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The H.264 codec patent by Qualcomm has been ruled invalid by a San Diego Federal jury: http://www.eetimes.com/news/semi/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=197001066 . That means that H.264 codecs can now be written, distributed and revised freely under any license their authors choose, including GPL, public domain, or any other, and $free now that royalties are no longer required. How does H.264 compare with GSM and G.729 in CPU dem...

Here's t link: http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=JUEFVG ENEA01YQSNDBCCKH0CJUMEKJVN?articleID=165702588 The bottom line is that they compare retail VOIP providers like Comcast Cable, Time-Warner Cable, AT&T, Vonage, Packet8 et al. Their methodology seems sound. Their conclusion is that retail VOIP services don't yet match...

Hey, just came across this article. http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=ZLCZZJMVGJYNYQSNDLSCKHA?articleID=201202250 . Many of you would be already aware of this. It mentions flac also. i feel it is a good segment(stereo wireless headsets over bluetooth) to push flac given very light decoder and using encoder at low compression(to reduce complexity). T...

The Skype network is circulating a virus that has appeared there before: http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=198500135 . The virus sends a URL to other Skype users in the infected user's contacts, which the target Skype displays as clickable. Clicking downloads the virus. Asterisk supports features like these, in combination with certain clients (which aren't themselves Asterisk),...

...ent of silence for the death of responsible journalism. Silence.....................good enough. This article goes on to tell about Pingtel's announcement of forming the "first open source community aimed at creating SIP based servers". http://www.networkmagazine.com/shared/article/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=18 900066&classroom= Yipeeeeeee! I am embarrassed and appalled with the lack of recognition or mention of all the tremendous work in this "already existing community". I'm writing a letter to the editor and encourage all of you to do the same. Send your comment...

Any thoughts on articles like this one - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/21/microsoft_goes_open/. This mentions the Vista API, but I wonder about earlier API's. I also saw something the other day about source code for .Net being released as a "learning tool". Of course, all of this is in a bid to get Office XML approved as an ISO standard. They don't just give stuff away

Hope this isn't too far OT, but its relevant to us. From isn.attrition.org >http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=20300851 > >By W. David Gardner >TechWeb News >May 13, 2004 > >As voice over IP sweeps across the high-tech landscape, many IT >managers are being lulled into a dangerous complacency because they >look upon Internet phoning as a relatively secure technology--...

...qwest.com> Date: Jun 16, 2006 8:53 AM Subject: FW: Ajax used for the Yamanner virus To: Bakki Kudva <bakki.kudva@gmail.com> FYI _____________________________________________ Hi Guys, A first! for the pitfalls of Ajax, if used indiscriminately: http://www.informationweek.com/security/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=189400799 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo Mail Worm May Be First Of Many As Ajax Proliferates Companies are quickly embracing Ajax and related techniques for Web applications. Expect more security problems like the Yaman...

Analyst wisdom, aka space-filler, should be taken with a sack of salt. But it may amuse :-) http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/operatingsystems/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=212903501 - d.

I have two phones, one does not need stun, the other one needs. All settings are identically, except the number/password and said above stun - not stun I use codec in the order: g729 g711u g711a Any ideas, why the user can hear me, but I cannot hear him (stun) while the other user without stun has no problem. bye Ronald

anyone know of a solution where mobile handsets out roaming the pstn cellular network can be used and treated as full fleged centrex extentions, i.e. I can transfer a call that comes in on a wired centrex copper pair out to a cell phone and the cell phone can transfer the call back or vice versa where the cell phone recieves the call directly and can transfer to the office all without hairpinning

Here are a few sentences from a Sept. 17, 2004 article in th EETimes. http://www.eetimes.com/sys/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=47900195 ******************** begin excerpts ************************ Victor Company of Japan, Ltd. (JVC) will use Microdrive CompactFlash-sized cards with a 1-inch hard-disk drive in its digital video cameras. The camera will be capable of recording one hour of DVD-quality video....

Hi, Sorry for maybe not a very list related topic, but I have always been curious if there is information on how many Asterisk based PBXs are operating Worldwide? Thanks and hope the community will not reject my curiosity! :) Best Regards, Vallu Sevana Oy -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: