Archive for November, 2007

Cathal J. Dodd - Voice over

Friday, November 30th, 2007

Cathal J. Dodd is a voice actor who has been in several Marvel Comics animated TV series. He has provided the voice for Wolverine in the X-Men animated series, and the hero/villain Random Virus in the BBC series Ace Lightning.


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Defense Security Service - Security

Friday, November 30th, 2007

The Defense Security Service (DSS), not to be confused with the U.S. State Departments DSS for Diplomatic Security Service. The Defense Departments DSS was formerly known as the Defense Investigative Service (DIS) is an agency of the United States Department of Defense (DoD). The DSS conductings personnel security investigations and providing industrial security products and services, as well as offering security education training to DoD and other government entities. Its three primary missions are: the Personnel Security Investigations Program (PSI); the National Industrial Security Program (NISP); and the Security Education, Training and Awareness Program.
The mission of DSS is realized through the efforts of approximately 2,600 employees strategically located throughout the United States and Puerto Rico. 230 DSS employees are Industrial Security Representatives who oversee, advise, and assist more than 11,000 contractor facilities involved with classified contracts and research/development efforts.

In November 2004, approximately 1800 investigators from the Defense Security Service were transferred to the Office of Personnel Management. This move consolidated the vast majority of background investigations for the Federal government with OPM.


External links

  • Defense Security Service Homepage

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Voice over IP Security Alliance - security vendors

Friday, November 30th, 2007

The Voice over IP Security Alliance (VOIPSA) was launched in early 2005 to bring together Voice over IP and information security vendors, providers, and thought leaders to address current and emerging security threats to VoIP. The stated mission statement is:

VOIPSA’s mission is to promote the current state of VoIP security research, VoIP security education and awareness, and free VoIP testing methodologies and tools.


External link

  • Official site

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1st Constitution Bancorp - Inc. NASDAQ:VOCL

Friday, November 30th, 2007

1st Constitution Bancorp () is a New Jersey bank. It has 10 branches following the opening of its new Plainsboro and Fort Lee, NJ Branches. It was founded in 1989. 1ST Constitution Bancorp (Nasdaq: FCCY - News) reported record net income for the year ended December 31, 2006. For the year ended December 31, 2006, net income reached $5,332,844, or $1.41 per diluted share. These results represent a 16.9 percent increase in earnings and a 17.5 percent increase in diluted earnings per share, compared to net income of $4,560,127, or $1.20 per diluted share reported for the year ended December 31, 2005.


External links

  • Official website


Data

  • SEC Filing on NASDAQ
  • Yahoo! Profile

Links

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  • 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

Kibon - The company

Friday, November 30th, 2007

Kibon is a Brazilian ice cream producer, now owned by Unilever.


History

  • Kibon was founded in the 1930s.
  • In 1957, it was bought by the General Foods Corporation.
  • In 1985, the company was bought by Phillip Morris.
  • By the 90s, Kibon was made by the Swiss company Mövenpick.
  • In 1995, Kibon bought Brazilian chocolate company Lacta.
  • In 1997, the Anglo-Dutch company Unilever bought Kibon.

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  • 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
  • VoIP Watch It's about Pudding Media (the start up with the dumbest name in VoIP) Dean has the same questions I have about the 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.
  • Voice Over IP ( VoIP ) for openSUSE 10.2 Voice over IP ( VoIP ) phones allow you to communicate with telephones from your internet connection.
  • What is Internet telephony? - A Word Definition From the Webopedia Internet telephony products are sometimes called IP telephony, Voice over the Internet (VOI) or Voice over IP (VOIP) products.
  • VoIP Howto VoIP Howto. Roberto Arcomano berto@fatamorgana.com. v1.7, August 7, 2002 3.3 What is the advantages using VoIP rather PSTN?

Murid - uses the Session Initiation

Friday, November 30th, 2007

Murid (Arabic: مريد ) is a Sufi term meaning ‘committed one’. It refers to a person who is committed to a teacher in the spiritual path of Sufism.

