GreatCall Jitterbug Dial Phone and Service
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Enough with the smartphones, here comes an easy phone for older folks
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By Bill Husted, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution  Sep. 3--QUESTION: My brother-in-law tells me his son's TiVo will pop up  the caller and telephone number on the TV screen when the phone rings. Hey, I  like that.
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Strangely fascinating mobile phone animation NSFW We really are very much obliged to reader James Gauth who pointed us in the direction of this bunch of mobile phone animations down at ringtonezone:â¦
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ORLANDO, Fla. -- Cell phone calls made in Central Florida using T-Mobile have the fewest dropped calls and the clearest calls, according to the latest JD Power ratings.
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You know itâs been a strange week when youâre mulling over cellular plans for your pet. But I seem to be doing just that. Scottsdale, Ariz.-based PetsMobility Networks is developing a phone that clips to your dogâs collar. Fido can hear his masterâs voice and, I suppose, respond in kind. Iâm not entirely convinced this is a good idea. I can just see Apache running up my cell bills with crank calls (âDo you have Alpo in the can?â).
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(InfoWorld) - Intrado Inc., a vendor of emergency dialing technology, has conducted a successful trial of using E911 emergency dialing capabilities with mobile VoIP (voice over Internet Protocol) phones, the company said. Intrado's trial in New York in August was aimed at solving one of the major problems with location-based E911, or enhanced 911, service with VoIP phones, said Stephen Meer, Intrado's chief technology officer. E911 relays the location of a caller to the emergency dispatch center, but many VoIP phones are not tied to one physical address -- users can connect the phones to any broadband network to make calls. The Intrado auto-locate trial used back-end 911 system technology from the company in combination with several location-finding technologies, Meer said. Included in the test were GPS (global positioning system) technology, a technology that triangulates high-definition television signals and one that surveys local Wi-Fi access points, he said. Combined with Intrado technology, the location-finding technologies were able to route VoIP 911 calls to emergency dispatch centers, using the dispatch equipment already installed, Meer said. No location-finding technology works in every situation -- GPS, for example, can have problems in densely packed tall buildings -- but a combination of location-finding technology can work, he said. "The real solution here is going to be a bundling of technologies," Meer said. Many large VoIP providers have been slow to provide E911 service to all their customers, with the mobility of VoIP phones being one of the problems. Because VoIP services route 911 calls through IP networks instead of the traditional telephone network, some VoIP phones have phone numbers that can follow the phone wherever it's plugged in. The Intrado test shows this problem has solutions, Meer said, although none of the newer location-finding technologies works as well as a traditional wireline phone tied to one address. The Intrado trial generally provided dispatchers with locations based on latitude and longitude, similar to current wireless phone 911 calls, but not as useful as street addresses, he said. Although the U.S. Federal Communications Commission has required VoIP providers to offer E911 service, more public discussion is needed about how precise a location the E911 call should provide, Meer said. "If the national public policy turns out to be, 'We're sort of going to tell you within a mile or so where you are,' there are going to be no little girls calling for help when their mommy's fallen down the steps," Meer said. "We have to have some interesting discussions about what's the right level for public safety." The Intrado trial doesn't attack a second problem with VoIP phones and E911. Providers such as Vonage Holdings Corp. and AT&T Inc. have allowed customers to pick phone numbers not normally assigned to their local area. This "nomadic" service allows customers to choose a phone number that would not be a long-distance call to family or friends living half-way across the country, but the nonlocal phone numbers make it difficult to implement E911's location pinpointing feature, Vonage and other VoIP providers have said.
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Talkster's cool, but confusing Skype and Pincity mashup makes global calls for free from a mobile phone or landline. Will Talkster be your new favorite phone service? Not necessarily.
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Continuing its expansion into the Wireless Internet Phone Market, Globe7 launched two new USB phones with a value based calling plan that is sure to make consumers take note. $120 is the total consumer outlay. Customers can make unlimited calls to 25 countries for one year.
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Subscribers of the company's Net phone service can get information on park locations, public transit, and so on.
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If you are in Sudan it is a "missed  call." In Ethiopia it is a "miskin" or a "pitiful" call. In  other parts of Africa it is a case of "flashing," "beeping" or  in French-speaking areas "bipage."
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roundup Plus: Vonage users dial 311 for city info...Mozilla makes Japanese push...Macromedia offers Flash video tool.
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By Betty Lin-Fisher, The Akron Beacon Journal, Ohio  Feb. 18--Last week, my husband called me at work in the late afternoon to tell me that someone had just come to our door in the bitter cold, saying he was there to "win back" our local telephone service to AT&T.
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(InfoWorld) - Following on rumors that a deal was in the works, Google acquired GrandCentral Communications for an undisclosed sum. GrandCentral lets users of its software combine all their phone numbers and voicemail boxes under one phone number so they can manage various phone features online. Users can set up their accounts so that the number can ring on one or multiple phones based on who is calling. Customers can hear voicemail online or from a phone and forward voicemails to others or post them to a blog. Users can log into their online address book and then click on an entry to make a call. Once the user clicks on the number, GrandCentral calls the user's designated phone and then connects it to the number from the address book. Last week rumors of the acquisition swirled online. At the time, a GrandCentral spokesman said he couldn't comment on the rumors. Google made the announcement on Monday on its blog. On its Web site, GrandCentral said it was pleased about the acquisition because it would assure users that their GrandCentral numbers will be around for the long term no matter how many times users move or change jobs or phone providers. Google will continue to support existing users without interruption but will issue only a limited number of invitations for new beta customers while it transitions the service over to Google. Interested users can ask for an invitation on the GrandCentral Web site. GrandCentral listed one feature that isn't available following the Google acquisition. Although customers will be able to choose from a selection of sound files as ringback tones, they won't be able to upload their own sound files going forward. The acquisition adds to other Google communications services, including Google Talk, an instant messaging service that includes VoIPÂ calling.
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By Vicki Lee Parker, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Sep. 10--An e-mail is making the rounds that warns people not to dial area codes 809, 284 and 876 because their accounts will be billed $2,425.
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11/22/2004. Using your computer and Internet connection to make local and long distance calls has been getting a lot of attention lately.
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Blog: Feature designed to dial Web page phone numbers is subject to cross-site scripting attack.
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Activa brings the Asterisk IP PBX to the call center. Built on top of Asterisk, Activa components enable successful call center implementations adding value in areas such as computer telephony, screenpop&click2dial, agent control, automatic dialing...   This is a maintenance release:       * NEW: multiple DN can be defined by expresions in DN configuration field.       See faq: How to configure multiple lines ?      * FIX: access violation in AMI comunication failures.   http://activa.sourceforge.net/readme.html    We invite you to download the package and try it.     Please drop a message in the forums and tell us how it worked for you. We will be happy to hear from you what your configuration is like, if using SIP, IAX2, mISDN, CAPI, ZAP or whatever, if using queues or if your MS Outlook or TAPI application is working well with open-source Activa. We are interested into knowing what different configurations have been tested, what is missing and if there is something to fix (sure there is). If you let us know we may try to fix it.     The Activa Team