Archive for: August 2006

The folks at Eqo, previously known for their attempts to bring

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Alec Saunders does a great overview on this service called Hullo which is basically a call manager that uses VoIP. It’s a whole lot of “click to call” type stuff. It will use your PC to make and …

Om talks about how Amazon's UnBox service will let you rent or buy movies online like some other places. This along with the fact that established player Guba is lowering prices has everyone thinking: price war. We …

I decided since I already use Gmail for my email anyway, I figured I might as well take the plunge and use Gmail for phoneboy.com. I signed up for the "beta" earlier this week and got a note in my …

Apparently, the demonstration at BlackHat that involved a MacBook and WiFi was “misrepresented.” They used a MacBook and a third-party WiFi USB card to demonstrate how easy it was to compromise a laptop. However, they originally said something along the …

For those of you who don't visit my website and only read it via RSS, I've now added a perhaps voyeristic feature to my site: a status message from twitter. Twitter is an SMS-based service where you can update

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I pretty much use one of two phones these days to make a PSTN call: Gizmo Project or my mobile phone. Gizmo has excellent audio quality. Skype is just too unreliable to use for a PSTN call. The audio quality …

I found a few things worth commenting on:

You'd Think They'd Target The Ads: Alec Saunders was lamenting the fact that Microsoft is offering  him dating ads when Microsoft knows he's married and only interested in business networking. …

I don't blog for a living, though I obviously spend a lot of time doing it. I wouldn't mind if it were to become a full-time career.

If you like what I'm doing on phoneboy.com and would like

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According to a press release by 8×8, they were awarded US Patent No. 7,092,379 (full text of patent). This patent basically describes what is commonly referred to as an analog terminal adapter, or ATA, which is what takes

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