Archive for July, 2007

Misuzu Kaneko - to bring together

Tuesday, July 31st, 2007

was a Japanese poet and songwriter. Born Kaneko Teru in Senzaki-mura, now part of Nagato, Yamaguchi prefecture, she wrote poems and songs, mainly for children. Senzaki was a fishing village, relying particularly on catches of Japanese sardine. Scenes of fishing and the sea often make appearances in her poems. Her husband contracted a venereal disease from the pleasure quarters, and she divorced him. Her husband at first agreed to let her bring up their daughter on her own, but later changed his mind and attempted to gain custody of the child. In protest, she committed suicide, writing a letter to her husband before she did so, asking him to let her mother bring up the child. She has been compared to Christina Rossetti.

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PhoneGaim - VoIP

Tuesday, July 31st, 2007

PhoneGaim is a free software VoIP system based on the Pidgin instant messaging software and the SIP protocol, using (only) the SIPphone service. It is available under the GNU General Public License and sponsored by Linspire.

Some controversy exists over the perceived difficulty faced by non-Linspire users who wish to install PhoneGaim on their Linux system.

Linspire has released another multiplatform proprietary SIP client called Gizmo Project to more directly compete with Skype.


See also

  • Comparison of VoIP software


External links

  • Official website and Linspire packages
  • Debian packages (no longer there?)
  • Windows beta executable

Links

  • VoIP - Internet Telephony Covering the latest news and featuring original articles on Voice over IP products and services. Features in-house product testing and reviews.
  • VoIP Providers - VoIP Services - Broadband Phone Solutions Compare and Review VoIP Providers. VoIP Service Provider Search - Broadband Phone Solution - Internet Phone Provider - Digital Phone Service.
  • VoIP - ZDNet Asia toolkit Voice over IP (VoIP) technology is gaining traction in the corporate arena, as more organizations look for ways to keep communications costs down.

PGPfone - VoIP

Monday, July 30th, 2007

PGPfone is a secure voice telephony system developed by Philip Zimmermann in 1995. The PGPfone protocol had little in common with Zimmermann’s popular PGP email encryption package, except for the use of the name. It used ephemeral Diffie-Hellman protocol to establish a session key, which was then used to encrypt the stream of voice packets. The two parties compared a short authentication string to detect a Man-in-the-middle attack, which is the most common method of wiretapping secure phones of this type. PGPfone could be used point-to-point (with two modems) over the public switched telephone network, or over the Internet as an early Voice over IP system.

The Internet was not yet ready for PGPfone ­in 1996. Few people had broadband at home, and there were no protocol standards for Voice over IP. A decade later, Zimmermann released the successor to PGPfone, Zfone and ZRTP, a new and better secure VoIP protocol based on modern VoIP standards. Zfone builds on the ideas of PGPfone.

According to the MIT PGPfone web page [1] “MIT is no longer distributing PGPfone. Given that the software has not been maintained since 1997, we doubt it would run on most modern systems.”

Nevertheless, the software, source code and documentation can be found at http://www.pgpi.org/products/pgpfone/ and, despite the above prediction, still runs fine on Windows2000 and WinXP, including its derivatives such as Windows XP Media Center Edition.


See also

  • Zfone
  • ZRTP
  • Nautilus (secure telephone)
  • PGP word list
  • Secure telephone


External links

  • PGPfone homepage on PGPi
  • Old PGPfone homepage on MIT

Links

ISPS code - Security

Monday, July 30th, 2007

The International Ship and Port Facility Security Code is an amendment to the Safety of Life at Sea Convention, SOLAS (1974)/(1987).

It was initiated by the US Coast Guard under the direction of ADM James Loy, as part of the US government’s response to the Septermber 11th Terrorist Attacks. The US delegation to the International Maritime Organization pushed the measure and the IMO adopted it in 2002 for implementation by 1 July, 2004. It is a two-piece set of legislation describing minimum requirements for security of ships. Part A provides mandatory requirements. Part B provides guidance in implementation.

