Whether you need to keep in touch with colleagues, suppliers, customers or SMS enable your business, BlackBerry SMS is the service for you. There is no software to install, minimum setup needed and no commitment required. You can open an individual account or a corporate enterprise account.

Increasing mobility has limited businesses' ability to communicate effectively with their employees and customers. BlackBerry devices ensure you're connected to the enterprise environment beyond the confines of the office via mobile email. However, high adoption rates of mobile phones and popularity of SMS messaging provide an opportunity to extend the reach of traditional enterprise messaging systems and efficiently Inform, Alert and Interact with relevant individuals no matter where they with text messaging.

While the growth of mobile messaging over the last 5-6 years has been staggering and impressive, most of it has come from communications between individuals. A significantly larger potential exists in the area of CRM and SMS Alert messaging, where various business processes interact with mobile employees and customers. SMS enable your business today.

Set up an account at www.handheldsms.com (you will receive 10 message credits to evaluate the service)     Register with our service using your BlackBerry or Palm Treo email address     Create your personal Webtext Code (this is your user id)       - This is your personal ID that identifies you on our network as the sender. You wil use this code whenever you send an SMS.   - Your WebText Code should be 6 to 12 characters long and is case insensitive and alphanumeric.   - Log in and click on 'Settings' then 'Account' and add your WebText Code, user999 for example.

Go to your email account on your BlackBerry or Palm Treo and compose your message     in the 'TO' field type in the number you wish to send a text message to in the following format       - +18887776666@opensms.ipipi.com (incuding + sign and international code)   - Enter your WebText Code in the Subject Field and send!

All incoming and reply SMS messages are sent to your www.handheldsms.com inbox by default     To have all messages forwarded to your BlackBerry or Palm Treo you simply set up a forwarding rule       - Log in and click on 'Settings' then 'Forwarding Rules'   - The rule for forwarding SMS needs to include the exact phrase "SMS from" in the subject line.   - Select your BlackBerry or Palm Treo email address as the registered device     All SMS will now be sent directly to your handheld device, whereever you are in the World