Pinger

Pinger
Type	Corporation
Industry	Texting and VoIP
Founded	April 2005; 20 years ago
Founders	Greg Woock; Joe Sipher;
Headquarters	San Jose, California, U.S.
Key people	Greg Woock (CEO)
Products	Textfree, Sideline, Index
Website	www.pinger.com

Pinger, Inc. is a US telecom provider for free texts, pictures, calls, and voicemails.^[1] Pinger was founded in 2005 by former Palm, Inc. managers Greg Woock (CEO of Pinger, Inc) and Joe Sipher. The company is headquartered in San Jose, California.^{[citation needed]}

History

Pinger was founded in 2005^[2] by Greg Woock and Joe Sipher.^[3] At first, the company created the Pinger Phone in 2008, which consolidated phone, email, and messaging contacts and communications.^[2]^[4] The free texting features were converted into a separate iPhone app called Textfree.^[2] Pinger was initially focused exclusively on mobile messaging, but started developing other smartphone apps after Apple released the iPhone software development kit (SDK).^[2]

Products

The company has released several apps, mostly being available on iOS, Android, Microsoft Windows and Macintosh.

Textfree

Textfree is an app that allows user to call and text using a real phone number for free. The app has a free ad-supported version and a paid version. The app allows you to text anyone in the world.^[5]

Sideline

Sideline is an app that adds a second phone number to your phone using technology similar to Textfree. It's available for iOS, Android, Microsoft Windows and Macintosh.^[6] Their official website is sideline.com.

Index

Index is an app that provides a designated business phone number with voice and text capabilities. Index also provides automated text messaging for businesses.^[7]

References

↑ Pinger's Polite Plans For World Domination, Forbes, 13 July 2011
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 Trimble, Aron (February 17, 2010). "Pinger's Textfree Delivers Billionth Free Text Message". https://www.engadget.com/2010-02-17-pingers-textfree-delivers-billionth-free-text-message.html.
↑ Saint, Nick (February 17, 2010). "Free Texting App Textfree Is Disrupting AT&T With Over A Billion Messages Handled". https://www.businessinsider.com/texting-app-textfree-over-a-billion-messages-2010-2.
↑ Meyers, Michelle (August 6, 2010). "How To Text Without a Cell Phone". https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/how-to-text-without-a-cell-phone/.
↑ "Textfree Web for Free Unlimited Texting From Your Computer". 29 July 2015. http://pinger.com/tfw/.
↑ "Developer of Sideline and Textfree | Pinger" (in en-US). https://www.pinger.com/#apps.
↑ "Index" (in en-US). https://getindex.com/.

External links

Official website
March 27, 2013 The Wall Street Journal. The Messaging Apps Taking on Facebook, Phone Giants
March 19, 2013 CNN Money Turn your iPad into a free phone
March 17, 2011 Biz Journals Pinger aims to dominate texting world

Company products

Sideline - second phone number
Textfree - free texting and calling

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[1] Pinger's Polite Plans For World Domination, Forbes, 13 July 2011

[l967-2] 2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 Trimble, Aron (February 17, 2010). "Pinger's Textfree Delivers Billionth Free Text Message". https://www.engadget.com/2010-02-17-pingers-textfree-delivers-billionth-free-text-message.html.

[g383-3] Saint, Nick (February 17, 2010). "Free Texting App Textfree Is Disrupting AT&T With Over A Billion Messages Handled". https://www.businessinsider.com/texting-app-textfree-over-a-billion-messages-2010-2.

[z351-4] Meyers, Michelle (August 6, 2010). "How To Text Without a Cell Phone". https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/how-to-text-without-a-cell-phone/.

[Pinger's_Textfree-5] "Textfree Web for Free Unlimited Texting From Your Computer". 29 July 2015. http://pinger.com/tfw/.

[6] "Developer of Sideline and Textfree | Pinger" (in en-US). https://www.pinger.com/#apps.

[7] "Index" (in en-US). https://getindex.com/.

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