The ISPS Code is limited to ships over 500gt. The main objectives of the ISPS Code are as follows:

  • To detect security threats and implement security measures
  • To establish roles and responsibilities concerning maritime security for governments, local administrations, ship and port industries at national and international level
  • To collate and promulgate security-related information
  • To provide a methodology for security assessments so as to have in place plans and procedures to react to changing security levels

(AV, ISPS: Risk Analysis, impact and contrast across the code, Intervessel, Southampton, 2005)


See also

  • Supply Chain Security
  • Port security

Links

  • Welcome to Canadian Security Intelligence Service, Bienvenue au CSIS is Canada's main intelligence agency. Includes information on CSIS's mandate, organization, history and missions. Also includes links to public reports
  • The WWW Security FAQ Includes securing your server, protecting confidential documents on your site, safe CGI programming, client security, and privacy.
  • Security Discover the latest computer security vulnerabilities and breaches, along with the steps you can take to protect all your systems with internet security
  • Security Developer Center On the MSDN Security Developer Center, you'll find guidance, essential information, and tools for developing secure applications and writing secure code.
  • Open Directory - Computers: Security Business: Business Services: Fire and Security: Security (3137); Computers: Ethics (62); Computers: Mobile Computing: Wireless Data: WAP: Security (7)

Swot - threats to

Sunday, July 29th, 2007

Swot may refer to:

  • Swot - a British slang term for an inoffensive person who nevertheless offends his peers by giving too much attention to his schoolwork - See also: boffin, nerd.; underlies a British idiom for studying something quickly: “I have to swot up (on) Greek myths.” See also: rote learning.
  • a swat (hit, blow)
  • SWOT analysis- a strategic planning tool used to evaluate the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats involved in a project or in a business venture or in any other situation requiring a decision.

The compound term Swotvac refers to a study break period commonly found in British and Australian universities.

Links

  • VoIP As You Are VoIP As You Are.
  • What is VoIP? VoIP has become popular largely because of the cost advantages to consumers over traditional telepone networks. Most Americans pay a flat monthly fee for
  • VoIP Forum VoIP Forum discussed hot VoIP topics, interesting VoIP news including Skype Vonage.
  • Access >> VoIP | CNET News.com The VoIP company offers a mea culpa for its disrupted service last week, In split decision, judges OK extension of taxes to VoIP but agree with some
  • VoIP Lowdown | Business VoIP PBX News Matt Hodkinson presents The iPhone and VoIP; Revolution or Pricey Gimmick? posted at The VOIP Provider Guide. For the most part, the technology of the

Bandwidth.com - VoIP

Saturday, July 28th, 2007

Bandwidth.com is an Internet-based company that provides Internet and telephone service primarily to business and government users. Currently providing automated real-time pricing and procurement of business class Internet connectivity through various carriers, it also offers hosted VoIP, SIP Trunking and bulk origination and termination services.

Bandwidth.com offers four families of products:

    • Data / Internet Services
    • Voice / VoIP Services
    • Managed Network Services
    • Enterprise Services

The company is focused on providing small and medium businesses with affordable, reliable voice and data services. It has recently made huge inroads into servicing the IP-PBX market space, becoming the preferred VoIP service provider for some of the top PBX manufacturers, including Mitel and ShoreTel.


History

Originally formed in 1999, Bandwidth.com began as a home office start-up company in a spare bedroom of founder David Morken’s Park City, Utah home. His goal was to form a telecommunications procurement company that focused on three key points of quality: selection, savings, and service. The company’s rapid growth led him to relocate the business to Cary, North Carolina. As of 2007-06-30 Bandwidth.com maintains a workforce of over 100 employees, and had reported 2005 revenues in excess of USD$30 million.


External links

  • Official site

Links

GCIDE - under the GNU

Saturday, July 28th, 2007

GCIDE is the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

The dictionary was derived from the Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary Version published 1913 and WordNet.

The GNU version is licensed under the GNU General Public License.

It describes itself as “a freely-available set of ASCII files containing the marked-up text of a substantial English dictionary”.


External links

  • GCIDE FTP site
  • GCIDE presented in the Extensible Markup Language — An XML version of the dictionary, along with an online search facility.

Links

  • Sun Opens Java and Java Platform Enterprise Edition (Java EE)—under the GNU General Public License version 2 (GPLv2), the same license as GNU/Linux. » Read more.
  • FDLv2: First discussion draft — GPLv3 If the Work has no Cover Texts and no Invariant Sections then you may relicense the Work under the GNU Simpler Free Documentation License.
  • [SAC-HELP] Problem with sac2000 under x86_64 GNU/Linux [SAC-HELP] Problem with sac2000 under x86_64 GNU/Linux. Georgia Cua georgia.cua at sed.ethz.ch Mon Sep 4 07:03:07 PDT 2006. Previous message: [SAC-HELP]

Railtel Corporation of India - Telecom Italia.

