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A Silent SMS Denial of Service (DoS) Attack

Global System for Mobile communications GSM is a popular mobile communications network. Short Message Service SMS is an easily adopted person-to-person communications technology for mobile devices. The GSM architecture allows for the insertion of mass application-generated SMS messages directly into the network infrastructure. In contrast, a mass continuous send of...

Tags: Denial Of Service, Mobile, SMS, GSM, Attack, University Of Pretoria, GSM Architecture, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Telephony, Cellular Phones, Security, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Networking

White papers 2007-10-31

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The grand Google plan against the whole Microsoft stack

The grand Google plan against the whole Microsoft stackThe problem with this is vendor lock-inYea, sure you get vendor lock-in anyway with Microsoft, Oracle, whatever...right? But this is alot more vertical. With Google, everything is in the cloud, which they host. Your custom applications will have be...

Tags: VPNs, Network security, NETWORKING, SECURITY, Microsoft Corp., likelyhood, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-07-15

Security Management System of Cellular Communication

Cellular communication is being widely used by all over the world. The users of handsets are increasing due to the request from marketing sector. The important aspect that has to be touch in this paper is about the security system of cellular communication. It is important to provide users with...

Tags: Communication, Security Management, Cellular Network, Security

White papers 2009-06-11

Unlocking Successful Net Access While Globe Trotting

Getting online in places you've never been before can be a huge challenge, especially if you're on the move a lot. Paying for hotel wifi and staying late at conferences or clients are options, but what about when you're visiting a country for the first time - how...

Tags: Internet Access, SIM Card, Phone, Mobile, Network, Service, Murphy, Modems, Cellular Phones, Flash Memory, Networking, Wireless And Mobility, Hardware, Components, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-05-18

Speculation on Papermaster's "huh?": IBM, Apple, and Freescale

Speculation on Papermaster's "huh?": IBM, Apple, and FreescalePaul-the-pseudonym is probably rightFor a long time, Apple has been managing its supply chain as a lean, JIT organization with a good deal of outsourcing. Their strategy: We are the best at design, let's increasingly move manufacturing and integration to subcontractors willing to...

Tags: Processors, Apple Inc., IBM Corp., PPC

Discussion threads 2008-11-04

Winlog Lite 2.06.57 (Windows)

Simple, flexible and economical, Winlog is a real time SCADA/HMI software package for the supervision of industrial and civil plants. An integrated development environment provides different tools (Gate Builder, Template Builder, Code Builder) for the easy and intuitive creation of multilanguage applications. Communication with most available devices (PLCs, controllers, motor...

Tags: Microsoft Access, Data Acquisition, Microsoft Windows, GSM, Intranet, SIELCO SISTEMI, Winlog Lite 2.06.57, Microsoft Excel, Internet, Microsoft Office, Databases, Cellular Phones, Office Suites, Software, Enterprise Software, Data Management, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2008-09-14

Cost-Efficient Network Architecture for Addressing Low-Income Segments

GSM is the world's most successful mobile system. As subscriber numbers continue to grow around the world, the challenge for GSM is to serve regions that are completely different from the environment for which it was originally created. As GSM expands into areas and segments with low per capita income,...

Tags: Ericsson Inc., GSM, Roi/Tco, Cellular Phones, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

White papers 2007-11-09

gPhone may force Apple to open iPhone

gPhone may force Apple to open iPhoneARM vs x86Users don't care about the CPU model but they do care about how fast the apps run and how complex they can be. The reason x86 won on the desktop and server is that it kept getting faster and more capable due...

Tags: Processors, Apple Inc., Gphone, Google Inc., Intel x86, ARM, phone

Discussion threads 2007-10-17

HP trots out fall line of products

HP has climbed to the top of the PC mountain over the past few years. In Q2 of this year, the company garnered 18.2 percent of the worldwide PC market, up from 14.9 percent for the year earlier, according to IDC numbers. Closet competitor Dell had around 15 percent...

Tags: Blackbird 002, Blackbird 02, CBS Interactive Inc., Compaq iPAQ, Dan Farber, Game, Hewlett-Packard Co., iPAQ 200 Series Enterprise Handheld, PC

Blog posts 2007-09-05

Mobile phone architect lists 10 iPhone problems

On the authoritative 4G Mobile website, 15-year mobile phone architect Willie Lu posts what he says are 10 documented problems with the iPhone:1. The current wireless system architecture is very closed. Basically, it is still the old coupling technology to put together multiple radio standards into one handphone...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Phone, Mobile, Cell Phone, Wireless, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2007-08-09

Safari on Windows? The real reason behind the new release.

