Lots of Changes

Here's the scoop on the latest changes at Data24-7:

1. API 2.0 - This new version of our API contains many improvements, including the following:

• Enhanced processing speeds
• Get results in XML, JSON, or CSV formats
• Subclient tracking - The ability to track your clients' usage of our API.
• See details here:   http://www.data24-7.com/wiki/index.php/API2.0#API_2.0_INSTRUCTIONS
• No need to upgrade - we will continue to support version 1.0 of the API.

2. Brand New Products and services:

• IP24-7 - Look-up geolocation data (city, state, longitude, latitude, zipcode) from IP addresses.
• ZIP24-7 - Look-up geolocation data from US zip codes.
• Coming soon - enhancements to Email24-7 - access to more data.
• More exciting products are on their way . . . 

3. Price Changes:

• Starting May 1st, the price for Email24-7 transactions will increase to $0.006 each.
• Effective immediately, the price for Carrier24-7 transactions will decrease to $0.006 each.

. . . stay tuned, more products are coming soon!

Updates

Lots of new stuff happening here at Data24-7.

Soon, we will be releasing our new API version 2.0. The new API will be faster and more flexible than the existing one; but we'll keep the old API around for existing customers.

Along with the new API will come the ability to add many more cool products to our suite, including zipcode, gender, and mailing address queries, plus new email-related queries.

If you are looking for data which we don't currently supply, send us an email; maybe we can get it.

New website

We're excited to announce that we've just launched our new website. It's a bit more modern looking than the old site. Functionally, it's pretty much the same as before, except we have a new "Testimonials" page. We'd greatly appreciate if our existing customers would write us some testimonials for this page. And of course and feedback about the new website would be appreciated as well.

Our latest service: Email24-7

Introducing Email24-7, a new service which gives you access to valuable information about your customers, from only their email addresses. Our service can return your customers' gender, age, financial status, location, pets owned, interests, purchase history, home value, whether they have children, and more. All this from just the e-mail addresses. 

Email24-7 will also validate your e-mail address for you, and tell you which ones are invalid. 

Our basic service costs $0.002 per lookup, it includes email validation and it returns the gender, age, and location of the owner, if available.  When the data for an email address is not available to us, we don't charge for it, but we still validate it for you, and we try to infer the gender from the part of the address before the @ symbol.  

As with our other services, Email24-7 can be accessed via API, file upload, or by manually typing-in addresses via the website. 

We're putting the finishing touches on our more advanced Email24-7 packages and pricing, and we'll post this information in the coming days.  In the meantime, please feel free to contact us with any questions. 

Thanks.

Introducing GIT24-7

Data24-7 is rolling-out a brand new service, GIT24-7.

GIT stands for Greeting Interrupt Tone, and the new service will return the touch-tone key(s) you need to press in order to interrupt a wireless phone's voicemail greeting and get straight to the "beep" to record your message.

Most wireless phone carriers provide a key for interrupting the voicemail greetings, but there's no standard key to press; it varies for each carrier. If you press the wrong key for that carrier, you often end-up in the middle of a voicemail sub-menu such as "please enter your PIN to log-in", and you have to hang-up and try again.

GIT24-7 allows you to instantly look-up the correct greeting interrupt tones, so you can save time and phone charges.

 Like with our other services, it can be accessed via API, file-upload, or manually through the website.

The price for the service:  $0.006 per phone number, plus our regular $12 per month membership fee.

Text@ Carrier List

I've gotten a bunch of requests from people for the list of carriers for Text@ along with their associated ID numbers.  Finally, I've posted it on the wiki here:

USA Wireless Carriers:
http://www.data24-7.com/wiki/index.php/Text@_Wireless_Carriers_(USA)

Canada Wireless Carriers:
http://www.data24-7.com/wiki/index.php/Text@_Wireless_Carriers_(Canada)

USA/Canada Landline Carriers:
http://www.data24-7.com/wiki/index.php/Text@_Landline_Carriers_(USA/Canada)

Integrating ID24-7 with Asterisk / Trixbox / FreePBX

For anybody interested in using our ID24-7 CNAM service with their existing Asterisk, Trixbox, or FreePBX installation, here are the instructions:

http://www.data24-7.com/wiki/index.php/Asterisk/Trixbox/FreePBX_Integration