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Cultures and Groups RSS FeedsInterviews with Top 60 VoIP Movers and Shakers... - Rich Tehrani has a nice roundup of 60 interviews he's done with many of the major "movers and shakers" in the VoIP / IP communications industry. Rich writes: Whenever I go to a conference, I learn a tremendous amount from the people I meet at the show. I really enjoy the impromptu networking which takes place at events as it allows me to learn so much about what is happening in the market .{snip} In less than two weeks the world with gather at ITEXPO -- The World's Communications Conference to help select products for purchase, learn about the latest events in the telecom market and network with peers. It is this last area where this blog entry should be of maximal benefit. Yo...Feed Source: feeds.feedburner.com Fonality's trixbox Pro Unified Agent Edition integrates with Salesforce.com - Fonality's trixbox Unified Agent Edition (UAE) can automatically match all inbound and outbound calls with the corresponding record in salesforce.com's AppExchange, and call data is captured and logged eliminating manual entry. This is a big step for Fonality in taking their Asterisk-based IP-PBX from simply an enterprise phone system to a "true" call center platform that can compete with Avaya, Nortel, Interactive Intelligence, and other major call center platforms.Fonality, today announced the... Samsung's Green Gadget Returns Mean Free for All - Samsung has announced free recycling for all Samsung-branded consumer electronics in all 50 states, beginning October 1. Samsung has just announced its Recycling Direct, a program that will enable consumers in all 50 states to recycle Samsung-branded consumer electronics devices like televisions, monitors, DVD players, home theater systems, cameras, camcorders, printers, peripherals -- essentially, all Samsung-branded consumer electronics.(Look for the one in the photo above at a recycling center sometime this century 0 The exception will be home appliances (too bad about my washer and dryer when that day comes), which can't be accepted at the drop-off ... Sony Laptops Heading Back to Sony -- Oy VAIO! - Sony has issued a recall for thousands of its VAIO laptops because of possible overheating or short-circuits.(Didn't we blog about another similar Sony problem not all that long ago?) The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) said that the recall is voluntary, and it recommended that Vaio owners stop using the products unless otherwise instructed. The recall affects 73,000 VAIO TZ-series computers in the U.S. and apparently 440,000 units worldwi... Dell Goes to Europe with Vodafone - Vodafone and Dell have announced that Dell's Inspiron Mini 9 ultra-mobile notebook will be sold with built-in mobile broadband, exclusively through Vodafone stores and online, and directly from Dell, in key European markets. Available in late September, the Inspiron Mini 9 is designed to deliver the utmost flexibility, reliability and speed for email and Internet browsing on-the-go without the need for an additional modem. (Or so they say.) Digital nomads and avid web surfers alike (that's their wording, not mine) will be able to connect anytime, anywhere, whether on the road, or on-the-go, while surfing the Web, chatting wit... Pantech Breeze -- Well, Almost So Simple ... - If life could be simple again -- really simple? -- wouldn't we all be better off? And in one of the area where simple could be good -- even great (Palm Pilot drum roll, please), Pantech has introduced its Breeze cell phone. It's key benefits can be summed in with just two letters -- E and Z: EZ to use: simplified, easy-to-read user interfaceEZ to connect: back-lit one-touch quick call keysEZ to access: one-touch speakerphone and cameraEZ to handle: oversized keypad with separated buttonsThe Breeze is a slim, good-looking flip phone (4 x 2 x 0.7 inches) that weighs less than four ounces and includes an external 1-inch (diagona... Lost TV Satellite Signal, Couldn't watch Rudy Giuliani or Sarah Palin, Streaming TV to the rescue! - I was watching the Republican National Convention (RNC) speeches last night, toggling between CNN and FOX News, when a major rain storm hit Connecticut causing a lengthly loss of satellite signal. It was the middle of Rudy Giuliani's hard-hitting speech when I lost all of my TV channels. I have to get my nightly politics "fix" or I'm a grumpy blogger in the morning. The highly-anticipated speech from Governor Sarah Palin was still to come and it looked like I wasn't going to be able to watch it live. Sometimes CNN offers live streaming coverage, so I headed over to CNN.com and sure enough... Qik Live Streaming Mobile Video Now on HTC Phones - Qik, the popular live streaming mobile phone video app, is now available on a variety of new Windows