Pfizer has launched a SMS-based smoking cessation programme in support of its smoking cessation drug Champix /Chantix
Apparently, research has shown that half the fight to quit smoking is psychological.
Users of the drug are hence assisted with up to daily SMS encouragement reminders to keep up the good fight , not to give up and basically to keep the chin up until the end of the drug course.
To register, send QUIT to 73333 , you will be prompted to enter your drug course start date to begin the programme.
Published August 15th, 2007
in COMMZGATE Products and SMS Campaigns.
Braun and Oral-B have jointly launched a OktoberFest SMS Campaign where customers can stand to win a fully-paid trip for 2 to Munich, Germany to celebrate the German OktoberFest beer-drinking festival.
Customers will have to purchase $128 worth or more of Braun or Oral-B products and SMS their details to 76767.
The Braun / Oral-B OktoberFest SMS Campaign is powered by the COMMZGATE Platform.
Published July 22nd, 2007
in Techical Stuff! and COMMZGATE Products.
If you are programming an application to interface with an GSM modem hardware device to send and receive SMS Text Messages, you will most likely be communicating with the GSM modem device using AT Commands.
When issuing commands to the GSM modem device, you will get back a series of return codes from the device, which is in turn a result of how the GSM modem device had interacted with the GSM network.
The return codes are in the form of 1 to 3 digit numbers.
Here is the full list of the possible return codes and what they mean:
CMS Error code list for GSM Modem devices
1 - “Unassigned (unallocated) number”
This cause indicates that the destination requested by the Mobile Station cannot be reached because, although the number is in a valid format, it is not currently assigned (allocated).
8 - “Operator determined barring”
This cause indicates that the MS has tried to send a mobile originating short message when the MS’s network operator or service provider has forbidden such transactions.
10 - “Call barred”
This cause indicates that the outgoing call barred service applies to the short message service for the called destination.
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Published July 2nd, 2007
in COMMZGATE Products.
Samsung mobile phones now come embedded with a range of pre-installed Java Games playable in trial mode. To activate the game you like to full action mode, simply select the ‘Activation’ button and wait for a SMS to arrive in your SMS inbox.
The SMS message will ask you to confirm the purchase of the game activation code by replying with the word ‘GAME’ back to the shortcode from which the SMS message came from. The secret activation code will hence arrive in your SMS Inbox.
Continue reading ‘Samsung ‘Try and Buy’ embedded Java Games’
Published June 20th, 2007
in Techical Stuff! and COMMZGATE Products.
WAP PUSH enables the delivery of multimedia content to mobile devices without the need for the full-fledged MMS delivery protocol. Instead, a hyperlink is delivered to the mobile device of the recipient as a Service Indication message. The recipient mobile device will automatically prompt the recipient to download the content on the hyperlink and display it over a GPRS/WAP connection.
Formatting a proper WAP PUSH message as hexadecimal string has been something of a mystery to many people, as there is close to no useful documentation on the Web on this, and Nokia’s own documentation is very cryptic at best.
Hopefully, the following provides a clear and easy-to-understand guide on how to construct WAP PUSH messages!
Basics: ASCII to Hex Conversion
A WAP Push message essentially consists of the Internet URL containing your multimedia content, and this URL is wrapped by some SMS-specific headers, which we will explain below
Your need to first convert your URL into a hexadecimal string. Use the table found at the following webpage to convert each character in your URL string into its hexadecimal equivalent:
http://www.prepressure.com/library/binhex.htm
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