E-gov or the Telephone?

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Panasonic Voice Over IP (VoIP) Telephone
Systems Launched Online by Telephone
Magic Inc.

Panasonic Voice Over IP (VoIP) Telephone
Systems Launched Online by Telephone
Magic Inc. 07/17/2004 03:15 AM
VoIP telephone systems are the newest development in telecommunications technology. Panasonic's VoIP PBX systems provide unique features which increase productivity and save money. [PRWEB Jul 17, 2004]

"Someone scanned in a 1940's Bell
Systems book called "How To Make Friends
By Telephone" that shows the proper
etiquette for using that new gadget, the
telephone."

"Someone scanned in a 1940's Bell
Systems book called "How To Make Friends
By Telephone" that shows the proper
etiquette for using that new gadget, the
telephone." 05/29/2004 12:07 AM

"They had dial-up music delivery in
1909Wilmington, Delaware, is enjoying a
novel service through the telephone
exchange. Phonograph music is supplied
over the wires to those subscribers who
sign up for the service. Attached to the
wall near the telephone ..."

"They had dial-up music delivery in
1909Wilmington, Delaware, is enjoying a
novel service through the telephone
exchange. Phonograph music is supplied
over the wires to those subscribers who
sign up for the service. Attached to the
wall near the telephone ..." 11/10/2003 11:14 PM

Screen Telephone Calls Over the Internet
In Real-Time - ThePhoneBOT.com
Releases New Version of Telephone
Answering Machine Software and New
Remote Client Application for Real-Time
Voicemail Screening Over Networked PCs

Screen Telephone Calls Over the Internet
In Real-Time - ThePhoneBOT.com
Releases New Version of Telephone
Answering Machine Software and New
Remote Client Application for Real-Time
Voicemail Screening Over Networked PCs 08/27/2004 01:57 PM
ThePhoneBOT.com announced today the availability of ThePhoneBOT version 4.0, the latest release of its popular web-based voicemail retrieval software. Also released today is the new PhoneBOT Remote Client application, an innovative new technology that allows users to expand the Windows-based answering machine and voicemail screening capabilities to serve multiple locations over networked PCs. Designed to replace a standard home/office answering machine or telephone company voicemail, ThePhoneBOT and PhoneBOT Remote Client software is now available for download at www.ThePhoneBOT.com [PRWEB Aug 27, 2004]

The Telephone

The Telephone 07/01/2004 03:54 PM
The Telephone

ANT is Not a Telephone 0.1.9

ANT is Not a Telephone 0.1.9 01/11/2004 09:04 AM
A telephone application for Linux, Gtk, and I4L.

PC-Telephone v5.0

PC-Telephone v5.0 02/10/2004 05:19 PM
PC-Telephone is a powerful communication software application that lets you exploit the full communication potential of the Internet, Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) and Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN). PC-Telephone makes possible to use your computer as a telephone, fax machine, voice mail and data transfer system. The Computer Telephony Integration technology implemented in PC-Telephone increases your productivity, saves your time and money and creates many positives for companies and private individuals alike. It is the first PC-based software application that integrates the regular Computer Telephony and Internet Telephony (Voice over IP) in a single user interface. [Shareware $56.00 1.08 MB]

ANT is Not a Telephone 0.1.7

ANT is Not a Telephone 0.1.7 10/31/2003 11:41 AM
A telephone application for Linux, Gtk, and I4L.

Telephone Pain

Telephone Pain 03/27/2005 03:11 AM
Dave Shea expl ains the painful choices facing Canadians who’d like a better phone. I am in exactly the same boat, except for I’m near the end of my service contract with Telus and when it lapses I am so out of there. By the way, if you get a GSM phone they’ll try to sell you one that’s locked so that when you’re in Europe you can’t put in that SIM card you bought in a grubby Brussels storefront; but I have it from reliable sources that most retailers will unlock it for a few bucks in cash money under the counter. Especially if you make it clear that the alternative is you walk out.

Zen and The Art of Telephone Manners

Zen and The Art of Telephone Manners 05/27/2004 01:43 PM

How to make friends by Telephone: Boing Boing linked to this today.

