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Society RSS FeedsWhy Apple's A5 Processor is Big (Siri) + Why Doesn't Siri Support Dictating Emails? - According to CNet, Apple's A5 processor includes noise-reduction circuitry licensed from a start-up called Audience. Audience's technology enhances speech and works well even when you hold the phone are arm's length ('far-field speech'). This explains the mysteriously larger A5 processor on the iPhone 4S and why the previous gen iPhone 4 didn't get the Siri via a simple iOS software upgrade.The iPhone 4S has just a few advantages over the iPhone ...Feed Source: feedproxy.google.com Forget Super Wi-Fi! Go with Super Wi-Fi! Wait. What? - Everyone is hyping the new Super Wi-Fi standard which uses lower-frequency white spaces between television channel frequencies. These lower frequencies enable the signal to travel further (miles) and penetrate walls better than the higher frequencies previously used (hundreds of feet). Well, forget about Super Wi-Fi!I met with Thomas Ngeow from Altai Technologies at ITEXPO, a Hong Kong-based company and he explained they coined Super Wi-Fi for on... Billionaire Gives Secrets to Startup Success - Sir Terry Matthews is a Welsh/Canadian high tech entrepreneur, and Wales's first billionaire. He has directly started 89 companies with an amazing 83 out of 89 success rate. It's an even more astounding fact when you consider that according to TMC's Peter Bernstein, 90% of startups fail. Terry has sold many of these companies for millions and even hundreds of millions of dollars. Terry Matthews keynoted the StartupCamp at ITEXPO in Miami and he w... TMC Showcases the Top 40 "Newsmakers" at ITEXPO - There is a lot of news (product launches, new versions) being made at TMC's ITEXPO, some of which I've already covered (Digium, Xorcom) ITEXPO has a record number of exhibitors that have unveiled new products and services at ITEXPO in Miami.
There have been many competing shows over the years, most notably VON, which suffered an untimely demise. ITEXPO and VON were the two best shows focused on VoIP and IP communications. ITEXPO has continued t... Rich Tehrani With ITEXPO Facts + Super Wi-Fi, M2M, StartupCamp & VC Funding - Rich Tehrani gave some interesting ITEXPO facts during his keynote introductions. He also covered Super Wi-Fi, M2M, Facebook IPO causing new millionaires to fund new companies and StartupCamp, which in the past has had actually VCs in the audience write checks to startups after they gave their pitch / demo during StartupCamp. Watch the video:
Tags: facebook, funding, ipo, ... New Digium IP Phones Up Close - I got to see the new Digium IP Phones up close - sort of. I ran into Digium's Steve Sokol in their ITEXPO booth and proceeded to ask Steve about these new IP phones. I asked him if they were developed internally (yes) or white-labeled, where they were being built (China), and a few other questions.
I was about to ask him to see a demo when a Digium employee interrupted and asked Steve to give a demo to two attendees standing a few feet away. Ste... Ingate SIP Trunking Session at ITEXPO is Packed! - Ingate, makers of SIP-capable enterprise firewalls, has done it again! Every show they have one of if not *the* largest conference room and they continually pack it in - often standing room only in the back. I stopped in to check it out. This short video followed by a cool interactive panoramic says it all:... The Crowd Gathers to Enter ITEXPO Exhibit Floor - Good crowd entering the show floor as it opens.
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... Sprint's Michael A. Rouleau Kicks off ITEXPO Keynotes - The keynotes have started with Michael Rouleau telling the story of a company that has invented a flying car. It can travel 65mph on the ground and I think he said 115mph or 150mph in the air with a range of 450 miles. Hit traffic on I-95? Fly over it! He went onto explain all the issues this great idea has - $200,000 price tag, certified for both flight and ground, need for pilot's license, etc. Now he's discussing M2M examples. He said customer... Digium Gamechanger! Launches D40, D50, & D70 IP Phones - Today, at ITEXPO, the premiere communications event, Digium launched a line of IP phones that work in conjunction with their Asterisk and Switchvox solutions. This truly could be a gamechanger, since Asterisk is a popular IP-PBX solution that popular 3rd party phone vendors such as Aastra, snom, and Polycom offer products for. This move by Digium and the impact on these phone vendors could be quite interesting. This reminds me of 2008 when Aastra... Spam Soap - The MSP-Friendly Cloud-based Messaging Service Provider - At ITEXPO, I met with Eric Pinto, sales engineer from Spam Soap, a cloud-based messaging service provider. Founded in 2002, back in the early cloud days, Spam Soap pioneered the use of the MX record email filtering model. Today, Spam Soap has thousands of customers worldwide using a range of cloud-based messaging services, including, anti-virus filtering, anti-spam filtering, preserving business continuity, protecting confidential information,... Asterisk 1-2-3 so Packed They Moved to Bigger Room! - I heard the Asterisk 1-2-3 session, the first one of the day was standing room only will people waiting outside the door trying to get in. I went to check it out when I saw people filing out. What gives? I captured video and heard someone say that they were moving to a bigger room. I then headed to the new room and captured some photos.
