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New Features Expand Capabilities of the FrontlineSMS Mobile Communications Platform

Poster: SySAdmin
Posted on August 31, 2010 at 2:07:02 AM
New Features Expand Capabilities of the FrontlineSMS Mobile Communications Platform

LONDON, August 31, 2010--     The open-source SMS communications platform FrontlineSMS has delivered
two major features as part of a new software release today. With this
upgrade, FrontlineSMS allows organisations to receive multimedia messages via
a standard email account. More complex than SMS messages, MMS can include
text, images, video and audio. This is a huge step forward for FrontlineSMS:
it opens the door for social and environmental organisations to incorporate
photo, audio and video documentation in their work, and it paves the way for
innovations like the FrontlineSMS:Medic partnership with Cellophone that will
provide medical diagnostics via MMS.

    With MMS, FrontlineSMS extends its efforts to empower large groups of
people to gather and share information of any kind, anywhere there is a
mobile signal.

    Also included in the release today is the eagerly anticipated Reminders
plugin which enables organisations to schedule email and SMS reminders for a
specific date range and interval such as hourly, daily, weekly, monthly or by
specific day(s) of the week.

    Already, Babakan Sari Community Health Center in Indonesia has expressed
enthusiasm for using the new feature for outreach to Tuberculosis patients.
Other possible applications include prompting patients to take
anti-retroviral medication, reminding parolees to meet with probation
officers, and helping special needs populations to live independently.

    FrontlineSMS is a product of its users. Starting with the first widely
recognized public deployment during the Nigerian elections in 2007, users
have defined FrontlineSMS by applying the software in creative ways and
driving the development of new features. The Reminders plugin illustrates
this approach: in response to demand from users around the world, the plugin
was created by Dale Zak, a mobile developer and member of the FrontlineSMS
community who also works as Mobile Project Manager for Ushahidi.

    Interview opportunities:

    FrontlineSMS Founder Ken Banks, FrontlineSMS Project Manager Laura Hudson
and Reminders Developer Dale Zak. (contact via Laura Hudson below)

    About FrontlineSMS

    FrontlineSMS is an open-source SMS communications platform that operates
on a computer connected to a mobile phone or modem. The software enables
users to broadcast targeted text messages to subscribers and receive
information from anyone with access to a mobile phone. The aim of
FrontlineSMS is to empower large groups of people to gather and share
information of any kind, anywhere there is a mobile signal. For more
information visit the website at http://www.frontlinesms.com

    FrontlineSMS is grateful for the ongoing support of the Hewlett
Foundation and Rockefeller Foundation, both of whom provided funding to make
this new release possible.

    Contact: Laura Hudson, press@frontlinesms.com

Source: FrontlineSMS

Contact: Laura Hudson, press@frontlinesms.com, +44(0)7771-592-970
 
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