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I just read this interesting post in MobileCrunch about a new piece of software called FlexiSpy. The product description from the FlexiSpy website is as follows:
FlexiSPY is a ‘activity logger’ for mobile phones. All activity such as sending & receiving SMS messages, call history, (incoming / outgoing), call duration, GPRS activity, & contact names in […]

After hacking and tweaking again, it looks like Fedora Core 5 is so much easier to install on a Dell Latitude D510 than the previous incarnation of Fedora Core. It also looks much better to boot. Here is the documentation on the installation process. So far I am like Fedora Core 5 and it seems […]

I bumped into this BBC article from Textually.org stating:

More than a third of Filipinos have mobile phones. In a country where many live in poverty, they are often seen as a cheap way to stay in touch. But for some the mobile is also being used as a powerful political and social tool …
But it […]

I plan to start working on an idea about building a testbed for Voice-over-IP experiments. Some of the experiments I would like to perform are:

The Effect of Non-variable Delays and Jitter in the WAN interface on VoIP performance.
The Effect of Non-variable Delays and Jitter in the LAN interface on VoIP performance.
Comparison of the Effects of […]

SS7 to IP integration is one of the major items in any IP-ization of a traditional telecommunications system. Most of the traditional telecommunications equipment still use PSTN signalling. Most smaller equipment use Q.931 (ISDN Connection Part) and some implement an entire suite of SS7 protocols. It is quite a long list.
There are number of ways […]

That is $20 per switched MS Exchange user to Lotus Notes on Linux user. There is some coverage on this here and here. This is quite a lot of money to woo users off the Microsoft platform.
The Seatle PI nicely summarizes the promo:
In a campaign called “Migrate to the Penguin,” IBM will offer rebates […]

Globe and Mail have this nice interview with the Father of Java, James Gosling. He is described as:
… one of the world’s most famous computer programmers, known as the “father of Java” for his key role in developing the ubiquitous though often-unnoticed programming language. About five million professional programmers use Java every day, writing everything […]