TalkPlus, a company that just received US$5.5M in venture capital, owns patent-pending technology that will offer a variety of services to mobile users, including the ability to have multiple inbound phone numbers. This means you can carry one handset but keep business and personal profiles separate. While this seems to be a hot story, I [...]

Imran Ali describes a fascinating concept called crowdsensing, which would require turning mobile phones into something called a spime - a term coined by cyberpunk author Bruce Sterling (a man who, I believe, once wrote in one of his mid 1990s novels that copyright would be impossible to enforce on the Internet). A spime, according [...]

Yep, you’ve heard it right. Skype, the lowly softphone that was, has become so ubiquitous that BP have given it a central role in it’s disaster planning.
BP suffered extensive damages during the 2005 hurricane season when one of it’s refineries was struck killing 15 workers and sending global oil prices through the roof. [...]

EV-DO (Evolution Data Optimized), aka EVDO, aka 1xEV-Do Rev. A (Revision A), is a wireless network available through some cellular service providers, particularly CDMA, in Europe and Asia. It’s just starting to make its way into Canada and the US, and some people think that it can help increase mobile VoIP quality, because of its [...]

Rimax have a nice PMP / VoIP phone called the Mystic. It has a 1.5″ OLED screnn and 2GB of internal memory, which isn’t enough room to store a whole collection of video and music. You can also play back a whole range of audio formats including MP1/2/3, WMA, WMV, WAV, ACT, WAV.
But [...]