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Belkin Desktop Internet Phone for Skype - I was doing some Christmas shopping on Amazon when I was curious what sort of VoIP phones were available on Amazon. I came across the Belkin Desktop Internet Phone for Skype, which I never heard of. The Belkin Desktop Internet Phone for Skype is a standalone Skype phone with ...

Toshiba 512GB Solid State Drive - Toshiba announced that it will showcase a 512GB solid-state drive (SSD) at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) next month, with shipments of this large SSD in the second quarter of 2009. These NAND-flash-based solid state drives (SSD) will be the industry's first 2.5-inch 512-gigabyte SSD and features fast read/write times and reliable performance for laptops/notebooks, and other equipment. In addition to the 2.5-inch, 512GB drive, the 43nm NAND...

Christmas Blu-ray player + Netflix = A Very Blue Christmas - I have a Blu-ray player on my Christmas list that I hope to get. Santa Claus hasn't failed me yet. I also have a subscription to Netflix and planned on upgrading it to the Blu-ray package for an additional $1/month should I stay off Santa's "naughty list" this year. This would give me access to Netflix's massive Blu-ray ...

CNET - Where's the ? love? - I love CNET, it's one of my favorite technology, electronics, and gadgets sites. But I'm just not feeling the love. You see, I wrote a quick review of the just launched GizmoCall Flash-based VoIP service this morning. A few hours later, see in my RSS alerts another article on GizmoCall. Naturally, I want to see other people's opinions on it, so I click through and see that it's a CNET article. (http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-10124311-94.html) ...

BlackBerry OS Running On Windows Mobile HTC Touch Pro - From the "Oh no you didn't!" department, BerryReview.com has an article and some sweet photo goodness showing a Windows Mobile HTC Touch Pro running a virtual BlackBerry operating system. The Windows Mobile OS running the BlackBerry OS? What's next, the iPhone running Windows Mobile? Soon there will be human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together mass hysteria! The BlackBerry OS runs as an application on Windows Mobile allowing you to run you...

GizmoCall Another Flash VoIP Player - GizmoCall, a Flash-based, no download, cross operating system VoIP app launched on Monday. GizmoCall isn't the first to offer a Flash-based VoIP client. I believe the first Flash-based VoIP app was Flashphone, which I discovered last year. I also found a Flash-based app that not only did VoIP, but it did SIP-based video as well.In any event, I decided to give GizmoCall a go. Registering was easy and was done from within the Flash application. Sim...

The Pirate Bay Offline for Christmas? - Interesting message on The Pirate Bay today. At first I thought maybe the FBI, Interpol, or some other law enforcement entity took them offline. Or perhaps the plethora of Christmas downloaders had knocked them offline. Though, I'm not sure giving a gift of pirated music or movies burned to a CD/DVD is exactly the type of Christmas spirit that Jesus would approve of. See Commandment "Thou shall not steal."I was getting an authentication window po...

TMC & Digium Announce Educational program for Digium|Asterisk World - Some good news from my company TMC and Digium, the founder of Asterisk that I thought I'd share. If you're an Asterisk fan, you need to be at Asterisk World, which is co-located with the #1 VoIP tradeshow in the U.S., namely TMC's ITEXPO.Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) and Digium, the Asterisk Company, today announced the educational program for Digium|Asterisk World, scheduled to take place February 2-4, 2009 in Miami. The event is colloc...

ADTRAN Launches n-Command MSP - Remote VoIP Management Network Tool - Interesting new product from from ADTRAN whose aim is to simplify remote management of VoIP networks with their n-Command MSP. It sounds very similar to NetQoS Unified Communications Monitor 2.0 I wrote about last month, except NetQoS UC Monitor 2.0 is designed for Cisco UC and Microsoft OCS environments, while the ADTRAN offering seems targeted exclusively to managing ADTRAN NetVanta or Total Access converged networking solutions. One of its c...

Nortel Web.Alive = Second Life for Business - Rich Tehrani has a very interesting post about Nortel's foray into virtualized business meetings. Think Second Life virtual world meets business world Rich participated in a virtual world demo with Nortel where they showed him web.alive. This business-oriented virtual world looks eerily similar to Second Life, including the 3D avatars, and 3D world but under the covers it sports something else - namely 3D audio powered by ...