Thursday, July 26th, 2007

Railtel Corporation of India was created by in the fall of 2000 with four guiding focuses:

  • i) To modernize Indian Railways’ train control, operational and safety systems and networks;
  • ii) To create a national broadband telecom and multimedia network to supplement national infrastructure to spur growth of telecom, Internet, and Internet-enable services in all parts of the country. There is a particular emphasis advancing the proliferation of the Internet and related services in semi-urban, semi-rural, and rural regions of India;
  • iii) To significantly contribute to realizing the goals and objectives of the National Telecom policy developed in 1999; and
  • iv) To generate much needed revenues for implementing Indian Railway’s developmental projects, safety enhancements, and asset replacement programs.


See also

  • http://www.railtelindia.com/

External Links

  • Railways Exhibition

Links

X-Lite - Session Initiation

Thursday, July 26th, 2007

X-Lite is a proprietary freeware VoIP soft phone that uses the Session Initiation Protocol. X-Lite is developed by CounterPath. X-Lite supports SRTP and soon ZRTP.

There are currently two major releases of X-Lite with radically different interfaces. X-Lite 2.0 for Linux, which uses the old X-Pro code base, and X-Lite 3.0 for Windows and Mac OS X which uses the eyeBeam code base. X-Lite 2.0 is audio only. X-Lite 3.0 has audio, video, and instant messaging as well as being presence-capable.


See also

  • Comparison of VoIP software


External Links

  • CounterPath
  • Product page

Links

Low latency - VoIP

Thursday, July 26th, 2007

Low latency allows human-unnoticeable delays between an input being processed and the corresponding output providing real time characteristics. This can be especially important for internet connections utilizing services such as online gaming and VOIP - VOIP is not as important as a minor delay between input from each side of the conversation is generally blamed on non-technical issues.

However, online gaming demands low latency so as not to disadvantage players with low latencies due to highly varied ping times among fellow players - for this reason, game server applications generally favour players with lower latencies by determining the data relating to a player as known to the server, and allowing players to act on that, not the data as known by the fellow player’s client.


See also

  • Latency (engineering)
  • RAM latency


External links

  • Low-Latency.Com


Vendors

Endace

Links

Northern Ireland Children’s Enterprise - 2005 to bring

Thursday, July 26th, 2007

Northern Ireland Children’s Enterprise is a cross-community charity headquartered at 10 Stockman’s Lane, Belfast. The charity was evolved from the Irish Children’s Summer program which was involved in bringing children from both the Catholic and Protestant communities of Belfast and the surrounding areas on trips to New York for six weeks.

NICE own a residential centre in Ballycastle and regularly bring children to the centre to enjoy games, community relations programs and other training events. The charity also raised £8,500 to bring a group of ten of its Transitional Volunteers to Romania last Summer [2005] where they worked in variouos orphanages, old people’s homes and hospitals.

Links

  • VoIP VoIP, VoIP application developer AudioCodes produce VoIP phone, voice over DSL, and voice over ATM packet processors. IP telephony leaders, Audiocodes
  • Blueface | VoIP | Ireland's Internet Phone Service Blueface is a Dublin based VoIP, internet phone, company providing residential and business users with a phone service over an existing broadband Internet
  • VoIP Howto VoIP Howto. Roberto Arcomano berto@fatamorgana.com. v1.7, August 7, 2002 3.3 What is the advantages using VoIP rather PSTN?

North Brazil Current - current

Thursday, July 26th, 2007

North Brazil Currents is a term of the complexion of Atlantic Southern equatorial current and the Atlantic equatorial counter current, Guinea current. These stream in opposite directions, and fluctuate in their strength, thus making it very difficult to sail fast in the respective area.

Links

UTStarcom F1000 - VoIP

Thursday, July 26th, 2007

The UTStarcom F1000 is a wireless (802.11b) SIP VoIP handset produced by UTStarcom. It is re-sold by several VoIP service providers, including sipgate, BroadVoice and PeopleCall.

The F1000’s features include 3-way calling, comfort noise generation (CNG), voice activity detection and echo cancellation. Supported protocols/technologies include: TFTP firmware/configuration provisioning, RTP, SDP, SAP, STUN, DHCP, RFC 2833 DTMF tones, WEP and WPA. A future firmware release is expected to provide support for authentication with wireless hot-spots. Handsets with firmware version 3.60st and above also feature a web interface which can be used for configuring the handset and upgrading firmware.