Mobile enabled phones including select HTC devices. New support includes:? HTC Touch Dual? HTC Touch Diamond? HTC TyTn-II? AT&T Tilt? Sony Ericsson Xperia X1Qik added mobile video blogging to the Apple iPhone just last week. I was actually going to use Qik on my ... trixbox Pro 2.0 review - Fonality is one of the premiere providers of Asterisk-based IP-PBX solutions. Fonality offers three products: PBXtra, trixbox CE (community edition), and trixbox Pro (commercial/reseller edition). trixbox Pro. which is their commercial edition runs on Fonality's "hardened" PBXtra technology, which Fonality claims has 5 thousand installations and over 325 million calls to date. trixbox Pro is a hybrid-hosted solution, which means you get 24/7 monitoring, phone mobility with no NAT traversal issues, and automatic software updates. ... Fonality Lands $12M Financing Round from Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) - Fonality, a provider of IP-PBX systems based on Asterisk, has just secured a $12 million financing round led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) Growth Fund with participation from existing investor Intel Capital. Draper Fisher Jurvetson is a well known venture capital firm backing more than 600 companies including industry-changing companies such as Hotmail, Overture, Four11, Baidu, and fellow VoIP company, Skype.I spoke with Fonality CFO Dan Rosenthal who explained that Fonality has had 16 successive quarters of growth, and that the main goal of this funding was to grow the distribution channel and accelerate growth. As part of the financing deal, DFJ will become part of Fonality's boar... Only Apple and RIM Can Make Good Smart Phones? - The U.S. market for smart phones continues to be a tough nut to crack for the established handset makers. Top-tier players such as Nokia, Motorola and Samsung control 80% of the market for cell phones but have struggled in the U.S. to sell smart phones -- phones that allow users to surf the Internet, send email and download music, among other advanced functions. Often caught up satisfying carrier demands, handset makers have been slow to bring out products in this segment, opening the door for the likes of Research in Motion and Apple. And let's not forget Palm. ... Only Another 5 Years for Blu-ray? - Talk about putting the kiss of death on a format that has just ever so barely just arrived, Samsung has said that it sees the Blu-ray format only lasting a further five years before it is replaced by another format or technology. "I think it [Blu-ray] has five years left, I certainly wouldn't give it 10," said Andy Griffiths, director of consumer electronics at Samsung UK in a Pocket-lint interview. Hoping to capitalize before it's too late, Griffiths believes that 2008 is the format's year. Citing online rental sites like LoveFilm's adoption of Blu-ray titles, the move to offer cheaper players and a now clear path to adoption following the... Economy Down, HDTV Sales To Pick Up? - Economy down, oil prices up Hey, time to buy a new HDTV!With the February 2009 digital TV transition looming, HDTV suppliers are expecting a good fourth quarter and hoping for a minimum of price cuts along the way.That is what executives with LG Electronics, Sharp, Toshiba, Mitsubishi and JVC had to say at a recent meeting reported in TWICE.Scott Ramirez, Toshiba's TV marketing VP, indicated that his company will be rolling out a major introduction of HDTVs with increased features.While that will be good for Toshiba, he said that overall demand of HDTVs will be strong in the fourth quarter. And he does not see much i... Digital TV Transition about To Begin; Fish Tanks on Tap - Next Monday, a group of public officials and broadcasters will gather in Wilmington, N.C., with little more to do than wait for the phones to ring.At noon that day, Wilmington stations will shut off their old television signals and broadcast only in digital, potentially leaving thousands of older televisions unusable. Wilmington is the first U.S. city to switch to digital-only television broadcasts and is doing it five months early as a test of the strategy the government and broadcasters have adopted for helping people who still rely on over-the-air, analog television move to the digital TV future.Read more about it at the... Ultrasound Makes Virtual Objects Real - The power of ultrasonic waves has been harnessed to produce "virtual" objects in mid-air.The field of haptics -- integrating computing and the sense of touch -- has been around for some time, but has required gloves or mechanical devices to impart a sense of feeling.Now, a team of Japanese researchers has developed a system that uses focused ultrasound to do the job, and its inventors may soon commercialize the approach.With the expansion in multimedia on the web, our eyes and ears are flooded with sensory