March 25, 2005
Ever need to phone 7,000 people at once?
Send Word Now is a communication application that lets you type a message on a PC that then transforms into a phone call to a few people, or a few thousand, explains CNet.
Though the urgent message currently needs to be typed into a PC but next month, customers will be able to broadcast messages with a Palm handheld.
The service is mostly for those moments when other forms of communication may not work. One customer, for instance, recently used it to ping board members who were headed for a meeting in Florida--but so was a hurricane. They canceled their flight.
Another company, a large media conglomerate, uses it to call its editors in the morning to discuss errors in the previous day's coverage. The Bank of New York used it during the blackout of 2003.
Mostly, customers only use it to contact a few people, but it can push out 7,000 to 8,000 messages.
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