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TELECOM Digest Fri, 8 Apr 2005 13:25:00 EDT Volume 24 : Issue 151
Inside This Issue: Editor: Patrick A. Townson
Internet Phone Service Looks Like Next Big Thing (Jack Decker)
PSP Embraced by DIY Technicians | BBC NEWS | Technology (David Chessler)
The Truth About Toothing (Monty Solomon)
Alcatel's COO to Resign (Telecom dailyLead from USTA)
Re: Telemarketing to Cellphones (DevilsPGD)
Re: Telemarketing to Cellphones (Joseph)
Re: Harrasing Annoying Ex Boyfriend Phone Calls CALLER ID (Justin Time)
Re: Harrasing Annoying Ex Boyfriend Phone Calls CALLER ID (Sean Weintz)
Re: Philly Reveals Wireless Plan (David B. Horvath, CCP)
Re: USB to RJ-45 Console Cable? (Neal McLain)
Re: Google Maps (Steve Sobol)
Re: Sperm - Not so Mobile (T. Sean Weintz)
Re: Question on Caller ID on Panasonic KX-TA624 (eljainc@ameritech.net)
Re: VoIP Adapter With High REN? (Isaiah Beard)
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From: Jack Decker <jack-yahoogroups@withheld_on_request>
Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2005 12:00:47 -0400
Subject: Internet Phone Service Looks Like Next Big Thing
http://www.freep.com/money/tech/mwendland8e_20050408.htm
BY MIKE WENDLAND
FREE PRESS COLUMNIST
If there's any one tech trend that's marked this year so far, it has
to be the use of the Internet to make and receive telephone calls.
Voice over Internet Protocol, or VoIP (pronounced VOIP), is growing so
fast that it's almost overwhelming. In fact, I think it's a safe bet
to predict it's how a great many of us will soon be making most of our
telephone calls from home -- and maybe work, too.
The big news this week regarding VoIP was Thursday's announcement by
America Online of its new Internet Phone Service, rolled out in 40
cities across the country, including Detroit. I've been testing it
since midweek and will have a full review in Tuesday's Free Press.
Full story at:
http://www.freep.com/money/tech/mwendland8e_20050408.htm
How to Distribute VoIP Throughout a Home:
http://michigantelephone.mi.org/distribute.html
If you live in Michigan, subscribe to the MI-Telecom group:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MI-Telecom/
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Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 23:07:51 -0400
From: David Chessler <chessler@usa.net>
Subject: PSP Embraced by DIY Technicians | BBC NEWS | Technology
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4420745.stm
http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/mpapps/pagetools/print/news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4420745.stm
DIY software and hardware experts have been quick to embrace Sony's
PlayStation Portable console.
A glut of "homebrew" features for the device have already been released,
many of which were not part of Sony's official plans for the machine.
The PSP is a handheld console, which has wireless capabilities, and can
play music as well as video games.
Tools for web browsing and online chat are among the first to appear since
the console launched in the US and Japan.
The developments are not sanctioned by Sony but the firm has not
commented on the homebrew tools.
Messaging platform
The $249 (=A3130) PSP handheld video game player went on sale in the
United States on 24 March and within 24 hours one man had a working
client for Internet Relay Chat (IRC), an older online messaging
platform.
"I was on IRC, and someone mentioned how cool it would be to use their
PSP on wi-fi at Starbucks to talk to people over IRC. I said, 'I can
do that', so I began working on it immediately," said Robert Balousek,
creator of PSPIRC in an e-mail interview with news agency Reuters.
Mr Balousek said about 100,000 people had visited the IRC client, and
he is starting work on a new project that would let PSP users chat on
the AOL Instant Messenger network.
Hacking new video game hardware is not new but the speed at which
people have started to produce their own applications for the PSP is
impressive.
Other "hacks" include a way to transfer TV shows recorded by the Tivo
digital video recorder to the PSP, a program for reading e-books and a
viewer for comics downloaded from the internet.
Racing game
While many of the tools are probably in development by Sony in an
official sense, some PSP owners just could not wait to get started.
Much of the new PSP functionality comes from using the web browser
built into the racing game Wipeout Pure, which was meant to go to a
Sony site.
By changing some of the PSP's network settings, the browser can be
pointed to an internet portal.
A number of people have already set up such portals, formatted to fit
in the PSP's screen and offering links and a place to enter web
addresses.
Other "hacks" include getting the PSP to play all games wirelessly
over the internet and playing multiplayer games with only one copy of
the game.
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/technology/4420745.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4378661.stm
http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/mpapps/pagetools/print/news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4378661.stm
Sony PSP handheld console hits US
The latest handheld gaming gadget, Sony's PlayStation Portable, goes on
sale in the US on Thursday.
The entertainment device, which also stores images, music and video, is
intended to compete with Nintendo's DS, released earlier this month in the
UK.
Gamers have been queuing outside shops across the US to get their hands on
the gadget, which costs $250 (about =A3132).
The first million sold will come with the Spider-Man 2 film on UMD,
Sony's own disc format for the device.
The PSP can be linked up with others for multiplayer gaming, via a wireless
connection.
