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Chats and Forums RSS FeedsSee All the IP Devices at Home? - Can you believe that shipments of Internet-Protocol (IP)-enabled consumer electronics reached 64 million units in 2007 -- a growth of more than 70%?However, the market continues to be dominated by Internet-enabled video game consoles. While many of these game console IP interfaces remain unconnected, the enormous developing installed base represents a "Trojan horse" with enormous potential for online gaming, music and video downloads as well as for a variety of Internet-based value-added services. Already, in late 2007 Activision announced that more than 2 million songs associated with Guitar Hero we...Feed Source: feeds.feedburner.com Objectworld Offers Unified Communications for 7 Cents a Day - Today, Objectworld introduced Unified Communications for just 7 cents per day per user. Their platform can work with your existing non-VoIP PBX via gateways or you can go the 100% VoIP route as well since their server can communicate with any SIP-based IP-PBX.It's a pretty feature-rich solution offering VoIP, personal call control, text-to-speech, conference server, unified messaging, integrated fax server, Active Directory-based administration, ODBC-enabled service creation environment, presence-based operator console and more. Often unified communications solutions are priced out of the range for the SMB. Essentially, Objectworld's solution helps being UC to the ... A Crapware-Free PC? Now, You're Talking! - Sick and tired of getting a new PC and discovering all of the free trial software and other stuff you don't need, didn't ask for and now have clogging up valuable drive space on your new baby?Well, looks like Sony has taken the noble step of making it possible to configure your own PC (like the VAIO notebook) without any of that extra stuff included. And they do it for free.Like the concept? Then read more about it here.
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... Inside, Really Inside the Lego Factory - Anybody want to guess how many Lego bricks are made every year? How about a clue? Let's say more than 50 million a day? Sounds like a lot. And yes it is! To the tune of 19 billion every year. Yes, 19 billion of those little bricks that can build just about anything -- from castles and spaceships to monster and robots. Now Gizmodo is giving us a chance to take a video tour of the factory that makes all of this stuff. Get this part: "While the storage areas are the most impressive part of the factory, I have to admit that nothing had prepared me for the scope and complexity that is required to make and pack 19 billion bricks every year. The scale of this facto... ITEXPO 90% Sold Out - IP Communications industry looks strong - ITEXPO is still two months away (September 16-18, 2008 -- Los Angeles, CA) yet Rich reports that the exhibit booth space is already 90% sold out. Rich is pretty excited when he writes, "There has been more interest in ITEXPO Fall 2008, Los Angeles, CA September 16-18 than any other Internet Telephony Conference & Expo I can remember in recent years." At first I thought perhaps Rich is being a bit too exuberant. After all, one well-known communications show (VON) faltered this year, so surely ITEXPO might not have its strongest show - at least if VON is any indication. But ITEXPO has been growing steadily and hasn't truly had a bad show (yet). ... CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 -- Gettin' Better All the Time ... - We get all excited about Adobe PhotoShop and the suite of related products that make it such a great graphics program, but there are other solid choices out there for you to take into consideration.CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 is at the top of that list! Drawing on its years of expertise, CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 delivers all the essential tools for today's busy designer. You can do whatever you need to do -- create illustrations, logos, brochures, newsletters, flyers, signs, Web images and more, more, more!You can create powerful designs using intuitive vector illustration and page layout tools or retouch and enhance photos with professional photo editing software. How about easily converting bitmap images to editable and scalabl... Controlling Asterisk based on Microsoft OCS 2007 user's presence -
Paul Adams contacted me recently since he's been reading my posts about Asterisk and 'Microsoft OCS 2007' integration.
Paul wrote an interesting application that enables call queuing that 'respects' OCS presence. That is, if the agent's OCS status is "Busy", "Away" or "Do not D... Plumble Ad Sponsored "Free" Calls - You remember Pudding Media, right? They offered ad sponsored phone calls in exchange for "listening" in on your phone conversations so it could target audio ads. Pudding Media essentially leverages keyword wordspotting using speech recognition. Well, today, I learned about Plumble from Telecom Monthly. The article seems giddy with what it thinks is some new revelation Once in a blue moon, a new product comes along with an idea so obvious that you just want to slap your forehead that you didn't think of it ... Can't Anybody Make Up Their Mind (AT&T)!!! - Free Wi-Fi access from AT&T on the iPhone?More like "now you see it, now you don't"?Or more like, "let's try it for a while and see" -- or maybe "we can change our mind and nobody will notice" -- maybe before the days of blogs and instant communications and publishing that might have held true, but not any more.If you want to see what all the noise is about, click here.
