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Sony Mylo: Personal Communicator

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Sony Mylo: Personal Communicator

Sony is one of the companies that trying to figure out this whole convergence problem – how to get more (or all) of our various portable electronic gadgets down into just one thing. The Mylo (a.k.a. My Life Online) gives you Wi-Fi connectivity for surfing the Web, Instant Messaging and checking/sending e-mail, audio, photo and video playback, and even a Skype client for VoIP phone calls. Featuring 1 GB of flash memory, a 2.4-inch LCD display with a 320 x 240-pixel resolution (QVGA), the Mylo has a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, an embedded microphone and speaker, Memory Stick slot (PRO Duo) slot, and a USB 2.0 port. Here’s what I thought was cool – Sony partnered with Google and Yahoo to give you Gmail and Yahoo Mail on the Mylo; I really wonder how well Gmail (or even Yahoo’s new web mail app) works on this handheld.

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Protect Against Identity Theft

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This article reprinted courtesy of Computer Geeks.

By Stewart S. Miller

No matter what you do online, there is always a risk that someone could glean enough private information about you to usurp your identity. Your financial credit affects nearly every facet of your life, so in order to maintain control over your information, the following tech tips are in order. There are several types of information that are appealing to thieves:

  1. Credit card numbers
  2. CW2 security numbers (those 3- or 4- digit codes on the back of your credit cards)
  3. Credit reports
  4. Social security numbers
  5. Driver’s license numbers
  6. ATM cards
  7. Telephone calling cards
  8. Mortgage information
  9. Dates of birth
  10. Online passwords
  11. PIN numbers
  12. Home/business addresses
  13. E-mail addresses
  14. Phone numbers

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Intel Selects VoiceBox Technologies to Voice-Enable Its Next-Generation Concept Platform for the Digital Home

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SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–March 7, 2006–

Companies to Demonstrate Voice-Enabled Concept Platform for the Digital Home at the Intel Developer Forum

VoiceBox(R) Technologies Inc., the leading innovator of conversational voice search and control technologies, announced that its voice-enabled reference design was demonstrated today at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in San Francisco with Intel Corporation’s next-generation concept platform for the digital home.

The demonstration signals the growing interest in utilizing voice technology to simplify user interaction with entertainment PCs. VoiceBox’s unique conversational voice search and navigation technology executes tasks by identifying the context and user intention behind a request, enabling users to access movies, videos, music, channel guides and other digital content by simply asking for it in free-form language.

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ActionTec Unveils New Megaplug Line — Market’s First Family Of 85 MBPS Powerline Networking Products

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Six Times Faster than Earlier HomePlug Devices To Support High-Bandwidth Entertainment

SUNNYVALE, CA (December 1, 2005) ‹ Actiontec Electronics today announced the market¹s first family of powerline networking solutions to support throughput speeds of 85 Mbps, enabling consumers to utilize standard electrical outlets to build home networks capable of handling newer high-bandwidth multimedia applications such as IPTV. The new MegaPlug� series will allow users to distribute TV and video signals received over their broadband connection throughout the home, share video and music files stored anywhere on the network, and transfer large files between PCs without dropped packets or other performance problems.

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Review: VoSKY Chatterbox

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Review: VoSKY Chatterbox

Tired of being tied to an uncomfortable headset when making Skype calls? Untether yourself with the new VoSKY Chatterbox, a plug-and-play USB speakerphone from Actiontec Electronics. Just plug it into a free USB port on your PC and start talking. The powerful speaker and microphone will carry and pick up sound up to 12 feet, so you can even walk around the room while you’re catching up with friends and family.

The VoSKY Chatterbox from Actiontec is marketed as the “go-anywhere speakerphone solution for Skype“. If you use Skype you need to check out this review.

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Dell Axim X51v

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Dell Axim X51v

The Dell Axim X51v comes with a gorgeous 3.7″ color TFT VGA display with 640×480 resolution with 16MB of video memory as well as 802.11b and Bluetooth wireless, integrated memory expansion (CF Type II and SD/SDIO/MMC) and a 3.5mm Headphone/Headset Jack for Headsets to support VoIP and voice recognition applications and a powerful PXA270 Processor rated at 624MHz. Sorry, I’m a geek-slave to stats!

Running Windows Mobile, the Dell Axim comes with a list of applications and other programs ranging from Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Internet Explorer Mobile, Windows Media Player, MSN Messenger, Terminal Services Client and even a VPN Client meaning in most cases you can bring this PDA on a trip rather than your laptop! This is a well-priced full functioned PDA.

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Google Releases Google Talk Service

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Google just released their long-rumored Instant Messenger client and service: succinctly named Google Talk. If you download the client (currently only available for Windows), you’ll find a clean-looking interface with the absolutely necessary IM features, but not too many of the bells and whistles. You will also find that this IM client prominently features the ability to really ‘talk’ using VoIP. Google does have plans to release clients for the Mac and Linux platforms, but until then you can use other clients on those platforms that support the Jabber/XMPP protocols. This is true on Windows as well. There are plans to support SIP as well.

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AU-100 Voice Over IP USB Phone

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AU-100 Voice Over IP USB Phone

The best thing in communication since Alexander Graham Bell invented the phone! Plug this VOIP phone into your USB port and use it to make free phone calls anywhere in the world, using one of the softphone services. The phone is fully compatible with Skype, Vonage soft phone, Net2Phone,X-Ten, StanaPhone, SJPhone, MSN Mesenger, AOL Instant Messenger, Firefly and eyeBeam. You can also take the phone with you when you’re on the go. Just connect it to your laptop and make phone calls from wireless hot spot zones. Join the revolution – order yours today!

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Project Gizmo challenges Skype

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By Tony Lock, Bloor Research

IP Telephony is on the brink of becoming mainstream in both the business sector and for “personal” communications. At the forefront of much individual usage has been the solution supplied by Skype. So successful has Skype been that the company name has already started to transform into a verb — “To Skype”. However, Skype’s current pre-eminent position is now facing a serious challenge with the launch of Project Gizmo, the latest brainchild of Michael Robertson, the founder of MP3.com and Linspire. In many ways Project Gizmo at first appears to be very similar to Skype. The major difference between the two, lies in the fact that Project Gizmo has been built using an open source philosophy around the emerging SIP standards. In addition to being based on the SIP open standard, Gizmo has publicly stated that it is committed to interconnecting its IP telephony system with those operated by other organisations.

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Pepper Pad Internet Media Player

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Pepper Pad Internet Media Player

The new 2.3 lb. Pepper wireless pad from Pepper Computer is the first portable device designed specifically for all the broadband activities consumers want to do most: browse the Web, e-mail and IM with friends, listen to music, watch videos, share photos and create personal journals. Offering a far richer viewing experience than small-screen PDAs or phones and much less maintenance than complex laptops, the Pepper wireless pad is the solution that millions of broadband users really need.

With Wi-Fi networking capabilities, an easy-to-use interface, and an innovative, compact design, Pepper offers hassle-free, wireless, instant-on access to the Internet and is ready to go anytime. With Pepper’s built-in digital media libraries it is easy to keep photos, music and videos organized and searchable. Pepper’s additional applications make sharing photo albums or scrapbooks simple. The Pepper wireless pad is portable and rugged so you can use it in any room at home or away.

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