External links

  • The handset on the manufacturer’s website

Links

Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association - Official site

Wednesday, July 25th, 2007

The Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association (WIAA) regulates all high school sports in Wisconsin. It claims to be the first high school athletic association organized in the United States. It dates from 1916, but aspects of its history go back to 1895, according to its official site. As of 2005 the organization is located in Stevens Point, Wisconsin.


See also

  • List of high school athletic conferences in Wisconsin


External links

  • Official site

Links

ENOVIA MatrixOne - customers such

Tuesday, July 24th, 2007

ENOVIA MatrixOne or MatrixOne is a provider of Internet business collaboration software. The company is a subsidiary of Dassault Systemes.

MatrixOne specializes in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM). Most customers of MatrixOne are big Fortune 1000 companies. For the year 2004 they reported 650 global customers. Their flagship product is the Matrix10, which consists of a bundle of business process applications based on a common interoperable foundation platform.

The company has its headquarters in Chelmsford, Massachusetts and several offices throughout United States, Canada, Europe, Asia, and Pacific Rim. As of 2005, MatrixOne employs approximately 450 people globally. MatrixOne was founded in 1983 as Adra Systems and changed its name in 1997. The company held its initial public offering of shares in March 2000.

On March 2, 2006, Dassault Systemes announced their $408 million buyout of MatrixOne. The company was subsequently renamed ENOVIA MatrixOne at that time.


External link

  • http://www.matrixone.com

Links

  • VoIP - Internet Telephony Covering the latest news and featuring original articles on Voice over IP products and services. Features in-house product testing and reviews.
  • VOIP with Vonage Canada Use your high-speed Internet connection to make all of your phone calls with Vonage digital phone service. Plans start at $19.99 per month.
  • VoIP Singapore - The VoIP, Digium Hardware, IP PA System, Systems Incorporated in Singapore, Lantone Communications specializes in VoIP, Digium Hardware, IP PA System, SIP Servers, Systems Integration, Call Accounting
  • VoIP Over the years China VoIP Conference has addressed the evolution of the telecom business from PSTN to IP. Today, the telecom business is in the process of

St. Alexius Medical Center - provider.

Tuesday, July 24th, 2007

St. Alexius Medical Center is an American healthcare provider headquartered in Bismarck, North Dakota. St. Alexius is the oldest healthcare provider in the state of North Dakota.

St. Alexius offers a hospital and several clinics. St. Alexius has been designated as a Level II trauma center.

In the mid-1970s St. Alexius was one of the first facilities in the nation to establish remote cardiac monitoring. The Center began its TeleCare Network[1] in 1995.


External links

  • St. Alexius Medical Center website

Links

Voice over WLAN - provider of VoIP

Tuesday, July 24th, 2007

VoWLAN (Voice over Wireless LAN) is the use of a wireless broadband network for the purpose of vocal conversation. In other words, it’s just like VOIP but over a Wi-Fi network.
VoWLAN can be conducted over any internet accessible device, including a laptop, PDA or the new VoWLAN units which look and function like cellphones. VoWLAN’s chief advantages to consumers are cheaper local and international calls, free calls to other VoWLAN units and a simplified integrated billing of both phone and Internet service providers.

Although VoWLAN and 3G have certain feature similarities, VoWLAN is different in the sense that it uses a wireless internet network (typically 802.11) rather than a Cellular network. Both VoWLAN and 3G are used in different ways.

For example, a company with fixed warehouses or locations would take advantage of their existing WiFi network and use VoIP (hence VoWLAN) for employees to communicate with one another. This system can also be used like Land Mobile Radio System or Walkie-talkie systems with push to talk and emergency broadcast channels.

Non-VoWLAN Solution:
Another example would be a company that has mobile workers very much like the FedEx delivery person or the CocaCola delivery driver who delivers goods to a store. These workers need to take advantage of 3G type services whereby a cellular company (like Cingular, Verizon, T-Mobile, Sprint/Nextel) provide data access between the handheld device and the companies back-end network.


Types

  1. as an extension to celluar network using Generic access network.
  2. as a local network independent of cellular company .