information, but the sense of touch has been largely left behind.The popularity of vibrating gaming handsets has proven that it is a rich but untapped way to increase interaction. Read ... Apple Looks to Rock with New Prods Next Week - Apple has sent out invitations for a music-related event next week, and the smart money is on new iPods. The invitation, titled "Let's Rock," went out this morning inviting media to the Yerba Buena Center for the Performing Arts in San Francisco next Tuesday at 10 a.m. PDT. Rumors have been building for weeks that Apple is set to introduce new iPods at what will be its fourth September iPod event in as many years. Many have been expecting Apple to hold a September iPod-related event since March, when audio chipmaker Wolfson informed its shareholders that it had been shut out of the design of next-generation media players from "a major Tier 1 customer" who pla... Flashphone adds Adobe AIR VoIP app - Regular readers of the VoIP & Gadgets blog will recall I've written about Flashphone several times. In theory, Flashphone, like Phweet (a Flash-based VoIP app) should work on Aircell's airline Internet service. Until of course, Aircell blocks it of course. (See Andy's post about doing VoIP over Aircell) The most recent Flashphone news was the addition of flash-SIP/VoIP-to-video calling. Now today, Flashphone has released an Adobe AIR version of Flashphone. Many Flashphone users (about 75000 now) use Flashphone's browser-based SIP softphone since it r... VoIP Supply Named to CRN's Fastest Growing Retailers - Proof VoIP a Fast Growing industry - Garrett Smith from VoIP Supply emailed me this morning expressing his excitement that "A VoIP pure play keeping up with a who's who of America's top retailers." Specifically, the company Garrett works for was named to CRN Magazine's Fastest Growing retailers listing VoIP Supply's retail business amongst the big boys like Best Buy, New Egg and PC Connection.Out of the 15 companies listed, only one company posted better growth numbers then VoIP Supply.... Office Communications Server 2007 R2 beta released - Well if the cat wasn't out of the bag already over the naming convention (OCS 2007 R2 vs. OCS 2009) for the next release of Office Communications Server 2007, we can put that to rest. It will be indeed be called Office Communications Server 2007 R2. In fact, just a few days ago, Microsoft shipped the beta for Office Communications Server 2007 R2, "in record time after shipping OCS 2007 last year." Kintan Brahmbhatt, a Program Manager at Microsoft writ... friends of fring - fring is offering a limited number of "friends of fring" with exclusive access to news, and features before general release. I like to call fring the "Swiss Army knife of mobile VoIP" supporting SIP, Skype, MSN Messenger, Yahoo, ICQ, Google Talk, Twitter, and AIM. I have it installed on my Windows Mobile 6.1 phone. As a "friend of fring" you can also provide feedback. My first suggestion should I become a FoF would be DTMF support... New 3CX VoIP Phone SIP Softphone - In late July, 3CX launched a new SIP-based VoIP client called 3CX VoIP Phone, with a fully-featured dialpad, and it allows for easy call transfers. It also features history of calls, the ability to put calls on hold, and the ability to accept, reject or ignore calls. Best of all 3CX VoIP phone is completely free and works with most popular IP PBXs and VoIP providers. It even sports multiple SIP profiles support for registering with multiple SIP accounts.As I wrote back in July, 3CX VoIP Phone features strong ... Roasting AT&T over iPhone Problems - "A phone is only as good as the network it's on," said a full-page Verizon Wireless newspaper ad on Thursday, lobbing a shot at AT&T's 3G, or third generation, high-speed network. (And ain't that the truth -- we know if well where I live!) Apple sold more than a million iPhone 3G cellphones its first weekend -- with some stores running out -- and two million more since then, analysts say. But its July debut has been nothing less than a public relations headache for AT&T, with eager buyers complaining about dropped calls and poor network connections. Some fingers point to Apple, which has tried to deflect the complaints... Remember When Labor Day Meant Noisy Beach Parties??? - It really wasn't all that long ago when you could bring an AM radio to the beach for Labor Day, tune in Cousin Brucie and rock the sand dunes!