Sony has touted the machine as the Walkman of the 21st Century and has
sold more than 800,000 units in Japan since its launch there last
year.
But it faces stiff competition from the Nintendo DS, which sold more
than the GameCube in its first few days on release in Europe.
It too allows for multiplayer gaming over the air. Nintendo dominates
the handheld market, with more than a 90% share of the market in the
US alone.
The Gizmondo combined media player, phone and gaming gadget also went
on sale in the UK last week. It hopes to take a share of the handheld
gaming market too.
'Few months' for Europe
"The story of the PSP is it's not a gaming device as much as it is a
portable entertainment device," said Michael Pachter, analyst at
Wedbush Morgan Securities.
He told the Reuters news agency that he expected Sony to sell about 10
million PSPs in enough time to rival Apple's iPod.
There is no date for the PSP's release in Europe yet. Sony has
promised to have a million units ready for its US launch, but there
are fears demand may not be met.
It also said it expected to ship three million PSPs worldwide by the
end of its fiscal year ending 31 March.
The machine's European launch was put back "a few months" last week in
order to make sure enough of the devices were ready for its US launch,
as well as satisfying the Japanese market.
The PSP has almost as much processing power in it as the PlayStation 2
console.
Hundreds of gamers gathered at US shops, some waiting for more than 36
hours, to be the first to get their hands on the gadget.
A spokesman for one US shop said it expected the device to sell out on
its first day.
The 24 games for the mini console include Ape Academy, Formula One,
Wipeout Pure and Fired Up.
Movie studios, including Lions Gate Entertainment and Disney, have also
announced forthcoming film titles that will be made available on the UMD
format.
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/technology/4378661.stm
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Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 08:59:08 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
Subject: The Truth About Toothing
Jim Hanas
"Toothy Toothing," aka Ste Curran (who says he was but "part" of
Toothy, the other part apparently being Simon Byron), admits to duping
Wired and the rest. In response to an email from me-and to the
slashdotting of my earlier post-the source of all the toothing tales
pointed me to this page, where he tells how it all began, explaining
how he and others invented toothing and its pied piper. There, he
writes: http://www.hanasiana.com/archives/000324.html
What Ever Happened to Toothing?
http://www.hanasiana.com/archives/000323.html
UPDATE: The Anatomy of a Hoax
http://www.hanasiana.com/archives/000327.html
Toothing
http://www.thetriforce.com/newblog/?p=53
To Clarify An Analogy
http://www.thetriforce.com/newblog/?p=55
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Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 12:07:25 EDT
From: Telecom dailyLead from USTA <usta@dailylead.com>
Subject: Alcatel's COO to resign
Telecom dailyLead from USTA
April 8, 2005
http://www.dailylead.com/latestIssue.jsp?i=20681&l=2017006
TODAY'S HEADLINES
NEWS OF THE DAY
* Alcatel's COO to resign
BUSINESS & INDUSTRY WATCH
* Adelphia creditors agree to Time Warner, Comcast bid
* Rural phone carriers team up to offer video
* Report: Network, telecom gear market up 13% in '04
* Cablevision tells feds it will close Voom
* Group formed to promote FTTH in Asia
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* In USTA's Telecom Bookstore: "Softswitch Architecture for VoIP"
EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES
* Broadband over power line: big opportunities, hurdles
* Pornography goes wireless
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* Convenience seen as crucial to VoIP's future
* Interactive Intelligence unveils new VoIP server
* Siemens, Integra5 team up to bolster cable VoIP
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* Philly announces Wi-Fi plan
* U.S. broadband adoption falling behind
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From: DevilsPGD <ihatespam@crazyhat.net>
Subject: Re: Telemarketing to Cellphones
Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2005 04:45:40 -0600
Organization: Disorganized
In message <telecom24.150.5@telecom-digest.org> Joseph
<JoeOfSeattle@yahoo.com> wrote:
> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: So what harm is there in adding your
> cell phone and/or VOIP number to the list just to 'be safe'? PAT]
The harm is that exempt companies can purchase the DNC list and use it
as a list of people to annoy.
[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Why, when by your presence on that list
you have in effect stated 'do not bother me, I am not interested',
would some 'exempt' company deliberatly call you anyway? Do they have
money to waste just being malicious? PAT]
------------------------------
From: Joseph <JoeOfSeattle@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Telemarketing to Cellphones
Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2005 05:20:24 -0700
Reply-To: JoeOfSeattle@yahoo.com
On Thu, 07 Apr 2005 17:41:49 -0700, Telecom Digest editor> noted
in response to this writer:
> You are being terribly irresponsible in circulating this untrue rumor
> that telemarketers will receive cell phone numbers.
> http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_cell_phone_directory.htm>
> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: So what harm is there in adding your
> cell phone and/or VOIP number to the list just to 'be safe'? PAT]
You don't get it. That's not the point of my message. This guy is
spreading rumors that numbers are being released to telemarketers. If
people would check things out before they post without checking things
out they *need* to have their incorrect information refuted. If you
want to give your number to the DNC list go for it!
