In an interview with Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat, Skype CEO and founder Niklas Zennstrom said that due to technical difficulties and a dearth of handsets with the capability of supporting Skype. “We have no publicly available products yet to offer and I can’t give you a timetable. When we begun developing the mobile phone versionContinue Reading
According to The Carphone Warehouse [Cellular-News], most 10 year olds in the UK own a cell phone, based on survey of 1250 cell phone owners, aged 11-17. I guess their parents aren’t concerned with claims of mouth, throat and ear cancer caused by increased cell phone usage exposure. But then again, I never put muchContinue Reading
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 forContinue Reading
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 systemContinue Reading
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 theContinue Reading