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News

come and meet us at these events

23rd Sept 2008 : Let's talk about txt Clydebank College, Glasgow. more info....

case studies

Leeds Grammar School : School Messaging Service (pdf 35KB)
Sandyford Initiative - sending sensitive results to patients. With their pioneering service the Sandyford Initiative, Glasgow's centre for sexual and reproductive health, has proven the effectiveness of an SMS text message results service saving time and money whilst improving patient service. View the Case Study Report :Acrobat pdf (68 KB)
SunnyBank Medical Center. Patients at SunnyBank Medical Centre welcome SystmOne text messages. View the Case Study Report :Acrobat pdf (343 KB)
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Texting reminder service - update on pilot in Paediatric Outpatients. View the Case Study Report :Acrobat pdf (124 KB)

education articles

May 2008 : Paper from the Networked Learning Conference. (NLC 2008) (pdf 230KB)
May 2008 : Using SMS to support learning & teaching. University of Bath (online presentation)
Sep 2007 : Education Guardian (pdf 1.2MB)
Jan 2007 : Further Education Today (pdf 640KB)
Oct 2006 : Public Service Review: Central Government Issue 13 (pdf 717KB)
Oct 2006 : Further Education Today (pdf 410KB)
Sep 2006 : Specialist Schools Review (pdf 362KB)
Jun 2006 : Independent Education Today (pdf 290KB)
Apr 2003 : Telecomworldwire (pdf 229KB)
Apr 2003 : The Register (pdf 246KB)

healthcare articles

Jan 2008 : System One text messages replace paper letters at Sunnybank (pdf 44KB)
May 2007 : National Health Executive (pdf 665KB) - Don't 4get ur appntmnt tomoro
Oct 2006 : British Journal of Healthcare (pdf 1.2MB) - Text messaging benefits for healthcare organisations
May 2006 : British Journal of Healthcare (pdf 360KB) - Text messaging given 'all-clear' by patients
2005 : Joined Up Management 2005 (pdf 180KB) - patients all-clear results by text messaging
Jan 2005 : Yorkshire Post (pdf 252KB) - text messaging the cure for patients who forget their appointments
Sep 2004 : eHealthInsider - McKesson launches text appointment reminder service

press releases & news

healthcare press releases

2008

7th May 2008 : Easy, speedy special needs advice: AskACE! - From today, 7th May 2008, AskACE, the free, independent text advice service available from The Advisory Centre for Education (ACE), and funded through the DCSF Parent Know How Initiative, will provide advice to parents on Special Educational Needs (SEN) issues
7th May 2008 : Advisory Centre for Education - ACE has received funding from the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) Parent Know How fund. Cy-nap are ACE's technology partner, enabling them to provide their exciting new AskACE advice by text service.
4th Mar 2008 : Ask ACE Advisory Centre for Education launch text advice service - Ask ACE, a free, independent education advice service delivered via text is now available to all O2, Orange, Vodafone and 3 users.
6th Feb 2008 : txttools announces three year deal with RCN - txttools has signed up the biggest professional nursing body, the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) for a three year deal.
4th Jan 2008 : Cy-nap appoint GlobalNet ICT as official distributor of edutxt® in Australia and New Zealand

2007

7th Nov 2007 : Let's talk about txt! II - A free one day conference at the University of East London will share a wealth of ideas and experiences on the use of SMS text messaging in education - 4th December 2007
10th Sep 2007 : Mill Systems - Integrated SMS text message service enters its 3rd year delivering results and appointment reminders to patients saving time and money.
13th Aug 2007 : Mlearn 2007 - Mobile Learning Comes to Melbourne.
19th July 2007 : Let's talk about txt! II - A free one day conference at Farnborough College of Technology will share a wealth of experience on the use of SMS text messaging in education.
7th May 2007 : "Don't 4get ur appointment 2moro" - Airedale Doctor Explores New Way of Communicating with Patients.
4th May 2007 : 500th UK education customer - edutxt® the market leading desktop SMS messaging company signs the 500th UK education customer.
3rd April 2007 : Let's talk about txt! - The first education SMS conference in Europe is a "Great day full of innovative and practical ideas"
31st March 2007 : UWIC share secrets of text success - The University of Wales Institute, Cardiff are leading the way....
27th Mar 2007 : Talking about TXTing ... First Txt messaging in education conference in Europe
10th Jan 2007 : Let's talk about txt! - A free one day conference at the University of Leeds is designed to share ideas and experiences on the use of SMS text messaging in education
5th Jan 2007 : Cy-nap launches moodletxt allowing customers to utilise SMS text messaging from within the Moodle CMS.

