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Society RSS FeedsSkype Backdoor? - According to The Register, "Off the cuff remarks by Austrian government officials suggest that Skype conversations might be intercepted" via a backdoor or through the encryption keys. The comments were made at a recent meeting on lawful interception between ISPs and Austrian regulators. The off the cuff comment was from an unnamed "high-ranking" official at Austria's interior ministry who said that listening into a conversation over Skype "presen...Feed Source: feeds.feedburner.com Economy Ticking Upward, Buy a Gadget This Weekend - With the latest economic news showing a little bit more consumer confidence (how could it get must worse), we can all do our own little bit by buying a gadget this weekend. Perhaps it's just a cell phone charger for the car (hey, just did that on Wednesday), a new DVD to feed the player (that was a purchase last night -- actually two -- but I got a good deal!) to a surround sound system to trick out the HDTV in the den. I'll leave the details up... BlackBerry Bold Video Preview - They don't call it The Boy Genius Report for nothing! If you can't get enough data on staying current -- actually, out in front -- of the latest developments in mobile phone tech, then you must check out the BlackBerry Bold video that the Boy has posted. (Click on the link above the take you there.) Here's how BlackBerry describes it: No compromises. With email, phone, IM and the Internet, it can connect you. With an integrated organ... UK Bans Adult Video Games from Its Prisons - Life behind bars just got a little tougher -- adult prisoners in England and Wales are being banned by the Prison Service from playing computer games rated 18. (This is the UK version of "Adult.")Good behavior will allow offenders to play other games. However, eligible inmates would have to buy consoles themselves as the new rules ban prisons from buying games or consoles. Last year the government spent $20,000 or so on 80 PlayStations ... Vonage to replace CEO Jeffrey Citron - The future of Vonage is certainly looking brighter. Vonage recently settled patent disputes, including one with Verizon. This week they secured a $215 million financing deal this week from Silver Point Finance LLC. Now, according to The Wall Street Journal, the company is about to bring in a new CEO to replace founder Jeffrey Citron, though Jeffrey will remain with the company. Has Vonage turned the corner? Hard to say. What I have noticed is a... VoIP Warehouse - contact us by email - the irony - Check out this snapshot of the contact us page on VoIP Warehouse Australia. Let's see, you sell VoIP equipment but the FASTEST and most efficient method of reaching you is via email. Oh, the irony
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Jul 25... Run VoIP in your House - get arrested - Apparently, in Bangladesh if you try and resell VoIP services out of your house, you're apt to get raided. Hope what happened to American Eliadah "Lia" McCord (forced to smuggle drugs, caught by Bangladesh airport security, gets 30-year sentence, but eventually pardoned thanks to help from Gov. Bill Richardson) doesn't happen to people who run VoIP services out of their house.I happened to see the Eliadah "Lia" McCord story a few nights ago on TV... Voodoo PCs Undergo HP Mumbo-Jumbo - It's a sad day when Hewlett-Packard decides to merge its Voodoo PC business unit with its consumer business.This were the ultimate gamer PCs from a one time stand-alone company that put a unique business model into play -- high-end performance, outrageous design and high-end prices. I mean, take a look at that box above!Now, Voodoo's laptops and desktops will be sold alongside HP's consumer Compaq Presario and Pavilion PC lines -- sort... Is Now the Time for e-Book Readers? - With Sony announcing today that its Reader Digital Book will be able to read electronic books published using the .epub format -- the same that many of the largest book publishers are using -- ring in a new age for e-books?Until now, Sony's e-book reader could only read books available from the Sony e-book store, PDF documents and digital rights management (DRM)-free text. Starting next month, the new PRS-505 Sony Reader will be able to acce... Vonage UK launches new low cost V-Plan calling plans - Vonage today announced two new low cost call plans for their Vonage UK subsidiary. According to Vonage UK, "Following customer research and reacting directly to consumer concern about increasing household costs and spiraling business overheads, Vonage has created two new fixed rate call plans."They added, "Vonage subscribers report enormous savings on their monthly bills and comment on the speed and ease of swapping providers as well as installi... Packet8 675xi VoIP for the SMB - I missed the 8x8/Packet8 news on July 16th about its new hosted small office "key" system and plug-and-play IP phones. Joan Citelli, Director of Corporate Communications emailed me asking