Venyu Blog

Venyu is a premier provider of online data backup, protection, recovery and availability services, meaning it is the trusted custodian of data that someone, somewhere actually wants to save and refer to at a later point in time.  The deeper I drill down into the industry at large, the more often I learn not everyone wants their data saved, accessible, revealed or some combination thereof.

Case in point, the newly announced application for the iPhone: TigerText.

While so-called traditional texts continue to reside on your carrier’s server long after you press send, texts using TigerText (and yes, its name coincidentally capitalizes on the pro golfer with the same name), are deleted at a time you select: beginning one minute and up to one month after they’re read. (According to the company, the application will also shortly be available for Blackberry and Android).

At $2.49 per month the cost of the service is minimal.  It’s also smart enough to sidestep your carrier’s own server by transmitting directly through TigerText’s server, and thereby eliminating any chance of the text being archived or ever seeing the light of day, even as part of an e-discovery process. There is at least one “gotcha” (e.g. both the sender and the receiver must have the app installed), and it’s the sender of the message who decides when the message will finally dissolve into the ether; however, if you want to wipe out your paw prints, this could be the app for you.  More information here: