VoIP-Sol News Briefs – Fri Nov 24, 2006

The Apple iPhone – When, Not If
The Apple iPhone is now a question [Antara] of when, not if. And it’s expected that Steve Jobs will make the announcement at the January 2007 Macworld conference, with product to follow shortly after. And of course, keeping people guessing is the perfect way to create tons of buzz (and hyperlinks) for Apple, long before the phone actually comes out.

The Apple iPod – Loved By Jihadists Everywhere?
Sometimes I’m glad that I don’t watch loons like American talk show host Bill O’Reilly, esquire, and his rants on Fox TV’s The O’Reilly Factor. On the other hand, it might have been amusing to have seen him blowing a gasket, drawing some strange correlation between Apple iPods and terrorism. Wow, that’s a formula for being “the most watched news show.” [via IP Democracy]

Big VoIP Project For Bank of America
EDS (Electronic Data Services) will working on Bank of America’s huge VoIP rollout, which is expected to result in 180,000 VoIP phones for their US operations. The project may take two years or longer. The phones will be usedin retail, enterprise, and contact centers. [via Asterisk VoIP News]