See also

  • VoWi-Fi
  • GAN
  • Mobile VOIP

Links

Lior Haramaty - VocalTec

Tuesday, July 24th, 2007

Lior Haramaty (born in Tel-Aviv, Israel in 1966) is the co-founder of VocalTec Inc. (1989) and the inventor of the Audio Transceiver () that enabled the creation of Voice Over Networks products and eventually the VoIP industry, that changed the face of the telecommunication industry.

According to Om Malik, “Two entrepreneurs barely out of their teens, Lior Haramaty and Alon Cohen, founded VocalTec Communications in 1993 based on the promise of packet voice technology they observed as members of the Israel Defense Force…. the idea of commercializing packet voice did not occur to anyone until the arrival of Lior and Alon.”<ref>Malik, Om. “The Voice over IP Insurrection”, September 19th, 2004.</ref>

TMCnet’s Internet Telephony Magazine - , “In fact, at that time the company’s CTO, Lior Haramaty, knew more about VoIP than just about anyone else, and we were fortunate to have him as a columnist in this magazine for a number of years.
“<ref>Internet Telephony Magazine. “[1]”, Oct, 2006.</ref>

NTIA New Directions in Telecom A Conversation with Assistant Secretary Larry Irving - , “Lior Haramaty, co-founder and Vice President of technical marketing of VocalTec Communications”<ref>NTIA. “http://www.ntia.doc.gov/forums/telecom/bios.htm]”, Feb 4, 1998.</ref>


References

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Links

Ubiquitous Communicator - VoIP

Monday, July 23rd, 2007

For the company whose name is derived from “Ubiquitous communcations”, please see Ubicom.

The Ubiquitous Communicator (UC) is a mobile computing device designed for the use in ubiquitous computing by Ken Sakamura, the creator of TRON and a leading Japanese computer scientist in Tokyo University. The device is based on T-Engine.


History

On September 15, 2004, YRP-UNL announced in Japan that it has started the production of a new model after creating five prototypes over three years. The model was used in trial tests circa late 2004. The new model (weighing about 196 grams) contains new features: RFID reader compatible for ucode, a 2 megapixel CCD camera, a secondary 300 000 pixel camera for video phone, support for wireless network technologies, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and IrDA, VoIP phone feature, SD and mini-SD memory card slot, fingerprint authentication and encryption co-processor as option. It was expected to be sold for three hundred thousand yen (twenty seven hundred dollars).


External links

  • YRP-UNL release a ubiquitous-computing device (in Japanese)
  • An english language version

Links

  • MyNetFone - Your VoIP Broadband Phone Service - Leading Australian Australian Money Magazine 2007 Winner for best VoIP plans - MyNetFone, Australian Broadband phone company providing residential VoIP, business VoIP and
  • IP-Telefonie - Wikipedia Im Unterschied zur klassischen Telefonie werden bei VoIP aber keine . Die 032-Rufnummern konnten sich bislang bei den meisten VoIP-Providern noch nicht
  • The VoIP Weblog Today's New York Times has an interesting story on the impact VoIP services have had on the traditional phone companies. Basically, VoIP services like

Cablemas - VoIP application for the

Saturday, July 21st, 2007

Cablemas is the second-largest cable operator in Mexico. It has offered cable since the late 1980s, and broadband internet since the late 1990s for nearly forty cities in Mexico with approximately 600,000 customers. Cablemas is also the first company to distribute VoIP in Tijuana, Baja California. VoIP is the spearhead of Cablemas’s new promotionals.

Due to the laws in Mexico, telecommunication companies cannot provide more than two services. An example of this is the company Telnor, which provides telephones and internet. Another example is Megacable, a company that provides cable and broadband internet. To provide more services, Cablemas made an alliance with Axtel, a new telephone company operating from Monterrey, and the new Cablemas-Axtel Alliance was born with nearly 1,000 customers.

The spearhead of the Cablemas operation has, and will always be, the city of Tijuana, which is also the city that produces the highest influx of money into the company.


External links

  • Official Webpage

Links

  • LowrateVoip.com | Free Calls Free phone calls with the LowrateVoip. Call your online friends for free as well as a special selection of popular international destinations.
  • VoipDiscount | Free Calls and SMS Free phone calls with VoipDiscount. Call your online friends for free as well as a special selection of popular international destinations.
  • Voz sobre IP - Wikipédia Voz sobre IP, também chamado VoIP, telefonia IP, telefonia Internet, telefonia em banda larga e . O suporte de envio de fax sobre VoIP ainda é limitado.