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Phone services offering freebie calls over the Internet are still only being used by a niche following according to new research.
A study by Ofcom has discovered that Voice- Over-Internet- Protocol (VoIP) services – like those offered by Skype, BT and Tesco – have failed to fire the public imagination.
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DAB digital radio dynamos PURE Digital have announced the TEMPUS-1S, the third update to their popular TEMPUS family of DAB bedside radios.
Sporting the same bedroom-friendly real wood, cherry veneer casework, the TEMPUS-1S hopes to soothe twitchy sleepers and all-night insomniacs into a deep slumber with its collection of ‘Natural Sounds.’
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Samsung have announced two 22″ monitors with a mic and 2mpx video camera built-in.
All that is needed to get going with the top of the range, 220TN, is an Internet- connected Ethernet cable in the back as all of the required software is installed.
They say that it’s been optimised for Microsoft Unified Communication (UC).
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Some Skype users faced a frustrating weekend after a software bug left many unable to log in to the Internet phone service.
The sign on problem surfaced early Thursday afternoon (August 16th), with the company’s blog reporting a software issue. At the same time, Skype temporarily disabled all downloads of Skype.
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We covered the launch of the pay for addition for Google’s Gmail, where they ‘let you’ pay for additional storage beyond the 2.8Gb that they give you for free.
We’ve been wondering if this is an under cover launch of the long-rumoured GDrive service from Google – utilising Google huge, worldwide server infrastructure to host your data, for easy recall using any Internet connection.
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Google have quietly (as ever) introduced a pay for extra storage facility on GMail.
I’ve come close to stop using Gmail over the last 6 months or so, after having heavily used it on a daily basis for over two years. It’s has all of my emails for my numerous accounts going through it.
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Skype, clearly never ones to stay still, have released a new version of the PC Skype client – version 3.5.
It comes with four new features
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BT are to offer those who sign up for their Business Broadband Voice service – VoIP to you and me – an option of having a local phone number connected to it. At a charge, naturally.
BT is calling the service “Geographic Numbers”, ie what you’d normally have if you had a landline phone line from them.
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The BBC is set to unveil a “significant” move into the videogames market, according to a report in The Scotsman.
The Corporation – still smarting from the humiliation of being caught out ripping off viewers taking part in TV phone-ins – is expected to unveil their new gaming strategy next week at the Edinburgh Interactive Festival.
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Text to Speech (TTS) processing has come on leaps and bounds from the early days of jerky, rough renditions of robotic-type chatter yesteryear.
A lot of the quality is truly amazing – very life like – but it appears that some systems still really doesn’t know how to deal with jokes.
Just now a friend (I assume) sent me an SMS joke, but sadly they misdirected it to my landline, not the mobile.
BT have a service in the UK where text messages can be sent to landlines and read out over the phone.
So you all have the joy of listening to the joke, I recorded it, just so you can enjoy the flat humour of it.
I found it took a couple of times of listening to it to actually understand what the joke was!
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