Pinger
US Telecom provider for free texts, pics, calls, voicemails
Pinger, Inc. is a US telecom provider for free texts, pictures, calls, and voicemails. 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.
History
Pinger was founded in 2005 by Greg Woock and Joe Sipher. At first, the company created the Pinger Phone in 2008, which consolidated phone, email, and messaging contacts and communications. The free texting features were converted into a separate iPhone app called Textfree. Pinger was initially focused exclusively on mobile messaging, but started developing other smartphone apps after Apple released the iPhone software development kit (SDK).
Products
The company has released several apps, mostly being available on iOS, Android, Microsoft Windows and Macintosh.
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