VoIP is fast becoming a sound business opportunity not only for techies and internet service providers, but also for college students and stay-at-home parents. What was once a sophisticated and expensive telecommunications protocol is now an easily accessible and user friendly software that provides great opportunities for resellers at an affordable cost. VoIP is Voice over Internet Protocol, which is designed to send voice transmissions over the Internet or through packet switching.

Greg Galitzine forwarded me an interesting email claiming to be the "rumored" Google Android in action and Greg asked me to investigate. First, I should point to a funny parody of the supposed Google Android on Youtube, which takes the concept of Google Adsense (ads based on keywords on the webpage) and extends it to speech-recognition of words spoken on the phone to "speak" relevant ads.

Well, as we clear our throats to sing Auld Lang Syne, can’t let this year pass without paying homage to that so totally Digged post of ours, Clueless flight attendant to passenger: Turn off that iPhone movie NOW!This post captured dual honors as our most Commented upon, and most read post of 2007.Struck a [...]

DirecTV, my satellite TV provider, recently changed the firmware on my two DirecTV Plus DVR boxes and totally hosed the ability to fast forward easily. I noticed this on my upstairs receiver about 2 weeks ago. Basically, with the DirecTV Plus DVD receiver you can press the Fast Forward button up to 3 times to fast forward (2x, 3x, 4x). The problem is the damn Fast Forward Correction. If I have it on high-speed fast forward 4x, and then click Play where I want it to stop, the Fast Forward Correction rewinds the video to where it "thinks" I wanted to stop.

Sometimes when I fly, it just drives me nuts when flight attendants make an announcement about turning on your “Palm Pilots.”Well, they don’t make them anymore. The only pilot you are likely to see aloft is on the flight deck, getting ready to dodge that big cumulonimbus by flying around it. We hope.That’s my rather [...]

 This fall, a Sprint customer named Krystyl signed up for Sprint’s $59.99 a month unlimited broadband service.Unlimited? I don’t think so.As Krystyl’s YouTube video (via the Consumerist) reveals, she didn’t get an invoice for $59.99, but um, uh, $14,062.27.Here’s Krystal’s version of what went down:My name is Krystyl. I recently signed up for Sprint, to utilize [...]

A few months ago, several bloggers noted a clause in AT&T’s contracts that advised customers the following:AT&T may immediately terminate or suspend all or a portion of your Service, any Member ID, electronic mail address, IP address, Universal Resource Locator or domain name used by you, without notice, for conduct that AT&T [...]

100 Cisco customers - among them Procter & Gamble, Verizon, Aflac, McKesson, BT and SAP have deployed expensive Cisco TelePresence systems in over 40 countries: List price:

I will let you in on a little secret. When ZDNet was spun off from Ziff-Davis seven years ago and became a part of CNET, (some of you still haven’t gotten the news) the overarching thinking was that CNET would concentrate on consumer tech devices and news, and ZDNet would largely dwell on enterprise news [...]

As you can read in this grab from online marketing news and research site eMarketer’s analysis of the demographics of households aware of the nation’s transition to digital tv, broadband Internet customers seem to be more aware of what’s going down than even digital cable subscribers are.Quickest of backgrounders for those not in the loop: [...]