txtWeb - SMS based apps

SMS Services for Healthcare Industry

Deepa Chaudhuri — Tue, 21 May 2013 18:42:10 +0100

Rating Agency Fitch has estimated Indian Healthcare sector to reach USD 100 Billion, by 2015. The industry is also expected to touch USD 280 Billion by 2020, due to the increasing demand of quality and specialized healthcare facilities. The healthcare industry in India is a rapidly changing one and has gone through lot of improvements in recent times. Not just the industry, even the patient’s aspirations are touching new heights everyday from demanding quick response for queries to better quality care. Besides simple communication, mobile read more ....

txtWeb Developer Bytes – Chinmay Kumar Sahu

Ramya Setty — Tue, 14 May 2013 11:01:02 +0100

Self described as a down to earth “simple” boy, Software Engineer Chinmay Kumar Sahu lets his work do the talking. With an MSc in Information Technology, this Odisha developer eats, drinks and sleeps code: Some of the languages he is fluent in are .NET, Java and PHP. We talked to him about his txtWeb experience and interests. Edited excerpts of the interview:

Better The Best Movie App Contest Results

Payal Sakhuja — Thu, 09 May 2013 17:34:32 +0100

The exciting contest “Better the Best Movie App” came to a close yesterday but as always brought out the amazing potential that our vibrant developer community has. A little over two weeks ago, we asked our developers to tell us what their favourite txtWeb movie app is and how they would make it better. We saw a great participation and some out of the box read more ....

txtWeb in Bollywood Style

Deepa Chaudhuri — Tue, 07 May 2013 15:54:37 +0100

How many of you are pucca movie buffs? Most of us in India are, aren’t we? Movies are an integral part of our life – we eat, drink, sleep Bollywood!! It’s songs define our cultural marquee, they give us expression to our feelings, make us happy, make us laugh, make us cry. Why, even the rest of the world love our movies, and the ‘songs and dances’ read more ....

Must-try Apps of April 2013

Payal Sakhuja — Thu, 02 May 2013 10:22:43 +0100

Apps for the one on the street trying to manoeuvre through clogged roads, for the one who loves poetry, for the one who needs to stay updated with the latest happenings from around the world on a real-time basis – these are the variety of apps we got from our developers in the month of April. And they made another just so that you can send us feedbacks and suggestions on how to better our service.

Here they are in complete details:

Better The Best Movie App Contest

Ramya Setty — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 10:55:29 +0100

People say that Indians are crazy about just two things – Cricket and Movies!!! So all you developers who are buried in the IPL matches, we want you to resurface!! We’ve got something interesting for you here – a contest to tell us which is the BEST Movie app on txtWeb and what features can make it even BETTER.

Yeah!!! It’s really as simple as that!! And we are sure you do have a Movie app that you swear by. Better still, we know that you have your own read more ....

SMS & E-Commerce Industry

Deepa Chaudhuri — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 16:12:42 +0100

The E-commerce Industry is one of the most progressive sectors of Indian Economy. From its inception, this industry has been evolving rapidly and has got a huge potential of becoming one of the top contributors of country’s GDP. One of the major components of Indian E-commerce industry is the Online B2C E-commerce market that includes online read more ....

Train Apps from txtWeb

Payal Sakhuja — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 11:34:48 +0100

Vacation time is here again!!! With the exams schedules now over, most schools and colleges are preparing to break for a month-long recce before they start the new academic year in June again.

So what plans are brewing in your house? A visit to your granny’s house or your aunt’s? Have the train tickets been booked? Hurry, if you haven’t. You know how difficult it can get to get the train tickets at the eleventh hour.

Evolution of SMS

Ramya Setty — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 10:36:04 +0100

Technology advancements have enabled us to receive digital images and videos, voice messages and internet surfing at a speed that was almost a dream a decade ago. Despite this trend, text messages (fondly called as short messaging services or SMS) sent between mobile phones set itself at the top as a preferred mode of communication over the other media forms trending now. Behind this is the exciting journey that SMS has travelled since its evolution. Let’s now have a look at it.

@t20pack for the Cricketing Season

Deepa Chaudhuri — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 10:13:06 +0100

This is that time of the year again when the whole country is soaked up in the revelry of cricket carnival. Age and gender notwithstanding, root for the teams of their choice and closely follow every match until the last ball is bowled, until the last over is completed, the last wicket fallen.

