Hometown Transit Employs GPS And Cameras June 24, 2006
After a spate of attacks against bus drivers in recent years, the one-time very quiet town I grew up in has decided to install cameras on board buses for the safety of both drivers and passengers. Local transit is also testing GPS technology to offer citizens the ability to find out when a bus will arrive at their stop - by phoning in or checking a website.
I’ve talked about my town’s sucky bus service. They once had a system to call in and find out when the next bus would arrive. But it was an approximation and ultimately became useless …
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Travel Agency VoIP Applications June 14, 2006
Consider: You’re planning a trip to Europe and you’re going to be joined there by a friend who will be travelling through Asia ahead of you. How do you sync up with each other without paying exorbitant cell phone or satellite phone costs?
Why, through VoIP and/or Skype, of course. Imagine being able to connect up directly with your friend through your VoIP-enabled phone, right from the travel agency. If you can touch base with your travelling friend, it makes it so much easier to make last-minute travel plans - something that’s still possible with regular mobile phones, but …
Roll Your Own VoIP Service June 13, 2006
Want to be a VoIP provider and achieve fame, fortune and fast cars? Well, maybe not all of that. But if you’re interested in joining what will probably a group of thousands of small- to medium-sized VoIP providers the world over, SkyVoIP will give you the necessary equipment for $499.95/m, plus a few other charges.
US calls are only 2 cents/minute. You have to have 786 DIDs ($5 each), but you can also pay $10 for other area codes. The monthly rate includes 100 extensions, and you can set up your own minute plans for customers, and determine …
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Municipal Wi-Fi Setbacks - MobilePro Quits Sacramento Project June 10, 2006
Apparently the city of Sacramento wants to set up a public free Wi-Fi network whose cost is completely supported by advertising. The project was only at the RFP (Request For Proposal) stage and MobilePro, who won the bid to work on it, did not think the city’s demand was feasible. MobilePro is still involved in other municipal Wi-Fi projects around the US.
Other municipalities have been questioning whether municipal Wi-Fi (that is, free) is financially feasible, or whether they should just stick to regular (paid) city-wide Wi-Fi networks. MobilePro’s view suggests that since such networks cannot be fully advertising-supported, …
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VoIP Summaries - Tues Jun-06-2006 June 6, 2006
Here are some VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) news summaries for Tues, Jun 6, 2006: VoIP is spreading in terms of the number of countries using it or planning to.
- Mobile users in the Czech Republic (CR) will be getting VoIP services by the end of summer. [via Czech Business]
- The Australian Federal Police have built a VoIP infrastructure and are now building applications. [via IT World Canada; free registration may be required]
- VoIP is proving of interest in developing countries such as India, China, and parts of Africa.
- The Australian Communications Industry Forum (ACIF) has accepted AVoIPA …
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Unwired - News About GPS, Wi-Fi, RFID, Bluetooth - Jun-01-2006 June 1, 2006
Here are some summaries related to wireless technologies (GPS, Wi-Fi, RFID, Bluetooth) for Jun 1, 2006:
- Qualcomm recently announced a single chip - the first of its kind - that handles three different mobile TV broadcast standards, including FLO, DVB-H, and ISDB-T [via Wireless IQ] With a growing number of cellular providers offering streaming TV on mobile phones, Qualcomm will have a definite edge over other manufacturers. Qualcomm’s share price has been increasing steadily over the past year, with a few minor dips.
- As small as the circuitry in RFID tags has become, printed circuits open …
