Nimbuzz is a free app that lets you call (VoIP), chat, message, and send photos, music and video on your iPhone, which was recently made available on the Apple App Store. Using a centralized contact list you can connect with all your buddies on Skype, Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, ICQ, GoogleTalk, AIM, Gadu-Gadu, StudiVZ, […]
It’s been called both “vampire power” and “phantom load” – likened to the power-hungry HAL 9000 computer (at left) in Stanley Kubrick’s classic film 2001: A Space Odyssey.
It’s the little unblinking red light on the television set that is silently drawing energy from the grid; studies have shown it can add 10% or more to a household […]
Yes, Black Friday it is!
(And did you know about Black Friday the movie?)
And gadget retailers (and all others, too!) are looking for you to make your contribution to their coffers!
Now, I know it may have been hard (very hard), even too hard, to get up before the rising sun to hit those eager merchants at […]
You know I scoured all of the flyers and online ads to put together a great list of Black Friday deals, but seems Gizmodo has just plain beat me to it!
So just like last year, they have rounded up and sorted through all of the real deals for you, broken down by category […]
BSDTalk has a 23 minutes interview with John Todd, Open Source community director at Asterisk
BSDTalk 166 - Listen to the podcast: MP3 | OGG
For those interested in Asterisk on FreeBSD with a lot of preconfiguring already done and a lot of extras, try AskoziaPBX.
Original post by Dal
An IP-based videophone service called GlobalLinx will launch in the U.S. in the second quarter, offering a $200 videophone and $30 monthly service for consumers and businesses.
The service, from privately held 5Linx Enterprises Inc. in Rochester, N.Y., will rely on interconnection agreements with other carriers plus a voice-over-IP network that 5Link […]
Harborview Medical Center has selected a new unified communications, call center system and video telepresence from Polycom and Avaya that is intended to help physicians and staff serve non-English-speaking patients effectively and efficiently.
To improve the scheduling issues and enhance care for patients for whom English is not the primary language, Harborview tried phone-based interpreting using […]
Looking for a faster, bigger hard drive this Christmas? (Two days till Black Friday sales by the way) Well, I came across this funny Youtube video of the day - filmed at famous Mac Store Tekserve in Manhattan, New York and paid for by drive manufacturer Seagate. It’s a tad long, but it features […]
HTC’s Touch HD is arguably the best touch-screen Windows Mobile-based phones you can buy. In fact, even before the HTC Touch HD, I always felt HTC mobile phones were the best Windows Mobile phones you could buy. I own an older HTC-based “Apache” XV6700 Windows Mobile with a cooked ROM upgraded to Windows […]
VoxOx just released a new version of their “Universal Communicator”, which aims to combine VoIP, video, and social networks. VoxOx aims to take on Skype by offering more social networking features. Last year, I wrote an article titled Skype Could Trump Facebook in Social Networking, but Skype still hasn’t added social networking functionality.
In any event, […]
