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Truphone Transforms iPod touch into iPhone - We all know the iPod touch is basically an iPhone minus a microphone and the wireless (3G) phone capability. Well, behold Truphone for iPod touch, which adds phone capabilities using VoIP over WiFi. This isn't the first time someone has enabled VoIP for the iPod touch. Some hackers were able to add a microphone to the iPod touch last December. Later, another group enabled a SIP softphone client for the iPod touch to use with the "hacked-in" micr...

What Shall I Blog About Tomorrow? - The beautiful thing about the world of gadgets is that there is always something new every day.So part of the challenge -- or opportunity -- is figuring out what's of interest and then taking a stab at writing something interesting about it.Looking ahead, I wonder what news tomorrow will bring?And I'm wondering if there are any topics, gadgets, issues, oddities that you'd like to see in this personal blogosphere?Don't be shy if you have an opinio...

The Top Holiday Gift Choices? Is It Blu-ray? Or Not? - You've seen the recent blogs about how nine of the top 10 best-selling items so far this holiday shopping season are gadgets -- but how about them Ugg boots!Seriously, we've seen how this is the season of Blu-ray and this isn't the season for Blu-ray. Honestly, what do you think?For me personally, I'm still busy with DVDs, some PayPerView and even some old video cassettes if the movie is good enough -- but granted, those DVDs do look better!So I'...

Green Becoming the Color of Gadgets - Environmental concerns are playing an even bigger role in consumer electronics. To state it plainly, the world of gadgets is becoming increasingly eco-friendly. You can see this all across the landscape, from better product designs, lower power usage and better end user responsibility -- unplug those desktops at night, OK? But what more can we do? We have so many of these wondrous devices, large and small? What else can we do about...

Nokia N97 Sweet! - The Nokia N97 sports a 3.5-inch, 640 x 360 pixel (16:9 aspect ratio) resistive touchscreen display with tactile feedback and slide-out QWERTY keyboard. It's heavily focused on social sites like Facebook with its "always open" window to favorite Internet or social networking sites. The N97 also features HSDPA, WiFi, Bluetooth, A-GPS, 3.5-mm head jack, and 32GB of on-board memory. With a microSD expansion you can go up to 48GB total memory. The b...

Raketu Adds VoIP Support for Google G1 Android Mobile - Raketu today released its Raketu Mobile for Google's G1 Android mobile adding VoIP support to the Android phone. Raketu already supports iPhone, Nokia, WinMobile and BlackBerry mobile phonesThe new service allows anyone with a G1 using roaming data services or WiFi to connect to the Raketu mobile services to make phone-to-phone calls, send sms-text messages and email, send and receive instant...

Office Communicator clients cannot communicate with AOL Contacts Problem Solved - Scott Oseychik over on the MSDN blogs has a good post today about federation issues between OCS 2005/2007 and AOL. Apparently, American Online changed their root certificates on their SIP Access Gateway at approximately 12/2/2008, 4:00 AM EST.Via Scott's post: If your organization leverages Public Internet Connectivity (aka: "PIC") in conjunction with their Live Communication Server 2005 and/or Office Communications Server 2007 servers, you may n...

I told you it was going to be a Blu-ray Christmas! - I hate to say I told you so, but today's PriceGrabber.com gadget report on Black Friday sales, once again proves my opinion that this Christmas will be a "black" Blu-ray Christmas! My opinion goes against conventional wisdom that Blu-ray won't succeed, and that streaming HD using Roku/Netflix, and cable providers offering HD content is now closing the window of opportunity for Blu-ray. I'm not buying that theory. Additionally, several other artic...

Momentum Building for Fuel-Cell Development - Thanks to recent changes in government regulations, a reliable, long-lasting fuel cell to power today's electronic gadgets may be right around the corner. "We are closer, much closer, than even two years ago in terms of the companies' internal designs, how they've met their milestones and just the amount of testing and evaluation that's going on right now," said Sara Bradford, an energy and power systems consultant for Frost & Sullivan.Now wo...

Not Even Half of Old PCs Get Reused ... Sad - Worldwide demand for used PCs is greater than supply, yet less than half of PCs entering the secondary market get reused.Only one in five PCs targeted for reuse find their way from a mature to a developing economy, tech consulting firm Gartner said in a report. Of those machines that actually make it, only 44% get used. Major hindrances include export tariffs and high transportation costs. "The secondary PC market offers great opportunity to s...

