A couple of days ago, Google introduced the ability for people to make free calls from GMail to any US, or Canada telephone number. In addition, you can call international numbers with Google Voice, and Credit. Some people maybe raving about this, but if this is the best that Google Can do after the acquisition of Gizmo, I am a bit disappointed.
Maybe I’m wrong, and maybe this will be a huge hit, but me being a bit old fashion, I will prefer to use a telephone to make a telephone call. And the number of hardware based phones, while still a little more expensive – it is a real alternative to devices and software that requires a computer to be on all of the time.
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There was an article about Apple filing a patent to detect “unauthorized” users and lock the phone, wipe the data, and notify an authorize user of the intrusion. However, some have decided to make this an anti-root tactic. Rooting (aka Jail Break) while legal in the US has always been something Apple does not want you to do. In my opinion, this is to keep you in the iTunes world, where everything goes through them, and with most roots – you get an alternative store full of everything that Apple didn’t allow. However, even with the patent filing, it is just a filing. Some of the things such as heartbeat detection is not a cost reality.
Apple if they wanted to win the war with the developers that are providing roots to the devices such as iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch (which I believe will be the only kind of iPod in a year or two), then they can do it in the next non critical update. Here is how and why.
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A few days ago, the Library of Congress (US) has decided to say that it is legal to root, or add another OS on your smart phone/PDA. What does this mean? Well, the most popular of things means that you are allowed to make it possible to install another store on your iPhone (commonly known as jailbreaking). Before, Apple had the right to go after these companies with copyright violations, but with this decision, it is now legal to do such.
However, in the end – it doesn’t matter to Apple. And why is that? Well, jail breaking is still a violation of TOS which is a civil matter, and not a legal matter. Therefore, if you jail break, and of course – you’re not violating any law, but your iPhone goes on the fritz, they can refuse to fix it simply because you can use it on T-Mobile rather than AT&T.
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It will seem that there are less than 235 million IPv4 addresses left to distribute. According to estimates, this will run out in less than a year. Now, I am sure what many people are thinking. 234 million addresses is a lot. It’s silly to think of that!
Actually, no it’s not. First, this is smaller than the population of the United States. In addition, every server, and network that connects to the Internet needs an IP address. For example, my home network has an IP address. In addition, my cell phone since it has a regular connection to the Internet probably has an IP address.
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As one who finds a great value in SIP, it is counter productive to cancel a SIP service. However, there were reasons of why I have done this, and while some may not even know what this is about, I would explain for the sake of the post.
First, SIP is Session Initiated Protocol. This is what most VOIP services uses to some degree. SIP is always in a fashion similar to an email address. However, when you use an old fashion phone, the dialing an email address is not really possible. SIP providers such as most of the ones I use will use numbers as the UID, and then when you want to call another user on the network, you simply dial the UID.
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