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Chats and Forums RSS FeedsUltimate Ears -- Very Sweet ... - Talk about a sweet sounding and feeling headset! Ultimate Ears' Super.Fi 4vi is designed for the iPhone and features voice integration with in-line microphone and control button.(But it still worked great on other phones -- like the BlackBerry Curve.) The Super.fi 4vi incorporates the same speaker technology and sound signatures used in their custom personal monitors, which are used by some of the music industry's top artists. The phones deliver detailed bass with crisp and clean...Feed Source: feeds.feedburner.com Triple Play Moving to Quintuple Play? - If you thought the "triple play" offered by cable and phone service providers was pretty cool, it's time to think again. Various providers now are looking at ways to bundle not just TV, phone and the Internet, but also a home's security and control systems into a great, big package that is being called the "quintuple play." For the service providers whose quadruple plays currently include digital television, internet, phone, and wireless, the fifth service in the five-for-one bundle could be home control, remote monitoring and/or safety and security devices and services (sometimes referred to as SMA or security... BlackBerry Storm on Its Way! Look Out iPhone 3G! - Let the holiday season smart phone wars begin!!! Research In Motion (RIM) has introduced its BlackBerry Storm -- with its new tactile touch-screen -- that will be exclusively available on Verizon Wireless in a couple of weeks. Both RIM and Verizon Wireless are expecting the Storm to seriously challenge Apple's 3G iPhone as the hottest gadget under this year's Christmas tree or Hanukkah bush. With a look similar to Apple's iPhone, the Storm comes with a 3.2-inch screen, preloaded with Facebook, ... Truphone appoints new CEO - Truphone today announced Geraldine Wilson as its new chief executive officer. Geraldine was the former Vice President and General Manager of Yahoo!'s European mobile division. Always nice to see a female CEO being appointed to you know, "break the good ole boy network." Yeah, I know, that phrase has been done to death lately by Sarah Palin. truphone is a very cool VoIP app that works on many mobile phones, including the iPhone. In fact, they were one of... Vonage slams Skype for not following emergency rules - Vonage lays down the smackdown for Skype's refusal to adhere to Ofcom rules, an independent regulator and competition authority for the UK communications industries. Last month, Ofcom introduced rules mandating access to emergency services (999 in the United Kingdom) for VoIP providers whose customers make calls that connect to the public switched service. The rules also specify that caller address information is to be made available to emergency services so that, as far as possible, emergency service operators know... T-Mobile Running Out of Androids - T-Mobile may have at least a short-term shortage of its G1 Android-powered phone as customers flood the company with preorders. T-Mobile said it has already sold its presale inventory of the first Google Android phone.(Guess the service is working better, too.) T-Mobile declined to disclose the number of phones initially available, but Strategy Analytics predicted T-Mobile could sell as many as 400,000 of the G1s this year. What is known is that the devices are now back-ordered unt... Much Ado about the Apple 'Brick' - Mac enthusiasts have been transfixed lately by the mystery product, code-named "brick," that's due for release later this month.Some bloggers and pundits have suggested it might be a new iteration of Apple TV or an updated Mac Mini. But according to a report on 9to5Mac.com, "brick" refers not to what it is, but how it's made. The Web site, which cites an anonymous source, says the code name has to do with a manufacturing process for Apple's MacBook and MacBook Pro lines of laptops. Apple will build the notebook out of a single piece of carved-out aluminum -- a bri... Best Buy Grabs MSI Wind - The MSI Wind netbook will go on sale at Best Buy priced at $399 and equipped with a 120GB hard drive and 1GB of RAM; it also coms with Windows XP pre-loaded. The netbook comes in just one configuration at the store. So much for choice, but how about that price? Best Buy is one of the few major U.S. CE retailers to stock the Wind, which keeps its price lower partly by using a less powerful battery pack -- a three-cell battery rather than the larger six-cell pack. More at Electronista.
