Net Phone Calls Must Be Able to Be Tapped - FCC (Reuters)

Grok Headline matches for Net Phone Calls Must Be Able to Be Tapped - FCC (Reuters)

Pay To Have Your Phone Tapped

Pay To Have Your Phone Tapped 08/15/2004 07:07 PM

FCC Says Net Phone Lines Can Be Tapped

FCC Says Net Phone Lines Can Be Tapped 08/04/2004 10:07 PM

Qwest Drops Access Fees for Internet
Phone Calls (Reuters)

Qwest Drops Access Fees for Internet
Phone Calls (Reuters) 04/26/2004 05:24 PM
Reuters - Qwest Communications International Inc. (Q.N) said on Monday it would no longer levy connection fees on calls made to customers on its network from Internet phone services.

Iowa phone company tries to block
incoming cell phone calls

Iowa phone company tries to block
incoming cell phone calls 08/16/2004 05:48 PM
Iowa phone company plans to block cell phone call in a dispute with wireless carriers. The Iowa Utilities Board has prevented the plan for now.

Cell Phone Users Interrupt Sex for Phone
Calls

Cell Phone Users Interrupt Sex for Phone
Calls 04/11/2005 08:07 PM
user survey reported

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Local Dallas, TX Auto Dealer Receives
800 Phone Calls in One Day After
Featuring Vanity 800 Phone Number in
Radio and Television Jingles

Local Dallas, TX Auto Dealer Receives
800 Phone Calls in One Day After
Featuring Vanity 800 Phone Number in
Radio and Television Jingles 06/05/2005 11:17 PM
Empire Suzuki opened in the Dallas market in November 2004. In February 2005, Empire Suzuki launched their ad campaign featuring a vanity toll-free phone number, 1-800-NEW-RIDE in a jingle – written by Tom Georgalis, owner of Empire Suzuki. Within six weeks the dealership received over 5,500 calls, with an all time high of over 800 calls in a single day. Speak with Tom Georgalis, owner of Empire Suzuki, about his recent business success in Dallas. [PRWEB Jun 2, 2005]

FCC: Web phone calls must allow wiretaps

FCC: Web phone calls must allow wiretaps 08/04/2004 03:22 PM
MSNBC Aug 4 2004 6:41PM GMT

FCC to look at how to regulate Net phone
calls

FCC to look at how to regulate Net phone
calls 11/07/2003 10:00 AM
SiliconValley.com Nov 7 2003 9:25AM ET

U.S. To Regulate Web Phone Calls?

U.S. To Regulate Web Phone Calls? 12/02/2003 09:51 AM
CBS News Dec 2 2003 9:03AM ET

Add Video to Phone Calls Without a PC

Add Video to Phone Calls Without a PC 01/03/2005 09:45 PM
Arab News Jan 4 2005 1:26AM GMT

FCC Considering Rules for Internet Phone
Calls

FCC Considering Rules for Internet Phone
Calls 11/07/2003 04:23 AM
Los Angeles Times Nov 7 2003 3:05AM ET

FCC to write rules for Net phone calls

FCC to write rules for Net phone calls 02/13/2004 02:03 AM
Boston Globe Feb 13 2004 6:48AM GMT

Device Allows Internet Calls from Any
Phone

Device Allows Internet Calls from Any
Phone 04/16/2005 09:38 PM

Will FCC Regulate Internet Phone Calls?

Will FCC Regulate Internet Phone Calls? 12/02/2003 01:50 AM

FCC to Look Into Regulating Phone Calls
Over Internet

FCC to Look Into Regulating Phone Calls
Over Internet 12/05/2003 11:26 AM
CRM Assist Dec 5 2003 9:37AM ET

FCC Will Not Regulate Internet Phone
Calls

FCC Will Not Regulate Internet Phone
Calls 02/13/2004 12:43 AM
NewsMax.com Feb 13 2004 4:45AM GMT

Untangling Internet Phone Calls

Untangling Internet Phone Calls 04/30/2004 07:37 AM
ABCNEWS.com Apr 30 2004 12:13PM GMT

Web ads try to convert clicks into phone
calls

Web ads try to convert clicks into phone
calls 06/07/2004 06:51 PM
International Herald Tribune,France-41 minutes agoMarketers have created the Google empire by paying the company every time consumers click on an ad. Imagine how much advertisers ...

Skype goes server-less for Net phone
calls

Skype goes server-less for Net phone
calls 07/26/2004 09:37 PM
SkypeOut lets Net phone users place calls to traditional phone networks for about two cents a minute.

