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Monday, June 1st, 2009
On April 13th we shared the unfortunate news about kwiry's impending shutdown. Since then, Wabo, LLC has purchased the kwiry service and will continue to maintain and improve it.
We are happy to relay this news and hope you are as well. While the founding team/management will be moving on, we ...
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Monday, April 13th, 2009
It's with heavy hearts that we write this post. On April 23, 2009 (12AM PDT), we will be discontinuing the kwiry service. As of today, the service will no longer accept new sign-ups. We have very much enjoyed getting to know many of you and working to build features to ...
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Thursday, March 26th, 2009
While kwiry is all about helping you get things done on the go, we realized sometimes you need to get things done while sitting in front of your computer too. A lot of people who used kwiry via SMS to add a movie to their Netflix Queue or schedule a ...
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Tuesday, March 24th, 2009
MG Siegler at VentureBeat wrote an interesting post last week about text messaging pricing. He speculated that the introduction of the Push notification functionality in the new iPhone 3.0 software this summer could finally put pressure on At&t and/or all carriers to lower fees for SMS. I wrote about text ...
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Sunday, February 22nd, 2009
So the Oscars are on tonight and I thought it would be fun to see which of the Best Picture nominees were popular options for kwiry users to add to their Netflix Queues via the Netflix kwiry Shortcut.
The envelope please.... The rank order of popularity of Netflix kwirys:
1. The Curious ...
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Wednesday, February 18th, 2009
Valentines Day this past weekend had a lot of folks talking about how to have a budget-conscious holiday, etc. There was also a lot of talk about text messaging as the new Valentines message medium of choice.
At&t published a [somewhat confusing] survey showing that 36% of respondents intended to send ...
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Wednesday, January 14th, 2009
Just in time for the New Year (ok, a couple of weeks later), we have lots of new features/improvements to tell you about. We've been hard at work and have tons of new features and improvements to tell you about. See the related Press Release here.
New Shortcuts
We've had such a ...
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Friday, December 12th, 2008
Fitch released a report showing that the poor economic conditions in the US are giving rise to more people abandoning their landlines in favor of just using their mobile/wireless phone. They report that 17% of US households are now fully wireless, which they predict will rise to 20% by year's ...
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Friday, December 5th, 2008
'Tis the holiday shopping season and there seem to be promotions/deals/sales everywhere:
Black Friday, Cyber Monday, Mobile Tuesday... Wait - Mobile Tuesday?
As reported by Advertising Age, mobile marketers worked on a promotion this past Tuesday to add Mobile Tuesday to the holiday schedule of special buying days. While the specific promotion ...
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Thursday, November 20th, 2008
It's hard to think about much else these days but the woeful economic news. Everywhere you turn, that's all you hear about. It's certainly distressing - but at kwiry, we like to be proactive. Here are some ways you can use kwiry (an appealingly free service) to help. Lots of ...
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