T-Mobile is really pushing their HotSpot @Home service, which is good for everyone. Who wouldn’t want a phone that makes calls for free when you’re at home, or at some of your most frequented places? According to a new FCC approval, they may be teaming up with Linksys for a new router. This time they’re not just looking at your cell phone.
So SunRocket crashed and burned. I was not a user of their services, however, there were a good number of people that were. Those people are now left without phone service. They left behind their landline phones for a reason, so they’re not going to want to go back. So hearing the cries of these customers, Vonage has stepped up and decided to help them out.
According to reports the service basically pulled the plug on the whole operation. So for those of you who thought you were getting a deal that was too good to be true (phone service for a whole year for $99), turns out you were right.
Looking at first glance like some solitary valve in an analogue amplifier, this tiny totem is in fact Revolabs’ xTag wireless microphone. Size-wise, then, it’s surprisingly small – the USB base-station (which also recharges the microphone itself) is just half a pound in weight and less than 4-inches square, while the tie-clip mic is 2.6-inches long and weighs an easily-ignored 0.05lbs.
Boasting full-duplex audio, encrypted wireless traffic and a 30m (100ft) range, the xTag is sold as particularly useful for VoIP and podcast recording.
Sony’s PSP seems to have been losing out in column inches to Nintendo’s arguably more “pick up and play” DS handheld, and so the company is looking to leverage its strong multimedia and internet capabilities to pick up those all-important headlines. In a deal with UK telco BT the PSP will at first gain VOIP – in voice and video flavours – followed by upgrades allowing calls and messages to PCs, landlines and mobiles.
If you’re going to give up valuable lounge space to a gadget then you want it to deliver, and SysMaster’s Tornado M10 Digital Media Center looks like it offers a fair range of features for a box only six inches long. The spec list is a veritable pic’n'mix of acronyms: IPTV, VoIP, IM, PVR… and then you add in things like voicemail, a webcam for video conferencing, email and media streaming.
T-Mobile has been testing their cell-to-WiFi service dubbed “T-Mobile at Home” since last year, but according to sources, they could be ready to roll it out to customers nation-wide as early as next month.
If you aren’t familiar with the service, it allows customers to seamlessly switch between signals coming from cell phone towers and their home network wireless signal. This switch would allow customers to continue talking on the same phone with the same number, only using their internet connection for VoIP service. This will benefit both customers and T-Mobile because it will allow customers to talk without burning up minutes, and it will alleviate some of the stress put on cell towers.
We looked at Netgear’s SPH-101 Skype phone last December, praising it for the convenience of cheap or low-cost VOIP calls and remaining silently critical of the whopping MRSP. Well, my favourite cam-whore Kevin Tofel has grappled with the handset itself and finds it comes up trumps if portability floats your sexy boat.
Today, Plantronics announced the availability of its third-generation professional headset solution, the CS70N Wireless Headset System.
The CS70N is the perfect combination of premium audio performance, style and comfort. It has been optimized for both traditional and IP telephony phones and provides office professionals with excellent hands-free mobility for increased accessibility and efficiency at work.
Vonage users and employees breathed a collective sigh of relief today. They have been granted a permanent injunction on a previous injunction that prevented the company from signing up further customers.
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