for a briefing, but apparently I never replied since her email was still marked as unread and nothing in my Sent Items. Email overload I guess. The news was about 8x8, working with handset maker Aastra Telecom to provide a key system to the SMB market,which is p... Malware & Hackers Heading to Mac Land - News that I'd rather not think about, but have to, is the new upsurge in malware written specifically for Apple users. Still a drop in the bucket compared to Windows vulnerabilities, but Mac nastyware is on the rise. Two new Mac-ware Trojans that emerged in February and June ought to shake Mac users of their misconceptions that their computers (and, eventually, iPods and iPhones) are impenetrable. To put this in perspective, the fir... Can We Do Anything about iPod Audio Quality? - In the iPod age, music sound quality has been dumbed down to "Fisher-Price toy" levels, said one of my all time favorite rockers, Neil Young, at Fortune's Brainstorm Tech Conference."Apple has taken a detour down the convenience highway," he said, talking about what he considers to be the poor audio quality of MP3.He's currently working on a multimedia archiving project of his entire career, which he says should be available as a series of B... Calling All Spies! - Now you can take care of your inner spy in grand fashion!BrickHouseSecurity.com is like being inside Q's lab in all of those James Bond movies.Take a look at this, for example, the DVR Pen. It looks and feels like a regular pen -- it even writes like a regular pen. But beware! With the click of one covert button you can begin recording color video for up to eight hours. When you're ready to review your video, simply unscrew the pen and plug... See All the IP Devices at Home? - Can you believe that shipments of Internet-Protocol (IP)-enabled consumer electronics reached 64 million units in 2007 -- a growth of more than 70%?However, the market continues to be dominated by Internet-enabled video game consoles. While many of these game console IP interfaces remain unconnected, the enormous developing installed base represents a "Trojan horse" with enormous potential for online gaming, music and video downloads as well as f... Objectworld Offers Unified Communications for 7 Cents a Day - Today, Objectworld introduced Unified Communications for just 7 cents per day per user. Their platform can work with your existing non-VoIP PBX via gateways or you can go the 100% VoIP route as well since their server can communicate with any SIP-based IP-PBX.It's a pretty feature-rich solution offering VoIP, personal call control, text-to-speech, conference server, unified messaging, integrated fax server, Active Directory-based administration, ... A Crapware-Free PC? Now, You're Talking! - Sick and tired of getting a new PC and discovering all of the free trial software and other stuff you don't need, didn't ask for and now have clogging up valuable drive space on your new baby?Well, looks like Sony has taken the noble step of making it possible to configure your own PC (like the VAIO notebook) without any of that extra stuff included. And they do it for free.Like the concept? Then read more about it here.
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Related... Inside, Really Inside the Lego Factory - Anybody want to guess how many Lego bricks are made every year? How about a clue? Let's say more than 50 million a day? Sounds like a lot. And yes it is! To the tune of 19 billion every year. Yes, 19 billion of those little bricks that can build just about anything -- from castles and spaceships to monster and robots. Now Gizmodo is giving us a chance to take a video tour of the factory that makes all of this stuff. Get this part: "Wh... ITEXPO 90% Sold Out - IP Communications industry looks strong - ITEXPO is still two months away (September 16-18, 2008 -- Los Angeles, CA) yet Rich reports that the exhibit booth space is already 90% sold out. Rich is pretty excited when he writes, "There has been more interest in ITEXPO Fall 2008, Los Angeles, CA September 16-18 than any other Internet Telephony Conference & Expo I can remember in recent years." At first I thought perhaps Rich is being a bit too exuberant. After all, one well-known com... CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 -- Gettin' Better All the Time ... - We get all excited about Adobe PhotoShop and the suite of related products that make it such a great graphics program, but there are other solid choices out there for you to take into consideration.CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 is at the top of that list! Drawing on its years of expertise, CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 delivers all the essential tools for today's busy designer. You can do whatever you need to do -- create illustrations, logos, brochu... Controlling Asterisk based on Microsoft OCS 2007 user's presence -
Paul Adams contacted me recently since he's been reading my posts about Asterisk and 'Microsoft OCS 2007' integration.
