Posted by admin on December 3rd, 2009 — Posted in Tech + More, Telecommunication Center
If the iPhone hasn’t overthrown Windows Mobile in the smartphone industry, Motorola Droid just might do it.
Windows Mobile is slowly losing out its mojo in the market as Droid and other types of phones that are based on the Android 2.0 operating system are entering the market. A lot of people sense that Windows Mobile has already been relegated to the has-been status.
There has been a lot of talk among the press lately about how Microsoft is interestingly absent in the battle for mobile operating systems. Everyone cannot help but ask if Microsoft has already bowed out the mobile market. There was even an article that cites a Canalys research that shows Windows Mobile has slipped on the worldwide smartphone market from 13.9 percent in 2002 to 9 percent in the second quarter of this year.
But really, consumers don’t care whether or not they are getting Windows in their smartphones. It may be a big factor when it comes to purchasing a PC but it’s not an influential condition for smartphone buying.
The effects of this fact do not only concern Microsoft. Companies such as Toshiba will probably end up being more successful offering Android 2.0 on their smartphones compared to Windows Mobile. Then there is also Intel. The company is also looking into a becoming a huge player in this market. If it is going to beat Texas Instrument that provides the chip for the Droid, Blackberry and iPhone, it probably wouldn’t be able to do so by sticking to the Windows-Intel combination that has been successful in the PC space.
So while the Droid is not necessarily an iPhone killer, it may well be considered something that will end Windows Mobile’s presence in the industry forcing it to focus more on its managed hosting.
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Posted by admin on July 28th, 2009 — Posted in Telecommunication Center
Dear Internet Friends,
Hundreds of thousands of consumers collectively save millions of dollars each month by replacing (or supplementing) their traditional telephone service with personal voice over IP (VoIP) telephony.
Using IP to transmit voice is not new. Large corporations and long distance carriers have used IP to transmit voice on their private networks for years. Likewise, private citizens have used their computers and the Internet to talk with other PC users for a few years now, but in the past users of such solutions have had to contend with poor voice quality and the need for at least one computer to be connected to the Internet.
Widespread adoption of broadband Internet service (cable or DSL) in the last few years though has in turn fueled a surge in the growth of much-improved personal VoIP
Most VoIP service providers offer all-inclusive calling plans that provide you with unlimited local, regional and long distance (within the United States) at flat rates starting as low as $24.95 per month. Some offer usage-based plans at a lower monthly cost and most provide inexpensive per minute rates on international calls as well. In addition, VoIP service providers include a smorgasbord of advanced features such as name and number caller ID, call forwarding, call blocking and voice mail that traditional phone companies sell as premium services.
When you sign up for VoIP service, many service providers give you the option of choosing the area code, and possibly the exchange, for your service. You can select from any area where the VoIP provider has local service.
So what are the drawbacks of a personal VoIP solution? The main drawback is the need for a reliable broadband connection; without one a VoIP solution is probably not for you.
Power outages present another hurdle. Since VoIP requires a live Internet connection, losing electricity means losing your phone service.
The voice quality of your VoIP call is also another consideration. Since the data travels across the Internet, there’s the potential for dropouts or “burbles” similar to what you might experience on a cell phone
Most people we called during our tests were surprised at the quality of the calls, and didn’t realize they were on a VoIP connection until we told them. Keep in mind that the call quality for VoIP providers who don’t manage their IP networks and depend on the Internet for routing will yield varying and sometimes disappointing voice quality and unreliable connections.
Syed Akram was 3 years experience in offline and online marketing. He now actively promoting the new free voip communication technology which improve relationship in internet far more better. His site can be visit at http://www.mdi365.com/futurebiz (Futurebiz’s Free Internet Marketing Tool and Training for Work From Home)
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Posted by admin on June 8th, 2009 — Posted in Telecommunication Center
The days of expensive hotel phone bills are over, with the rise of more and more hotels offering broadband Internet services. With the broadband connection, users can use Voice over Internet Protocol or VoIP to stay connected with their family.
This is especially good news to oversea travelers. Some hotels do have a charge to access the Internet.
The Residence Inn in New Haven Conneticutt has become one of the first hotels to offer free VoIP service to their customers. Adam Dubroff of TravelGlue, the company that wired the Residence Inn for VoIP, told CNN. “Until now, hotel guests have paid a premium for the convenience of the long distance service, which was appropriate when there were no cell phones and it really was a convenience.”
Dubroff continued, “But as technology has developed, it has become an old business model and the prices charged have been rendered exorbitant. Now, because of VoIP, there is an opportunity to provide guests with a phone service for free and I think this will be the norm in the future.”
