Amazing to think back to a decade ago when Motorola introduced its StarTac flip phone — great design that has been repeated over and over again until this day.
You can’t even imagine how big and bulky cell phones were up until that time — like putting a brick to your ear!
And thank goodness […]
With more and more gadgets comes the need to get rid of some of them sometimes! But no more just dumping them in the trash — recycle, now that’s the ticket!
CloudBlue offers a suite of services that enable its customers (think corporate — and you can too at your workplace to clear room for more […]
I’m on vacation at Disney World this week but happened to be checking my email and noticed a bit of interesting news involving Costco, Microsoft, and VoIP. Yes, I know, strange bedfellows, eh? Apparently, you can now buy a Microsoft Response Point IP-PBX phone system from Costco.com! That’s great news for Microsoft, though I would […]
Samsung recently announced its one terabyte EcoGreen F1 hard drive with low power features for less than $200. Yes! Yes, you are reading correctly! 1TB <$200!!
According to the company, the eco-friendly drive can be adopted as an external hard drive or internal drive for desktop PCs.
It offers a 15% power savings compared to other low-powered […]
Always loved the smallest of the small laptop PCs, but seems they never really took off for a number of reasons — form factor is limited by keyboard size (chiclets anyone), features tend to not be pushing the envelope and price is high (smaller means pricier — MacBook Air anyone).
Now Acer and Dell seem to […]
The Asterisk.org development team has announced the release of Zaptel versions 1.2.26 and 1.4.11. These releases contain many bug fixes as well as performance enhancements.
A couple of the more major changes include: kernel level MTP2 support for SS7, as well as numerous other bug fixes to the Digium and Xorcom drivers. For further details and […]
The Social Security Administration is going VoIP and a big way. We’re talking 1,600 locations! Assuming at least 30 people per location, that’s 48,000 employees and IP phones. 48,000 employees just to manage Social Security? With computer automation, direct deposit, and other automation, the SSA shouldn’t need more than 1,000 employees. Heck, outsource to an […]
By Sharla Sikes
Voice over IP service has been steadily gaining momentum since it first became popularly accepted. Particularly attractive to small and medium businesses, most VoIP customers choose…
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Original post by Sharla Sikes
Marc Robins, a former TMC co-worker dropped Rich and me a line to tell us some good news about the SIP Forum that Marc is now a part of (he’s the Managing Director). While I still hold a grudge against Marc for leaving TMC, I’m glad he at least stayed in the VoIP industry. Just […]
Sony has joined forces with six of the top cable companies in the U.S. to adopt tru2way technology in its TVs, thus eliminating the need for a set-top box when accessing television and other interactive services. and anyone else working on a set-top box should be nervous. Read more about it here.
Apple, Netflix, Sezmi
Apparently, Sony […]
