basis
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• News Alerts- simply choose the keywords you want TelePixie to look for and it will search major news feeds for relevant headlines
• Jokes – schedule Joke-Of-Day calls on a daily basis
• Stock Alerts – choose the stock symbol you are interested in and provide High/Low triggers. As soon as stock goes beyond the given boundaries TelePixie’s FREE Stock Alert Call System will call you
• and more …

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