SmS Zimbabwe

Email 2 SMS

2007-09-01T08:02:00.000-07:00

It is with great pleasure that we announce the release of our most sophisticated and exciting feature to date. Email 2 SMS is now a reality. Now you can send an SMS to your friends and loved ones in Zimbabwe through SmS Zimbabwe even if you don’t have full internet access and are just restricted to email. For those with full internet access you might find Email 2 SMS to be a better way to send SMS through our service because you don’t have to log into the site to send and SMS especially if you have a slow internet connection.

Visit our website for more details on how you can get started with this new feature.

Before we sign off we would like to thank you again for your support and promoting us we now have over 11,000 registered members.

Team SmS Zimbabwe

SmS Zimbabwe on the MAP

2007-08-03T04:33:00.001-07:00

SmS Zimbabwe members across the globe

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Top 10 Countries

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Top 10 Countries Visitors

Full List

Top 10 Cities

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Top 10 Cities visitors

FULL LIST

Link on The Standard

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Link on Zimbabwe Independent website

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Banner at www.zimbabwesituation.com

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Banner electronics.co.zw

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Banner on computers.co.zw

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Banner auto.co.zw

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Banner on property.co.zw

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Banner on Yo.co.zw

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2007-07-09T09:33:00.000-07:00

GOOD NEWS GUYS!

Our service provider has reverted back to old pricing
HOOREY!

SmS Zimbabwe is now back in full force.

all thanks to
Hammer and Tongues Auctioneers Zimbabwe
www.auctioneers.co.zw

Please participate in our forum discussions if your as happy as we are
Click here

this is a late post meant for Friday 6 June 2007

IMPORTANT NOTICE

2007-07-04T23:26:00.000-07:00

Due to our mobile carriers faliure to comply with Governments directive to revert prices back to 18th June 2007. SmS Zimbabwe has suddenly run out of finance to contiue operating normally.

We have temporarily disabled allocation of creditsWe are frantically looking for an alternative service provider or negotiate a better rate with the current provider.

Any inconvenience cuased is sincerely regretted

Please participate in our forum discussions regarding this matter, our admins will keep you updated hereClick here

Mobile Verification Released

2007-06-25T09:47:00.000-07:00

SmS Zimbabwe offers users inside Zimbabwe to activate their cellphone numbers for use on the www.sms.co.zw

By activating your cellphone number you will be able to send sms from www.sms.co.zw as if it was sent directly from your cellphone with your number showing as sender, thus allowing your receipients to HIT REPLY back to your number.

This ONLY works on Zimbabwe numbers. ECONET - NETONE - TELECEL numbers only.

Verify your cellphone number NOW by sending an SMS to
011-888-600
with the word 'verification' to activate your number

Your verification should be actioned within 24hrs

Scheduling SmS Messages

2007-06-16T06:36:00.000-07:00

Are your friends and family in Zimbabwe asleep right now?

A new exciting and sophisticated feature for our brothers arround the world who are in different time zones to schedule their sms to be delivered at predefined Zimbabwe Times.

So now you can schedule your 'Good Morning Sweetie' SmS for 7AM before you go to bed

and also schedule your 'Good Night Darling' SmS for 10PM during your lunch break.

oh and also schedule your 3AM 'Sweetie I cant sleep thinking of you' sms right now! lol

HOW COOL IS THIS!!

SmS Zimbabwe on the cuttin edge - new innovations, a function offered by no other

Please remember to use SmS responsibly
Team SmS

Are you still seeing a MAINTENANCE PAGE?

2007-06-04T23:08:00.000-07:00

We have noticed that some of our members are still seeing 'WEBSITE UNDER MAINTENANCE'

SOLUTION
please refresh the page or go direct to our .com domain www.smszim.com

SmS Zimbabwe was only offline for about 2 hours on saturday 2 June 2007 becuase we were busy migrating to our USA servers. All services were up and running by 2 June 2007 10pm Zimbabwe time.

Some computers cached the MAINTENANCE page and wont budge untill you refresh.

Regards
Team SmS

Finally the migration has been complete

2007-06-02T13:14:00.000-07:00

Team SmS is proud to announce that we have successfully migrated SmS Zimbabwe to USA servers as of 2 June 2007 10pm Zimbabwean time, the site should faster in loading for all Zimbabweans arround the world.

We are also proud to announce our new domains
www.smszim.com
www.smszimbabwe.com

www.sms.co.zw will still remain our Primary Domain

The move was planned almost a week ago, but unfortunately our core system had to be modified for it to suite our USA servers.

Although we have tested the system thoroughly, we are quite sure that members will encounter errors here and there

Please bare with us in the mean time while we detect and fix errors.
Help us fix errors quickly by calling or sms our hotline number 011-888-600 or sending an email to admin@sms.co.zw if you encounter any error.

Team SmS
for Zimbabwe by Zimbabweans

Website Migration

2007-05-26T05:38:00.000-07:00

We have started the anticipated website migration process.

SmS Zimbabwe decides to move the website to the USA to improve performance and lower our costs. Bandwidth in Zimbabwe is too costly.

It’s becoming a tricky balancing act just to keep the site up and running each day and we would
like to thank our big brothers YoAfrica for sponsoring bandwidth and a lot of ideas on how to
tackle the problems we are facing.

