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 [...]
As a work-at-home freelance writer, I love being on cable. Downloads are ultrafast, even over my wireless network. Except during “rush hour”. That is, during those hours when commuters have returned home from work, or students from school and do their daily surfing. Depending on where you are, that’s probably around 4:00-6:00 pm and 10:00 [...]
VoIP software like Skype is more popular than ever before. Its ease of use, economical way of communication and document sharing capability has added to its advantage. People have started using it in their homes. And it is slowly entering into their work environment as well.
This brings in a big security risk.
To start with, Skype’s [...]
VoIP News talks about some of the call center crime that is going on in India. The truth is that business VoIP features allows for call centers to be set up with at relatively little cost, but security is an issue. So how does a client in, say, North America, make a call center responsible? [...]
Motorola iRadio
Want to listen to NPR (National Public Radio) content on your mobile phone? Motorola’s iRadio offers 24/7 access to over 600 channels of music programming with no commercials. [via Wireless IQ] iRadio is only one of several efforts to offer streaming audio and video content over mobile devices. Other efforts involve mobile TV. It’s [...]