Tags: ... Cross Platform Mobile Game Playing Now Here - Bringing another piece of the mobile future to today, Social Line Connect is a simple iPhone game with a cross-platform backbone. The free app, which looks similar to Connect Four, was added to the App Store over the weekend. The real point of the no-frills game is playing it with friends -- even if they don't own an iPhone. To that end, it's a also proof-of-concept title for SocialDeck, a new middleware startup that's created a server architecture for people to play games across several platforms. Based on the premise that "social interaction is much more important than the actual game play," SocialDeck's games can be played between pe... 1 Billion Wi-Fi Gadgets by 2012?! - The number of electronic gadgets equipped with Wi-Fi chips could more than triple from the 294 million in the market in 2007 to -- get this! -- 1 billion by 2012, according to a report from the research firm In-Stat.The fastest growing gadget group? Mobile handsets. In-Stat said lower prices on Wi-Fi-equipped devices and more robust batteries had been the key ingredients in the technology's growth. Digital TVs also are expected to use Wi-Fi in the future, the report said. Today only a handful of TVs are capable of connecting to the Internet via Wi-Fi.More at CNET.
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Tags: ... Verizon Loses VoIP Patent case to Cox Communications - Rich Tehrani writes a great story with some historical context on how Verizon lost a VoIP patent case (on all 6 patent counts) to Cox Communications. Unfortunately, a bit too late for Vonage which paid millions to settle their patent case with Verizon.Really though the large telcos are the winners here and consumers are the losers. The US patent system continues to be a barrier to true innovation and consumers are being hurt -- severely so in some cases -- by large companies who use the patent system to prevent other companies from succeed... snom m3 review - The snom m3 SIP wireless (DECT) phone is one of my favorite VoIP phones. I've been testing and reviewing it for a few months but haven't had time to write up the review until now. First, let me point out that the problem with IP-PBXs is they typically give you a desk phone or a softphone with no real mobility options to walk around, which is critical in some vertical markets, such as retail and manufacturing. Even sales professionals want the flexibility to take calls while roaming the office. In the past, I have used analog telephony adapters to connect my cordless phone to my SIP-based IP-PBX, but the cordless phone lacks multiple lines, call transfer, call conference, call waiting, or even a message waiting indication (MWI). Enter the snom m... Do We Need a Digital Bill of Rights? - TechCrunch, much like the Digital Freedom Campaign, believes we need a Digital Bill of Rights to serve as "a consistent policy governing everything from Internet Protocol regulations to intellectual property on the Web." The Digital Freedom Campaign focuses on the first three issues laid out in the TechCrunch piece -- "The Right to Use and Reuse Content," "The Right to Control Digital Property On Your Own Device" and "The Right to the Free Flow of Information." The presidential election gives us a chance to turn the page and move forward, with support and guidance from policymakers, into a bright digital future. Now let's see if anyone in Washington is listening. Read more about it at ... Is Home Automation Market Set To Go Boom? - The number of home automation systems -- both professionally installed and DIY -- will reach more than 4 million in 2013, says ABI Research. The Home Automation and Security Report says the market will grow more than 50 times its current size in five years. There were 237,000 systems that shipped in 2007. The study attributes the growth to new approaches: "Mainstream" systems based on standardized technologies and packaged components Home automation as a managed service offered through a broadband or wireless service provider The market is also seeing houses built (or were built) that we designed to accommodate the necessary wiring for these systems.What does your home automation sys... Is It Time for 3D TV? - With such television makers as Samsung and Panasonic unveiling flat-screen sets that are capable of displaying 3-D content, the format is widely considered the next leap forward in TV technology. So far, 3-D programming has been about stunts and gimmicks rather than an earnest play to engage viewers on a deeper level. With growing competition from other media, however, it may be time for the television industry to push forward with 3-D. The technological advances are the necessary foundation that network programmers need before they invest more in 3-D. As consumers invest in televisions that can handle 3-D content -- either o... TMC & Digium Partner for Digium|Asterisk World at ITEXPO - I've had some big news I had to keep under wraps until today. My company, Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) and Digium, the Asterisk Company, today announced that they have partnered to host Digium|Asterisk World? during INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO East 2009 in Miami, Florida. Having ITEXPO host Digium|Asterisk World is a huge win for TMC and further cements TMC's ITEXPO as the most preeminent VoIP and IP communications show. In fact, I recently came across this quote from Phonevite, "With the demise of the VON Show, the Internet Telephony Conference &a... fring Adds VoIP to iPhone -