The Wynn in Las Vegas has taken the VoIP technology to the fullest extreme offering reservations, hotel information and more right from a touch screen VoIP phone. Plus when a user accesses the broadband Internet the Wynn offers, they can use their personal VoIP service for only the cost of the Internet access.
Many VoIP providers allow users to take their service with them, wherever they travel. Skype offers a free VoIP that can be used directly with a users computer and broadband Internet connection, therefore allowing it to be accessed virtually anywhere and anytime. No additional equipment is needed, however Skype users can only call Skype customers for free. Calling regular phone numbers result in a charge.
Vonage allows customers to travel with their phone adapter that plugs into their computer and broadband Internet, giving them the same Internet phone service that they receive at home. Additional charges may incur from Vonage based on the monthly plan the user currently is enrolled in.
“Communication was always an issue with expats working overseas. Satellite telephones have helped me to keep in touch with my family but the per minute cost prohibited long or chatty calls,” says Thomas Drown, a geologist working in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. “Now, I can talk to anyone in the world who has either a phone or an Internet connection. Now I can call my mom in Canada from my western Mongolia ger field office any time of the day or night for just eight cents a minute.”
For more information regaurding VOIP services check out http://www.calling-plans.com/broadband-phone.html or http://www.page-fx.com/internet-phone/.
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Posted by admin on June 5th, 2009 — Posted in Telecommunication Center
I hear allot about VOIP what is it?
VOIP stands for voice over internet protocol. Basically it means making phones calls over your local area network (LAN) or even across the Internet.
VOIP is normally cheaper than your PSTN that’s public switched telephone network i.e. your local carrier.
VOIP is a good choice for businesses as well to save money on long distance calls if they have many satellite offices. VOIP service providers usually have lower fees because they are not a government regulated currently as the phone systems which at one time were a monopoly. VOIP can even be free if you connect directly to another VOIP client.
VOIP routers can send your incoming phone calls to you anywhere thus cutting down on the number of lines and you can be reached anywhere you have a Internet connection.
This and the combination of technologies like WiFi are going to make for one huge network. That voice, data and video will be sent everywhere and from anywhere. With this VOIP technology you have allot more features as well such as Caller ID, Call Forwarding and answering services all from your computer or PDA.
There are some issues to still be worked on.
Here are some:
The amount of band with required.
Security issues- what type of encryption should be used and how much is going to slow down the call and network?
This is a exciting and new technology which I will be writing more about.
Benjamin Hargis
Phuture Networks
http://www.phuturenetworks.com
http://www.computersecurityadvice.com
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Posted by admin on March 27th, 2009 — Posted in Tech + More, Telecommunication Center, Ultimate Consumer
Opera, a software development company, has launched ‘Turbo’, a new version of its famous browser. The project is an effort to improve the whole browsing experience for users whose broadband connections are extremely slow and unreliable.
For a long time now, mobile broadband customers have been suffering because of their connections being sluggish and erratic. There is a large gap between the actual speed of the connection and the speed that is promised to the customers, resulting in frustration.
Thus, Turbo could be very helpful for anyone browsing the web through a mobile broadband connection. Turbo has been released only for limited testing but it is expected that a stable release would soon hit the market, especially to create a foothold in the netbook segment. (click here for the latest offers with free laptops from the top broadband providers)
Turbo promises to increase browsing speeds by four times by first sending pages to Opera’s servers for compression and then to the end user’s computer. The company has said that page compression could be up to 80 percent.
According to Opera, Turbo supports AJAX and Flash and ensures that websites are displayed in correct layouts. There would be some limitations though arising due to the high level of compression, such as a loss of resolution.
Microsoft, one of Opera’s competitors in the browser market has also been eyeing the netbook market and is not hiding the fact that it is interested in increasing its revenue from the segment.
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Posted by admin on December 14th, 2008 — Posted in Telecommunication Center
I propose a “Manta Ray” Style self-burying landmine grid system, which uses swarm and haptic robotic re-organization theory to fill in the holes left from enemy intrusion. A “Manta Ray” mimicking robot, which vibrates can quickly bury itself.
The virtual grid in which the land mines occupy will allow for patterns, which are algorithm controlled by encrypted satellite command relay. The shape of the land mines will be a small lobster like body with large circular or octagonal mesh wired component. The body will dig a hole for itself and then the mesh grid will lower itself to the surface and then jiggle until it is covered. (have drawings). Since we know the latest exact locations of the minefield a blue force army, downed pilot or special force teams could transverse the minefield using a PDA-GPS device carefully dodging all the land mines. Any attempt to follow them would be sure death for those who pursue. Think the story of the “Parting of the Red Sea!” I further propose the Blue Force software guidance system around the self-healing minefield grid be called PRS.
