Archive for April, 2008

New iMac Specs Are Good To Have …

Thanks to ZDNet for publishing a quick rundown of the specs for the new iMacs launched today.
Having moved from PC to the now almost-current iMac and the fabulous new MacBook Pro, you have to tip your hat to Apple for just getting better and better …

Tags: Apple, iMac, MacBook Pro, ZDNet
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Is Mother’s Day 2008 Gadget Day?

With Mother’s Day fast approaching, what will be the gadget of choice to give the electric mom?
She’s probably already got an iPod, digital camera, GPS — or maybe this is the year of GPS?
What do you think? The suggestion box is open …

Tags: digital camera, GPS iPod, Mother’s Day
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IRS Rebate Checks Crash Major Banks?

Today, I was downloading my financial information from various banks and credit cards and had difficulty loggiing on or downloading information from several of them. On Citibank’s website I was able to logon, but couldn’t successfully download the Quicken Web Connect file containing my ‘recent activity’. This has never happened to me in the 8 […]

Security Threats Continued

By Sharla Sikes
Security threats have dogged VoIP since its popular acceptance. Yesterday I talked about general security information; here’s a little more detail.
There are four types of threats to…
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VoIP: Still Unsecure?

By Sharla Sikes
The benefits of VoIP have been much trumpeted, for individuals as well as small and medium businesses. But there are drawbacks, as well.
VoIP security issues have plagued the industry…
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Cisco and Microsoft in Clash of the UC Titans

According to a new study by analyst firm Infonetics Research, Cisco and Microsoft are locked in a "battle of the titans" for the unified communications (UC) market, with both vendors currently favored by buyers as Unified Messaging and Communicator suppliers. As almost an aside, the news release on the study says, "Avaya and Nortel […]

Ring Voltage, REN, VoIP and a Bolt of Blue

In 1999, I wrote a humorous article for CTI Magazine, the precursor to Internet Telephony Magazine, about my adventures with a power outage at TMC that took out our Dialogic MSI analog cards in our PC-PBX. The MSI cards are responsible for providing ring voltage to the phones, but the quick power outage blew the […]

SPOT Watches R.I.P.

Microsoft is giving up on the SPOT watch which leverages MSN Direct (FM frequency transmission) to send stock quotes, news, and even sync your Outlook calendar with your watch.
The only person who I know owns one is Rich Tehrani, who reviewed one here. He will be so upset to hear the news. Well, least his […]

Zultys & Aastra Telecom Partner

Zultys and Aastra Telecom have reached an OEM pact to delivery the next line of ZIP Phones. As part of the announcement, Zultys and Aastra announced full interoperability between the Aastra 5i Series and the Zultys MX (Media eXchange) line. I’m a huge fan of Aastra SIP-based VoIP phones and they are perhaps my favorite […]

VoIP: Industry is Growing Up

By Sharla Sikes
VoIP is a relatively young industry—young in the terms of it becoming mainstream, that is, not the technology itself. When it first became widely accepted, there were many small,…
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