Gadgets Help Drive Black Friday Sales - Despite one of the worst economic climates in decades, consumer spending on Black Friday hit $10.6 billion, 3% higher than the day after Thanksgiving in 2007, according to researcher ShopperTrak. Gadgets accounted for nine of the top 10 most popular Black Friday products, PriceGrabber said. Data from PriceGrabber.com shows that online consumers are taking advantage of promotions on popular electronics, including LCD and plasma TVs, Blu-ray disc p...

Disney World Deal - Buy 4 Nights, Get 3 Free - Knowing I'm a Disney fanatic, Rich just sent me this amazing Disney World deal that gives you 3 nights free and includes Disney World theme park tickets. This deal is via a partnership with American Airlines. You'll also receive a $200 gift card when you travel January 4 - March 29, 2009.I have a Disney World timeshare that requires I use my points towards my vacation, so this doesn't help me any, but it might help you, so enjoy! Here's the d...

Bittorrent Kills VoIP - Game Over Man! - An interesting article at the Register claims that a recent uTorrent decision to use UDP for P2P file transfers (instead of TCP) to get around ISP "traffic management" restrictions will cause a meltdown of the Internet. Poppycock you say? It's worth pointing out that traditionally P2P sharing apps such as Bittorrent,  use TCP not UDP. So why would UDP cause VoIP apps to fail? Well for one huge reason, TCP allows for congestion control. F...

Black Friday Results are in! - It appears it just might be a Merry Christmas even with the doom & gloom surrounding the economy. I guess President-elect Barack Obama must be the Messiah, since he's already creating miracles and he hasn't even been sworn in yet. Or it could just be that credit card loving Americans just don't know when to quit spending & charging.Check this out:NRF Survey Finds Black Friday Gets Holiday Season Off to Energetic Start-- Great Bargains, Pe...

Cyber Monday Amazon Deals - Amazon has a special landing page listing all their Cyber Monday deals. Amazon doesn't call it "Cyber Monday" but rather the "Black-Friday-After-Thanksgiving-Sale", so this landing page should be good until Christmas. Maybe they were afraid Cyber Monday was patented, kinda like their one-click ordering patent. ...

It's Going to be a Blu-ray Christmas - Some experts are skeptical about whether consumers will buy Blu-ray DVD players this Christmas - I am not one of them. Many are saying it's going to be a "blue" Blu-ray Christmas. I disagree. I went shopping for a cheap Blu-ray DVD player on Black Friday, with one bargain special at Wal-Mart offering a $128 Blu-ray player. This was one of the biggest deals offered by Wal-Mart on Black Friday, and one was to wonder if this deal was part of ...

Force Skype HQ Video Mode with any webcam - So you want Skype High Quality (HQ) video, but aren't willing to shell out for a nice dual-core processor and a high-end Logitech camera, eh? Well, no worries - Nodewave has a Force 'Skype' HQ Video app that allows you to Enable/Disable (and even configure) High-Quality Video in Skype, and even High-Definition Video regardless of your camera or processor. So if Santa doesn't stick a high-end Logitech Orb AF webcam (my favorite webcam) i...

Nimbuzz VoIP app on Apple App Store - Nimbuzz is a free app that lets you call (VoIP), chat, message, and send photos, music and video on your iPhone, which was recently made available on the Apple App Store. Using a centralized contact list you can connect with all your buddies on Skype, Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, ICQ, GoogleTalk, AIM, Gadu-Gadu, StudiVZ, Hyves, Jabber and Twitter, plus popular social networks including Facebook and MySpace. It features presence (who'...

Killing off Vampire Power for Good! - It's been called both "vampire power" and "phantom load" -- likened to the power-hungry HAL 9000 computer (at left) in Stanley Kubrick's classic film 2001: A Space Odyssey. It's the little unblinking red light on the television set that is silently drawing energy from the grid; studies have shown it can add 10% or more to a household energy bill.Now Spanish entrepreneurs claim to have invented a way to end the problem that has bede...