Coming soon... phone calls over the
Internet

Coming soon... phone calls over the
Internet 09/25/2004 11:53 AM
IOL: Independent Online Sep 25 2004 2:27PM GMT

Three phone calls that form a loop...

Three phone calls that form a loop... 06/22/2005 02:24 AM

So I'm standing in the bar after Cal's awesome event yesterday and my phone tells me that I have a voice mail. I find somewhere relatively quiet and try and listen to it - it's the people from Traceline ringing me up. They've left one of those utterly aggravating messages that sounds kind of urgent and alarming and downbeat but don't tell you anything so you're left to suspect the worse. Something like, "{Sigh} Mr Coates, I'm ringing from Traceline. {Sigh / Sympathetic noise} I'm ringing regarding your attempt to find your father. {Serious face inferred, maybe eyebrow action of some kind, perhaps a solitary tear} If you could ring me back I'll go into lurid details about how your absent father that you've not seen since you were four has been ground up by some kind of articulated sausagemeat machine after slipping on a patch of lard literally ten seconds after hearing you were looking for him." The whole last section is what's going on in my head, anyway. Then they leave a phone number in the UK at an insane staccato rhythm and hang up. Five attempts to get the number written down later, it decides to delete itself.

This kind of throws me for a loop. Is he dead? Are they ringing up to tell me that he's dead? Why else would they be so apparently evasive and sympathetic on the phone. I think about the time difference - they're now asleep and won't be awake until I'm asleep. I go out for Mexican food and try and put it out of my mind. They make Guacamole at the table. I have a Margarita-fueled microfight with a guy from Technorati about Microformats.

We wind the reel on and suddenly it's 4am PST and I'm asleep on Leslie's sofa and my mobile rings - it's the lady from Traceline. She's not at all apocalyptic now - evidently she had been a bit tired in the earlier phone call. Poor love. I become increasingly clear that Traceline should fire people who get moody when they've not had enough biscuits rather than let them take it out on the people to whom they're delivering news about lost/dead relatives. But that's another story. In the meantime, she has news and it's ... irritating. They've found someone who matches the sparse data that I was able to provide them with - they don't know his middle name, but he has the initial 'J' - and they're keen to get more information so that they can better assess if this is the right guy or not. Specifically they want to know his mother's maiden name. Unfortunately, I have no more information at all that I can provide. They agree to send me some details of the person they've found. I put down the phone. It's 4.05am.

New reactions - is this the right guy? What if it's not the right guy? Is this crap ever going to end? Why can't it be easy? Should I ring my mother and see if she knows his mother's maiden name after all? How the hell do I write a letter to someone who might be my father? This whole enterprise sucks - the whole point was that it would be the right guy and that if he was alive I could write to him and say what I needed to say and then even if he didn't reply at least I'd know he'd read it. At least I'd know he was alive. This whole vague bullshit - "Dear Mr Coates, I think you might be my birth father. Course you might not. Are you? Um. Love, your son? I think?" - what the crap is that about... That's no good at all.

4.15am, I decide to ring my mother. My little brother answers. I miss my little brother. I don't think he knows I'm doing any of this. No one in my family reads my weblog, anyway. My mother appears to be out, so I leave a sleepy message with him that doesn't mention any of the parental stuff.

And what I realise afterwards is that all in fact it did say was that it was 4am, I'm in the States, I sound a bit sad and I didn't leave a message. What I have done, in fact, is leave one of those utterly aggravating messages that sounds kind of urgent and alarming and downbeat but don't tell you anything so you're left to suspect the worse. I now imagine my mother getting home and sitting nervously by the phone trying to work out if I've been ground up by some kind of articulated sausage machine after slipping on a patch of lard. And of course she could ring me, but she won't...

Q&A: How do Internet phone calls work

Q&A: How do Internet phone calls work 12/12/2003 06:50 AM
USA Today Dec 12 2003 6:19AM ET

Minn. can't control Internet phone calls

Minn. can't control Internet phone calls 12/30/2004 08:42 AM
Pittsburghlive.com - Thu Dec 30, 08:46 am GMT

Nigerian Worried Phone Calls May Kill
Them

Nigerian Worried Phone Calls May Kill
Them 07/19/2004 02:51 PM
An urban legend is making its way around Nigeria that has many people afraid to answer their phones. Apparently, a large number of people actually believe that picking up phone calls from specific numbers will kill them immediately. A list of phone numbers is being circulated, and it must suck if you actually have one of those phone numbers. The mobile phone operators in the country have been trying to get the message out that this is untrue, but apparently it's not traveling too well (one imagines the message is not being passed along via phone calls).