fring for iPhone has arrived! I'm a huge fan of fring, which I like to call the Swiss Army knife of VoIP/IM communications since fring works with AOL/AIM, MSN
Messenger, Google Talk, Skype, Twitter, Yahoo! Messenger, and SIP registrars/IP-PBXs. I've used fring on my Windows Mobile 6.1 phon... See, Video Games Are Good for You - Games and virtual reality simulators are becoming increasingly popular tools for training by the army, various police forces and even in medical applications. If a new pilot program called "InSight" pans out for Allstate, though, the next place you could be seeing video games is at the local DMV. Allstate is currently piloting a new program which seeks to find out if playing driving video games could make better drivers out of those over age 50. If the study shows that it can, the insurance company plans to offer discounts to mature drivers who pass the online tests and the current, single-state pilot would be spread across other states next year. ... Best Buy Selling Musical Instruments -- Making Real Guitar Heroes! - Look out Guitar Center and Sam Ash! Maybe you don't think of them as gadgets, but Best Buy is adding musical instruments to its entertainment repertoire at roughly 85 stores nationwide. (Didn't I just see you at Best Buy?) The stores will cater to novice and professional musicians and carry brands such as Fender, Gibson, Roland and Drum Workshop. The Best Buy in Pembroke Pines, FL, for example, features a 2,500-square-foot store-within-a store with more than 1,000 guitars, bass drums, keyboards, recording equipment and other instruments and accessories. The Best Buy in Pembroke Pines will have five to seven trained musical instrum... Nokia Unveils Its First Music Phone -- 5800 XpressMusic - Turning up the volume on what could be a music phone war, Nokia has unveiled the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, a mobile device for music that brings innovative new features to the mass market. Delivering on Nokia's vision to provide the best total music experience possible, the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic will be among the first devices to support Comes With Music, Nokia's service that offers one year of unlimited access to the entire Nokia Music Store catalog. When it comes to music phones, people all over the world want a device that is a great music experience -- with more mem... Windows Live Messenger Back in the VoIP game! - Ok, now my head is getting dizzy from the number of times Microsoft Windows Live Messenger/MSN Messenger has had outbound VoIP-to-PSTN calling (2006), then ... Lenovo Celebrates 16 Years of ThinkPad - Lenovo is celebrating sixteen years of continuous ThinkPad innovation (most of them of course under the Big Blue of IBM) with -- what else? -- a sale.Lot of fun to look at the "Legends of ThinkPad" to see some of the amazing feats this little gadget has been through. You can take your choice of "melted," "sunk," "crunched," "trekked" and "stolen."Actually some stuff you won't believe!And of course there are many awards Reminds me of all of TPs I've owned -- T20, A Series, etc. -- some still in fact ticking still!See the Legends... Now the iPhone Is a Political Tool ... - Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign launched an iPhone application today that turns the gadget into a political recruiting tool. The most notable feature "organizes and prioritizes your contacts by key battleground states, making it easy to reach out and make an impact quickly," according to the software. For example, if you have contacts in Colorado, Michigan, and New Mexico, they would be ranked at the top; at the bottom would be someone with a cell phone in Texas. The application anonymously reports back the number of calls made this way: "Your privacy is important: no personal data or contacts will be uploaded or stored. Only the total number of c... Ronco's Baaack!!! - Remember the Veg-O-Matic, the Pocket Fisherman and the Inside-the-Shell Egg Scrambler? To many baby boomers, those names recall the days when Jimmy Carter was in the White House and Farrah Fawcett starred in Charlie's Angels.And who can forget the Bass-O-Matic skit on Saturday Night Live (when it really mattered!)?Now a new generation will be able to form its own memories. The Ronco Acquisition Corporation, the company behind these products, is reviving its in-your-face infomercials, even weaving in historical footage of Ron Popeil, the original pitchman.