It's Black Friday! America's Retailers Need You! - Yes, Black Friday it is!(And did you know about Black Friday the movie?)And gadget retailers (and all others, too!) are looking for you to make your contribution to their coffers!Now, I know it may have been hard (very hard), even too hard, to get up before the rising sun to hit those eager merchants at 5 AM when the best (very best) deals could be had, but there is still plenty of time today to either hit the pavement for a real physical visit o...

Making Black Friday Deals Easy - You know I scoured all of the flyers and online ads to put together a great list of Black Friday deals,  but seems Gizmodo has just plain beat me to it! So just like last year, they have rounded up and sorted through all of the real deals for you, broken down by category and merchant. If you know how to survive, this is the only Black Friday deal list you need. Get it all here.  Tags: Black Friday Related Entries ...

Need more Terabytes this Christmas? - Looking for a faster, bigger hard drive this Christmas? (Two days till Black Friday sales by the way) Well, I came across this funny Youtube video of the day - filmed at famous Mac Store Tekserve in Manhattan, New York and paid for by drive manufacturer Seagate. It's a tad long, but it features a hip-hop office drama and the desire for "A new disk drive. 1.5 Terabytes ." (don't let that little jingle get stuck in your head) Just in time for the...

HTC Touch HD - HTC's Touch HD is arguably the best touch-screen Windows Mobile-based phones you can buy. In fact, even before the HTC Touch HD, I always felt HTC mobile phones were the best Windows Mobile phones you could buy. I own an older HTC-based "Apache" XV6700 Windows Mobile with a cooked ROM upgraded to Windows Mobile 6.1 and I'm still pretty happy using it. I still consider my xv6700 one of the top 5 Windows Mobile phones available. Installed on it I...

VoxOx 1.0.1 Released - VoxOx just released a new version of their "Universal Communicator", which aims to combine VoIP, video, and social networks. VoxOx aims to take on Skype by offering more social networking features. Last year, I wrote an article titled Skype Could Trump Facebook in Social Networking, but Skype still hasn't added social networking functionality.In any event, today version 1.0.1 was released, less than a month after their initial launch. I was neve...

Sony Phone Home for Gaming Future -  For Sony, Home is where the future of gaming is -- or where they would like it to be. In its battle for the hearts and minds of gamers, Sony is developing a robust social-networking component to its PlayStation 3 console. The new element, to be called Home, has been in beta testing for weeks and allows users to explore an online world with avatars that can travel from one virtual place to another. While it's not exactly a world like...

NFL Goes 3-D - When the National Football League broadcasts next week's San Diego-Oakland game to theaters in three cities, it will mark the first time that the league has used 3-D technology during a live event. The game will be shot using special cameras and broadcast via satellite to theaters in Los Angeles, New York, and Boston on December 4.The event will be a demonstration to show how the technology can be used to provide a more realistic experience ...

Blockbuster Sees Beauty of On-Demand - Making its first foray into on-demand video, Blockbuster has started offering customers a small box made by 2Wire that, when attached to a TV set, can play the company's videos once they've been downloaded the movie over a broadband line. The move is an attempt to blunt the success of such competitors as cable companies, with their vast on-demand offerings, and Netflix.If you do it, let us know!More at The Washington Post/The Associated...

Power Down Those Gaming Consoles! - Gamers: Power down consoles when not in use to save cash! National Resources Defense Council and consulting firm Ecos have found that gamers could save $100 a year if they turn off their consoles when they are not in use. That means you guys in the photo! The pair also recommends that game console manufacturers look to include power management features in their next generation of consoles. The authors said the industry should adopt automatic p...

Get Ready for a Really Crazy Black Friday - The Friday after Thanksgiving is the day that all retailers look forward to -- known as Black Friday, it's the day that retailers sell so much stuff that they get into the black and are now profitable for the year. (Or at least they hope to be.)With this awful economy, retailers are going to all kinds of extremes to entice shoppers into their stores and move those goods and gadgets.Are you willing to get up early -- really, really early -- and be...

Palm Going the Way of the Dodo? - At a moment in time when smart phones are one of the few hot tech products, Palm, the industry's pioneer, appears to be dying. This morning, Global Crown Capital analyst Pablo Perez-Fernandez cut his rating on the company to Underweight from Neutral, setting a $1.50 price target, well below the current level. Perez-Fernandez provides a damaging list of factors now facing the company and the stock, all of which add up to a deteriorating positi...