When my grandparents did some housecleaning a few years ago, they offered me this instructional booklet entitled How to make friends by Telephone and asked if I'd be interested in it. I estimate it to be from the 1940’s — it's from an era when it was still proper to capitalize Telephone...

Now, this is a neat little thing in its own right, but what's neater is the fact that technology has allowed us to do this at all. This guy has taken a relic from the past, cleaned it up, made a permanent record of it, and put it in a place where everyone can see it.

It may be very Zen-ish to think about it, but this little booklet had an effect on me and made me stop and think about communications in general.

That's cool, but cooler still is the fact that this little ray of sunshine into my day could have happened at all. God bless the Internet.

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Hanging on the telephone

Hanging on the telephone 05/15/2004 04:04 AM
In checking on Novell's support options for the last issue, I noticed what appeared to be a lot more options than I remembered. If it's been a while since you explored the various programs available, this issue of the newsletter is for you.

Telephone Inflection

Telephone Inflection 07/27/2004 04:37 PM
Just a couple of data points. I spent an hour talking to Henry Story in France this morning, he’s doing some work on BlogEd and given the obvious pain around Web authoring, maybe we should be looking closer at that. Oh, Henry and I didn’t use the telephone, that would cost money, we chatted face-to-face across eight timezones via iChat AV, which is of course free. Other telephony news: I have a Vonage phone on my office desk, and now Vonage tells me that for an additional C$12.50/month, I can get a SoftPhone< /a>. If I do, then my computer will have a phone number... that phrase somehow resonates; I don’t think I understand what it means yet. Meanwhile, Russell Beattie has been telling us about the present and near-future (1, 2, and 3) of wireless. It seems to me that the whole world-wide telephone business has been smashed into little pieces and thrown up into the air, and who can tell what it’s going to look like when it all lands.

Telephone Ads Through The Decades

Telephone Ads Through The Decades 06/24/2005 05:57 PM
classic phone ads

myinsulators.com/commokid/telephones/telephone_ads.htm
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Tablet PC telephone

Tablet PC telephone 03/20/2003 01:04 PM

Also buried in that ViewSonic announcement: an update to its V1100 Tablet PC that'll let you use it as a voice over IP over WiFi telephone via an included Bluetooth headset.
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1940s telephone manual

1940s telephone manual 05/27/2004 01:59 PM
"How to Make Friends By Telephone" is a 1940s instructional booklet on using the new telephonic device network. Here's a scanned version -- it's a hoot. Link (Thanks, Rich!)

Are telephone callers journalists?

Are telephone callers journalists? 03/14/2005 05:45 PM
Despite its having been on the table for at least six years now, this question of whether bloggers are journalists won't seem to rest, and now that the courts are getting involved, we don't have much choice but to revisit it, as Slashdot, among many others, has done today. Dan Fost's San Francisco Chronicle story provides a good summary of the issue, as Apple Computer pursues its suit to get some bloggers to reveal the sources of anonymous information they published. But the article misses the most basic distinction at work here.

A blogger is someone who uses a certain kind of tool to publish a certain kind of Web site. The label tells us nothing about how the tool is used or what is published. We went through this discussion a decade ago, when people first started asking whether Web sites were journalism. To understand this, just take the question, "Are bloggers journalists?" and reframe it in terms of previous generations of tools. "Are telephone callers journalists?" "Are typewriter users journalists?" "Are mimeograph operators journalists?" Or, most simply, "Are writers journalists?" Well, duh, sometimes! But sometimes not.

That is the only answer to the "Are bloggers journalists?" question that makes any sense. Bloggers sometimes engage in journalism, just as they sometimes engage in diary-writing, art-making, essayizing and many other forms of communication.

This answer is inconvenient, as we face the question of whether bloggers should receive the same legal protection as more conventionally defined journalists; it doesn't provide a clearcut legal rule. But, let's face it, legal protections for journalists have always involved a certain fuzziness. Since, thankfully, the U.S. government doesn't legally charter journalists -- that would be difficult to square with the First Amendment -- everyone is free to apply the label to themselves. You don't need a journalism degree, either. (I've been a journalist for three decades and I don't have one.)

