Syner-G Phone to Phone

As requested, we just implemented a change to make the Phone-to-Phone text messages that users send to the Philippines visible in the user's Syner-G Message History.

We invite our users to email us if you have any suggestions or feature requests.

Guam Wireless Ecosystem

I find it kind of funny that fairly recently literally all of Guam's wireless carriers have come out with text messaging services similar to our pisotext service. Similar, but not the same.

I am glad to see that our tiny operation is making waves in the greater telco industry. It took them a while but I think they are finally figuring out what we knew since 2001. IT&E has been particularly aggressive in promoting their service. Too bad the implementations are way off and not what the consumers want/need.

That is why Syner-G remains king of the hill and servant of the Filipino people worldwide.

Twas A Busy Week

Manny got interviewed yesterday for a short article in the newspaper, Guam Pacific Daily, News Business Section, about our business and our recently awarded patent(U.S. Patent No. 7,369,865). A photographer also came by today to take a couple pics of us. Check out the Monday edition of the GuamPDN. :-)

Mpulse, the wireless carrier operated by GTA Teleguam just soft launched their InfoTXT. It is an SMS based PhoneBook Directory and Movie Listing service for Guam that we built and run for them.

We also are working on some added features to make our already simple Syner-G SMS Service even simpler. For those use the Syner-G Phone to Phone service, be on the lookout, it will help greatly simplify everything.

Be sure to always visit Gabriel Technologies, inc. and this blog for regularly for updates and new features.

E-Load your Friends and Family in the Philippines from your Syner-G Account

Hi folks, sorry, it has been a while since I posted anything on this blog. I promise to increase the frequency. :-)

Things have moved along and we have been working to improve the Syner-G system and provide more services. Recently we introduced the option to E-load your contacts without even needing to log into your Syner-G account. All you have to do is send a text message to 1-671-988-7964 with the name of the contact and the amount to load(100p or 300p). We can E-load all the major wireless carriers in the Philippines.

So remember to give the gift of E-Load to keep the text conversation going.

Visit Gabriel Technologies, Inc. for more information.

Twitter

Parts of the Twitter service has has numerous downtimes this month and is developing a reputation of been down a heap. Now I hear there are multiple high profile Twitter users making the switch to FriendFeed.

Could Twitter be the next Friendster? The Twitter user base is a relatively small, highly niche market, and the are basically operating without a valid business plan so the possibility is there. So, every day that passes with problems, this possibility increases.

I strangely find it so interesting that I have to check the stats.twitter.com everyday to see if anything interesting happened on that day, sort of like a reality show. I will just have to watch the unfolding drama. Until the next episode...

Downtime

Our SMS service was down from 3am to around noon today due to connectivity issues at the Philippine end. We are back online but the system may take a little while to normalize. Thousands of messages queued as a result of the loss of connectivity but will be delivered shortly.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

Syner-G SMS Services

Funny thing happened a couple months ago when we met with the management of one of the leading wireless carriers here on Guam, we got around to comparing numbers. Apparently we do more SMS traffic to/from the Philippines on one day than they do in one month. We could literally see their jaws drop at the numbers we were giving them.

Given that we met with a leading wireless carrier(maybe the biggest) and there are only around 5 carriers here, the numbers of the other carriers would not be that far off. If we multiplied the monthly average for the carrier by 5, the multiple would still not equal our daily average. Very cool.

Now admittedly, SMS is not a big money maker for the carriers. They sort of just leverage SMS to get the voice traffic, so while our traffic is high, they are still the one making the money.

We love the fact that we are disrupting the communications industry on Guam with our tiny (3 person) operation. Not bad for a service that was built from scratch by us. I can only imagine what we can do if we had the money/budget of the big communications companies.

Be sure keep a watch out though, we are still building enhancements and new services all the time. Maybe we can disrupt another industry...