Digital cordless phones to link to the Internet
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(InfoWorld) - Consumers who know nothing about new Internet telephone technologies but don't want to miss out on the action could be interested in this development: Manufacturers of cordless digital telephones plan to add IP (Internet Protocol) capability to a new generation of home communication and entertainment devices. Suppliers of DECT (Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunication) phones, represented through their industry association the DECT Forum, have agreed to build new phones that can easily connect to broadband IP networks and offer services such as VOIP (voice over IP), Web-based phone directories and audio streaming, the association said Tuesday at the Telecom World conference and exhibition in Hong Kong. The DECT Form will be in charge of certifying the new generation of phones, called CAT-iq, which stands for Cordless Advanced Technology-internet and quality. Although the phones are IP-enabled, they are not designed for Web surfing, according to DECT Forum Chairman Erich Kamperschroer. "You'll continue using your PC for surfing, but in the future, instead of booting up your computer to check an online phone directory or listen to Internet radio, you'll use your CAT-iq phone instead," he said. The first line of products, expected in the third quarter of 2007, will provide VOIP-capability. By mid-2008, manufacturers intend to add audio streaming, with additional features planned through the end of the decade. The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) is expected to approve a new release of the CAT-iq standard early next year, according to Kamperschroer. The CAT-iq work group has also cooperated with the Home Gateway Initiative to ensure interoperability between phones and residential gateways. The new IP-enabled phones will use the same frequency band already allocated to DECT and have the same range of around 300 meters. Telecom World, which is organized by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), a United Nations agency, runs through Friday.
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Leveraging IP Network Resources to Enable Next-Generation Corporate Communications.
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InfoWorld - As the mobile phone industry scrambles to put cellphones in the hands of billions of unconnected people in emerging markets, less-expensive, higher-speed WiMax is likely to be the technology of choice to connect them to the Internet.
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Cell phone can respond to motion by dialing numbers or ending a call.
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It seems like a great idea: making a computer that's somewhere between the size of a cell phone and a laptop, for people to carry around and surf the Web.
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Blog: How can you stretch WiFi? Communicate between peaks in the Andes
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By Rhodri Marsden  Even fairly recently, a personal videophone was some absurdly futuristic sci-fi vision, akin to strapping on a jetpack or having a robot do your ironing. But if you have a newer model of mobile phone and a 3G network connection, it may be within reach.
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T&amp;T may be your grandma&#39;s phone company, but it is also trying to be the company of the future with its Internet phones. Even as it is getting out of the business of providing traditional phone
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Skype has announced its free software is now available for the Siemens Gigaset DECT cordless phones, meaning that users can now utilise a cordless phone to place calls to other telephones, over the Internet.
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First person: What's a telecommuter to do when the Web telephony service vanishes?
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Meat wagons hitched to wireless bandwagon
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Internet phone calling, which is already rocking the traditional phone business, is poised to take on the cell phone industry later this year. Vonage will unveil plans Tuesday to offer subscribers a wireless Wi-Fi phone that can make calls over the Internet at homes or at public Wi-Fi hot spots.
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Cell phones may be the next battleground for companies offering internet phone services that don't depend on your desktop and router. By Randy Dotinga.
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Dutch Philips Electronics PHG.AS   PHG.N said on Thursday it would introduce the world's first   cordless DECT phone that can make Skype Internet calls without   being connected to a personal computer.
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Several companies ease burden of using Internet via cell phones.
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Internet phone service, a burgeoning technology that allows people to make cheap calls to almost anywhere over broadband connections, is getting a boost from retailers.
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WIRELESS Internet service is not only the wave of the future, but the wave of the present. Wi-Fi hot spots are everywhere, and mobile Internet devices are so numerous, it's impossible to keep track of them.