It also means “willpower” or “self-esteem,”. Also known as a Salik (Arabic: سالك ), a murid is an initiate into the mystic philosophy of Sufism. The initiation process is known as ‘ahd (Arabic: عهد ) or Bai’ath. Before initiation a Murid is guided and taught by a Murshid or Pir who must first accept the initiate as his or her disciple. Throughout the instruction period, the murid typically experiences visions and dreams during personal spiritual exercises. These visions are interpreted by the murshid. The murid is invested in the cloak of the order upon initiation, having progressed through a series of increasingly difficult and significant tasks on the path of mystical development. Murids often receive books of instruction from murshids and often accompany itinerant murshids on their wanderings.<ref>John Esposito, The Oxford Dictionary of Islam, Oxford University Press, 2003</ref>


See also


Religious meanings

  • Murshid
  • Pir
  • As a proper noun, the word Murid may refer to an adherent to the Muridiyya Sufi order based in Senegal.
  • Murids are also members of a caste of the Yazidi-Religion
  • A Mureed is also the term for a follower of Universal Sufism.
  • Also, the official word for a follower of the Ismaili faith, following the Aga Khan.


Zoological meaning

  • In a zoological context, murid refers to a member of the Muroidea superfamily.


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The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam - and thought

Friday, November 30th, 2007

The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam is a book by Muhammad Iqbal on Islamic philosophy, which was published in 1930.

The book is based on a series of lectures given by Iqbal in Madras, Hyderabad, and Aligarh. The last chapter, “Is Religion Possible”, was added to the book from the 1934 Oxford Edition onwards.

In Reconstruction Iqbal called for a re-examination of the intellectual foundations of Islamic philosophy. The book is a major work of modern Islamic thought.


Quotes from the book

  • …space, time, and matter are interpretations which thought puts on the free creative energy of God. line 24, page 65.


Chapters

  • Knowledge and Religious Experience
  • The Philosophical Test of the Revelations of Religious Experience
  • The Conception of God and the Meaning of Prayer
  • The Human Ego — His Freedom and Immortality
  • The Spirit of Muslim Culture
  • The Principle of Movement in the Structure of Islam
  • Is Religion Possible?


Reading

  • Iqbal, Muhhamad. The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam. Kitab Bhavan, 2000. ISBN 81-7151-081-7.


Secondary literature


External links

Read online

  • The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam PDF format.
  • The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam, Read online at Iqbal Academy Pakistan
  • The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam, Read online at Witness-Pioneer
  • The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam, Read online at YesPakistan
  • The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam Read online at OpenLibrary
  • Deconstructing Iqbal’s Reconstruction

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Low latency - VoIP

Friday, November 30th, 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

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Bezeq - provider. The company

Friday, November 30th, 2007

Bezeq () is a telecommunications provider in Israel. Until the mid-2000s when it was owned by the Israeli government, Bezeq had a monopoly on wireline telephony. Though still the most dominant provider of telephone services, it has competition with the sole cable provider in the country, HOT, which offers a cables based telephone service as of 2005 and with Kavei Zahav - 012, which is an Israeli Internet service provider.

On May 9, 2005, Bezeq was officially privatized when 30% of its shares were sold by the state to the Saban-Apax Investment group for $972 Million.[1]

The wireless telephone market in Israel is divided among four other companies:

  • Pelephone (a fully-owned subsidiary of Bezeq)
  • Cellcom
  • Partner Communications Company Ltd.
  • Mirs Communications Ltd.

Bezeq is also the largest shareholder in D.B.S. Satellite Services (1998) Ltd., known by its trademark name, Yes, the satellite (DBS) television provider in Israel.


External links

  • Official website

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Internal Security Act - and information security

Friday, November 30th, 2007

The term ‘Internal Security Act’ is often given to a piece of legislation laying down regulations that enable the executive government of a jurisdiction to preserve the internal security of the nation. In some jurisdictions, it authorizes the government to arrest and detain individuals without trial.

  • For Israeli legislation, see ‘Administrative detention’.
  • For Malaysian legislation, see ‘Internal Security Act (Malaysia)’.
  • For Singapore legislation, see ‘Internal Security Act (Singapore)’.
  • For United States legislation, see ‘McCarran Internal Security Act’.

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General Affairs and External Relations Council - External

Friday, November 30th, 2007

The General Affairs and External Relations Council is one of the oldest configurations of the Council of the European Union. It holds separate meetings on General Affairs and on External Relations respectively. It meets once a month.

Meetings bring together the Foreign Ministers of the Member States. Ministers responsible for European Affairs, Defence, Development or Trade also participate depending on the items on agenda.


General Affairs

At its sessions on General Affairs, the Council deals with dossiers that affect more than one of the Union’s policies, such as negotiations on EU enlargement, preparation of the Union’s multi–annual budgetary perspective or institutional and administrative issues. It co–ordinates preparation for and follow-up to meetings of the European Council. It also exercises a role in co–ordinating work on different policy areas carried out by the Council’s other configurations, and handles any dossier entrusted to it by the European Council.


