The new Apple iPod touch, announced today, includes the retina display from the iPhone 4, an Apple A4 core, 3-axis gyroscope, and FaceTime support thanks to the addition of a front cam. Engadget has live coverage (below). The rear cam is capable of HD video — but it will cost you: $229 for 8GB, $299 [...]

Starting today, you can call any phone right from Gmail, says Google, at a company press conference today. Dialing a phone number works just like a normal phone. Just click “Call phone” at the top of your chat list and dial a number or enter a contact’s name. Gmail voice and video chat uses your [...]

Business voip at the point in time of putting this article together is still a comparatively new development, although it has progressed to a position currently where it is readily accessible and inexpensive for small business VoIP systems to be implemented to create both cost savings plus extra telephone benefits for the end client.

If you operate a small business generally there are now two main VoIP phone choices that you ought to contemplate when upgrading an existing telephone system, or preparing the installation of a new one for the first instance.

(1) Hosted Business VoIP solution – Where the telephone communication base element is placed off premises with just the software telephones or IP phones situated at your workplace.

(2) Locally hosted Business VoIP communication system – This solution circles around having the IP PBX main system base unit into the actual office block, with phone terminals or soft phones linked internally.

Both of the previous options are able to provide, more than adequate telephone communications to a company, and both will tend to be rather comparable in prices if you were to look at them through a phase of 3 years or greater. To make it easier to make a side by side comparison of costs with these VoIP solutions it is best to factor in the initial upfront set up charges, i.e. hardware, system implementation, line installation expenses, telephone system training combined with the on-going month-to-month charges which consist of the telephone line rentals, call charges, VoIP seat rentals and any maintenance costs offered by the vendor.

As soon as you have calculated all of the prices it is more than likely as remarked above that you will discover the charges to be relatively similar, which would leave you with the decision of which solution is best matched to your specific organisations industry, if perhaps you are to be expected to expand rapidly then a off business premise hosted smaller VoIP solution generally allows for unlimited expansion, on the other hand if you are big on security then you may wish to opt for a VoIP telephone solution that you can host and take care of in house to be much more in charge of your system network.

As soon as a decision has been arrived at as to which communication system best fits your industry kind you will also need to bear in mind your current telephone or new phone number requirements to make sure that these can be delivered by the business VoIP provider. To end with your internal cabling requirements needs to be talked about (are you going to be using the older cabling or will a newer one be implemented) and it is subsequently simply a case of then waiting for the business VoIP solution to be commissioned, which from time of ordering should be something like 3 to 4 weeks after.

Facebook, with more friends than God, can easily add friends and send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves. Now it’s apparently adding its own geo-location service tomorrow, says All Things D. According to VentureBeat, the company changed its privacy policy in March, saying that other users could tag you [...]

e-zy.net says their EZBase 2.4GHz or 5GHz wireless base station will work 15 hours using an integrated battery backup. “The main feature of this base station, which sets it apart from any other product available on the market today, is its ability to provide 24/7 operation in areas where AC power is not 100% reliable [...]

The Federal Trade Commission and Intel announced on Wednesday that they have agreed to settle charges of anticompetitive behavior, reports the NY Times. The settlement (pdf) prohibits Intel from the practice of paying customers to buy its computer chips exclusively or to refuse to buy chips from other manufacturers. It also prohibits Intel from redesigning [...]

Peter Kafka in All Things D, says Time Inc. has been unable to get Apple to let it sell and manage subscriptions for its iPad apps — much to Time Inc.’s surprise. Last month, the publisher was set to launch a subscription version of its Sports Illustrated iPad app, where consumers would download the magazines [...]

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The highly rated BBC live internet TV service ‘iPlayer’ has had a HD makeover. Now arguably the best online TV service is available in sensational high definition initialise.

Anthony Rose. Controller of media & technology called the HD and other improvments ‘the most significant release since the service went live’. Full list of changes include:-
Improved video select
The accepted definition (SD), 1500Kbps stream has had the quality improved to one thats “pretty close to TV quality” said Rose, “as good as most Freeview channels”. The standard quality on standard viewing has been increased from 500Kbps to 800Kbps. Previously this quality was only available as a HQ (high quality) option.

Adaptive Bitrate
 Rose says the service will lower video quality in suffice to changes in vane speed while streaming and eventually the iPlayer will then be able to increase or decrease quality during the same programme if bandwidth increases.
 
iPlayer on your TV
Any security guard that has Windows Media Extender enabled television can download iPlayer programmes and watch them on the big Covert.
Larger viewing screen
After viewer suggestions and complaints, the iPlayer viewing screen is now resizable and nicer to view.

 Silicon Alley has reported that the iPod touch and iPhone will soon have a consecrate Hulu application big access to Hulu streaming videos. Hulu’s new app will be released via the iTunes app computer storage. It will operate via WiFi or 3G networks
 

Hulu has already grabbed a large slicing of the internet tv market thanks to its website filled with top tv shows and movies, but are ease not making money using PC streams. With the iPhone application, Hulu could be in front of a new audience. Attracting more advertisers to the new nomadic tv sector.
However there could be problems with a new iPhone Hulu app. AT&T may not take charitable to video streams using their data network.  No firm date has been set for release of the app, the new iPhone OS 3.0 update will however allow developers to move on streaming media into their applications. And this may be when a release date coincides.
 

Ford showcased some of its improvements on Sync this week with improved voice recognition and user friendliness. The newest version uses voice-recognition technology from Nuance that can now recognize up to 10,000 voice commands and enables drivers to talk in more complete sentences. The goal is to make nearly every function in the car voice-activated. [...]