Paul wrote an interesting application that enables call queuing that 'respects' OCS presence. That is, if the agent's OCS status is "Busy", "Away" or "Do not D... Plumble Ad Sponsored "Free" Calls - You remember Pudding Media, right? They offered ad sponsored phone calls in exchange for "listening" in on your phone conversations so it could target audio ads. Pudding Media essentially leverages keyword wordspotting using speech recognition. Well, today, I learned about Plumble from Telecom Monthly. The article seems giddy with what it thinks is some new revelation Once in a blue moon, a new product comes along with an idea so obvious that you... Can't Anybody Make Up Their Mind (AT&T)!!! - Free Wi-Fi access from AT&T on the iPhone?More like "now you see it, now you don't"?Or more like, "let's try it for a while and see" -- or maybe "we can change our mind and nobody will notice" -- maybe before the days of blogs and instant communications and publishing that might have held true, but not any more.If you want to see what all the noise is about, click here.
Tags: apple, att, iphone, ... iPhone 3G Now a Week Old! And What a Week! - The Apple iPhone 3G is now a week old and what a week it's been!How about this for out of the box -- 1 million sold in the first weekend! And now I'm wondering how sales kept up through the week But yikes! Now there's a shortage!Aren't gadgets great! Too many, too little it's not easy to be a manufacturer when you can have problems about selling too little product and then too much product! Yikes again!
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Relat... T-Mobile VoIP Shenanigans - AGAIN! - I've written about T-Mobile's VoIP blocking shenanigan's here, here, and here. Not to mention their blocking of MinuteWatcher for tracking cellphone minute usage. I also wrote how ... The Downside of Livin' in a Virtual World - Anybody remember the big noise about 3D virtual worlds and how they are going to change our lives forever? Well, that may still be true today, but how about the big time scam -- and big time bucks lost -- with "Second Life"? The Wall Street Journal covers this very nicely and then takes us into the future for where we might be headed. BTW, what avatar were you?
Tags: avatar, second life, ... What's Your Favorite iPhone 3G App? - I know it's still early days in the history of the iPhone 3G, but with a million sold already (and steadily counting!), wanted to find out what some of the most popular iPhone 3G apps are. Now I could go to some other places and get the Top 10 or Top 25 list, but I wanted to get some direct feedback from you.Do you have a favorite that you can't believe you lived without until now? So let us know, OK?
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... We Already Said Goodbye to the Computer Mouse - Not that anyone can't write about anything at any time (particularly as bloggers), but we already covered how the computer mouse may become extinct anytime soon -- ah, about a week ago. See the VoIP & Gadgets Blog piece here. But if you want to read the "follow-up story" on this topic that's making the rounds today, click here. But they really do take a look at what the future may hold
Tags: computer mouse, voip ... Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Free Tech Support - In a rare move, Microsoft is now offering free unlimited installation and compatibility support for Windows Vista, but only for Service Pack 1 (SP1). This even includes FREE phone support! So fear not upgrading or installing Vista SP1 - Microsoft's got your back! Note: Chat and e-mail support is available only in the United States and Canada.This support for SP1 is valid until March 18, 2009. Here's a screenshot of the ... BroadSoft, Fonality, and ITEXPO news all rolled in one -
Some BroadSoft, Fonality, and ITEXPO news all rolled in one. First, TMC put out a release about BroadSoft keynoting the next ITEXPO, the leading VoIP conference:
... You must be nicer to Muslims, Britain is told by UN human rights chiefs - Britain was told yesterday by a United Nations committee to take firm action to combat 'negative public attitudes' towards Muslims.
