CoolTechZone has an interesting analysis on why Apple developed the ROKR the way it is and made it not so great: The answer to that question is strategy. There was nothing wrong with the creative cells of the designers at Apple; ROKR is simply Jobs taking a calculated risk. He doesn’t want a cell phone [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Telephony'
What’s The Idea Behind ROKR?
September 13th, 2005 · No Comments · Apple, Audio, Mobiles & Gadgets, Telephony
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Use Your Cell Phone To Phone With Skype
September 11th, 2005 · No Comments · Mobiles & Gadgets, Telephony
Phoneyworld.com reports of a new usb gadget that allows you to use your mobile phone with Skype: IP based voice chat is nothing new. In fact the release of Google talk brought the issue back into the limelight with arguments over which IM (Instant Messenger) was best suited or offered the best voice chatting over [...]
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China Telecom To Block Skype
September 10th, 2005 · No Comments · Business, Telephony
Reuters has an interesting story on how China Telecom is blocking Skype. Why you ask? Well it could have something to do with them charing $1 a minute to call Europe or the US while you can do it on Skype for a couple of cents. Seing as the average wage in China is so [...]
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Build Your Own PBX
August 15th, 2005 · No Comments · Hardware, Telephony
This guy has built his own PBX. Nothing special you might say, but this guy did it like a man’s man. Not just using an old computer and a certain popular PBX software, but with his bare hands: I’ve been fascinated with telecommunications from an early age. When I was twelve or so I had [...]
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Transform Normal Phone To Skype Phone HOWTO
May 28th, 2005 · No Comments · Cool Geeky Stuff, Telephony
A nice tutorial to convert your phone to connect it to your PC can be found here. The guy found out how to do with by the scientific method of Trial & Error: So, the problem. You have a computer, your friend has a computer, you both have a broadband connection, and you make use [...]
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Most Wired Hotel In The World
April 26th, 2005 · No Comments · Business, Cool Geeky Stuff, Middle East, Security, Telephony
Or so they boast at the Emirates Palace, a mammoth beachfront resort in Abu Dhabi. In addition to the usual video-on-demand, WiFi and remote-control everything that discriminating travelers have come to expect, the hotel has boosted its security, with no fewer than 16 firewalls, secure telephones and 3.5TB of secure storage. Summoned Up: A hackers [...]
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Asterisk PBX HOWTO
March 7th, 2005 · No Comments · Cool Geeky Stuff, Linux, Telephony
Just came across an Asterisk HOWTO. Excerpt: What would it mean to you to have your own full-featured PBX system at your home or small office? What would it mean to you if you could build an entire PBX system (minus the phones) on hardware you probably have laying around, AND that it can probably [...]
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Sweetest VOIP Phone I’ve Seen Yet
February 6th, 2005 · No Comments · Telephony
It seems that AT&T Research Cambridge (the same guys that brought you VNC) was working on some sweet VOIP phones. On their closure The LCE Sentient Computing Environment got their hands on 70 of those phones. Excerpt: The Broadband Phone (BBPhone) is basically a Strong-ARM 1100, with 8MB of flash, 32MB of RAM, touchscreen, 10Mbps [...]
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Portable rotary cellphone
January 21st, 2005 · No Comments · Cool Geeky Stuff, Telephony
Just saw this hack that turns an old rotary phone into a cell phone. Pretty cool. Pretty retro. Excerpt: Yes, you read it right. Port-O-Rotary. We’ve gone and hacked into a rotary phone. I find myself talking about nerd things with my friends and peers who could usually careless. Every once and a while, someone [...]
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Use Skype with your normal phone
January 17th, 2005 · No Comments · Telephony
Yup, looks like someone has finally created a box to hook your phone up to your computer so you can use it with Skype. Excerpt: Put the telephone back in Internet telephony! The Actiontec Internet Phone Wizard combines the best of both worlds – the ease and convenience of your regular phone and the zero [...]
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