Phone calls via Internet don't always
ring the bell

Phone calls via Internet don't always
ring the bell 02/14/2004 04:57 AM
Seattle Times Feb 14 2004 9:12AM GMT

Internet Phone Calls Could Squeeze
Prices

Internet Phone Calls Could Squeeze
Prices 12/12/2003 04:34 AM
Investors Business Daily Dec 12 2003 3:57AM ET

PocketMac HoldIt! pauses Mac for phone
calls

PocketMac HoldIt! pauses Mac for phone
calls 02/05/2005 09:19 PM
Information Appliance Associates on Friday released PocketMac HoldIt!, a utility that senses an incoming phone call and stops or pauses iTunes, DVD Player or El Gato's eyeTV, or simply mutes the computer's sound, runs an AppleScript or displays a warning. It can also run some or all of those actions simultaneously when the phone rings. Users plug a phone line into their Mac's modem port and run the US$12.95 application to get started. Mac OS X v10.3 is required.

New E911 Service May Actually Delay
Phone Calls To 911

New E911 Service May Actually Delay
Phone Calls To 911 06/17/2004 05:16 AM
There's been an ongoing struggle to get the various wireless carriers to offer E911 functionality, so that police can quickly determine the location of a caller. However, a glitch in the way Verizon Wireless set up their E911 system means that some callers may experience a series of two second delays when calling 911 as the phone tries to pinpoint the callers location. As you might imagine, a two second delay on an emergency call can be quite a lot. The problem is unlikely to happen in most situations - only in cases where it's difficult for the GPS to get a read on the location. However, that probably isn't too comforting to the few people it will impact. Verizon is working to fix the problem. Sprint is quoted as saying they fixed this same problem last year, so it's obviously not a new issue. This seems like the type of issue you would try to solve as early as possible.

Feds want to eavesdrop on Internet phone
calls

Feds want to eavesdrop on Internet phone
calls 04/25/2004 05:50 AM
SiliconValley.com Apr 25 2004 10:31AM GMT

Photo: Firefly phone calls on kids

Photo: Firefly phone calls on kids 04/14/2005 09:37 AM
The Firefly phone is small and simple--with just five keys to make and accept all calls.

FCC to look at how to regulate phone
calls made over the Internet

FCC to look at how to regulate phone
calls made over the Internet 11/06/2003 07:26 PM
San Francisco Chronicle Nov 6 2003 6:27PM ET

FCC Eyes Regulating Internet Phone Calls

FCC Eyes Regulating Internet Phone Calls 11/06/2003 07:26 PM
SiliconValley.com Nov 6 2003 6:06PM ET

Teen Gets Prime Minister's Phone Calls

Teen Gets Prime Minister's Phone Calls 07/30/2004 03:51 PM
Recycling of phone numbers is not a new thing. My home phone, for instance, used to be the phone number for the local social security office, apparently. I get a fairly frequent stream of calls (even if I've had the number for many years already) from people trying to reach social security. Nowadays, the problem tends to come from recycling of mobile phone numbers. There was the well-publicized story of Chris Rock's old mobile phone number going to some woman. In the UK, there are problems with people receiving expensive premium SMS services they never ordered, but which were set up by the previous owner of the same number. Now, in Norway, a 16-year-old girl is receiving phone calls meant for the country's Prime Minister, after he ditched his mobile number, and it was recycled to her. How often do you get to say "sorry, wrong number," to leaders around the world?

FCC eyes regulating Internet phone calls

FCC eyes regulating Internet phone calls 11/06/2003 08:32 PM
SiliconValley.com Nov 6 2003 7:34PM ET

Qwest to forgo link-up fee for some Web
phone calls

Qwest to forgo link-up fee for some Web
phone calls 04/27/2004 06:03 AM
Seattle Times Apr 27 2004 9:45AM GMT

Notes and Tips: Apple Phone Calls

Notes and Tips: Apple Phone Calls 04/16/2004 10:28 AM
Readers discuss their experiences with Apple phone solicitation.

