Monday, May 15, 2006

Ottawa Asterisk Users: Come on Down!

by alec on May 15, 2006

Julien and Steve have taken the initiative to restart the Ottawa Asterisk Users Group.  Details are posted over on Simply Relevant.  The kickoff meeting is going to be Wednesday at 5 PM at the iotum offices.  See you there!

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iotum and Phonegnome: Better Together

by alec on May 15, 2006

We’ve just announced an introductory special offer for iotum with Phonegnome.  Until the end of June, you can purchase the iotum enhanced call screening service for your Phonegnome-enhanced home phone and save $80 off the retail price.

Phonegnome and iotum have teamed up to bring you the world smartest call screening service at an incredible price. This isn’t just a typical call screening service. iotum pays attention to your schedule, IM presence, calling habits, your location and your personal priorities to help you manage which calls are important and which can wait.

Moreover, you only need to give out one number for people to reach you.  Phonegnome and iotum send you your important calls, wherever you are, without you having to think about it.

When you sign up before July 1, 2006, iotum costs you just $40, for 12 months – a savings of $80 off the retail price of $120. 

Visit the Phonegnome Store to find out more. 

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Pennies Dropping… to Zero

May 15, 2006

So, SkypeOut calls, inside North America, are free, at least until the end of the year.  That means you can call any landline, or cellular phone, from Skype, at no charge.  I just chatted with my mother in Victoria for 20 minutes (forgot to call yesterday, although we did send flowers).  Readers of this blog will be [...]

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PhoneGnome Does Skype

May 15, 2006

PhoneGnome has announced a feature called GnomeLink that allows calls to and from Skype via Phonegnome.  I haven’t had a chance to try it yet, but this promises to be hot.  Press release below: TelEvolution Announces Skype Support – GnomeLink(TM) for Skype Connects it all Together ( DANVILLE, California, May 15, 2006) TelEvolution (http://www.phonegnome.com), developer [...]

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Nokia Employees Forbidden to Use the Word Phone

May 15, 2006

From the Seattle Times: Harry Santamäki vows to take a sip of cod liver oil from the bottle on his desk if he ever utters the word phone. That’s odd, considering Santamäki works at Nokia, the largest mobile phone maker in the world. “We are forbidden to call them phones,” said the vice president of [...]

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Malik on Web 2.0

May 15, 2006

In The Myth, Reality & Future of Web 2.0, Om Malik argues that the greatest impact of these new technologies will be felt in enterprise.  No doubt.  Many of these technologies were built to allow lightweight interprocess communication — to let databases be accessed more easily, or to execute processes on remote servers –  or to allow [...]

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The Ottawa Blog List

May 15, 2006

One of my Barcamp todo’s, following the session on Blogging in Ottawa, was to build a list of Ottawa blogs.  I’ve finally done a first cut of it.  It turned out to be a lot more work than I thought it would be, simply because there are a surprising number of bloggers in the nations capital.  People [...]

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