Tags: apple, att, iphone, ... iPhone 3G Now a Week Old! And What a Week! - The Apple iPhone 3G is now a week old and what a week it's been!How about this for out of the box -- 1 million sold in the first weekend! And now I'm wondering how sales kept up through the week But yikes! Now there's a shortage!Aren't gadgets great! Too many, too little it's not easy to be a manufacturer when you can have problems about selling too little product and then too much product! Yikes again!
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... T-Mobile VoIP Shenanigans - AGAIN! - I've written about T-Mobile's VoIP blocking shenanigan's here, here, and here. Not to mention their blocking of MinuteWatcher for tracking cellphone minute usage. I also wrote how ... The Downside of Livin' in a Virtual World - Anybody remember the big noise about 3D virtual worlds and how they are going to change our lives forever? Well, that may still be true today, but how about the big time scam -- and big time bucks lost -- with "Second Life"? The Wall Street Journal covers this very nicely and then takes us into the future for where we might be headed. BTW, what avatar were you?
Tags: avatar, second life, ... What's Your Favorite iPhone 3G App? - I know it's still early days in the history of the iPhone 3G, but with a million sold already (and steadily counting!), wanted to find out what some of the most popular iPhone 3G apps are. Now I could go to some other places and get the Top 10 or Top 25 list, but I wanted to get some direct feedback from you.Do you have a favorite that you can't believe you lived without until now? So let us know, OK?
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... We Already Said Goodbye to the Computer Mouse - Not that anyone can't write about anything at any time (particularly as bloggers), but we already covered how the computer mouse may become extinct anytime soon -- ah, about a week ago. See the VoIP & Gadgets Blog piece here. But if you want to read the "follow-up story" on this topic that's making the rounds today, click here. But they really do take a look at what the future may hold
Tags: computer mouse, voip ... Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Free Tech Support - In a rare move, Microsoft is now offering free unlimited installation and compatibility support for Windows Vista, but only for Service Pack 1 (SP1). This even includes FREE phone support! So fear not upgrading or installing Vista SP1 - Microsoft's got your back! Note: Chat and e-mail support is available only in the United States and Canada.This support for SP1 is valid until March 18, 2009. Here's a screenshot of the ... BroadSoft, Fonality, and ITEXPO news all rolled in one -
Some BroadSoft, Fonality, and ITEXPO news all rolled in one. First, TMC put out a release about BroadSoft keynoting the next ITEXPO, the leading VoIP conference:
... "Why Blu?" Sweepstakes could land you a Sony PS3 - Sony Pictures Home Entertainment and Blu-ray have teamed up with Brickfish to launch the "Why Blu?" campaign at http://www.brickfish.com/Entertainment/whyblu?tab=entries&=blu_pr.The campaign asks entrants to create a poster, ad or video highlighting the "supreme quality" of Blu-ray Discs.The grand prize winner, selected by Sony from the top 50 highest-scoring entries, will win a Sony PlayStation 3 with a built in Blu-ray Disc player, and a collection of 8 Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Blu-ray movies. Prizes will also be awarded for the entry that gets the most attention across the Internet and to weekly sweepstakes w... HyperOffice for the Apple iPhone -
Steve Leon, HyperOffice's PR rep emailed me last night to tell me about the latest version of HyperOffice which works with the new Apple iPhone. HyperOffice gives business users of iPhone the ability to share documents with and without Microsoft Exchange, Sharepoint. HyperOffice today launched a new public beta of business collaboration tools that do more than connect the first and second-generation Apple iPhones to secure corporate email, contacts, calendars, tasks and notes.
