“Chris is a creative and innovative thought leader who sees the art of the possible in developing new partnerships. He is extremely responsive and positive and is not afraid of trying new things for business benefit. I had the opportunity to work with Chris to energize the IBM partnership with Microsoft in Workplace Services to serve our mutual clients in better ways. Chris was strategic in his actions and a strong team player”
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Reducing Messaging Costs
Filed US US 2010/0144378 A1
Technology for enabling subscribers to reduce their messaging costs is described. The technology includes employing multiple messaging data messaging services and employing advertisement-based defrayal of messaging charges. A message may be entered or displayed as an SMS message even though a data communications service other than SMS is used to exchange the message between computing devices. When a sender of a message sends an SMS message, the sender may receive an advertisement from an…
Technology for enabling subscribers to reduce their messaging costs is described. The technology includes employing multiple messaging data messaging services and employing advertisement-based defrayal of messaging charges. A message may be entered or displayed as an SMS message even though a data communications service other than SMS is used to exchange the message between computing devices. When a sender of a message sends an SMS message, the sender may receive an advertisement from an advertiser who defrays the cost of sending the SMS message. The advertiser may also defray the receiving cost for a receiver of the SMS message.
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Reducing Messaging Costs
Filed US US 2010/0144378 A1
Technology for enabling subscribers to reduce their messaging costs is described. The technology includes employing multiple messaging data messaging services and employing advertisement-based defrayal of messaging charges. A message may be entered or displayed as an SMS message even though a data communications service other than SMS is used to exchange the message between computing devices. When a sender of a message sends an SMS message, the sender may receive an advertisement from an…
Technology for enabling subscribers to reduce their messaging costs is described. The technology includes employing multiple messaging data messaging services and employing advertisement-based defrayal of messaging charges. A message may be entered or displayed as an SMS message even though a data communications service other than SMS is used to exchange the message between computing devices. When a sender of a message sends an SMS message, the sender may receive an advertisement from an advertiser who defrays the cost of sending the SMS message. The advertiser may also defray the receiving cost for a receiver of the SMS message.
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