(Remember all of those beach party movies? Can anybody name one?Now, with all of the anti-fun measures that are posted at the beach (no noise, no ball playing, etc.), it's amazing that you can still go in the water and swim (only between the green flags, please!).Anyway, looks like the 2008 end-of-summer beach look is an iPod or other MP3 player -- but remember keep the sound down so you don't blow out those eardrums! -- so everyone rocks out in silence.Ah, the... Microsoft OCS 2007 R2 (next release) to be 64-bit Only - It was just announced on the Office Communications Server Team blog that the next release of OCS 2007 (rumored to be called OCS 2007 R2) will support 64-bit operating systems only. Customers who are using 32-bit hardware systems to run OCS 2007 will have to upgrade to x64 systems to install and run the next release of OCS.From Microsoft:As a part of the broad initiative across Microsoft to support 64 bit versions across many of ... Happy 5th Birthday Skype! - Just want to wish Skype a Happy 5th Birthday. Skype has helped make VoIP a household name and has carried more VoIP minutes than any other VoIP software application out there. Well done Skype. I hope you continue to innovate, though Andy Abramson writes today Skype is dropping Skypecasts, a nifty feature. Andy poo-... You Can Buy Gadgets Everywhere! - A recent study from the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) has found that 25% of people would be willing to buy their gadgets from Starbucks, 30% from Ikea, 40% from Bed, Bath and Beyond and almost 60% from Home Depot. "Electronics have become so pervasive that consumers are looking to buy these devices wherever they want," said Tim Herbert, CEA research senior director, adding, "No [retailer] is safe. If you don't reinvent yourself, there are retailers looking to capitalize on the vulnerability of CE retailers." It's easy to see why as lines across the big box retailers blur and they lo... Is Sony Ericsson Headed for Splitsville? - According to Reuters, Sony's joint venture with cell phone maker Ericsson must do better. Asked whether Sony is planning to end its Sony Ericsson joint venture, Sony head honcho Howard Stringer said: "It's certainly been a difficult year but buying out a partner is never an easy thing." Sony lowered its group net profit forecast for the year to March by 17 percent, citing a slump at Sony Ericsson and weakening prospects for its electronics division amid tough price competition. "We have to work together again as we did two years ago. Or the joint venture will have to find its own solution," Stringer said. He added that it was hard for a com... What's Wrong with Second-Hand Video Game Sales? - Publishing giant Electronic Arts has said that it's currently trying multiple new business models to help battle the critical problem of second-hand videogame sales. (No problem for me!) While retailers reap the benefits of selling the same product multiple times, publishers and developers don't see any income once a title hits the second-hand market. But realizing it's powerless to stop retail from selling second-hand goods, EA is looking to combat the problem by capturing the consumer with online content and services. "I'd actually make the point that for us second-hand sales is a very critical situation, because people are selling multiple times intellectual pr... How about a Blu-ray/VHS Combi? - A Blu-ray disc recorder and a VHS video tape machine may seem unlikely bedfellows, but that hasn't stopped Panasonic from wrapping them up together in the same box for the DMR-BR630V. The 630V can write at six times speed, has digital and analog tuners, new second-gen MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 encoder chips as well as all the standard HDMI and analog connections and Panasonic's Viera link for device interconnectivity. It also records to DVD. And there's even a 320GB hard drive inside, capable of recording video and later letting you dub it. Gizmodo has a bit more and so does ... IEEE standardizes 801.11r fast Wi-Fi roaming - The IEEE has completed 802.11r, a standard that lets Wi-Fi devices roam quickly between wireless access points (WAP) and which improves the performance of VoIP on enterprise LANs. Traditionally, 801.11 devices can roam from one access point to another, but it takes about 100ms to re-associate, and several seconds to re-establish authenticated connections using 802.1x. Not good for time-critical apps like VoIP.According to InfoWorld, "the new standard, 802.11r, known as Fast Basic Service Set Transition, allows the network to establish a security and QoS state for the device at the new access point, before it roams between the two, so the transition can take place in less than 50ms - the standard required for voice roaming."The article explains that vendors have traditionally either used lower security options on Wi-Fi VoIP (i.e. easily cra... Microsoft License Update on E-texts - In the announcement on Public Funding posted here at the archive, it was stated that Microsoft "said they wer ... 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================= ... Re: 500,000 books online! - Whoo Hoo! Major mile-stone. Congrats IA! ... 500,000 books online! - We just passed a milestone of 500,000 books online. Fantastic to see.