This second beta of HyperOffice for the iPhone includes usability enhancements a... Texting 911 for Help & Targeting Terrorists who SMS with Hellfire Missiles - Forget all the E911 issues, VoIP 911 problems, etc. Just imagine texting 911 and having emergency personnel locate you. According to NWCN, King County believes the technology will be "available sooner than you think." King County is testing this new concept in Western Washington and four other municipalities by the U.S. Department of Transportation.It can handle text messages, OnStar vehicles that crash, and even VoIP emergency calls. King County calls it "Next Generation 9-1-1". "The 9-1-1 system today cannot interface to any of those new technologies," said Marlys Davis, a spokesperson for the county.According to the article, Davis stated it co... Want To Know What the iPhone 3G Really Cost? - How about $174.33 And while the bill of materials doesn't include the price of shipping the phone, selling it or creating the software that runs it, the inexpensive design is said to be a deliberate move by Apple to fulfill its short-term goal of establishing as much marketshare as possible in the iPhone's history.In addition to keeping many of the same parts, including the Samsung processor, Apple saves money by redesigning the internal layout. Rather than two tightly connected circuit boards, for example, the iPhone 3G uses a single but more durable board. The battery is also no longer soldered to the device, making it easier for technicians to replace the battery... Pope Gets into Texting (Yes, That's Right) - Not to be outdone by technology, Pope Benedict XVI (yes, that Pope) recently sent his first SMS to thousands of World Youth Day pilgrims who signed up to receive divine direction via technology. And this text messaging will become a daily deed! As part of the Catholic festival in Australia, Telstra erected eight temporary base stations to allow young pilgrims to send text messages to family and friends. Four giant digital "prayer wall'' screens have also been erected at the Sydney Opera House, the Domain, Darling Harbour and Randwick Racecourse. Pilgrims who sign up will also be able to send a message to the giant prayer walls. ... XO's IP VPN services - XO Communications is one of the largest Competitive Local Exchange Carrier (CLEC) in the country. XO provides voice, data and IP services to businesses and other telecommunications companies in 75 metropolitan markets across the United States. XO Communications offers businesses advanced IP and networking solutions to maximize performance and simplify management of their networks. They also offer SIP services, hosted IP-PBX functionality (the XO One iPBX 50 powered by ... Shaun White for Nintendo Wii (Wee!!!!) - While much has been made about how little excitement Sony and Nintendo have generated at the E3 game show (click here), there's actually some pretty cool stuff coming out. Take this for example: Nintendo had Shaun White, the gold medalist at the Olympics, demonstrating his upcoming snowboarding game, Shaun White Snowboarding, where you can stand on the sensitive balance board that Nintendo has shipped with its Wii Fit fitness system. Got to give you a pretty good feeling of what it's really like (of course without the wind, snow, etc.) -- and the feeling of big air! Game wil... Animal Crossing: City Folk adds VoIP & SMS - According to BetaNews, in Nintendo's E3 keynote this morning came not only the official announcement of Animal Crossing: City Folk for the Wii, but also something unexpected - VoIP functionality (voice chat) and native SMS/e-mail interactivity.Animal Crossing: City Folk is the third in the Nintendo Animal Crossing series - a life simulator game. Sounds like Second Life to me. This follows-up the lauch of Animal Crossing in 2001 and Animal Crossing: Wild World in 2005. You assume a anthropomorphic character (resembling both human and animal) and in the open-ended... Windows Mobile gets 3G VoIP - WiFi not Required! - Last year Jajah launched the Windows Mobile 6 native SIP client for the the EM-ONE. Frederik Hermann, Director Global Marketing for Jajah emailed me to say, "Today we launched phase 2 of this project, EMOBILE users can now g... ACN IRIS 3000 Videophone & The State of the Videophone - I've come across the new ACN IRIS 3000 videophone a few times recently and thought I'd write about them. I'm a big fan of videophones even if there doesn't seem to be any true adoption of industry standards that lets one videophone talk/video to another. Not to mention I reported first how Vonage's OEM'ed videophone, VisiFone, from Viseon hit the scrap heap due to Viseon's implosion. ... Logitech Wireless Keyboard for Nintendo Wii - Logitech has announced a wireless keyboard for the Nintendo Wii consol... iPhone Microsoft Exchange Email Problems - Paul Robichaux, is a Microsoft MVP, a Mac user since 1984, an iPhone user since July 8th of last year, and an Exchange admin since 1995. So he's got the technical credentials to know what he's talking about when he blasts the new iPhone's issues with Microsoft Exchange integration. Here's a teaser:I should point out that Exchange ActiveSync is a protocol that supports lots of different content types and protocol option. Apple, like most other EAS licensees, has implemented a subset of EAS. I'm complaining about Apple's impleme... Blu-ray Buy 2 DVDs, Get 1 Free Promotion - Cool Blue-ray promotion from Amazon I thought I'd share. Buy 2 Blu-ray DVDs get 1 DVD free. Sweet! I keep threatening to buy a Blu-ray player, specifically a Sony PS3, but I just can't seem to pull the trigger. Could have something to do with the $1500 Jeep transmission repair.... Palm 800w -- Life Beyond Apple, BlackBerry - Palm keeps turning out really solid products, but never seems to be able to recapture the magic of the introduction of the first Palm Pilot.Now, here's a smart fruit phone (Apple, BlackBerry -- get it?) alternative for you -- the Palm 800w for Sprint.Here's what CNet had to say about it:The good: The Palm Treo 800w brings the addition of Wi-Fi and GPS. The Windows Mobile 6.1 smartphone also offers EV-DO Rev. A support; a higher resolution touch screen; a slimmer design; and a 2-megapixel camera.The bad: The Treo 800w can be sluggish at times and call quality could be better. The QWERTY keyboard may also give users some problems.Check it out at Palm.com.... 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 ... Request regarding 'Sort by Date' function - Hello,
First of all I should say that I really, really, really love this website. Thank you!
