My father, a retired professor who continues his side interest of real estate brokering, sent me an email last week that completely surprised me. Whenever a new VoIP soft phone shows up online, I usually download it and give it a go. My father has served as my test subject several times, as he’s usually [...]
While some universities are banning Skype, others will be offering students a package of broadband Internet, IPTV, and VoIP. This will come due to a contract between Ubiquity Software and Inuk Networks. Using Ubiquity’s SIP-based platform, students will be able to make phone calls from soft phones. (Think they’ll want to watch live concerts?) Calls [...]
In Jack Womack’s future-past slipstream novel Elvissey, a couple from a future Earth society goes back into the past to an alternate Earth, 1950s era, before that Earth’s Elvis Presley became famous, and then takes him unwillingly back to the future to worship him. In Bradley Denton’s science fiction novel Buddy Holly Is Alive And [...]