Category: week that was

It keeps coming:

Mobivox Unveils Voice-Activated Mobile Services Platform: This is primarily geared at service providers. While I think their platform is good, as it contains thinks like voice-activated dialing and call control, group calling, and voice-to-SMS, and voice-to-email messaging, I think the challenge is going to be getting carriers to adopt. You can read more from them on the Mobivox|PL blog.

Alltel Bringing Customers NuTsie: If you want to spend $4.99 a month or $19.99 a year to listen to items from your iTunes library from your Alltel handset, and you happen to have one of the 10 handsets Alltel supports this on, get thee to the Alltel Shop on the handset and buy it.

Into High School Sports? Check Out Locofan.net: Ted Wallingford helped to put together a social networking site for high school sports called LocoFan.net! This is about empowering the social discourse surrounding sports that makes prep athletics so much fun. Things like boosting, smack talking, Saturday-morning quarterbacking, and of course, media sharing. Not personally a high school ports fan, but maybe when my kids are old enough.

DeFi Mobile Offers Unlimited Calling over WiFi for $40/mo: This service provides unlimited calling as well as unlimited data on a number of commercial WiFi hotspots worldwid–yes, data you can use for other things. Seems a bit like a cross between Boingo and Truphone, but personally, I think Truphone and Boingo are a better deal.

Skype on Asterisk: Tom Keating did a long piece on the recent announcement about Skype being made available as a channel driver for Asterisk. In short, it allows you to both make and receive calls with Skype using an Asterisk server. Anything you can do with, say, an oubound SIP channel or an IP telephone extension can bow be done with Skype. It’s not going to be open-source, nor is it going to be free. It does open up some interesting opportunities.

Let’s get straight on with it:

• How S60 and Share on Ovi Can Help You Meet (From The Convergence Zone)
• Cell Ranger: Boost Your Bars (From Joy of Gadgets)
• Need Your Gadgets Blessed? Go to Japan! (From Joy of Gadgets)
• Three Power Outlet Panel: About Time! (From Joy of Gadgets)
• Sarah Palin Action Figures (From Joy of Gadgets)
• Timeband by Fairchild Model C-6110 Digital Alarm Clock (From Joy of Gadgets)

I haven’t been doing a lot of blogging outside of my own blogs as of late. Can only write so much. Need to do things besides write like, say, watch my version of TV (online), maybe read some words on dead trees, or experiment with various things I’ll write about later. Or, even better, sleep!

Anyway, here’s what I did on Joy of Gadgets this week:

• USB Exercise Dog
• Wind Up Walkie Talkie
• Sunpak 620-500C Versipod with Adjustable, Locking Ball-Head
• Could You Ditch Your Smartphone?
• Pantech Breeze — Another Simple Phone

If you use the Twitter, follow my Joy of Gadgets posts on twitter.com/joyofgadgets

I haven’t done one of these posts in a while–6 weeks to be exact! I am doing three weeks worth here and will get the other three weeks posted later on. That should get me caught up

Meanwhile, I am on the home stretch before vacation, where I won’t be doing much online at all. I’m actually looking forward to the break!

• Fax Over IP == FAIL! (From The VoIP Weblog)
• Might Mid-Band Ethernet Make Copper Competitive With Fiber? (From The VoIP Weblog)
• Welcome to Vonageland (From The VoIP Weblog)
• What Is Iotum Up To? (From The VoIP Weblog)
• Real VoIP? Is There Fake VoIP Out There? (From The VoIP Weblog)
• No Such Thing As Free Calls (From The VoIP Weblog)
• Where Computer-Based VoIP Fails (From The VoIP Weblog)
• My, How Cheap Flash Drives Have Become (From On Storage and The Gadgets Weblog)
• iCall Brings You VoIP on the iPhone (From The VoIP Weblog)
• Blinded By The TRI-L Light! (From The Gadgets Weblog)
• Skype 4.0 Beta: All About Video (From The VoIP Weblog)
• VoIP Providers One Step Closer To Proper 911 Access (From The VoIP Weblog)
• Can You Video Conference With 9 People At Once? (From The VoIP Weblog)
• New Sponsor For Creative Weblogging: AIM Call Out (From The VoIP Weblog)
• William Shatner On iotum’s Free Conference Service (From The VoIP Weblog)

Before I go on my self-imposed blog break, I suppose I should do my weekly “Week That Was” post. I don’t expect I’ll post anything here until next week’s “Week That Was” post where I’ll have a few items from The VoIP Weblog.

This next week, I’ll be in Ottawa. Should be much better weather-wise then it was when I was up there last time. weather.com says it’s warmer than Seattle is right now, but not by much. I should avoid most of the hot weather up there, which has a habit of happening in June.

This weeks post include:

• How Many Calls Over A WiFi Access Point? (From voip.com/blog)
• Is The Industry Up Or Down? (From The VoIP Weblog)
• Is The VoIP Market Growing? (From voip.com/blog)
• Customer Service Isn’t Cheap (From The VoIP Weblog)
• Personalizing Your Telephony Experience (From voip.com/blog)
• Is VoIP The Solution To Last Mile Broadband? (From The VoIP Weblog)
• Dial Phones, ANI, and Caller ID (From voip.com/blog)
• Special Offer for Boingo Wireless  (From The Wireless Weblog, The Mobile Technology Weblog, and Tech Without Wires)
• Truphone Updates Nokia Client, Adds Anywhere Support  (From The VoIP Weblog, The Mobile Technology Weblog, and The Wireless Weblog)
• Why Mobile Phones In The U.S. Are Geographic
• Gizmo5 Gives You An Email Address, Too (From The VoIP Weblog)
• The Pros And Cons Of Calling Party Pays (From voip.com/blog)
• Rent A Song–10 Cents A Track (From Digital Music – The Future)
• Mobile Phones On Planes (From voip.com/blog)

Despite the fact my son’s doing better, he’s going to be in the hospital for a couple more days. Unfortunately, for those of you who read my blogs, it means less blog entries. It also means I’ve got some work to do as my bank of articles is now empty.

Meanwhile, here’s what I got this week:

• Comcast Planning More Business-Level Phone Services (From The VoIP Weblog)
• Telephone Exchanges and Numbers (From voip.com/blog)
• Area Code Splits and Overlays (From voip.com/blog)
• Why Not iTunes? (From Digital Music – The Future)
• High Speed Conferencing Now Hi-Def Conferencing (From The VoIP Weblog)
• How We Dial Phone Numbers in the U.S. (From voip.com/blog)
• Roam If You Want To…Pay For It (From The Convergence Zone)
• How Quickly Calls Are Connected (From voip.com/blog)
• What’s Your Dial Plan? (From voip.com/blog)
• 7 Versus 10 Digit DIaling (From voip.com/blog)
• VoIP Farthest Thing From My Mind (From The VoIP Weblog)
• Do Area Codes Really Matter Anymore? (From voip.com/blog)