Bangladesh dials up Internet phone calls

Bangladesh dials up Internet phone calls 11/11/2003 09:10 PM
Jang Group Nov 11 2003 7:51PM ET

Teachers' union calls for camera phone
ban

Teachers' union calls for camera phone
ban 12/24/2003 06:36 AM
vnunet.com Dec 24 2003 6:07AM ET

EC says online phone calls 'must be
regulated'

EC says online phone calls 'must be
regulated' 03/19/2005 02:27 AM
European Voice Mar 18 2005 5:26AM GMT
Grok Description matches for Net Phone Calls Must Be Able to Be Tapped - FCC (Reuters)
GrokA matches for Net Phone Calls Must Be Able to Be Tapped - FCC (Reuters)

New: Vonage SoftPhone for Mac OS X

New: Vonage SoftPhone for Mac OS X 06/28/2004 09:54 AM
Vonage released a Mac OS X version of its SoftPhone software for use with its Voice Over IP telephone service.

Vonage softphone

Vonage softphone 12/19/2003 04:58 PM
Have been trying out the Vonage softphone with some success. My Laptop (IBM T40), like most, has built in speakers...

Vonage SoftPhone for OS X coming

Vonage SoftPhone for OS X coming 06/18/2004 02:14 PM
Vonage is expected to release the final version of its SoftPhone client for Mac OS X next week, according to VoIP Daily...

Vonage offers Xten X-PRO SoftPhone for
OS X users

Vonage offers Xten X-PRO SoftPhone for
OS X users 06/24/2004 10:08 AM
Broadband telephony service provider Vonage on Thursday announced that it's providing an OEM version of Xten Networks' X-PRO SIP SoftPhone for Mac OS X-based Vonage subscribers. The software enables Vonage subscribers to send and receive telephone calls with their computers using Voice over IP (VoIP) technology. SoftPhone support is an add-on service for users who already have a Vonage account -- accounts start at US$14.99 per month.

Texas Vonage suit: here's what Vonage is
'guilty' of

Texas Vonage suit: here's what Vonage is
'guilty' of 03/23/2005 02:29 AM
ZDNet Mar 23 2005 6:18AM GMT

Broadband Surf Report: Vonage and more
Vonage

Broadband Surf Report: Vonage and more
Vonage 03/30/2005 04:55 PM
Blog: Our daily look at telecom news around the Web: Vonage defends manually activated 911 calling--eWeek ...

Kiax - an IAX Softphone

Kiax - an IAX Softphone 04/13/2005 02:59 PM
Kiax 0.8.4 comes!

Xten Announces New eyeBeam SIP
Softphone.

Xten Announces New eyeBeam SIP
Softphone. 06/25/2004 07:08 PM
Xten Announces New eyeBeam SIP Softphone. "The eyeBeam feature set includes all of the robust SIP telephony features expected from Xten, plus H.263 and H.264 IP video conferencing, CDMA cellular network support and a host of new IP telephony features."

Xten announces new SIP SoftPhone called
eyeBeam

Xten announces new SIP SoftPhone called
eyeBeam 06/25/2004 01:33 PM
Xten has announced its newest Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) SoftPhone, eyebeam, which, like other SoftPhone software previously released by the company, will turn your Mac into a phone that can place and receive calls via Voice-Over IP (VoIP), a protocol that carries voice data over the Internet. An OEM version of the company's X-PRO SIP SoftPhone was just made available to Vonage subscribers who use Mac OS X, as reported by MacCentral on Thursday. eyeBeam SoftPhone will offer H.263 and H.264 IP video conferencing, CDMA cellular network support and such telephony features as instant messaging and encryption. Xten is currently demonstrating the new product at Supercomm 2004 and will soon make a Beta release available to select partners, with the commercial roll-out slated for October. eyeBeam will be Mac OS X compatible, but the company hasn't released system requirements and pricing yet, nor had it placed a product page on its Web site as MacCentral posted this article.

Xten Announces Private Beta of "eyeBeam"
Video SIP Softphone.

Xten Announces Private Beta of "eyeBeam"
Video SIP Softphone. 08/19/2004 09:09 PM
Xten Announces Private Beta of "eyeBeam" Video SIP Softphone.