Helping build this cricket frenzy is txtWeb’s offering @t20pack – an app that brings every information you need during this t20 league in one single app.

txtWeb interacts with a NITian @ Pragyan, Trichy

Payal Sakhuja — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 19:21:20 +0100

txtWeb addressed a room full of young tech students at the Pragyan event in NIT Trichy last month. While the students were amazed by the ease and speed of app building on txtWeb platform, we caught up with AC Sreenivasan to hear it from him in his own words. ACSreenivasan is a Third Year student of B.Tech CSE at the institute and is one of our budding developers.

Cheer For Your Favorite Team This Premier League with @FanClub

Payal Sakhuja — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 16:04:10 +0100

The BIGGEST cricketing months in the Indian calendar is here!!! The entire nation will immerse itself in all the happenings on the cricket field and off it in the next two months. This is as scorching as it can get. Well, not completely. Not until you are playing some bit of the cricket with txtWeb too. And as in all our activities, prizes are galore in this case too!! Want the suspense to break? Here you go…

April Fooled You!!!

Ramya Setty — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 15:36:43 +0100

Ever heard of an I-Phone? So when did the version 5S release? Scratching your head, are you? Haha…we, at txtWeb, just played a prank with you - APRIL FOOL!!!

We asked you to give a missed call to the number 0124-4495174 and grab the chance to win an I-Phone 5S. And how you all fell forit!!! Most of you didn’t read more ....

Latest Updates on the txtWeb Platform

Deepa Chaudhuri — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 12:28:26 +0100

A whole lot of new and improved ‘goodies’ in the form of updates on the txtWeb platform have come to us this month of March. And did we find our Developer community excited about the changes and upgrades.

Take a look at how txtWeb is changing to be future-ready!

RSS feature released: We released our new RSS feature that helps publishers to SMS-enable their RSS feeds in minutes!! In slightly over three weeks we have over 80 read more ....

Must-try Apps of March 2013

Payal Sakhuja — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 11:43:38 +0100

As March ends, you must be curious to find out which have been our choicest apps this month. Once again, we picked a variety of them, from movies to astrology to house-rental info. And if all these were not enough, we have an app that helps you access all of our 5000+ apps without having to remember their keywords.

Super Tips For Your Apps

Ramya Setty — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 11:02:39 +0100

Now that your app is ready, how do you plan to promote it??? You know your audience but what is the most effective medium to reach them? Does your app have all those features that can drive usage instantly? We thought of getting these answers from our seasoned developers and hence ran a contest, the Super Tip contest in the FB Developer Group, which concluded last week. The objective was to enable ‘best-practices sharing’ on the various ways an app can be made popular. And we sure seem to be bang on read more ....

txtWeb Developer Bytes – Palak Sanghani

Deepa Chaudhuri — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 11:32:00 +0100

Palak Sanghani

Currently pursuing Computer Engineering from Darshan Institute of Engineering and Technology, Rajkot, Palak Saghanihas, in a very short span of time, made a name for herself on the txtWeb platform. With many feathers on her cap – she is a trainee at Amul Technologies, a freelancer, currently writing her first fiction read more ....

txtWeb Apps for Financial Planning

Payal Sakhuja — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 12:06:04 +0100

March can be rightly called the ‘Month of Finances’ in India. After all, in March newspapers are full of analyses and articles on what the Union Budget proposed. Professionals are into their last-minute financial planning to make investments in order to save tax. Businesses are burning the midnight oil to close their Books of Accounts and file returns.

Phew!!! Wish there were apps that could help in our financial planning, in read more ....

Now Anybody Can Build Apps – Here’s txtWeb’s New RSS Feature

Deepa Chaudhuri — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 16:58:31 +0100

We at txtWeb, put continuous effort to make app publishing on the platform super easy. With this very objective in mind, txtWeb has released a new feature that enables any publisher to provide the RSS Feeds of their websites to the readers over simple SMS.

This means, if you are a blogger or have your own website, even you can build a txtWeb App to expand your readership by many folds. Through this service, your followers can access your RSS Feeds read more ....

Now Everyone Can Build Apps on txtWeb!!! App Building Was Never So Easy...

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 16:32:36 +0100

This means, if you are a blogger or have your own website, even you can build a txtWeb app to expand your readership by few folds. Through this service, your followers can access your RSS read more ....