Camera Core: Italian company KDev has developed a Linux 2.6 device which allows camera-phone photos to be easily and instantly uploaded to the web.
With its GSM/GPRS cellular modem card, KDev’s FoxBox MMS accepts photos sent via multimedia messaging service (MMS).
As MMS messages are usually free to receive, KDev suggests that it would be inexpensive for web sites to use FoxBox MMS as the basis for games or photo contests.
No phone configuration is required; photos can simply be sent via MMS to the FoxBox’s cellular phone number.
FoxBox then converts them to a JPEG, GIF or other format suitable for the web. The photos can then be accessed remotely and managed as normal files using the FoxBox’s FTP and HTTP (WebDAV) interfaces.
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Davide Cantaluppi | Monday, May 26, 2008 at 16:52
Linux-powered Easy Guardian provides alarms by texting system administrators
If you would like to monitor you server 24h/24h Easy Guardian is the right tool for you! It is based on the FoxBox SMS (http://www.foxbox.it). Like the original FoxBox, it’ll act as a cellphone-to-web gateway, in this case Easy Guardian brings together the powerful tools of the open source arena: NMAP and Net-SNMP in a small silent Linux embedded box. The on-board GSM/GPRS Quad Band modem is linked to an advanced scanning engine that will alert you with a SMS every time a threshold exceed is detected on your services and network devices.. As before, it’ll also give you FTP and HTTP interfaces to manage content, which can either be stored on an SD card or on up to two attached USB drives, where you can store polls about system trends, reported on simply to read charts
Further details await interested readers at an Easy Guardian website, http://www.easyguardian.com.