Mobile Service From Fedora Possible?

[Deepak Shrestha]

Many thanks for the pointers. I will start from here. :-) I guess
these are the thing I wanted to know about.

Thanks again.

On 7/16/06, Mikkel L. Ellertson <mikkel at infinity-ltd.com> wrote:
> Deepak Shrestha wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Few years ago somebody mentioned me about the "mobile tools" or "SMS
> > server" or something like that can be implemented in linux, which can
> > be used as "call forwarding" services or something similar ..... Now I
> > wanted to know more about this. So googling gave me some result like
> > "gnokii" which is more on a personal mobile phone tool. This is not
> > what I was looking for exactly. I am looking for information on how to
> > implement the automated Services.
> > For example, if I have to login to my yahoo through my very simple
> > mobile phone, I have to compose my message with my ID & password and
> > send it to certain number, then I can read my yahoo mails..etc. etc.
> >
> > What I wanted to know is:
> >
> > 1) What are the technologies behind these?
> > 2) Are Mobile Companies, Yahoo  etc. are using *nix platform to
> > implement this? or there are specialized hardwares?
> > 3) Are there packages for linux for implementing this (I don't know
> > what to call this..."set of technologies"?)
> >
> > Seems ambitious but I really want to know first in nut shell. Can some
> > body guide me on where to find information and guide me to correct
> > path?
> >
> > Sorry for posting this question here. I know its not related to fedora
> > release itself but Linux as a whole, but this is the best place I
> > found to post this question since I am using FC5. I hope somebody
> > knows about this in fedora community or may be somebody already has
> > implemented this in some company.
> >
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> You may want to look at SMS server tools:
>
> http://www.meinemullemaus.de
>
> To you them, you need ether a GSM modem, or a cell phone that will
> act as one. There is also a Perl module that will work with SMS
> messages. Check out:
>
> http://search.cpan.org/~johanvdb/GSM-SMS-0.162/docs/README.pod
>
> There are also a bunch of web-based SMS gateways, but I have not
> looked into them much. The only reason I know much about it is that
> I helped set up an incoming SMS message to SQL gateway. It looks
> like I didn't save the URL for the site that explained SMS messaging
> in detail, but you can find a lot of information by doing a Google
> search for "SMS message format".
>
> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=SMS+message+format&btnG=Google+Search
>
> Mikkel
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