Safari on Windows? The real reason behind the new release.appsHopefully the iPhone webapp explosion will mean more and better apps for windows mobile too.I installed it just to check out my homepage, etc. eom.iPhone - OS X - Firefox - SUCKULARSafari is not going to see more support because of...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Web browsers, Microsoft Windows, Apple QuickTime, Apple Safari, Apple iPhone, Mozilla Firefox

Discussion threads 2007-06-12

HTC Shift to use Intel’s new Ultra Mobile Platform

As I wrote about in March HTC is expanding their market beyond smartphones and Pocket PC Phone Edition devices with their upcoming HTC Shift. Sue sent in a note that makes the HTC Shift even more enticing and attractive. At the Intel Developer Forum in Bejing, HTC announced that the...

Tags: Ultra portable PC, Tablet PC, HTC, On the road, Microsoft

Blog posts 2007-04-19

Nortel Network Case Study: Bharti Airtel Limited

Bharti Airtel Limited (previously called Bharti Tele-Ventures) is one of India's leading private sector providers of telecommunications services, delivering mobile, broadband and telephony, and enterprise services to more than 19.74 million customers, including more than 18.45 million GSM mobile subscribers. Bharti has a firm commitment to growth and, through a...

Tags: Bharti Tele-Ventures, Network, Nortel Networks Corp., Call Centers, Interactive Voice Response (IVR), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Advertising & Promotion, Outsourcing, Networking, It Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting

Case studies 2007-01-01

Will Google Office's solution to the "offline" problem mean trouble for MS-Office?

Will Google Office's solution to the "offline" problem mean trouble for MS-Office?Isn't this nothing more than a smart clientapplication that works online or offline and automatically syncs as needed. MS was doing this in the 1990s with Outlook.The solution to making web apps rich …… is to turn them into...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Programming languages, Java, Microsoft Windows Vista, Web browser, Microsoft Corp., Web, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2006-10-11

Traffic Overload & Control in a Geomobile System

A Geomobile system is a geo-stationary satellite-based communication system offering point-to-point voice and data communication services. It provides mobile communication services in various parts of the world using a regenerative satellite among the Mobile Stations and other network nodes, such as Gateways. It is typically based on the modified GSM...

Tags: Mobile, Mobile Communication, Satellite, GSM, Aricent, Geomobile System, Cellular Phones, Advertising & Promotion, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing

White papers 2006-10-01

IMS Primer: Enabling Enhanced Service Delivery

The IP Multimedia Subsystem IMS, defined by 3GPP and 3GPP2 standards and organizations based on IETF Internet protocols, is an IP multimedia and telephony core network. The IMS offers Service Providers a complete access independence because it can support IP to IP session over wireline IP, 802.11, 802.15, CDMA, and...

Tags: Multimedia, IP, IBM IMS, Aricent, Network Technology, Networking

White papers 2006-10-01

Adding Location-Based Services to Existing Architectures: Building Feature-Rich Mobile Telephony Applications Using Intel NetStructure Signaling Components

This paper provides an overall view of Location-Based Services LBS, describes the signaling and technology involved, and discusses how Intel's signaling product building blocks can be used to implement such services. Beginning with an overview of the LBS network architecture, this paper discusses positioning mechanisms used by Global System for...

Tags: Intel Corp., Branding, Cellular Phones, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

White papers 2006-02-01

UMA's Role Within Mobile Network Evolution

As operators of all kinds are looking into convergence services, they are faced with new and delicate technology choices. Among many new acronyms, Unlicensed Mobile Access UMA has made its way through the operators' doors. The technology, expanding the GSM network architecture with new access technologies like Wireless Local Area...

Tags: Mobile Network, Mobile, Network, WLAN, inCode, UMA, Wireless LANs, LANs, Wi-Fi, Networking, Wireless

White papers 2006-01-01

Winlog Lite SCADA HMI 2.06 (Windows)

Winlog Lite is simple and flexible real time SCADA software package for the supervision of industrial and civil plants. An integrated development environment provides different tools (Gate Builder, Template Builder, Code Builder) for the easy and intuitive creation of multi-language applications. Communication with most available devices (PLCs, controllers, motor drives,...

Tags: Data Acquisition, Microsoft Windows, SIELCO SISTEMI, Winlog Lite, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Software downloads 2005-07-20

Combined GSM/UMTS Mobile Backhaul Network

GSM mobile operators have already executed plans or have strong commitments to upgrade their GSM network with EDGE Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution and/or to evolve to UMTS. GSM/GPRS backhaul transmission is based on a TDM circuit-switched technology, whereas UMTS deployment requires a new backhaul network based on IP...

Tags: UMTS, Mobile, Network, EDGE, GSM, Kate-Kom, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

White papers 2005-03-22