According to engadget, Verizon customers have started converting Sprint Treo 650s for use on Verizon’s network. If if people are willing to go through such effort to geth them to work, they must be good, right? Or are they just… Read More »Hacking Treo 650 for Verizon
AstLinux 0.2.4 VoIP server is now available. I’ve looked at this as an alternate to Asterisk@Home. The nice thing about this distro is that it can be booted from Flash ROM, USB, or CD – making it possible to make… Read More »AstLinux VoIP server
It sounds like SpeakEasy will be announcing hosted VoIP with PBX-like features on Monday. The service, purpotedly aimed at businesses, should highlight Speakeasy’s advantage of being a high-speed ISP – being able to provide end-to-end quality of service, that other… Read More »Speakeasy to Launch Business VoIP
eWeek has an interesting interview with Don Peterson, CEO of VoIP vendor Avaya.
eWeek has an interesting interview with Don Peterson, CEO of VoIP vendor Avaya.
Consumer’s Union (publisher of Consumer Reports) has released their annual report on complaints against cell carriers. The data seems to match my experiences – with Cingular, we have had few billing issues, but have had a fair number of service… Read More »Cell-phone complaints: A sorry picture for Cingular/AT&T
KDDI and Hitachi Systems and Services have teamed up to bring “micro-VNC” to KDDI’s au phones. I’ve played around with VNC on palm/pocket pc’s and found it barely useable. I’m not sure what benefit porting it to a cell phone… Read More »VNC via cell phone
The Washing Post has a story on how Texas is suing Vonage because someone who failed to activate the 911 feature was unable to make 911 calls from their VoIP line. I thought it was interesting that this was one… Read More »VoIP for the masses?
Another interesting announcement at CTIA was Motorola’s announcement of their Cellular Residential Gateway. Even though the sign next to it in the Wireless Home exhibit announced “Shipping Now”, details on it are murky with no sign of it on Motorola’s… Read More »Another nail in the coffin for traditional telecom?
At the recent CTIA show Sony Ericsson announced a new multimode PC card that supports EDGE/GPRS/GSM/ and 802.11b/g. In my opinion, this would have been great news 6-12 months ago. Now most laptops are coming with 802.11 support built in,… Read More »Combo EDGE/GPRS/GSM/802.11 card from Sony Ericsson