External Relations

At its sessions on External Relations, the Council deals with the whole of the Union’s external action, including common foreign and security policy, European security and defence policy, foreign trade and development cooperation. A priority in recent years for the Council, in cooperation with the European Commission, has been to ensure coherence in the EU’s external action across the range of instruments at the Union’s disposal. Under the proposed European Constitution this configuration would be headed by the Union Minister for Foreign Affairs.

Links

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De facto recognition - statement

Friday, November 30th, 2007

In international law, de facto recognition of a country is unofficial recognition. It is derived from actions and contacts between two states on a political level. These can include:

  1. Diplomatic activities by representatives of the states involved in connection with tasks between states, relationships, etc.;
  2. Statements of a state on politically relevant issues and problems of the other state such as statement on mutual delimitation;
  3. Recognition and official endorsement with a visa of passports issued by the other state as traveling documents.

In addition, the opinions of internationally renowned experts on international law are considered a justification of the claim to the existence of a state — at least as a fundamental statement. The claim to the existence of a state might be a unilateral act at first on the basis of such an expert opinion; acts in terms of the above-mentioned examples, however, also turn this claim into a “de facto” recognition.

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Voice over IP Security Alliance - VOIPSA’s

Friday, November 30th, 2007

The Voice over IP Security Alliance (VOIPSA) was launched in early 2005 to bring together Voice over IP and information security vendors, providers, and thought leaders to address current and emerging security threats to VoIP. The stated mission statement is:

VOIPSA’s mission is to promote the current state of VoIP security research, VoIP security education and awareness, and free VoIP testing methodologies and tools.


External link

  • Official site

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Voxbone - state of VoIP security

Friday, November 30th, 2007

Voxbone is a Voice over IP carrier providing virtual phone numbers, also called DID numbers from over 40 countries.
Their service allows users and companies to get phone numbers from any of these countries and to receive the call via SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) or IAX.
The carrier also provides toll-free numbers from different countries.

Voxbone launched a Global Trunk Program that allows customers to share capacity between 30 countries. This innovation has widely contributed to their leadership position.

The company is now sponsor of major VoIP events like VON.

Voxbone is focused on so-called call origination only. Other voice carriers are focused on call termination only, and others are doing both call origination and call termination.

The company is a member of study group 2 of the ITU responsible for numbering evolutions and standards.


Coverage

  • The Americas

Argentina - Brazil - Canada - Chile - Guatemala - Mexico - Peru - USA

  • Asia Pacific

Australia - Japan - New Zealand - Pakistan

  • EMEA

Belgium - Bulgaria - Cyprus - Czech Republic - Denmark - Estonia - Finland - France - Germany - Hungary - Ireland - Israel - Italy - Latvia - Lithuania - Luxembourg - Netherlands - Norway - Poland - Portugal - Romania - Slovakia - Slovenia - Spain - Sweden - Switzerland - Turkey - UK


See also

  • VoIP
  • Private branch exchange (PBX)
  • Direct Inward Dialing (DID)
  • Sip trunking
  • call origination


External links

  • Voxbone.com
  • O’Reilly has posted a How-To on using Voxbone to get local numbers in 40+ countries
  • Voxbone joins the Voice Peering Fabric
  • Tom Keating illustrates the use of the Voxbone service with a SIP PBX

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1921 in architecture - 2005 completed

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

The year 1921 in architecture involved some significant events.


Buildings

  • The Einstein Tower near Potsdam, Germany, designed by Erich Mendelsohn is completed.
  • Berliner Tageblatt designed by Erich Mendelsohn is opened.
  • Simon Rodia begin constructing the Watts Towers in Los Angeles.
  • The current Central Railway Station in Sydney, Australia is completed.
  • Harkness Tower in Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, United States is completed after 4 years of construction.
  • The Corn Palace in Mitchell, South Dakota, United States is completed however the domes were added in 1937.
  • The Wong Tai Sin Temple in Hong Kong, China is moved to its current site and completed.
  • Michel de Klerk’s Het Schip housing development for Eigen Haard in Amesterdam is completed.
  • Monument to the March Dead is completed by Walter Gropius in Weimar.
  • The Mayslake Peabody Estate is finished in Oak Brook, Illinois.


Events

  • Hugo Häring and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe submit a competition entry for a Friedrichstrasse office building, fully made of glass.


Awards

  • Royal Gold Medal - Edwin Lutyens.
  • Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: (unknown).


