AmVia, provider of mobile messaging solutions, recently stunned audiences with a series of live demonstrations on mobile messaging.
As part of the presentation, delegates were encouraged to enter an innovative interactive SMS competition by sending a SMS to the AmVia mobile messaging SMS server. All entries were stored on a SQL database and the entrants were subsequently verified by using WAP access to the database. The winner of a Siemens SL 45 WAP-enabled cellphone was finally randomly selected, and notified via SMS.
To further heighten interest among the audience, the mobile messaging demonstration showed real-time access to a groupware system using SMS notification of e-mail, viewing of the e-mail using WAP and responding to it in various ways including SMS, voice and fax. In addition "web scraping" using SMS technology was illustrated as well as the fact that any fax machine can become a printer for any e-mail attachment.
Gary Cousins, Futurist at AmVia, comments: "The modern mobile workforce is desperately looking for real-time access to critical business information and seeing the instant excitement on the faces of our audiences has reinforced the idea that we have discovered the missing link."
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Established in 1993, AmVia has built up an unrivalled reputation, not only from its original base in Southern Africa, but now also in New Zealand. AmVia provides flexible access to and control of all message types from any communication device in voice messaging, fax messaging, unified messaging and mobile messaging
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