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Overview

• Compose and send SMS Messages as easily as email.
• Make use of existing Contacts, Public Address lists/folders and Windows Address books
• Broadcast the same message to mutiple recipients, utilising your Outlook and Exchange distributions lists.
• Send virtual business cards / contact information (vCard, to customers, employees and collegues.
• Send appointment data (vCalendar) to compatible mobile devices
• Receive replies straight back into Outlook

Outlook Mobility

Sending a Text Message is convenient, it’s direct and it just got a whole lot easier. No need to look up mobile numbers from address books to manually enter into Web based alternatives or have multiple address books with the same entries. Just type the name, compose your message and send, it’s that easy. Take advantage of integration with Microsoft Exchange Server The FAB SMS Addin for Microsoft® Outlook® provides increased functionality when used in conjunction with Microsoft Exchange Server. With Microsoft Exchange Server you can set up and create distribution lists for sending the same message to multiple recipients simultaneously. Resolve names from not just your own Contacts Folder but from Global Contacts stored within public folders, Global Address Lists and the Active Directory (Windows 2000 Server).

Microsoft Exchange is not necessary for the Addin to function correctly, you can run Outlook in internet mode only if desired.

Integration with Outlook

The FAB SMS Addin for Microsoft® Outlook® is seamlessly integrated with the main user interface allowing you compose and send Text Messages as easily as you send an email. For example to compose a new Text just Go File | New | Text Message as shown.

The following form is displayed where you can enter your message.

Sending a vCard (Contact Item) or vCalendar (Appointment Item) to compatible devices is equally just as easy, just open the required item and select Actions | Send vCard via SMS… from the main menu. Enter the desired recipient and click send.

Using natural language processing, large messages can be compressed, the application helps you choose options such as removing spaces, replacing long words with abbreviations and emoticons, removing punctuation, and even removing vowels Summary With Text Messaging becoming an increasingly popular medium through which to communicate, isn’t it imperative that you have to tools to use it?

Two Way Messaging

As an alternative to specifying a mobile to receive messages you can now have replies to SMS Text messages sent, returned straight back into your inbox. A low cost dedicated UK number is assigned to you with all inbound SMS traffic converted to emails and sent to an address of your choice. Your dedicated number can be used in conjuction with other services & products we offer or used on it's own and not limited just have replies to messages sent from Outlook.

Future Direction

The following features are not in the current version but will appear in future a release:

• Ability to send more than 160 characters per message
• Support for additional character sets
• A suite of complimentary applications eg vCard manager, web interface, appointment schedular, Wizard based desktop app for bulk sending
• Support for categories
• Native support for Outlook 2007
• Flash SMS
• Support for even more networks

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