QT_WriteOBJECT('http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/tom-keating/images/2012/01/31/IMG_1855.MOV', '590','443', '', '... Zultys MX Release 7.0 Unified Communications Release Adds Android Support - At ITEXPO in Miami, Zultys today announced their latest UC software offering mobility features for Android, call center enhancements, and third-party CRM integrations. The latest major firmware release for the MX platform, MX Release 7.0 Unified Communications Software is a secure, all-in-one SIP-based IP phone system that is highly scalable and highly customizable. This version also includes enhancements to SIP security.
Zultys introduced ... Gadget Lovers! LaGuardia Airport Adds Electric Outlets to Waiting Gate Seats - Gadget lovers rejoice! LaGuardia Airport has added electric outlets to roughly every other seat in the seats by all the gates. The electric outlets sport a glowing blue light that draws gadget lovers like moth to a flame. It was so annoying when I previously came to LaGuardia airport and had to struggle to find an outlet to plugin. Now your iPad, iPhone, Android, iPod touch, and any other gadget won't be drained surfing the Web, checking email, e... No Winter for the Northeast - But Miami Here I Come! - It's almost February and it has been a very mild winter with only two snow storms so far and warmer temperatures than normal. Not that I'm complaining - my heating bill has been less than half it was from the previous winter even with the higher hearing oil prices. It sure didn't look like it was going to be a mild winter if you judged the coming winter back in October where a freak snow storm broke thousands of limbs in the Northeast, which had ... Eddie Long apologizes for Torah ceremony in which he was crowned ?King? - Megachurch pastor Eddie Long has apologized to the Anti-Defamation League over an incident in which he was wrapped in a Torah scroll and crowned "king." The stunt was the idea of visiting speaker 'Rabbi' Ralph Messer.... Missionary Couple Slain in Mexico; Peace Pact in Puebla - A married couple who had served for 28 years as Baptist missionaries in Mexico were murdered on last week Tueday at their home near Monterrey in El Cercado, Santiago, Nuevo Leon. The area has suffered heavily from attacks by drug cartels in recent weeks, including the murder of the mayor of El Cercado, leading to the tentative conclusion that the crime was committed by people serving narcotics traffickers.... Polygamous sect leaders make tax payments; avoid evictions - Leaders of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, the polygamous sect led by Warren Jeffs, have paid Arizona county treasurers about $930,000 in back taxes. In making the partial payment they avoided possible evictions of sect members.... Japanese security agency inspects AUM cult splinter group?s facilities - The Public Security Intelligence Agency in Japan on Friday inspected several properties of Hikari no Wa -- a splinter group of the notorious Aum Shinrikyo cult. Security officials believe the group is still under the influence of cult founder Shoko Asahara, who is on death row for a series of AUM crimes.... Unique construction project under way at FLDS ranch - An unusual building is under construction on the FLDS compound in Eldorado, Texas. Speculations regarding its purpose range from a place to house a statue of FLDS leader Warren Jeffs to a new temple.... Polygamist prophet Warren Jeffs controlling sect from behind bars - Six months after he was jailed for life plus 20 years for his so-called 'spiritual marriages' to two teenage girls it's clear Jeffs continues to pull the strings, call the shots and rule with an iron fist in the twin border towns of Hildale, Utah and Colorado City, Arizona. Mike Watkiss reports.... French Court Upholds Scientology Fraud Conviction - Updated A French appeals court on Thursday upheld the Church of Scientology's 2009 fraud conviction on charges it pressured members into paying large sums for questionable remedies. The case centered on the complaints of several people who spent huge amounts of money for the cult's 'purification packs' and other alleged 'cures.'... ?Rabbi? declares Eddie Long ?King? - The story of embattled megachurch pastor Eddie Long is growing ever stranger. In a service last Sunday at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church, in Atlanta, Georgia, a visiting 'rabbi' declared Long 'king.'... Muslim teenager attacked by brother and sisters for kissing white man - A Muslim teenager in England was kidnapped, beaten and threatened with hammers and knives by her brother and sisters after kissing a white man, a court heard yesterday. The barbarians deny kidnap, actual bodily harm and false imprisonment charges.... Ex-Aum Shinrikyo cultist faces fresh arrest warrant over bombing - Former AUM Shinrikyo cult member Makoto Hirata, 46, arrested for kidnapping, will be served a fresh arrest warrant as early as Jan. 31 for alleged involvement in a 1995 bombing in Tokyo. Meanwhile another former Aum Shinikyo cult member was charged with harboring Hirata while knowing he was a fugitive.... Copyright © 2012, Twitter Giveaway. All Rights Reserved. |