Issues of VoIP call quality keep coming up, but as far as I’m concerned, general quality has improved in the past two years. My experience is with soft VoIP, so I’m focusing on that. Soft VoIP IM clients have improved – some more than others. But it’s not always the software that’s at fault for [...]
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 [...]
Sao Paulo – Brazil’s largest city – may lose up to 90,000 public pay phones because of the increasing saturation of cell phones. However, the 90K number is only about 25% of the total public pay phones available in the city. While the final decision of how many phones to cut is up to the [...]
I just caught this discussion thread at VoIPSec about Google considering a new way to target ads: turn on the microphone on your PC, eavesdrop at background sounds (possibly TV), parse the info, and generate a contextual ad on the web page you are surfing. This isn’t actually news, but it’s the first I’ve seen [...]
Ever bought a shiny new piece of kit, unboxed the thing and find yourself confronted with a strategically placed company logo stuck smack in the middle? Yeah, I know all about it.
Well, looky here! Instructables has a handy tutorial on how to remove these company logos and all it seems to involve is [...]