(Now if only Cra... Is Your City One of the Most Connected? - Among the top designated marketing areas (DMAs), San Francisco, Miami and Los Angeles are the most connected cities based on home networking adoption. What does connected mean: A wired or wireless home network allows consumers to connect multiple PCs and printers, and to share Internet access among computers. MultiMedia Intelligence's research identifies significant variations among major metropolitan areas. San Francisco has the highest household home networking adoption rate of 28% among the top DMAs. In contrast, the San Antonio, Chicago and Cleveland DMAs have among the lowest home networking adoption. This reflects, in part, the varying reg... Smelly MacBook Pros Not Good for You - Strong-smelling MacBook Pros have been discussed on Apple forums, but an anonymous French molecular biologist/researcher went to Greenpeace to check out why his smelled. Greenpeace got Analytica involved, and then Inéris, France's national institute covering the industrial environment. Apparently benzene is a component of the smell, and this could be risky -- over time, sensitive people could develop leukemia. Unconfirmed stories suggest the problem Mac Pros have been built in China, not at Apple's European factory. Note, we'... How about Being Your Favorite Gadget for Halloween? - With October ringing in today, of course thoughts turn to Halloween -- yes, I know it's nearly a month away. Wonder why we don't see any trick or treaters dressed up as their favorite gadgets? Would be pretty easy to be an iPhone (or just about any cell phone for that matter, but those clam shell designs could be trouble?). TV set or computer monitor is another good one -- at least for head gear. What do you think? Does this make any sense? And if it does, what gadget would you be? And why
Tags: ... Adtran IP 706 Review -
Adtran recently launched their IP 700 series of IP phones in late April. Adtran sent TMC Labs the IP 706 model, which supports up to 6 lines, but the 700 series also includes the IP 712 which is identical feature-wise but supports up to 12 lines. Each line can be configured to register with unique SIP proxy/registrar servers. This allows a different line for every line key on the phone. A line is called a multiple call appearance (MCA) type if it will be assigned to one or more line keys on the same phone. It is called a shared call appearance (SCA) type if the line is shared across multiple phones. This is not to be confused with SLA (Shared Line Appearance) which maps PSTN lines to buttons on all the phones. Of course you need to assign t... On hold - Could the admins please put these two texts on hold
http://www.archive.org/details/LuxembourgYesterdayAndToday
http://www.archive.org/details/ReportOfTheConstitutionalConference
On one of them, I go ... Re: Problem with DjVu links - The link /stream/ is the streaming link and is supposed to open the file in the DJVU viewer; it doesn't always work. The download link is /download/
I use FlashGet and when the download ... Re: A new search engine for the Google-Michigan text archive - Does it block some PD books internationally, the way Google does? I would doubt it.
... Re: A new search engine for the Google-Michigan text archive - Works in the UK. ... Re: Please remove - You know, of course, that it's a joke-- it's making fun of that mentality .
Copyrighted, naturally, and now gone.
Does this-- and his companion piece about, em, African Americans, really go over p ... Re: Many copyrighted books on IA - I'm surprised these major publications got past the first eye down there. They're pretty famous. ... A new search engine for the Google-Michigan text archive - In case anyone's interested, somebody worked up a clever new search engine for the University of Michigan's copies of its Google book and journal scans.
http://roytennant.com/proto/hathi/
The advant ... http://www.archive.org/details/sharhelmakoudi - thanks for this im very happy caus im serching in all site but i cant fiend it im verry glad ... Brewster is onTED - I have just spotted Brewster's inspiring lecture on TED.
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/brewster_kahle_builds_a_free_digital_library.html
It is outstanding. ... Re: Many copyrighted books on IA - Think about it like this: a few generations ago our forebares disregarded prohibition even though it was written into the constitution. When the British put a tax on tea, the colonist started smugglin ... Re: Many copyrighted books on IA - Laws are meant to be broken, this is a digital revolution. I violate my own copyrighted material all the time! ... Re: Many copyrighted books on IA - they may be too busy checking if some GD show is a SB or Aud source a happy rhino is a good rhino ... Many copyrighted books on IA - I just came across a whole bunch of scanned books that are copyrighted. For three of them, I did a "Report Errors", but too many to report them all manually. They are scienceofculture00whit, ... Problem with DjVu links - The DjVu link on Details pages doesn't seem to work -- Here's an example
http://www.archive.org/details/atlasofdiseaseso00mraciala
When I click the link on the Details page, it doesn't go to the ... 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 ... Re: Albert Deutsch, CRAZYIER then NOT, NOW more MEANEY The Shame of the States 362.2 D48S HC - Hello!I am mike from phoniex.There are lot of hospitals in Arizona for recover the patients from mental illness.Thanks for giving this information for recover mental illness people.
================= ... Re: Albert Deutsch, The Shame of the States 362.2 D48S HC - Hello!I am mike from phoniex.There are lot of hospitals in Arizona for recover the patients from mental illness.Thanks for giving this information for recover mental illness people.
================= ... 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 ... Copyright © 2008, Chicago Best Price. All Rights Reserved. |