TigerText App Plays on Woods Scandal

TigerText, a new iPhone app, is the kind of thing that might have saved (well, helped) Tiger Woods if it had been out earlier. TigerText lets you put a timed delete on all your text messages and voicemails. If Tiger had it last October, sext messages like send me something very naughty and I will wear you out soon would never have made it to the New York Post.

Messages deleted using TigerText disappear from the sender’s phone, the recipient’s phone, and the TigerText server on which the message is stored. You can also set the message to be deleted right after it is read, or delete your entire message history. The only caveat is that both the sender and the recipient need to have the TigerText installed on their iPhones.

TigerText costs $2.50/month–a screaming deal, I imagine, for a good number of philanderers.

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