My problem is that when I search for books and wish to sort them by the order of their published year (ie . ... Copyright Question - Hi,
I am new to this list. I live in the United States. Do I need written permission to transcribe, edit, and use the text from a book listed as NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT and which was submitted by Miscrosof ... Greek letters - I've opened several books including polytonic Greek texts like Polyaenus, P. Oxy vols 1 to 14 and tried to download the text files. While latin characters were OK, the Greek is a mess. It is not unico ... Re: No support for "resume" downloads? - The Archive supports http 1.1 for almost all downloads (and all book downloads), so it should work with resume. What platform are you having this issue with?
-brewster
... Re: Has anyone else noticed this about Google Books? - The reason for the discrepancy must be that in the EU and so Britain, copyright extends 70 years after the death of the author, so a book published in the US in 1923 (and so out of copyright there now ... No support for "resume" downloads? - I have a slow connection, and would often use the "resume" download function of my browser to access Archive texts through Microsoft Live Books. It worked great.
But I notice that with dire ... Re: Has anyone else noticed this about Google Books? - By the same token, we can't access any of that great archive of 50's classical music recordings that are available in Europe!
BTW, when does the public domain kick-in in the U.K.? Here it's pre-1923 . ... PDF's in Windows/IE fixed -
A few readers have mentioned they have had a hard time with our PDF's in Windows/IE recently. (please tell us about these issues as they come up!)
It seems it has to do with the "linearizati ... Re: Has anyone else noticed this about Google Books? - You think that's bad -- in the UK I can only seem to view and download books that are pre-1880. I wonder why the UK's Google Books are so restricted? Everything after about 1880 is only available in s ... Re: Movement for the Liberation of Old Documents - Sounds like a great way of getting the Archive in trouble. Deliberately uploading known copyrighted content.
That means money for scanning will go into money for attorneys, now forced to deal with a ... Has anyone else noticed this about Google Books? - Excellent article last week by Dvorak about the demise of Microsoft Live Books-- very sad, and John seems to be one of the few who even noticed it-- many librarians were even unaware of Live Books in ... Requests for scans - Is there any way a reader can request for a text to be scanned apart from writing to this forum? A research project I am involved with has involved downloading a text which has 2 volumes. Unfortunatel ... Re: How does printing through Lulu work? - No, no replies at all. I haven't done any further books, just keep a copy of Memorabilia Domestica for sale. ... No More FTP Nonsense! - Thank you, Thank you, THANK YOU! For eliminating that inconceivably lame FTP nonsense you formerly had to go through to download a book in the DjVu format! You cannot imagine how annoying that was! Of ... Re: Movement for the Liberation of Old Documents - I love it! Throw the moneychangers out of the halls of history! Up the rebels! ... Re: How does printing through Lulu work? - Hi, PETERINSCOTLAND, did you get any further info on your query re Lulu printing, as I would also like to know what the ethics are on this. ... Microsoft - watermarks - According to Brewster's recent announcement that Microsoft will be quitting the book scanning project and releasing those 300,000 books it has scanned without contractual restriction.
http://www.arch ... Re: wrong item needs to be removed - Dudeman, if the identifier still covers the work you wanted to upload, I believe you should be able to upload the correct work over the incorrect work using the Edit Item function for this particular ... Copyright © 2008, Magic Maldives. All Rights Reserved. |