The Internet Archive is scanning at about 1000 books a day at this point from 80 great libraries.
As we cross this milestone, p ... Re: Get rid of tons of spam advertisements! - sorry about all of that distracting stuff. I think we have gotten a pile of it. As it turns out the culprits are doing it now, so we will see some more, unfortunately.
-brewster
... Re: Get rid of tons of spam advertisements! - That why I've been advocating a banning policy on the IPs that upload this crap ... Get rid of tons of spam advertisements! - What can we do to get rid of tons of spam advertisements that are being uploaded here? I even see today the actual advertisement WAS the description and is on the listing page. It's bad enough to wa ... More removals - I thought I did this last night, but apparently didn't press the right button; we need a policy on here that people who continually post stuff like the below thread should be banned, at least temporar ... Re: DIY orbital scanner - Thanks LockerGnome. Have you worked on the IA planetary scanner? ... Re: DIY orbital scanner - Bounce the lighting off matte white reflectors.
Shape the reflectors to even the lighting.
The lights and reflectors need to be out of the view of the cameras reflected off the glass plate.
... Re: Greek letters - It appears to be the sort of garbage output from an OCR
engine trained only in latin scripts. The same mess happens at the beginning of many books where there is a mixture of fonts, particularly the t ... Re: Another removal - Done. ... Another removal - The author has asked that this be taken off
http://www.archive.org/details/PartnersInHateNoamChomskyAndTheHolocaustDeniers ... Commentarii in Vergilii carmina - I am sure I have browsed a latin commentary to Virgil's Bucolics. It must have been from Archive.org. However I cannot find such a text anymore, neither on the site nor on my harddrive. Have I dreamt? ... Re: Please remove - Somewhere Crumb is laughing his head off ... Please remove - http://www.archive.org/details/WhenTheGoddamnJewsTakeOverAmerica
Uh people who are familiar with the things I post know I don't shy away from sensitive issues, and like to post controversial things ... building news and engineering journal - My grandfather recently gave me the Building News And Engineering Journal Vol 29 1875.
I am trying to find out some more info on this publication.
How many were there printed? etc.
Would appreciate an ... Re: Extremely slow download speeds - Librivox can report what the circumstances are at his end of the node, not what is happening at the host server. I'm not meaning to be an appoligist for anyone, simply an observer of realistic expecta ... Re: Extremely slow download speeds - Believe me, kiteman, I also am grateful to those who operate the site. It has given me access to books which I could never hope to read otherwise. But gratitude is not the issue. The aim of the arch ... Re: Extremely slow download speeds - Your post states all of the reasons the host simply cannot do as you would ask. When you log on from (whether from Scotland or New York) your local lines, networks and servers have far more impact on ... Re: Extremely slow download speeds - This is a good idea (P2P solutions). Duplication is the best form of preservation.
The thought has occurred to me of downloading a copy of every book (half-million or so) but then I did the calculat ... Re: How do Microsoft digitize texts? - Are they still digitising?
I though Microsoft have wound their digitisation initiative down... Re: Extremely slow download speeds - Greetings!
I'm also concerned with this issue, and in addition for donations which are truly useful for other areas of the IA project as well, I really urge the Archive to make use of ... Attention Framen - The guy that likes to review some of the stuff I uploaded and is apparently an Aussie - I thought you might get a kick out of this
http://www.archive.org/details/PocketGudieToAustralia
Maybe we can ... Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands - http://www.archive.org/details/ReportOnTheUsTrustTerritoryOfThePacificIslands_489
I keep getting a system slowness message, even though I haven't had the promblem with books of comparable size. Could ... Re: posting a new zine - =)
We feel like we've had a little car accident on the side of a motorway. So many passers by having a look, but no one stops!
