TigerText

TigerText is an iPhone app that allows text messages to be deleted from both the sender's and the receiver's phones after expiration, which could be a set period of time or after reading. The messages cannot be saved, copied or forwarded by recipients. TigerText does this by storing the message on a company server, not the receiving and sending iPhones, and deleting when the expiration conditions are met.^[1][2][3] Jeffrey Evans, who founded TigerText, has stated that he picked the iPhone app's name before the scandal that was related to Tiger Woods' alleged text messages to a mistress.^[4]

Founded in February 2010, TigerText is the first mobile messaging service "to offer delivery, read, and expired notifications across four platforms". TigerText can be used on the Android, BlackBerry, iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, or Windows 7 mobile device.^[5]

References

1. ^ Charlie Sorrel (2010-03-01). "TigerText Deletes Text Messages From Receiver's Phone". Wired. Archived from the original on 2010-10-17. http://www.webcitation.org/5tXY3e8Rr. Retrieved 2010-03-02. 
2. ^ Glenn Chapman (2010-02-27). "TigerText app removes embarrassing text messages". Agence France-Presse. Archived from the original on 2010-10-17. http://www.webcitation.org/5tXXcZCRU. Retrieved 2010-03-02. 
3. ^ Luscombe, Belinda (2010-02-26). "TigerText: An iPhone App for Cheating Spouses?". Time. Archived from the original on 2010-10-17. http://www.webcitation.org/5tXY6jk4k. Retrieved 2010-04-11. "Called, coincidentally enough, TigerText, it allows users to set a time limit for a sent text to hang around after it has been read. When that life span has been exceeded, the message will disappear, say the developers, from the recipient's phone, the sender's phone and any servers. The message cannot be forwarded anywhere, stored anywhere or sold to any tabloid for an undisclosed sum." 
4. ^ Rosen, Jeffrey (2010-07-25). "The Web Means the End of Forgetting". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2010-09-01. http://www.webcitation.org/5sQqahsIp. Retrieved 2010-09-01. 
5. ^ "TigerText Becomes First Mobile Messaging Service to Offer Delivery and Read Notifications across Four Platforms". Business Wire. 2010-11-05. http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20101105006162/en/TigerText-Mobile-Messaging-Service-Offer-Delivery-Read. Retrieved 2010-11-09. 

External links

• Official website