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Introducing SoftGnome

November 1, 2005

A couple of days ago, I was given the opportunity to preview the SoftGnome beta which is being launched today. SoftGnome is a softphone service for PhoneGnome. PhoneGnome is providing a branded version of the NCH Express Talk phone, but you can use any SIP phone (plastic or softphone). The SoftGnome service simply uses PhoneGnome as the media gateway. What that means [...]

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More thoughts on PhoneGnome

October 13, 2005

Now that I’ve had a day to play with PhoneGnome, it’s becoming clearer to me just what a clever strategy founder David Beckemeyer is driving. PhoneGnome, if you didn’t read my post yesterday, is a small piece of hardware which sits between your in-home phones, and the PSTN, and transparently routes calls you make across the [...]

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460.8 Kbps

October 9, 2005

I’m writing this from a my PC equipped attached via a 3G cellular phone. I’ve used GPRS at sub 56K speeds before, which was hard. This is fabulous!

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Oh SPIT!

September 26, 2005

It’s really remarkable the complete and utter tripe that some "news" organizations will publish. The object of my disdain today is the Vancouver Sun. Writer Gillian Shaw has published one of the silliest, and most hysterical pieces on phone spam that one could imagine. Titled "Phone spam a security risk", it purports to be about [...]

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Industry Perspective: Jeff Pulver

September 20, 2005

I caught the tail end of Jeff Pulver’s speech. As usual, a wide ranging overview of convergence trends. When I walked in he was talking about the Hurricane Katrina experience. He moved from there to television. Jeff observed that during Live8 you could watch the VH-1 or MTV broadcast, or go to AOL and make [...]

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Samsung Smartphone in the Works

August 17, 2002

More details of Samsung’s Microsoft-based phone emerge. Features include dual LCD panels, infrared port, and SD memory slot I’d buy one of these. I like Samsung phones in general, and the convergence of PDA and phone makes so much sense to me. I own the Samsung T130 now, which can synchronize with Outlook for appointments, [...]

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