Have we posted this question in the wrong place? or is it hard to answe ... Re: Extremely slow download speeds - Thanks for the info, stbalbach. I understand that the site relies largely on voluntary sources and things don't always run smoothly because everything's stretched to the limit, but that's no excuse f ... Re: Extremely slow download speeds - One thing we can all do to help is send in yearly donations. In the states we have Public Television (in the UK it is the BBC) - IA needs that kind of broad base user support, in addition to the fundi ... Re: Extremely slow download speeds - It seems that things can only get worse. I got a download speed of .9 kbps yesterday - yes, less than one kbps.
I happened to visit the Librivox website today, and they have an announcement that arc ... posting a new zine - Hello.
We had a bit of a look around, but couldn't find anything that obviously answered our question (so, sorry if we did miss something obvious).
We are about to start posting content for a new we ... Re: Copyright Question - I am just now working on a British author who died in 1934, whose copyright thus expired in 2004. A few of his books have been reissued in modern facsimile, i.e. not re-set by a publisher, so I don't ... Extremely slow download speeds - I've been collecting public domain ebooks for two or three years now, but only recently came across this truly fantastic site. I couldn't believe the range and quality of texts available - all for fre ... Re: Copyright Question - Correction-- it's late--- instead of Late 19th Century, read after 1911. Nothing before 1911 is still in copyright in the U.K, but after 1911 many works are, because the authors lived past 1945.
Bert ... Re: Copyright Question - P.S. to get Google off the hook a little, there is an interesting legal copyright problem concerning British authors who died after about 1945 or so. It also applies to other online American archives . ... Re: Copyright Question - Yes, that's exactly what I'm talking about. Few people have noticed this about Google.
Unlike the now-gone Microsoft Live Book Search, oftentimes Google will make their clearly pre-1923 works unavail ... Re: Copyright Question - What about their pre-1923 scans that are inaccessible apart from snippits? There is a lot from the late nineteenth century. ... Re: Copyright Question - Thanks.. that's great news.
Now, if only Google will use them to do copyright checks on their post 1923 scans, and then release them if they're PD! (you can never ask for too much ) ... Re: Copyright Question - *mouth hangs open*
Thanks for the link, very useful! ... Re: Copyright Question - Coincidentally, Google just announced yesterday they have created a single database of all the copyright records from 1923-63 available for download.
http://booksearch.blogspot.com/2008/06/us-copyrig ... Re: Please remove - Done. ... What happened to all of Microsoft Live's journal scans? - Related to the question right below, Microsoft claimed that they scanned a tremendous number of journal articles for their now defunct scholar search. Something like millions.
What happened to all o ... Re: Copyright Question - If the work was published before 1923, then it's in the public domain in the U.S., so anyone can use it.
After 1923, up to 1964, it's in the public domain unless copyright was officially renewed. All ... Re: Potential for a collections of newsletters, magazines, newspapers, comics? - Some of the better periodicals are often re-issued in bound volumes and thus get caught up in the scanning efforts so if your lucky they can be found - but I agree 100% periodicals have been a neglect ... Potential for a collections of newsletters, magazines, newspapers, comics? - Currently the Archive's concentration in the text sector is for books and e-books - however, there is generally many less ongoing efforts to save actual periodicals (magazines, newletters, newspapers, ... Re: DIY orbital scanner - Bump! ... Re: Copyright Question - The archive, as part of the scanning process, has tried to give hints to those that want to use the books. But the archive does not know about copyright-- it is insanely complicated.
So, you can use ... Re: Copyright Question - If it's in the public domain-- which is what 'not in copyright' means-- then you can do anything you want with it. You can even claim you wrote it yourself-- if you can get away with it
I believe ... Re: No support for "resume" downloads? - It's strange. I use XP with Firefox and Download Accelerator Plus, but the direct link from the Archive web page doesn't work right-- when the server gets queried a file size 'unknown' comes back as w ... Why don't more public libraries subscribe to JSTOR? - Glancing at a list of California libraries that are subscribers to the JSTOR database, I was amazed at how few there are-- and only one public library, San Francisco, as well as just a small number of ... Copyright © 2008, Typojoe.com. All Rights Reserved. |