Monthly Archives: August 2004

Verizon 3Mbps Goes Live

I’m a loyal cable guy for now, but this probably is good news to many people… the price is actually quite competitive, though I am capable of getting up to 6MB down… Though Verizon has yet to issue a press … Continue reading

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Nintendo DS does VOIP

In its Electronic Entertainment Industry Update released today, TNI Securities reports that the recently revealed headset port on the Nintendo DS will be used in conjunction with the built-in wireless 802.11b networking capabilities to offer voice-over-IP chat–in effect, allowing gamers … Continue reading

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Pocket PC as a WiFiphone

The Vonage Softphone forums have a few posts on this and while it’s not supported, it definitely works. I don’t have and probably won’t be getting a PPC device, but for those of you with WIFI PPC’s and a Vonage … Continue reading

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You can now… download Skype for Mac OS X

Download Skype for Mac OS X Too bad I am on the work PC for the week while out of town… can’t wait to give this a shot.

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iMac G5

The new Apple iMac will definitley be finding a place in our home at some point… wow! I love the design and the specs are fantastic.

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Damn you, Jay

Autoweek interviews one of the few people in the world capable of buying three new supercars at once: Jay Leno, who just ponied up for the Mercedes SLR, Ford GT and Porsche Carrera GT. [Autoblog]

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Call Looping

As I mentioned in the previous post I am using the Vonage softphone to handle my calls while I am out of range for T-Mobile this week. I just did an interesting trick I thought I’d share for the other … Continue reading

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Vonage to the Rescue

I am currently in Vermont with my family getting away from the hubbub in NYC this week. I had no idea my mobile was going to be out of service here and was stressing a bit about how I would … Continue reading

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Why (Not) to Switch From Email to RSS

I disagree with this post of Rick Bruner’s, but I am too tired to really rant. At the moment, Rick’s key argument against the use of RSS in business is that such a small percentage of people are using it. … Continue reading

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Who really owns your phone number?

This site was just linked in my comments on the previous post and shows who really owns your number… pretty interesting to decode the players based on your phone numbers. Looks like Vonage is buying from quite a few players … Continue reading

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AT&T Uses Its Long Past to Promote Its Near Future

And yet another article covering the VOIP market… The NYT takes on AT&T CallVantage. The more I’ve thought about it since my last post on the topic, the more it seems like AT&T is really pushing this harder than Vonage. … Continue reading

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Getting the News Delivered

While I’ve been using Blogstreet’s Info Aggregator to send RSS feeds to an IMAP email box I’ve looked into additional methods as well to see if I might find an even better way to do things. To quickly sum up … Continue reading

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Microsoft to Gut Longhorn to Make 2006 Delivery Date

Assuming this is the reality, it’s quite disappointing to hear. Though I am primarily a Mac user I was really interested in seeing Redmond push the limits. If anything this is a fantastic opportunity for Apple to really hit a … Continue reading

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Virex 7.5

.Mac members are now entitled to a new version of Virex .. version 7.5 which has a completely new control center and is able to work nicely in the background checking email and files for baddies. Another nice bonus is … Continue reading

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Next Generation Treo revealed…

I walk away for a few minutes and discover that a whole host of new pictures were posted and discussed at TreoCentral, leading to even more at Engadget and of course Treonauts… Whether you call it the Ace or not … Continue reading

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VoIP Price Wars…

Andy points to an article in today’s Wall Street Journal about the looming price war in the VoIP sector. Price war for all voice services is more like it, and in many ways this is the second phase of telecom’s … Continue reading

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David Dorman discusses VOIP with ZDNet

In an exclusive Face to Face interview, AT&T CEO David Dorman tells ZDNet’s editor in chief, Dan Farber, that he’s going after an untapped market — VoIP. Dorman sizes up the competition, discusses claims that his company is undervalued, and … Continue reading

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SnapperMail 2.0 released

I’ve been a beta tester on SnappperMail 2.0 for a long time. I honestly can’t even tell you when it started it’s been quite a while and I’ve been generally pleased with the product. SnapperMail is much like a traditional … Continue reading

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MailWave another PUSH e-mail Option for Palm

While Mailwave actually came out before Chatter Email, it was not quite as ready for primetime until now…. Push and background capabilities within email applications is becoming a must-have feature and I’d expect customers to be demanding it soon enough … Continue reading

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Thoughts for Vonage… Or ATT

It’s clear to me that Vonage is in deep now since ATT CallVantage has really been pushing their service out on a very mass, very aggressive level. As I evaluated VOIP services I considered both but felt I should go … Continue reading

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