You can try to define journalists by applying the filter of professionalism, by seeing whether people are actually earning a living through their journalistic work -- but then you rule out the vast population of low-paid or non-paid freelance workers, and those who are not currently making money in their writing but hope to someday. Apparently most of the existing shield laws use some version of the "you are where your paycheck comes from" definition of journalist (see Declan McCullagh over at CNET for more). That's one good reason for thinking that they might need some revision.

There's a good definition of "journalist" sitting right at the top of Jim Romenesko's journalism blog today (is pioneering blogger Romenesko a journalist?), where CNN/U.S. president Jonathan Klein says: "I define a journalist as someone who asks questions, finds out answers and communicates them to an audience." By that standard, a hefty proportion of today's bloggers qualify.

Does this vast expansion of the journalism population mean that the courts and legislatures are going to have second thoughts about protecting the confidentiality of journalists' sources? Perhaps -- and maybe those shield laws need tweaking or amendment, given the transformations underway. But any attempt to draw a narrow line around the journalism profession in order to preserve those laws is doomed to fail. There is no way to draw that line -- income level? circulation? corporate size? forget it! -- that is not ridiculous on its face.

So we're left with the pathetic spectacle of beloved Apple Computer chasing down some bloggers to find out which of its employees leaked some early peeks at product information. Apple may win, and the laws may contort themselves to exclude the vast new throngs of online journalists from the protected club. But is there any doubt that, in the long run, it's Apple's dam-building effort that's doomed? Whether protected by law or not, the teeming network of the blogosphere is not going to shut down, any more than online music file sharing could be ended by the legal campaign against Napster. In this sense, the whole "journalists or not?" debate is an irrelevant, backward-looking theological dispute.

[I wrote this post this morning but the computer that I run Radio on died for some reason, so it's going up late, and with some revisions...]

Mobile IP Telephone Calls

Mobile IP Telephone Calls 05/26/2004 01:45 PM

The Feature: VoIP Goes Mobile. VoIP is slowly moving into the mobile space, as one US company offers cellular users cheap international calls.

The portion of the telephone or cable

The portion of the telephone or cable 09/13/2004 01:36 AM
TechTree Sep 13 2004 5:40AM GMT

Jawbone Telephone Headset

Jawbone Telephone Headset 06/10/2004 07:55 AM

Wow, from the tenor of their press release you'd think these guys conquered cancer or caught a fly in some chopsticks or something, what with their 'revolutionary's and their 'radical's and their 'breakthrough's; I was all hepped up, but it turns out the Aliph Jawbone is just a telephone headset, and a wired one at that, designed to filter out background noise and provide clear voice pickup even in noisy environments like trading floors. Now if Aliph had a commercial where this long-haired muscle man cleaves through legions of Canaanites with a giant-sized version of the headset, only pausing to look at the camera, covered in gore, as he raises his oversized Jawbone headset to heaven where, panning up, we see God dialing a number (maybe eating a hoagie and he has a Jets jersey on), and then right in the middle of battle Samson gets a call on his Jawbone headset and God can totally hear him above the din of battle, well, that'd be the sort of fucking awesome that's going to sell a $150 headset, people.
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Telephone-like Skype has some
shortcomings

Telephone-like Skype has some
shortcomings 11/19/2003 11:39 PM
USA Today Nov 19 2003 11:04PM ET

Playing "Telephone" with the SBVT

Playing "Telephone" with the SBVT 08/31/2004 09:52 AM

Telephone-Lookup-Americom-0.01

Telephone-Lookup-Americom-0.01 11/18/2003 04:50 AM

Citizens not using e-gov, prefer
telephone

Citizens not using e-gov, prefer
telephone 04/07/2005 10:11 PM
DMeurope.com Apr 7 2005 10:26PM GMT

How To Make Friends on the Telephone

How To Make Friends on the Telephone 07/10/2004 03:16 PM

AOL Launches Internet Telephone Service

AOL Launches Internet Telephone Service 04/07/2005 09:30 PM
ABCNEWS.com Apr 8 2005 2:01AM GMT

Telephone-over-Internet legislation
needs dramatic changes

Telephone-over-Internet legislation
needs dramatic changes 06/19/2004 06:14 PM
“In the rush to insulate Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) telephone services from regulation, this legislation fails to consider the implications for low- and middle-income consumers who cannot afford the broadband (high-speed) Internet connections necessary for VOIP services. By exempting VOIP services from virtually all of the public interest obligations and consumer protections that apply to telecommunications services, it likely will diminish the quality and drive up the cost of basic telephone service for those who simply cannot afford to switch to broadband.”