We have since moved the Chat and Forum to the USA host and also setup a mirror Chat in Zimbabwe to make it fast for members accessing the chatroom from Zimbabwe

Please bear with us during this migration process, things might not work correctly and you might see annoying errors due to the migration process. A lot of our back and front ends had undergone modifications for this migration.

Once again thanks for the support and your patience.

Team SMS

SmS Chat

2007-05-22T05:02:00.000-07:00

SmS Zimbabwe is proud to release yet another innovation for Zimbabwe's online advancement.

Introducing one of the most sophisticated chatrooms in the world coupled with a web messenger .
SmS Zimbabwe Chat offers

Multi-room capability -- Users can enter more than one room to chat with other users.
Private messages -- Users can send private messages to other users without opening a private window.
Private Rooms -- When a user creates a private room, no other user can enter it, unless they were invited by the room owner.
Whisper -- Allows sending a private message to someone. No other users in the room will see the message.
Compelling end-user experience -- SmS Chat has one of the easiest and most intuitive user interfaces ever created. Its unique set of features include rich text, image emoticons, sound effects, user selected fonts, text and avatar icons, and more.
Fast response time even on a slow connection -- Only relevant information is transferred between client browser and the chat sever and only when some action by either side is required, providing for superior performance.
Avatars support -- Unique user avatars allow users choose an Avatar character icon to represent him/her in the chat room
Customizable Public & Private messages -- Allows users change font name, style, size, and color of public and/or private messages.
Graphical emoticons. -- Sometimes, one image costs thousands words.
Save the transcript -- Users are able to save the complete chat transcript.
Sound Effects -- Sounds play when a new message is received or someone enters the room
Away Feature -- Away Feature is useful when stepping away from the keyboard for a few minutes, need to answer the phone or concentrate on a private conversation so you aren't available for chat.
Ignore function -- Allows the chat users use the "Ignore" function against online harassment from one or more other users. This will prevent the user from receiving messages from the ignored user(s).

So what you waiting for?

http://chat.sms.co.zw

for Zimbabwe by Zimbabweans

Improved loading speeds.

2007-05-16T06:11:00.000-07:00

Part of the www.SmS.co.zw website has been relocated to New-Zealand.

Due to the popularity, SmS has been serving people from all over the world, most members visiting SmS on a hourly basis, we have already over 2000 registerd members and growing on a steady increase rate everyday. Hence the loading speeds decreased significatnly because of the bandwidth constraints we face in Zimbabwe.

So we have moved part of www.SmS.co.zw to New-Zealand last night.

Website core still remain in Harare Zimbabwe.

We are already making plans to move www.SmS.co.zw site to USA where Bandwidth is UNLIMITED to improve your experience at SmS.

Team SmS

Improved Stability

2007-05-12T07:24:00.000-07:00

We have put in more input validation to our front end and tweaked a lot of the backend to improve our sites stability. Our system would easily get confused when users put invalid information e.g. instead of puting one email they eneter 2 and one of them is invalid.

we also tweaked the user interface a bit and added the zim flag as the icon.

Due to overwelming succes we are in the process of upgrading a lot of our infrastructure to handle currrent and future demand.

Regards

Team SMS

Why is SmS Free?

2007-05-10T02:37:00.000-07:00

Team SmS live to believe that 'some' things in life should be free besides fresh air, especially during hard times.

Why should we be like OTHER COUNTRIES who pay for online SmS? we are zimbabweans, we are unique and surely being the country with the highes literacy rate in the whole world, we should definitely show 'them' what it means to be Zimbabweans
thus our slogan BY ZIMBABWE FOR ZIMBABWEANS

SmS Zimbabwe is proud to kill 2 birds with 1 stone.

1- Allowing anyone in the whole world to send free sms to Zimbabweans

2- Creating a new era in corporate advertising.

SmS Zimbabwe is sponsord by Hammer and Tongues Auctioneers in Zimbabwe

SmS you send is 100% free
but may from time to time carry a small advert
for Hammer and Tongues Auctioneers
www.auctioneers.co.zw

Hammer and Tongues Auctioneers
Supporting Zimbabwe's Online Advancemnet

When our hammer falls the market Jumps!

Network Status Notification

2007-05-09T05:29:00.000-07:00

Yet another ground breaking inovation by SmS Zimbabwe

Our network status notification picks up the network condition of our mobile networks and displays at the top right corner of our website.

Now you will be able to pick out the current network conditions at SmS Zimbabwe at any given time

Excellent Network Condition

Fair Network Conditions'

NO NETWORK

When there is no network, you can still send SmS as normal but it might be slightly delayed depending on when the network gets back to normal

SmS Zimbabwe has implemented one of the most sophisticated programming concepts to gaurantee SmS delivery. Making sure no sms is lost in the woods during poor network situations

Join our forum http://forum.sms.co.zw and post your views and comments towards SmS Zimbabwe Project

Team SmS

Photo Gallery Released

2007-05-09T05:09:00.000-07:00

SmS Zimbabwe is proud to announce that our PHOTO GALLERY has been released on a public beta, each account has its own personal photo gallery with unlimited webspace

What you waiting for? Get UPLOADING!!

you will find your gallery under PROFILES section

Team SmS
by zimbabwe for zimbabweans