<p>Campfire, HipChat and other group chat platforms are popular with distributed work teams because of the ability to communicate in real time via a web browser or mobile app. Cotap, a free iPhone app that launched Tuesday, takes a different tack by forgoing the browser element, opting instead to be a simple group texting app for work that you use primarily on your phone.</p><p>"We want to be actually easier than texting," says Cotap CEO Jim Patterson, a former Yammer executive with a background in mobile communication and enterprise software.CoTap keeps work teams in contact from any location.</p><p>Patteron notes that while other platforms have focused on creating rooms or groups as well as sharing files, most business communication platforms don't focus first on mobile.</p><p>Unlike consumer mobile messaging apps such as GroupMe, that require you to manually create groups and add contacts, Cotap scans your phone's address book for anyone with the same work email domain as you, using those addresses to automatically populate your company's address book inside Cotap. As a result, the next person from yourcompanydomain.com to start using Cotap will have one-tap texting access to not only the company email domains in his own address book but also the ones imported into Cotap by anyone else who uses the same work domain, as well as anyone whose email address is associated with a meeting scheduled with Cotap.</p><p><a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/2052308/cotap-launches-mobile-messaging-app-for-work-teams.html">Keep reading...</a></p>