Kapanga© Integrates Fax, MP3 Recording
and Real-time VoIP Quality Monitoring in
Just One Softphone

Kapanga© Integrates Fax, MP3 Recording
and Real-time VoIP Quality Monitoring in
Just One Softphone 04/13/2005 04:26 AM
Kapanga Softphone features unique capabilities for both end-users and telecommunications companies and delivers integrated voice, fax and video over IP in one easy-to-use software application. [PRWEB Apr 13, 2005]

Tapped In

Tapped In 06/30/2004 06:02 AM
Tapped In
http://ti2.sri.com/tappedin/
The online workplace of an international community of education professionals. K-12 teachers, librarians, administrators, and professional development staff, as well as university faculty, students, and researchers gather here to learn, collaborate, share, and support one another. This will be added to Educational and Distance Learning Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide.

IBM tapped for U.S. Army supercomputer

IBM tapped for U.S. Army supercomputer 08/03/2004 09:03 AM
The U.S. Army has tapped IBM Corp. to provide a high-performance computing system using Opteron processors from Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD), in a project that aims to create one of the fastest supercomputers in the world.

Dasani Tapped Out of Europe

Dasani Tapped Out of Europe 04/09/2004 04:00 PM
A cancer scare in the U.K. compels Coca-Cola to delay introducing Dasani water to Europe.

No VC in sight? This man tapped his
blood

No VC in sight? This man tapped his
blood 02/01/2005 09:26 PM
With his software start-up unable to land funding in America, Rick Bolin headed to Northern Ireland, where his family's roots lie.

Central tapped for online course

Central tapped for online course 07/05/2004 06:09 AM
Twincities.com - Mon Jul 5, 09:19 am GMT

Australian tapped for top job at ICANN

Australian tapped for top job at ICANN 03/19/2003 10:26 PM
Paul Twomey will be the first non-U.S. citizen to head the global Internet oversight body, which handles global Internet domain name administration, IP address allocation and root name server operation.

47,000 more GIs tapped for year in Iraq

47,000 more GIs tapped for year in Iraq 05/04/2004 03:24 PM

IBM tapped for Army supercomputer

IBM tapped for Army supercomputer 08/03/2004 05:47 PM
The U.S. Army picked IBM to provide a high-performance computing system in a project intended to create one of the fastest supercomputers in the world.

TAPPED: July 2004 Archives

TAPPED: July 2004 Archives 07/31/2004 12:10 AM
TAPPED

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TAPPED: June 2004 Archives

TAPPED: June 2004 Archives 06/18/2004 02:48 PM
raises the point that I was going to make .. Matthew Yglesias .. theory

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Microsoft antitrust prosecutor tapped as
new FTC head

Microsoft antitrust prosecutor tapped as
new FTC head 05/12/2004 02:20 PM
U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chairman Timothy Muris announced his resignation Tuesday, saying he will step down mid-year as head of the agency in charge of enforcing a variety of antitrust and consumer-protection laws.

Rebuilding Aid Unspent, Tapped to Pay
Expenses (washingtonpost.com)

Rebuilding Aid Unspent, Tapped to Pay
Expenses (washingtonpost.com) 04/30/2004 12:37 AM
washingtonpost.com - Seven months after Congress approved the largest foreign aid package in history to rebuild Iraq, less than 5 percent of the $18.4 billion has been spent and occupation officials have begun shifting more than $300 million earmarked for reconstruction projects to administrative and security expenses.

Two Anti-Kerry Vets Tapped for VA Panel
(AP)

Two Anti-Kerry Vets Tapped for VA Panel
(AP) 09/03/2004 08:08 PM
AP - Two former Vietnam prisoners of war who appear in ads attacking Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry were appointed by the Bush administration to a panel advising the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Phaze-9 Corporation Tapped to Increase
Awareness of DC Engineering

Phaze-9 Corporation Tapped to Increase
Awareness of DC Engineering 07/08/2004 12:04 PM
DC Engineering, a construction project management and engineering company that specializes in clean rooms, today announced that it has chosen Phaze-9 Corporation, Silicon Valley’s foremost advertising agency, to lead its public relations efforts and build a greater awareness of the firm, both regionally and nationally. With offices in San Jose, the firm has provided construction project management services to leading and start-up semiconductor, nanotechnology and biotechnology companies within Silicon Valley and beyond. [PRWEB Jul 3, 2004]

Microsoft Testers Tapped for 'Vienna'
Communications Server

Microsoft Testers Tapped for 'Vienna'
Communications Server 05/04/2004 07:37 PM

Borman Tapped To Fill Vacated IBM
Software Post

Borman Tapped To Fill Vacated IBM
Software Post 01/05/2005 03:10 AM
Computer Reseller News Jan 5 2005 7:26AM GMT

Net Phone Calls Must Be Able to Be Tapped - FCC (Reuters)