Nissan Bluebird Sylphy: The New Knight Rider Car?

If you ever saw the show Knight Rider, with Baywatch star David Hasselhoff, you know that H’s character spoke to the car, Kit, and the car would usually do his bidding, with the occasional bit of robotic rebellion. Well, it’s not Kit, but the Nissan Bluebird Sylphy is being equipped with a voice recognition system [...]


Gizmo: Business Class All Calls Free Plan

Om writes today that Gizmo are going after the SME market with the launch of their new ‘All Calls Free’ calling plan. Of course all PC – PC calls are free as usual, but Gizmo have added a feature that will undoubtedly prove popular with small businesses and bedouins.
When you setup Gizmo you [...]

SHSU Dump Cisco For Open Source Asterisk

Sam Houston State University is moving away from their current setup of Cisco CallManager IP PBXs and Nortel Meridian PBXs to a completely open source IP PBX system based around Asterisk. All 6,000 members of staff and students will now use the Asterisk system for all their calls, voicemail and PSTN gateway functionality. [...]

PresenterNet: Web 2.0 Online Conferencing

PresenterNet is an example of what could be done with VoIP. It allows a user to call a conference and present a PowerPoint presentation, Excel spreadsheets, Word documents, PDFs and other image media from within the browser window. Attendees can be from anywhere in the world, provided they have an account and internet [...]

Howto: Run Skype From Your iPod

Apple’s iPod might not have WiFi or voice capabilities just yet, but Apple are probably working away on this in some lab deep in their Cupertino HQ. The iPod phone that has been long rumored is on the horizon, but if you can’t wait or don’t have the cash to fork out on a [...]