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Pinger is a texting and VoIP app developing company.
Pinger, Inc. is a US Telecom provider for free texts, pics, calls, voicemails. Pinger was founded in 2005 by former Palm, Inc. managers Greg Woock and Joe Sipher. The company was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in San Jose, California. Pinger is funded by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, DAG Ventures, Deutsche Telekom, and T-ventures.
Pinger may also refer to:
- Ping'er, fictional character in Dream of the Red Chamber
- PingER Project, an internet performance reporting tool
- Textfree (formerly called Pinger), a phone and texting app
- Underwater locator beacon
Ping'er is an important character in the Chinese novel Dream of the Red Chamber. She is Wang Xifeng's chief maid and personal assistant/confidante, who follows her from the Wang family. Being the chief consultant of the household manager, Ping'er wields considerable power in the Jia household. Always kind and caring, she turns big dilemmas into little, solvable problems. She does so with grace and impartiality and is respected by most other servants.
The PingER Project uses a simple tool—the ping command—to get valuable insights into performance of the Internet backbone. High energy particle physicists began the project in 1995, because they needed to access large amounts of data at laboratories sometimes as far away as across an ocean. They needed to know how the Internet was performing, identify problems, and apply solutions. At U.S.Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, PingER let researcher Les Cottrell "keep tabs on how parts of the network were performing and root out any problems." PingER is one of several collaborative projects having measurement infrastructures for monitoring Internet Traffic.
Textfree is an application made by Pinger that allows users to text and call over the internet for free or for a price. The application runs on iOS, Android, Microsoft Windows and Macintosh devices. Competitors include GOGII, Optini and WhatsApp.