Google Lockergnome

Ofcom intervenes in telephone 'slamming'
row

Ofcom intervenes in telephone 'slamming'
row 09/24/2004 07:38 AM
BT customer migration punch-up continues

The Bluetooth old school telephone
handset

The Bluetooth old school telephone
handset 06/21/2004 03:24 PM
Engadget Jun 21 2004 6:54PM GMT

Dear Motorola StarTac Telephone

Dear Motorola StarTac Telephone 12/04/2003 05:01 AM
Knotmag Dec 4 2003 3:17AM ET

Telephone Business Gears Up to Deliver
TV (AP)

Telephone Business Gears Up to Deliver
TV (AP) 12/22/2004 01:01 AM
AP - If everything goes as planned, the telephone industry will be all about television in 2005. TV over your home phone line. TV on your cell phone. Few topics have been as popular this past year among phone companies and their technology partners.

AOL Launches Internet Telephone Service
(AP)

AOL Launches Internet Telephone Service
(AP) 04/07/2005 10:26 PM
AP - America Online Inc. on Thursday launched its Internet telephone service, jumping into a market that's already crowded with startups, cable operators and even traditional phone companies.

BT cuts cost of telephone calls

BT cuts cost of telephone calls 06/30/2004 10:44 PM
The main UK residential telephone service provider scraps its standard rate charge for customers.

PC invites EoIs for Telephone Industries

PC invites EoIs for Telephone Industries 04/24/2004 07:56 PM
DAWN Group Apr 24 2004 11:41PM GMT

Yahoo Links with BT to Offer IM
Telephone Calls

Yahoo Links with BT to Offer IM
Telephone Calls 07/15/2004 10:19 AM
"...launched a new service on Thursday allowing users to make phone calls over Yahoo Inc's instant messenger product...."

Will your cell phone number be in a
telephone directory soon!

Will your cell phone number be in a
telephone directory soon! 07/04/2004 03:55 AM

Apparently some of the biggest names in the cell business want to publish your cell phone number in a national directory. I am not so sure that I want everyone in the country to have access to my cell phone number. I am sure that this is going to get squashed before it see's the light of day but who knows. [Dan Gillmor]

The Mobile Phone Is Killing The Red
Telephone Booth In The UK

The Mobile Phone Is Killing The Red
Telephone Booth In The UK 06/22/2004 02:02 PM
While there have been plenty of stories about how mobile phones are killing off payphones, nowhere is such a story as upsetting to people as in the UK, where the distinctive red telephone booths are quickly disappearing, making it more and more difficult for tourists to get a picture in front of one. While there are a variety of reasons for the removal of such phone booths, including accessibility problems for the disabled, the main reason is simply that they're increasingly obsolete when everyone has a mobile phone. Of course, this is leading to a brisk business in reselling the phone booths for collectors who are turning them into lawn ornaments, conversation pieces, or even as part of a home bar.

Sprint's Gary Forsee on the telephone
industry

Sprint's Gary Forsee on the telephone
industry 06/27/2004 06:22 AM
Boston Globe Jun 27 2004 11:00AM GMT

Telephone-Computer Integration Made
Easier

Telephone-Computer Integration Made
Easier 07/25/2004 08:56 PM
For the last few days I've been completely enthralled with the latest version of Phone Valet from Parliant. I've been using Phone Valet with my home automation system for some time now, and I've grown to depend on its ability to announce calls when I'm at home, and automatically forward Caller ID information to my cell phone's email account when I'm away.

Assisted Living Facilities: New
Telephone Technology

Assisted Living Facilities: New
Telephone Technology 09/16/2004 03:12 AM
VoIP technology gives assisted living facilities a low cost, no hassle option for resident phone service. [PRWEB Sep 16, 2004]
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