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The Telephone.com Team has been hard at work on updating the Contacts Management section.
We’ve introduced a fan of new features that will make it even easier for you to contact your friends, family, and colleagues. Our new Contacts Management section has been designed and implemented in a way to smoothly welcome our transition into a broader, more feature-rich Telephone.com experience.

Please watch the demo for an introduction to some of the key features:

Here are some of the new features:

1. Alphabetic scroller of your contacts:
Scroll alphabetically through your contacts by clicking on any letter

2. Send SMSes to a group
Click on the message icon next to the group’s name, compose your message, and send it to all the contacts belonging to that group

3. Instantly SMS a contact
Click on the message icon next to a contact’s name, compose your message, and send it hassle-free.

4. Contact details
We have enhanced your single contact view into a fully-fledged detail sheet. Add as much information as you want, such as websites, IM, and date of birth.

UPDATE

With the growing benefits of FREE SMSes to Haiti, the continued suffering in Haiti especially with the successive and substantial aftershocks, and the growing needs for food and shelter, we have gladly extended our ‘FREE SMSes to Haiti’ initiative until February 10^th, 2010.

Please extend to NGOs and people who can benefit from this offer.



En raison des bénéfices croissants des SMS gratuits en Haïti et la souffrance continue en particulier due aux répliques successives et importantes, et les besoins croissants de nourriture et d’abri, nous avons étendu notre initiative “SMS gratuits en Haïti» jusqu’au 10 Février, 2010.

N’hésitez pas de communiquer cette offre aux ONG et aux personnes qui peuvent en bénéficier.

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On January 7^th 2010, Haiti suffered an earthquake ranking at 7.0 on the Richter scale and causing major losses in lives, infrastructure, and supplies. All forms of help are needed: water, supplies of all types, telephones, medical support, …

In an effort to facilitate aid and relief efforts for victims, Telephone.com is offering FREE SMSes to Haiti until January 31^st, 2010:

1. All SMSes sent to Haiti are FREE of charge. Sign up from anywhere around the world and send SMSes to Haitian numbers for free.
2. All SMSes that are sent FROM Haiti, TO Haiti are also free.
3. We are offering any Haitian mobile subscriber $3 worth of FREE international SMSes when they sign up to Telephone.com using their Haitian mobile number (within 24 hours, $3 in addition to the $1 worth of free SMSes upon signing up).
4. NGOs dealing with the relief effort are offered a 10% discount on all Telephone.com wallet recharges. Contact us via Twitter @TelephoneDotCom or via support@telephone.com prior to your recharge.

The Telephone.com team would like to extend their deepest condolences to all of those who have lost their loved ones.

We would also like to extend a heartfelt concern to survivors and aid agencies on the ground.

Telephone.com vous aide à aider les autres: TOUS les SMS envoyés en Haïti sont GRATUITS

Le 7 Janvier 2010, Haïti a subi un tremblement de terre classé à 7,0 sur l’échelle de Richter, provoquant d’importantes pertes humaines et matérielles. Toutes formes d’aide sont nécessaires: eau, tout genre de ravitaillement, téléphones, soutien médical,…

Dans le but de faciliter l’aide aux victimes et les efforts de secours, Telephone.com offre gratuitement des SMS en Haïti jusqu’au 31 Janvier 2010:

1. Tous les SMS envoyés en Haïti sont exempts de frais. Inscrivez-vous à partir de n’importe où dans le monde et envoyez des SMS gratuitement à des numéros haïtiens.
2. Tous les SMS envoyés à partir d’Haïti en Haïti sont également gratuits.
3. Nous offrons tout abonné à un opérateur haïtien l’équivalent de 3$ de SMS internationaux GRATUITS lors de leur inscription à Telephone.com en utilisant leur numéro de téléphone portable haïtien (dans les 24 heures, 3$ seront ajoutés à l’équivalent de 1$ de SMS gratuits sur inscription).
4. Les ONG impliqués dans des efforts de secours sont offerts un rabais de 10% sur toutes les recharges de portefeuille Telephone.com. Contactez-nous via Twitter @TelephoneDotCom ou via support@telephone.com avant votre recharge.

L’équipe Telephone.com tient à exprimer ses condoléances les plus sincères à tous ceux qui ont perdu leurs êtres chers.

Nous tenons également à exprimer une sincère solidarité avec les survivants et les organismes d’aide présents sur le terrain.

Last Wednesday, Telephone.com participated in “Sing for a cause, Sing for Haiti”. This fund-raising karaoke event was hosted by Melting Pot in an effort to help victims of the Haiti earthquakes.

All guests were giving donations, the sponsors were supplying the restaurant for free, and all the staff was donating their efforts and time for no retribution. A slideshow of the event was played in honor of the victims and the aid workers. This was all done in order to gather contributions and send them to Haiti through the International Red Cross.

We were pleased to contribute to this event and would like to thank, on behalf of the Telephone.com team, all of the attendants and the team over at Melting Pot.

Here are some pictures of the event we would like to share with you:

"Sing for a cause, Sing for Haiti" at Melting Pot