Remote Desktop Dual Monitor Support tip - You're probably wondering if there is dual monitor support for Remote Desktop Connection. There is indeed, but there are some caveats and issues you should be aware of, as well as some solutions to these issues. First, as of Microsoft Remote Desktop client version 6.0, support was added for spanning across multiple monitors. Only some configurations are supported by Remote Desktop client in span mode. According to the Remote Desktop help file Rem...

Grandstream GXV3005 Video Phone - Grandstream just announced the GXV3005 IP video phone is coming this month. The GXV3005 features an additional FXO port and is part of the GXV3000 IP video product line series.The GXV3005 features the same design and all of the functionality as the GXV3000 model, but it comes with the advanced versatility of an FXO PSTN line port, which enables customers to receive both video telephony service over an IP network and their home land-line. One thin...

Scientists develop software that can 'Draw' your Dreams - Scientists have developed software that can 'draw' your dreams by reading your mind. Your dreams have now been unlocked with the invention of technology capable of illustrating images taken directly from human brains during sleep.According to Telgraph.co.uk: A team of Japanese scientists have created a device that enables the processing and imaging of thoughts and dreams as experienced in the brain to appear on a computer screen.While researchers...

Skype 4.0 beta 3 released - Skype has been striving to improve the usability of Skype and give more prominence to other features such as video by rearranging Skype's interface in version 4.0. They also have improved conversation management. Today, Skype released Skype 4.0 beta 3 for Windows. So what's new in Skype 4.0 beta 3? New is this version, is an abuse reporting feature, which will give you the option to report any users you are blocking to Skype. According to Skype...

Free snom Flexor CTI for Outlook Application offers Advanced Telephony Features - snom and Camrivox today announced free VoIP telephony integration with Microsoft Outlook with snom Flexor CTI software for Microsoft Outlook. Microsoft Outlook is the most widely used contact manager with a market share of over 60% of email users. A free CTI app for snom's VoIP phones? I remember the days where you had to pay thousands of dollara for a CTI server. No CTI server required for this app nor the thousands of dollars!The highlights of ...

Copy Paste Comes to the iPhone - Pastebud is a cool new service launching tomorrow that leverages javascript, web services, and bookmarks in mobile Safari to finally bring copy and paste to the iPhone and iPod touch. Thank the heavens! It's about time. What was Steve Jobs thinking when he didn't put copy/paste into the iPhone? Why Steve Jobs crippled the Jesus phone is beyond me. Further, I believe some third party copy/paste apps were banned in the Apple App Store. Well rejoice...

WordPress 2.7 released - WordPress 2.7 "Coltrane" was just released featuring some pretty cool upgrades in features. First, it sports a drag-and-drop interface for redesigning the layout of your WordPress blog/website. Second, it automatically updates core WordPress files and your plugins (if you so choose). Heck, you can even have it set to download beta nightlies. According to WordPress "Matt": "this may be the last time you ever have to manually upgrade WordPress ...

Logitech G13 Advanced Gameboard - Logitech today introduced what they deem a "Game-Changing Gameboard" called the Logitech G13 Advanced Gameboard. Hyperbole aside, the Logitech G13 Advanced Gameboard is an interesting concept. It sports a naturally contoured design, on-board memory, customizable backlighting, and programmable keys. A keyboard with memory? What's next? A keyboard which is a full-fledged PC? Oh wait, that's been done.Anyway, the Logitech G13 advanced gameboard is a...

Truphone brings low-cost calling to iPhone over Wi-Fi & now 3G - Truphone is now bringing low-priced international calls to the iPhone even when not connected to Wi-Fi. In case you don't recall, Steve Jobs will only allow VoIP over Wi-Fi and not over a 3G data connection. So has Truphone enabled VoIP over a 3G connection for the Apple iPhone? Not quite. It's a callback system similar to Jajah that uses the 3G voice bearer ch...

Ditch Desktop IP phone to Save Money? - With a slowing global economy, one of the cost-cutting measures desired by IT personnel appears to be the desktop phone, including desktop IP phones. That at least according to an OnRelay survey that shows 88% of cost-conscious IT Professionals would ditch the desktop phone. Apparently, the desire for for mobile working makes desktop tools a low priority expense. I should point out that OnRelay offers a hosted PBX solution with mobile phone only...