2006

Oct 2006 : Schools hijack the student domain of text messaging. Over 100 million text messages are sent every day in the UK and most of them are from young people......
Oct 2006 : LVMT Business School are so impressed they have signed up for another 3 years......
Sept 2006 : Text messaging is a clear winner at Norton College when it comes to communicating with students......
6th Jun 2006 : Txt! Has your school got the message? - we explain how your school can benefit from texting and cut costs at the same time......
15th May 2006 : Education is getting the text message - edutxt® from txttools continues rapid sign up in education with market leading desktop to mobile application......
25th Apr 2006 : Sales lift off for Cy-nap - Yorkshire company, Cy-nap, has ramped up its sales force, thanks to Connect Yorkshire......
28th Mar 2006 : Cy-nap launch RSS-2-SMS content delivery technology - using the Cy-nap RSS-2-SMS text message tool customers can now have any RSS content sent directly to their mobile phone......

2005

8th Dec 2005 : Students find a GR8 way 2 stay in contact - Farnborough College is getting great results with text......
4th Oct 2005 : Texting patients with sexual infection test results - 100% of patients found text messaging to be "a most acceptable method" for getting results......
7th Sep 2005 : CY-NAP CONNECTS TO THE BIG TIME For 27,000 parents, a reminder of......
10th Apr 2005 : Automated SMS text message medication reminder service implemented by Amgen to improve the quality of patient experience.
10th Feb 2005 : Automated SMS text message results service for NHS clinics set to save anguish, time and money
12th Jan 2005 : Education is getting the text message - Edutxt from txttools continues rapid sign up in schools, colleges and universities

2004

20th Sep 2004 : McKesson launches Meditxt - text message reminders for NHS outpatients
19th Aug 2004 : Farnborough College students get the bleep...
April 2004 : SEELB, Cy-nap chosen in the competitive tender...
31st Mar 2004 : Hull School of Art and Design adopts txttools...
25th Mar 2004 : Braintree College adopts smart mobile technology...

2003

10th Sep 2003 : UWIC (the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff) is to use txttools...
23 Jun 2003 : Derby College is using SMS tools from mobile technology specialist Cy-nap ...
4th Apr 2003 : East Riding LEA uses SMS for school-to-parent communication...
27th Feb 2003 : txttools gets the job at Employment Cafe...
23rd Jan 2003 : Rockwell Automation improves its internal communication with SMS txt messaging...

2002

10th Dec 2002 : Debbie Frank horoscopes by txt...
3rd Dec 2002 : Cy-nap and &SUMM join forces to market SMS services...
27th Nov 2002 : txttools launches campaign on junk text messages...
18th Nov 2002 : Scottish flight guide sending today's best travel deals via text message...
1st Nov 2002 : Digby Brown Solicitors, txting to improve business...
24th Jul 2002 : NetDoctor offers BabyText - a window on your womb...
Apr 2002 : NetDoctor offers contraceptive reminders for mobile users...

2008

6th Feb 2008 : txttools announces three year deal with RCN - txttools has signed up the biggest professional nursing body, the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) for a three year deal.

2007

10th Sep 2007 : Mill Systems - Integrated SMS text message service enters its 3rd year delivering results and appointment reminders to patients saving time and money.

2005

4th Oct 2005 : Texting patients with sexual infection test results - 100% of patients found text messaging to be "a most acceptable method" for getting results......
10th Apr 2005 : Automated SMS text message medication reminder service implemented by Amgen to improve the quality of patient experience.
10th Feb 2005 : Automated SMS text message results service for NHS clinics set to save anguish, time and money

2004

20th Sep 2004 : McKesson launches Meditxt - text message reminders for NHS outpatients

2002

27th Nov 2002 : txttools launches campaign on junk text messages...
24th Jul 2002 : NetDoctor offers BabyText - a window on your womb...
Apr 2002 : NetDoctor offers contraceptive reminders for mobile users...