The nine-member human rights committee also criticised some of the UK's antiterror measures.
The body, which is composed of legal experts, said it was concerned ' negative public attitudes towards Muslim members of society' continued to develop in Britain.... TV rabbit preaches hatred. Tells young Muslims to kill and eat Jews - An Islamic TV station using a Bugs Bunny lookalike to preach hatred to children has been slammed by religious leaders in the UK who fear it could brainwash vulnerable British children.
Assud the rabbit, who vows to 'kill and eat Jews' and glorifies the maiming of 'infidels' appears on Palestinian children's show, Tomorrow's Pioneers.
The rabbit is a number of characters who is punished by viewer's vote when he breaches Sharia law.... Senator calls polygamous sects a form of organized crime - Polygamous sects that have spread throughout the United States and beyond are "a form of organized crime," largely unchecked by law enforcement, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Thursday.
Sen. Harry Reid says polygamous sects have "wrongly cloaked themselves in the trappings of religion."
Sen. Harry Reid says polygamous sects have "wrongly cloaked themselves in the trappings of religion." He is proposing a federal-state partnership aimed ... Scientology tightens grip on stressed Jodhi Meares - While ex-husband James Packer is believed to have distanced himself from the controversial cult in recent months, Jodhi Meares (Host, Australia's Next Top Model) has instead plunged further into the beliefs upheld by the church and its tight inner circle in Sydney.... Man accused of murder claims to be God?s messenger - Brother and sister Hardus and Nicolette Lotter, who made a brief court appearance on Wednesday charged with the murder of their parents, had been part of a religious sect and had been influenced by Nicolette's boyfriend and co-accused, Mathew Naidoo, who had claimed he was "God's messenger", sources close to the investigation said on Wednesday.... Polygamy in cross hairs of Senate panel - Amid indictments in Texas alleging sexual assault of underage girls and following a raid of a polygamous compound, senators will take a look at efforts to crack down on crimes associated with polygamy during the first hearing focused on the issue since 1955.
State and federal prosecutors, along with former polygamists, will testify before the panel, and although not scheduled as a witness, members of a pro-polygamy group plan to hand out leafle... Polygamous Sect to Defend 6 Members in Court and Its Practices on Capitol Hill - Texas Rangers and prosecutors prepared Wednesday to arrest five members of a polygamous sect indicted the day before with their imprisoned leader on charges relating to under-age marriages and bigamy.
Also Wednesday, supporters and critics of the sect converged on Washington for a Senate committee hearing on ?crimes associated with polygamy.?... Authorities seek indicted polygamist sect members - Texas authorities began looking Wednesday for five indicted followers of jailed polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs, men accused of sexual assault of a child, bigamy and failing to report child abuse.FLDS member and spokesman Willie Jessop said Wednesday that law enforcement officials had not yet disclosed who they were looking for or tried to enter the ranch, but he said members would cooperate.... Pakistan court rules conversion of kidnapped Christian girls is legal - On 12 July, a judge in Pakistan's Punjab province ignored pleas that Saba Younis, aged 12, and her 10 year old sister, Anila Younis, who went missing on 26 June from the small town of Chowk Munda, had been kidnapped while on their way to their uncle's residence and ruled that their conversion to Islam was legal.
The kidnappers, who had married the girls, had also filed for custody of the girls at a local police station on 28 June, asserting tha... Todd Bently to leave Florida to conduct ?revivals? overseas - Watch our church Todd Bentley is bent on exporting the madness he calls 'revival' overseas.Even some fellow Pentecostals have questioned whether Bentley's revivals have placed enough emphasis on preaching and calls for repentance. A recent set of guidelines from the Assemblies of God, the largest predominantly white Pentecostal denomination in the United States, seemed to question the Florida Outpouring's emphasis on miracles. Local pastors hav... Copyright © 2008, Top Websites. All Rights Reserved. |