Skype for Windows Mobile 2.5 Beta Released - Skype's Mobile team has overhauled Skype for Windows Mobile and released Beta 2.5 today. The new beta features improved sound quality, better stability and a more familiar user interface. Will have to give it a try on the XV6700 running Windows Mobile 6.1.Download it now here:http://www.skype.com/go/windowsmobile. Tags: skype, Skype for Windows Mobile 2.5 Beta, ...

Fonality Launches PBXtra Unified Agent on Salesforce.com's Force.com AppExchange - Back in September I wrote about Fonality's trixbox Unified Agent Edition (UAE) and how it can automatically match all inbound and outbound calls with the corresponding record in salesforce.com's AppExchange, and call data is captured and logged. Apparently, this was still a yet-to-be-announced product I wrote about that resulted in a call from Fonality's CEO Chris Lyman asking how I found out about it. Woops, my bad, Chris. ...

Digium Responds to FBI Vhishing Security Warning about Asterisk - A few days ago the FBI's Internet Crimes Complaint Center (IC3) issued an unclear warning that says versions of Asterisk software are vulnerable to vhishing (voice phishing) attacks, but didn't say which versions, but causing a flurry of news activity on VoIP news sites, tech sites, and blogs. It all started with this warning from the IC3: New Technique Utilizing Private Branch Exchange (PB...

More Than Half of U.S. Adults Got Game - More than half of U.S. adults play video games, according to a survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, and 20% do so daily. The survey of 2,054 U.S. adults was conducted late last year, with a margin of error of 25.People from all walks of life play, although younger adults are far more likely to play than seniors, proof that video games are mainstream entertainment for the generations that grew up with them. In all, 81% of r...

Gadget Prices Falling This Holiday Season! - Ho ho ho! 'Tis the season for steep discounts on gadgets goods on the Internet. According to this article in Electonista, online shopping sites such as Buy.com, HP.com, SonyStyle.com, Newegg.com, OnSale.com and RefurbDepot.com all are offering big savings.   Buy.com has cut prices on everything from MP3 players and digital photo frames to GPS units and notebook computers. Prices are slashed on everything from wireless routers and print...

Football Drives HDTV Sales - And now the truth can be told! HDTV manufacturer Samsung has revealed that a survey found football to be the most popular sport to influence HDTV purchases among sports fans in America. The survey from Kelton Research revealed that more than half (54%) of all football fans would most likely purchase a new HDTV for the start of football season if their budgets allowed. Football had the highest purchasing influence for HDTVs over all other fa...

Never Charge your gadget again - Free Electricity! - Intel said it is researching technology to harvest free energy from the environment, which could lead to devices such as mobile phones running for indefinite periods without recharging. Intel is working on tiny sensors that can capture energy from sources such as sunlight and body heat to power personal electronic devices such as MP3 players, cell phones, portable handheld gaming devices, etc.Intel is also looking at powering a mobile phone by co...

Asterisk-based VPN in a Flash Mobile Telephony Appliance - Nerd Vittles (Ward Mundy) is the man! He just combined the popular Acer Aspire One NetBook featuring the powerful Intel Atom N270(1.60GHz) processor along with Fedora 10 and his Asterisk-based distro. Nerd just may have cooked up the perfect low-cost, powerful, GUI-rich (low overhead KDE), and portable Asterisk-based appliance! Now you can take your phone system on the road while driving, on the plane, etc. Imagine sticking a 3G/EVDO car...

CounterPath Launches Bria for Microsoft Outlook integrating VoIP with Outlook Contacts - CounterPath Corporation announced the launch of Bria for Microsoft Outlook, which integrates CounterPath's softphone technology directly into Microsoft Outlook. CounterPath also makes the popular (& free) SIP client called X-Lite.The toolbar gives users easy access to VoIP call control aling with personal information manager (PIM) info stored within Outlook Contacts. On an inbound or outbound call, it will automatically perform a lookup of yo...

Facebook Connect for Movable Type plugin - Facebook Connect is appearing in more and more websites, including Techcrunch, SFGate, and more, allowing you to use your Facebook credentials to post comments on third-party websites. TechCrunch announced Facebook Connect support for their comments just a few days ago. Yesterday, perhaps in response to Google Friend Connect opening up their service to everyone, Facebook announced just yesterday that their Facebook Connect service was now open to...