Births


Deaths

  • March 3 - Pierre Cuypers (born 1827)

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Wengo - VoIP

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

Wengo is a VoIP provider, subsidiary company of Neuf Cegetel. It supports the development of an open source (GPL) VoIP (and video conferencing, SMS and chat) softphone through which it offers PC to PSTN phone calls. This software uses the open SIP protocol and is developed under the WengoPhone name by the OpenWengo project.


History

The company was officially created in September 2004 and launched its service at the beginning of 2005, based on what is now know as the “Wengophone, classic edition”. In September 2005, Wengo opened its visiophony service at the same time as Skype on a cross platform (Windows, Linux, Mac OS X). In 2006, Wengo became able to integrate the Gaim project into its software, giving its users the opportunity to communicate via Instant Messaging with other users on the MSN, Yahoo, or Google Talk networks.

Wengo and Skype started offering free PSTN calls in 2006 which accelerated the commoditization of telephony calls. In June 2006, Wengo offered a two month unlimited calling plan to several destinations including Belgium, Guadeloupe, India, Martinique, Poland, Vietnam. The offer was posted on many websites including Fatwallet and attracted many new customers. Wengo later suspended many of these accounts in the company’s interests after many people began abusing the unlimited calling system.

In June 2006, Wengo launched Wdeal, a social marketplace that gives its users the opportunity to create toll-free telephone number and paying services so that they can sell their expertise over the phone.

In December 2006, Wengo launched wengovisio: a Flash-driven VoIP client that enables website owners to be called by their readers directly on their website, without any software installation.


See also

  • OpenWengo
  • VoIP
  • P2P
  • Skype
  • SightSpeed
  • BeWip


References

  • techcrunch December 21st, 2006: Wengo Video Chat for Bloggers
  • slashdot December 16th, 2006: Wengo Releases Flash Softphone For Web Pages
  • slashdot June 25th, 2006: OpenWengo Code Camp
  • slashdot September 6th, 2005: Open Source Alternative for Skype


External links

  • Company home page

Links

  • voip-info.org - voip-info.org A wiki that covers VoIP software, hardware, service providers, reviews, configurations, and standards.
  • 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.
  • Free VOIP Solution Free calls Worldwide Voice over Internet Protocol lets you make free long-distance phone calls using your computer. voip solution for free voip calls predictive dialer.

List of state leaders in 31 BC - leaders

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

32 BC state leaders - Events of 31 BC - 30 BC state leaders - State leaders by year



Asia

  • China (Western Han Dynasty) -

    1. Emperor Cheng, Emperor of China (33 BC - 7 BC)
  • Korea -
    • Dongbuyeo - Geumwa, King of Dongbuyeo (48 BC– 7 BC)
    • Goguryeo - Dongmyeongseong, King of Goguryeo (37 BC – 19 BC)
    • Silla - Bak Hyeokgeose, King of Silla (57 BC– AD 4)


Europe

  • Roman Empire

    • Mark Antony in the East (43 BC-31 BC)
    • Octavian in the West (43 BC - AD 14)

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Voice Funnel - Voice over

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

The Voice Funnel was an experimental high-speed interface between digitized speech streams and a packet-switching communications network, built 1979-1981. It may be viewed as a very early “Voice over IP” telephone.

The Voice Funnel was designed and built by Bolt, Beranek and Newman. During the 1980s, it was used for audio and video conferences across the ARPANET, and later evolved into the multi-processor BBN Butterfly computers.


References

  • Rettberg, R., C. Wyman, D. Hunt, M. Hoffman, P. Carvey, B. Hyde, W. Clark and M. Kraley. Development of a Voice Funnel System: Design Report, Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Report No. 4098, August 1979.

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.
  • 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
  • Voz sobre IP - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre Hay dos tipos de servicio de PSTN a VoIP: "Llamadas Locales Directas" Algunos paquetes de VoIP incluyen los servicios extra por los que PSTN (Red
  • Free VOIP Solution Free calls Worldwide Voice over Internet Protocol lets you make free long-distance phone calls using your computer. voip solution for free voip calls predictive dialer.

PGPfone - VoIP

Thursday, November 29th, 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

Control communications - VocalTec Communications Inc.

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

In telecommunication, control communications is the branch of technology devoted to the design, development, and application of communications facilities used specifically for control purposes, such as for controlling (a) industrial processes, (b) movement of resources, (c) electric power generation, distribution, and utilization, (d) communications networks, and (e) transportation systems.


References

  • Federal Standard 1037C

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