Electronic Anthropology and Skype

The beauty of the Internet is many fold, but it’s the “electronic anthropology” that has interested me most, ever since I came up with the idea of the “Book of Mankind Project” (which is not meant to be sexist; just to have the acronym BOMP). I’ve written about BOMP elsewhere, but essentially, the idea I [...]


News Briefs - Wed Oct 25, 2006

Telecom Courses At Oxford
The University of Oxford is offering a dozen or so telecom courses in five categories, starting in mid-November and going into Feb 2007. Details at Telco 2.0.
Get Your Free Skype MiniCards
This week only, from Moo.com, get a free 10-pack of Skype MiniCards, a sort of business card for handing out to people [...]

T-Mobile Hybrid WiFi Mobile Service

T-Mobile have just launched their hybrid WiFi / mobile service call T-Mobile Hoptspot @ Home.  It’s going to be available to customers first in Seattle, but if all goes well they’ll probably roll it out elsewhere.
The service is based on UMA (Unlicensed Mobile Access) and will work at launch with (only) the Samsung T709 and [...]

The Ultimate Airline WiFi Guide

We’ve covered airport WiFi guides previously on VoIP-Sol.com, but we’ve never seen something as definitive as this.
If you are traveling by air soon and don’t know whether you will be able to get online, I highly recommend checking out this definitive guide to airline WiFi / internet access.  Not only does it list airlines with [...]

Polycom Communicator

The Polycom Communicator is a Skype-certified hands-free device that utilizes the same technology found in their high-end line of SoundStation conference phones. So you can safely say that if you did buy one of these, the sound quality would be very good indeed.
It is designed for the business user where you can take calls [...]