Archive for July, 2010

The Short Message Peer-to-Peer (SMPP) protocol is a telecommunications industry protocol for exchanging SMS messages between SMS peer entities such as short message service centers and/or External Short Messaging Entities. It is often used to allow third...

July 21, 2010 | In: SMS

SMS and the PDU format

Introduction The SMS message, as specified by the Etsi organization (documents GSM 03.40 and GSM 03.38), can be up to 160 characters long, where each character is 7 bits according to the 7-bit default alphabet.Eight-bit messages (max 140 characters) are...

A good presentation about the usage of MongoDB vs Oracle in Web 2.0. The video is from Blip.tvKenny Gorman's MongoSF presentation about implementing MongoDB at...

July 20, 2010 | In: SMS

History of SMS

Initial conceptThe idea of adding text messaging to the services of mobile users was latent in many communities of mobile communication services at the beginning of the 1980s. The first action plan of the CEPT Group GSM, approved in December 1982,...

With all the hype going around scalable database, a company named FathomDB decided to provide database as a service in Rackspace and Amazon EC2. It is very exciting if you are already with Rackspace or Amazon but not so interesting when you are hosted...