The land mines will deactivate by satellite, before re-configuring and then once properly buried in place be reactivated. After the war they can be deactivated or discharged, to prevent the countless thousands killed and maimed each year from land mines of wars gone bye.
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Posted by admin on October 3rd, 2008 — Posted in Tech + More, Telecommunication Center
It seems that nothing can stop the ongoing development of Internet telephony. Driven by increasingly widely available low cost broadband VoIP has become one of the fastest-growing applications on the web. But apart from cheap international calls, there are other factors which have contributed to this massively popular method of making calls. There is clearly a trend toward more innovative and more mobile services and this looks likely to ensure that demand for Internet telephony continues to expand. It is estimated that there are already around four million VoIP Phone users in the UK, not counting business subscriptions.
People in the industry point to the emergence of ADSL broadband connections that do not require line rental for a standard phone line (naked ADSL), and number portability between conventional and IP phone services as the two key things that will bring raise the profile of VoIP to new heights.
In fact the effect VoIP has had has been so pronounced that some have suggested that it may not be long before users can dispense with their traditional landline telephones completely in favour of a broadband phone.
Taking a more practical view, there are issues that will need to be addressed before that can happen. In the UK Voice over IP providers like Vonage or VoIPTalk will have to look closely at both security and ease of use, as well as continue to deliver a convenient and financially viable service. They certainly offer cheap calls already but, what else do they need to do to ensure a bright future for VoIP?
As the Internet is a network open to everyone the VoIP traffic is no more immune from attack than any other data. Security is an issue for many users, particularly in the business community and the means to increase protection for users would be a welcome step in securing the long-term future of VoIP.
The ease of use issue may not remain a hindrance to development now that handsets that work on mobile networks and, via WiFi or Bluetooth links, over VoIP are now taking their place in the shops. This raises the prospect of using reduced rate VoIP services at home, in the office or at a WiFi hotspot, but still retaining the flexibility of mobile coverage when out and about.
Some VoIP companies are now selling these handsets, and have set up joint arrangements with wireless hotspots so that their subscribers can make and receive calls on the go without the need for a PC.
Expect to see some of the restrictions of such handsets i.e. difficulties in hotspots that use web pages for authentication to be addressed imminently.
The advance of newer networking technologies will further minimise the distance between fixed, mobile and VoIP services. Wireless broadband services, in particular WiMax, could create city-wide wireless hotspots, making it possible to make mobile VoIP calls in much wider areas.
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Posted by admin on July 13th, 2008 — Posted in Telecommunication Center
Compared to some of the more successful phones for the price the XDA Stellar is quite pretty well featured. O2 have done a very good job on the styling of this mobile phone.
A Li-Ion 1350 mAh, battery cell is that comes with the O2 XDA Stellar. Getting on to the all important battery cell usage the O2 XDA Stellar has 5:00 talk time and 365 hours standby time. The O2 XDA Stellar is has bluetooth, making interactivity with a great deal of up to date mobile phone accessories very easy. The O2 XDA Stellar has support for 2G GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 and 3G HSDPA 850 / 1900 / 2100 . The XDA Stellar is fitted with a 3.15 MP, 2048×1536 pixels, autofocus, video; secondary VGA videocall camera. If you use the Internet on the move, you will be pleased to know a WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML (PocketIE), compatible browser is included. Polyphonic (72 channels), MP3 ring-tones are enabled on the O2 XDA Stellar plus a vibration alert. Getting on to the display the mobile handset is fitted with a 2.8 inch screen, which is a nice big display for the money. The screen is a TFT touchscreen, 65K colors. When compared to other phones on the market the O2 XDA Stellar is nice and compact. The XDA Stellar weighs in at 190 g. The O2 XDA Stellar is only available in Silver. The XDA Stellar has a number of other useful features such as, Pocket Office(Word, Excel, Outlook), Built-in GPS receiver, Java MIDP 2.0, Video/audio album, Media Player 10, Business card reader, Built-in handsfree, Voice memo, Video call and A-GPS function.
Even though this is a relatively new model, the O2 XDA Stellar is already up against competition from similar or better products on the market. This means that it is fairly easy to get some great bargains on this mobile handset. If you are interested in a really cheap deal, buy online where there are thousands of great bargains to choose from. Ordering online can deliver some significant cost savings, incredibly it is possible to get 9 months free line rental on the O2 XDA Stellar , which do not cost anything to run.
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