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Translate your messages! आसान


Posted by , August 26th, 2011

Upgrades to the biNu Messenger app and Google Translate mean that you can now translate messages in your inbox to any language. If you wish to translate an outgoing message, enter your text in the Google Translate app, choose translation language and then use the ‘Send’ option in the menu. This will take you to [...]


Rebranding: biNu Messenger


Posted by , August 10th, 2011

Today we renamed our messaging product to “biNu Messenger”, to reflect the broader nature of communication modes we now support. What started out as a purely SMS product, is now a truly unified messaging platform, allowing users in 208 countries to send messages via SMS, chat (biNu to biNu) or email on almost any mobile [...]


Pondering The Blackberry Puzzle


Posted by , August 8th, 2011

Tomi Ahonen wrote an interesting article on his blog pondering the sometime confusion surrounding Blackberry and the up and down fortunes of Blackberry maker RIM. In recent years there have been sudden surges in sales of of Blackberry phones in traditionally lower-key markets for RIM such as South Africa, Indonesia and Venezuela driven largely by [...]


Introducing biNu Credits


Posted by , August 8th, 2011

From today, biNu users can buy Credits from our new website at https://credits.binu.com. This means that registered biNu Messenger users can purchase additional credits to send more SMS in addition to their free daily quota. The binu Credits system also allows users to transfer credits to other users, from within the biNu application. This opens [...]


13 million downloads and counting!


Posted by , August 8th, 2011

Today we hit a few big download milestones: Total downloads – 13.2 million GetJar downloads – 10.1 million OviStore downloads – 2.1 million Thanks to all our happy users out there for your support!   Looking forward to welcoming the next millions to biNu.


biNu Email now live


Posted by , August 5th, 2011

Today we released a feature allowing registered biNu users to send unlimited emails from their mobile phones! This means that registered users now also have an email address (actually they have 2 – [phone-number]@binu.com and [username]@binu.com). For some users in many of our supported countries this offers them a service that they would probably never [...]