We are pleased to announce that our web-application has been updated to be Apple iPad-compatible.
Where the drag-and-drop recipient selection functions appear on a PC, iOS4 (including iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch) users will now automatically see a check-box version (drag and drop does not work on iOS)

Flash-based charts in the Reports section will not show for now as iOS does not support Flash, we are working to port those to the iPad-compatible HTML 5 standard.

3rd June 2010, 0100hrs   – 0500hrs
9th June 2010, 0100hrs   – 0500hrs

During the above periods, SMS messages sent to or received from SingTel subscribers may experience delays

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We are pleased to announce that the QuickSend feature now provides options for you to set Number Masking as well as to apply message templates (a feature that was previously available only via the Campaign feature).

These new functions are available via the new “Options” box found on the right side of the QuickSend page.
The “Message History” link has also been moved to within this “Options” box.

If you are running a conference or seminar with a significant group of participants in a conference room setting, this feature will allow your participants to SMS in their questions or feedback, and have these messages received projected onto a large projector screen in a large-screen optimized and easy-to-ready format.

Handy features you will find useful include:

• Manual vetting of each received message before allowing it to appear on the projection screen
• Real-time update of new messages on the projection screen without having to refresh the projection page
• Export of all received messages for archiving or further action

Here’s what you need to get started:

1) Pre-Requisites:

• A standard projector (of course!)
• A notebook or PC with internet connectivity for projecting onto the large screen
• A second notebook or PC for the person who will be vetting the incoming messages

2) Instructions

i) First, logon to your web account and create a SMS Receive Campaign. Full details on how this is done can be found here

ii) Once the message start coming in, go to your Receive Campaign report. Under Messages Received, click on “View Log”. Do this for both notebooks or PCs.

iii) After clicking “View Logs”, you will see the page containing the details of the messages that have come in. For the notebook or PC that will be doing the message vetting, click on the “Star” icon next to each received message to approve it for projection on the screen.

For the notebook or PC that is connected to the projector, click on the “Projection View” link in the blue menu box, and leave the screen there.

iv) As each message is approved, you will see it appear on the projection screen as shown here!

Do provide us feedback should there be other areas you feel we can improve on to make our web application work better for you!

Included in this update are details on how to send a long concatenated SMS message, examples on sending a Chinese and Binary SMS message , as well as details on our Premium Rate charging API.

The new guide can be downloaded here .

What this feature enables you is to is that using an authorised mobile number, you can send an SMS to 73333 to ‘trigger’ a full-fledged SMS broadcast to a target recipient group that exists in your Contacts.

To start using this feature, logon to your account and click on ‘My Profile’ on the top right hand corner of the page. You account page should load. Proceed then to make sure that your mobile number is entered under the Personal Info section. This mobile number will be the authorised number for trigger broadcasts for your account.

To trigger a SMS broadcast, send an SMS to 73333 in the following format:

BCAST <RECIPIENT GROUP NAME> <MESSAGE CONTENT>

eg. “BCAST SALES-TEAM-A Pls gather for an important meeting at 5pm today”

Another example using an iPhone shown below:

You have to make sure that the specified recipient group exists, and this only works with groups with a single-word name. (no spaces within)

Message history sent via this feature can be found under the Web API tab, click on “View API Usage” to peruse.

Please note that this feature works for Singapore users only for now.