Mediaburst blog

Time to Change the Web.

Over the past 6 months we’ve been looking at and listening to our customers, seeing how they use our products, and how they interact with us.
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Blue Thunder or Airwolf

The discussion in the office this Friday is who’d win in a battle, Blue Thunder or Airworlf?
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Giffgaff Mobile Network

The latest mobile virtual network organisation (MVNO) to appear is Giffgaff and is hosted on the O2 network.
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More Wasted Paper

Continuing my obsession with pointless letters we receive through the mail, we today received one from our bank, the RBS.
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Winning the ISP Wooden Spoon

It’s true we did win the wooden spoon in the ISP pub quiz. I would however like to raise the following:

We started out by saying there was only 2 ways to get noticed, win or lose. Unfortunately our general knowledge, particularly in respect of TV shows and random sporting events turned out to be pretty poor, and it’s something we’re not ashamed of. Therefore win was never an option. On this basis losing seems a pretty good second place!
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Creating Perl module RPMs

This is a follow on to our post on Perl module config files
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SMPP Interface

The SMPP interface is now available on the new platform for sending SMS. At the moment delivery receipts are available over HTTP rather than SMPP.

By default, the encoding is set to UTF-8, but it also supports Latin-1, UCS2 (Unicode), or GSM encodings.

Give us a phone if you want to know more.


Online Surveys

It might be easy for me to say this because we operate in the digital arena but occasionally something crosses my desk that really makes me wonder.
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Firewalls

We currently use Cisco PIX firewalls in both our data centres and office, we haven’t really had any problems with these but asCisco stopped providing software maintenance at the end of July now seems a good time to replace them. continue reading Firewalls


Cost v Quality

We are all familiar with the concept of cost v’s quality and as one goes up the other goes down. So how does that work for all those suppliers offering “highest quality and lowest price”.
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