Archive for May, 2008

New Uses for VoIP

By Sharla Sikes
Betcha never thought of some of these. VoIP-News came up with this great list of other uses, showing VoIP’s flexibility. Here’s a few I like:
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Dior Getting into Mobile Phones for Fashionistas

Don’t know how many of us will be picking up one of these, but Dior, the French luxury-goods is reportedly coming out with a line of mobile phones that will be targeted to fashionistas worldwide, particularly in the Russian and Chinese markets. The phones come on the high heels of similar launches by Dior rivals, […]

Philips Says 3-D TV (Without the Glasses) Is Next Big Thing

According to an International Herald Tribune/Associated Press report, Philips is working on a TV that will enable viewers to have a 3-D experience without the need to wear 3-D glasses.
Discussing the evolution of television, a company spokesman said “… the market progression is black and white, to color, to High-Definition, to 3-D.”
ETA? A few years. […]

Palm Ups It to Treo 850

Palm keeps on churning out products –ahh, bet they still wish it was the heady days of the Palm Pilot …
Anyway, now surrounded by relentless competition, the yet-to-be released Treo 850 apparently features a 400 MHz processor and 100 MB of RAM. Check out photos at The Boy Genius Report here.

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Zemanta on Movable Type

Zemanta notified me to tell me that Zemanta’s Firefox plugin now works with Movable Type. Woohoo! They said, "Just wanted to drop a quick note that we released a new version of Zemanta today that adds support for MT 4.1. Only through extension for now, but plugin will follow in a few weeks." I was […]

Sprint Capping Data Usage!!!

According to this report in BetaNews, Sprint is planning to implement data usage caps on its mobile broadband service. Sprint will put a 5 GB per month overall use cap and 300 MB per month for off-network roaming.
Sprint states that “the use of voice and data roaming by a small minority of customers is generating […]

Downloaded Movies Were Meant To Be Free

Nice to see Roku back and how about hooking up with Netflix in the announcement of a $100 set top box that streams free movies (for Netflix subscribers) to the living room.
Instead of wading into a losing battle over cheap downloads and rentals (see Vudu, BlockBuster, AppleTV, Google, etc., which charge for each movie), we […]

Asterisk iPBX 1.4.20 Released

The Asterisk.org development team has released Asterisk version 1.4.20.
This release contains a large number of bug fixes over the previous release.  For a full list of changes, see the ChangeLog included in the release.
http://svn.digium.com/view/asterisk/tags/1.4.20/ChangeLog?view=markup
Asterisk 1.4.20 is available for immediate download from the Digium downloads site:
http://downloads.digium.com/pub/telephony/asterisk/
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Snom Brings VoIP DECT Phone To U.S.

German VoIP telephone maker Snom on Monday released its latest IP DECT handset in North America, joining a handful of other device makers and telecommunications companies bringing the phones based on the wireless standard to America.  DECT, short for digital enhanced cordless telecommunications, has been widely used in Europe, but has yet to take firm […]

Instant Charge for Cell Phones on the Horizon?

According to a Reuters report, analog chip maker National Semiconductor is developing technology to charge cell phones in an instant by plugging the phone into a wall oulet and voila! it’s charged.
Want this in an instant? Sorry, you have to wait — seems it’s a year away, even with what the company calls “a pretty […]