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I just finished installing and testing a patch to fix a transport mis-match bug in my previous Asterisk 1.2.10 TCP support patch. This patch was also updated to support the latest release of Asterisk which is 1.2.12.1.
This bug causes Asterisk to not identify the transport type of a particular client request properly. This causes clients […]

Just read this posting from MobileCrunch about Sierra Wireless released a new version of its Aircard line of 3G PCMCIA cards in the US for mobile network operator, Cingular. This particular release now supports HSDPA (also known as 3.5G).
Sierra Wireless and Cingular Wireless have announced that they will be releasing the AirCard 875. The AirCard […]

Short Messaging Service (SMS) is still the current killer application of the mobile telephony world. This is especially true for countries like the Philippines with over 1.5 billion SMS messages sent per day. Now that is what I call volume. However, network operators are now trying for find new products and services for the mobile […]

In the 1970’s, a phenomenon called Social Marketing was born. This refers to the use of marketing to sell ideas instead of products and services. Philip Kotler and Gerald Zaltman define it as:
Differing from other areas of marketing only with respect to the objectives of the marketer and his or her organization. Social marketing seeks […]

NetworkWorld has this interesting article on a Phoolproof Anti-Phishing System. This systems utilizes mobile phones as secure keys for users browsing websites. Interesting? Here is a snippet from NetworldWorld on how it works:
Phoolproof Phishing Prevention system, the program provides strong authentication between the user’s browser and a Web site by using a third party – […]

I just read Chin Wong’s Blog about the new Philippine Open Source Bill to be filed by Rep. Teddy Casino. From the title alone, we can see that there are two (2) main parts of the bill and there are a number of important main points in the document itself (and a bit of analysis […]

This is Part II of my series on IT Project Management Idioms. Again, as a recap, I started creating these idioms during my years teaching at the Ateneo. This particular one is actually older than the first idiom. However, it is also the one that changes its formulation very often. Since, I have to blog […]

I have been teaching undergraduate information technology classes for five (5) years. A number of these classes were filled with BS Management of Information Systems (MIS) and BS Management of Communications Technology (MCT) majors. I try to make it a point to make the topic more relevant by adding bits and pieces on project management, […]

Seems to be a good number of country regulators are not looking at implementing number portability. Here are two (2) articles from MobileMonday on the topic: Chile plans mobile number portability studies and Brazil to introduce number portability by 2008.
Mobile number portability (MNP) is the ability to bring an MSISDN (mobile number which is not […]

I was looking for a texmaker RPM for Fedora Core 5. The only one I found was for version 1.3. However, I wanted version 1.4 which already has spell checking support. I looked around some more and found a nice texmaker 1.4 FC6 RPM. So I grabbed that and built it for FC5. Unfortunately, there […]