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A series of crashes and injuries reduced the Esendex team to just 6 “athletes” at this year’s Esendex Last Minute Triathlon.  Nonetheless, on a beautiful September morning all 6 managed to beat their previous times, or in Darren’s case post an impressive first time.  (more…)

Nottingham Twestival Logo

Esendex are proud to announce their sponsorship of Nottingham Twestival on Tuesday 12th February.

Twestival is a global initiative to raise funds and awareness for the Charity: Water. Charity: Water are committed to bringing water to the 1 in 6 of the worlds population without access to it.  (more…)

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With just a few days before the Esendex Last Minute Triathlon, Richard Stannard came in to give the team some last minute tips and coaching.

For most of the team it’s their first triathlon so Richard tooks us through the whole transition process (the change over from swim to bike and bike to run), the most technical part of triathlon; as well as a run and bike skills session.  (more…)

The SMS Developer Challenge invited talented developers form across the globe to submit their ideas for innovative use of 2-way SMS.

With fellow judges Mike Short, Chairman of the Mobile Data Association, Ewan MacLeod, Editor of SMS Text News, we awarded first place – a cash prize of £1,000 – to TextQube. Developed by UK-based Reynardine Software, TextQube makes it very easy for companies to mobilise their existing data by simply querying database information on a PC by SMS.  (more…)

Great news just in from the Esendex Operations Team, we’re HackerSafe compliant.

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HackerSafe, now part of the McAfee empire, is the leading website vunerability testing service used by ecommerce merchants all over the world. The service regularly scans our systems for vunerabilities, alerting our operations team as soon as something is discovered. Should anything arise, we action it, HackerSafe confirms it and the current state is visible on the website badge (above).  (more…)

After a successful rollout in the UK, BlogIt is now available in each of our core markets. So customers in Spain, France, Ireland and Australia can now update their blogs by SMS for just the cost of a local SMS.  (more…)

I’m heading off to Paris tomorrow on my Brompton folding bike along with 21 other parents and teachers to raise money, among other things, for my sons’s school.

As ‘chief technologist’ for the event I wanted to make sure the whole team could report back to base on what’s going on during the 4 day ride. While some of the team have the very latest in mobile communication devices, there are also some old school work horses that just phone and text.  (more…)