How Scientologists pressurise publishers - Scientology has a long history of trying to suppress material written about it that it doesn't like. Several times they've taken legal action to try and stop websites revealing their teachings ? particularly those which, to outsiders, might look a bit odd. (I won't quote them, but just type "Xenu" into a search engine, then sit back and marvel.)It's hardly surprising that, despite all the money they spend on PR, the Church of Scientology has suc...

Couple bites and bludgeons 13-month old to death in ?exorcism? - They claim they were trying to drive the demons out of the 13-month-old, but law enforcement officers say the bottom line is a Rusk County couple bludgeoned the little girl to death with a hammer and other objects and bit her more than 20 times in the most grotesque murder the seasoned officers can remember. Blaine Keith Milam, 19 and Jesseca Bain Carson, 18, both of Henderson, remain jailed on $2 million bonds each. They are charged with capit...

Child welfare officials show up at Tony Alamo compound in California; Arkansas officials seize 6 more children - FBI agents and child welfare officials on Wednesday visited a Tony Alamo Christian Ministries compound just outside of Los Angeles, officials said. Louise Grasmehr, a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services, told The Associated Press that officials likely went to the compound in Santa Clarita at the request of federal agents. Grasmehr said no children were taken into state custody....

Evangelist Todd Bentley romantically involved with nanny; seeks divorce from wife - Todd Bentley, an atypical evangelist who drew thousands to a series of summer revivals in Lakeland, plans to divorce his wife amid revelations that he is romantically involved with the nanny of his children, according to his ministry.Ministry leaders write, "Having spoken with Todd in recent days, he is resolute in his intentions to divorce Shonnah, and in his mind, the restoration he is seeking is one which would not include reconciliation with...

Attorneys for FLDS leader Warren Jeffs file Supreme Court appeal - Faulty jury instructions and a juror's substitution are among errors alleged in a Utah Supreme Court appeal that seeks a new trial for polygamous sect leader Warren S. Jeffs. The appeal, filed last week, asks the court to reverse Jeffs' convictions and order a new trial or require 5th District Judge James Shumate to reconsider a motion for retrial after hearing jurors testify about the status of their deliberations before an alternate was seate...

8 new sex charges against evangelist Tony Alamo unsealed - An indictment unsealed Tuesday accuses evangelist Tony Alamo of eight more counts of transporting underage girls across state lines for sexual purposes over the past 14 years, including at least one violation that occurred while Alamo was completing a prison sentence at a halfway house in Texarkana. The original indictment against the 74-year-old leader of Tony Alamo Christian Ministries, a multistate ministry with headquarters in southwest Arka...

Islamic extremists coached into using YouTube for their hate campaigns; US to use Web 2.0 to win ?war of ideas? - Islamic hate criminals are being encouraged to use the online site through postings on other Islamic forums on the Internet, according to the SITE Intelligence Group. Last week, an extremist authored step-by-step instructions on posting video to YouTube, which he described as "one of the most famous and biggest international sites that publish sections of videos from all over the world."...

Sex cult leader jailed for forcing girlfriend into sex with others - Lee Thompson's followers lead a sadomasochistic lifestyle inspired by a series of 1960s fantasy novels, Chronicles of Gor. In the books, written by US college professor John Norman, women are viewed as natural slaves to men.At Teesside Crown Court, Thompson - who describes himself as a pagan - admitted two counts of procuring a woman to have sexual intercourse....

Author believes Tom Cruise pressured Amazon to stop selling book critical of Scientology - Amazon spokeswoman Patty Smith insists it was simply Britain?s tough libel laws that forced Amazon.co.uk to yank ?The Complex.? The book, a­vail­­­able on Amazon.com as of last Tuesday, is now ?temporarily out of stock,? according to the American Web site. Lawyers for the complaining member, a noncelebrity, want to keep it that way: They?ve demanded the ?destruction? of the books. Smith says: ?We definitely want to offer it to our Amazon.com c...

Mormon church publishes journal of founder Joseph Smith - Historians have long criticized the Mormon church for glossing over the unflattering parts of its history and censoring materials of interest to scholars. Publishing Smith's papers marks a brave departure from that past, said Jan Shipps, a professor of religious history and a Mormon expert at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. "It's saying our story is there for anybody to see," said Shipps. "They are becoming a full-fledged re...