George Bush: Bible ?probably? not literal - After plunging America into an illegal war based on lies and deceit, presiding over human rights abuses -- including the promotion and use of torture (and of course lying about it) -- and taking away many basis freedoms (all the while suggesting he is doing all this with God's approval), George Bush now attacks the Bible and again shows that he is not the evangelical Christian he claims to be.Interviewer Cynthia McFadden asked Bush if the Bible ...

Investigators take DNA from FLDS baby during raid - Investigators from the Texas attorney general?s office on Monday took DNA samples from a baby born to a member of a polygamist sect months after a high-profile raid, thwarting efforts by the baby?s mother to prevent the sample from being collected.Child Protective Services said in court filings that investigators believe the girl was married to a man in the sect when she was 14....

Trial of cult leader Wayne Bent opens - Wayne Bent, 67, lay in bed naked and "chest to chest, skin to skin" with a 14-year-old girl, Deputy District Attorney Tomas Benavidez told jurors. He had a similar encounter with her 16-year-old sister, the prosecutor said.Bent, who calls himself Michael Travesser, was a minister for the Seventh-day Adventist Church but separated from that church 21 years ago and continued to preach. He claims God spoke to him in 2000 and told him he was the Mes...

Detroit Churches Pray for ?God?s Bailout? - The Sunday service at Greater Grace Temple began with the Clark Sisters song ?I?m Looking for a Miracle? and included a reading of this verse from the Book of Romans: ?I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.?Pentecostal Bishop Charles H. Ellis III, who shared the sanctuary?s wide altar with three gleaming sport utility vehicles, closed his sermon by leading the choir and congrega...

Alleged abuse of abducted ?miracle child? poses more questions for council that failed Baby P. - Police are investigating allegations of serious abuse of a five-year-old victim of child trafficking while he was in the care of Haringey, the London council that failed to prevent the death of Baby P. The boy had been snatched from his home in Africa and presented to a follower of Gilbert Deya, a self-styled archbishop who claimed to be able to cure infertility through prayer. Once the child was in the UK, the follower adopted the boy - known a...

New York Times ad blasts ire aimed at LDS - Declaring "no mob veto," a full-page ad in the New York Times on Friday denounced the "violence and intimidation" directed at members of the LDS Church who supported California's ban on gay marriage.In a statement Friday, church officials expressed gratitude to the dozen civil rights and religious leaders, ranging from Catholic to evangelical Christian to Orthodox Jew, who attached their names to the advertisement....

Jeremy Steinke convicted in murder of girlfriend?s family - Just days after Jeremy Steinke was arrested in the killing of a Medicine Hat couple and their young son, the 23-year-old told police that he participated in the slayings because he wanted to "impress" his 12-year-old girlfriend, who was the mastermind behind the plot to murder her family.Jurors in the Court of Queen's Bench in Calgary took 11 hours to convict Mr. Steinke, now 25, of three counts of first-degree murder in the April, 2006, deaths ...

Cult leader Wayne Bent goes to trial - The man who said that he only answers to god will soon be answering to a judge and a jury of his peers. The trial of cult leader Wayne Bent is scheduled to begin Monday, on charges that he sexually abused some of his underage female followers.Bent has predicted dire consequences for the world if he is put on trial. (Don't worry, though. His prophecies -- such as the world ending last Oct. 31 -- are as fake ...

Mayor abandons anti-drug program affiliated with Church of Scientology - The city of Las Cruces, New Mexico, is immediately ending an anti-drug program aimed at third-graders after it was revealed it was created and bankrolled by the Church of Scientology.In 2005, California State Superintendent Jack O?Connell urged all California schools to drop a Scientology-related antidrug education program after a state evaluation concluded that its curriculum offers inaccurate and unscientific information....

Televangelist?s $3.6 million jet not tax-exempt, appraiser says - A Kenneth Copeland Ministry jet worth $3.6 million has been denied tax-exempt status by the Tarrant Appraisal District, setting the stage for a battle that could require the minister to reveal his salary if he wants the jet to be tax-free.Compensation paid Copeland and other members of his family has been the source of a U.S. senator?s inquiry, but the televangelist has been unwilling to disclose the information publicly. If the ministry gives ...