------------------------------
From: Justin Time <a_user2000@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Harrasing Annoying Ex Boyfriend Phone Calls CALLER ID Manager
Date: 8 Apr 2005 05:24:18 -0700
Organization: http://groups.google.com
Not to say that this type of harassment doesn't occur. There are
other remedies available that appear not to have been explored. If
you had proof, then a court order to stop the harassment could have
been obtained. Violation of the court order will have more impact on
police action than the filing of a complaint. The question remains,
other than complaining what have you done to protect yourself?
[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: What I did to protect myself is switch
to a different telephone company; one that knows what *77 is used for
and how to implement it so it works correctly, and overall it is a lot
less expensive as well ($25 per month for a large package of features
_plus_ unlimited local calling, _plus_ a hundred minutes of long
distance calling per month). Admittedly, that solution is not
available to everyone: SBC (and many other Bell telcos) tell many
customers they are 'not eligible' for porting elsewhere.
And to get a 'court order', you generally have to have had the police
involved first, to justify your need for a court order. The court does
not hand them out willy-nilly to everyone who asks. PAT]
------------------------------
From: T. Sean Weintz <strap@hanh-ct.org>
Subject: Re: Harrasing Annoying Ex Boyfriend Phone Calls CALLER ID Manager
Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2005 10:58:11 -0400
Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com
Paratwa wrote:
> For what its worth by sheer coincidence the idiot called from a pay
> phone last night an left a message. He has probably figured out that
> something isn't right since he could leave a message with the first
> try on a pay phone and couldn't do it again, since I blocked it.
Let's just hope he never has control of a PRI line. Way to easy to
spoof CLID then.
Or he could use one of those spoofing services that use their own
PRI's to spoof for ya ...
Be thankful this ex-boyfriend ain't to bright.
You could always start a "www.psychoexboyfriend.com" website and put
his messages up as MP3's for laughs ... Humiliate him publicly and he
might stop.
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 23:17:41 -0400
From: David B. Horvath, CCP <dhorvath@withheld_on_request>
Subject: Re: Philly Reveals Wireless Plan
PAT -- please remove my email address as usual.
This system will work until individuals start setting their personal
wifi units to the city's channels (frequencies) either through
stupidity (defaults) or malice (you can get one for $10 these days, if
you don't like your neighbors who use the city system, you could
easily block them).
Remember that wifi is unlicensed (you don't need a license to have one
nor or channels assigned by the government, you can use any of the
legal ones at will). And since only the US Federal Government is
allowed to regulate use of the radio waves.
Or even worse, the ultimate in phising attacks -- setting up a local
wifi AP that tracks keystrokes and then passes the data off to the
Internet.
Yuck!
- David
David B. Horvath, CCP
Consultant, Author, International Lecturer, Adjunct Professor
Member: ICCP Educational Foundation Board and ICCP Test Council; Chair of
LPR&GC CMP
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 22:48:35 -0500
From: Neal McLain <nmclain@annsgarden.com>
Subject: Re: USB to RJ-45 Console Cable?
JXM2119 <jxm2119_AT_rochester.rr.com@syrcnyrdrs-01.nyroc.rr.com> wrote:
> I would like to buy/make a cable that will have a USB
> connector on one end and an RJ-45 on the other.
I wrote:
> If by "RJ-45" you mean an 8-position modular connector
> wired to carry an Ethernet circuit, you'll need an
> adapter such as Planet Technology Corp. Model PT9500. I
> have two of these devices in service, connecting oldish
> PCs (W98) to a Linksys router. They work great.
James Carlson <james.d.carlson@sun.com> wrote:
> RJ-45 connectors are also commonly used for all sorts of
> serial links -- including async (using RS-232 levels),
> sync (often RS-422), and even telecom (such as DS-1).
> It's not just Ethernet.
JXM2119 didn't tell us what kind signal s/he's using. I inferred
Ethernet from the context of the question; if s/he has some other
signal in mind, perhaps s/he should let us know.
I agree that 8-position modular connectors can be wired for things
other than Ethernet; that's why my response to the original question
began with the word "if." But I don't agree with the use of the term
"RJ-45" to identify a connector. RJ45 is a USOC (albeit apparently
obsolete); not a connector.
Neal McLain
------------------------------
From: Steve Sobol <sjsobol@JustThe.net>
Subject: Re: Google Maps
Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2005 00:41:16 -0700
Organization: Glorb Internet Services, http://www.glorb.com
AES wrote:
> I don't know how to solve the problem (the very real, serious, and
> IMHO increasing) problem of corruption of many of our primary
> information sources and media by advertising I'd willingly pay a
> significant subscription fee for access to a Google equivalent that
> was equally good and that I could be sure was and would remain truly
> advertiser independent.
There is no such thing. (No, not even public TV and radio, they have
corporate sponsorships too, and have had them for quite some time.)
JustThe.net - Apple Valley, CA - http://JustThe.net/ - 888.480.4NET (4638)
Steven J. Sobol, Geek In Charge / sjsobol@JustThe.net / PGP: 0xE3AE35ED
"The wisdom of a fool won't set you free"
--New Order, "Bizarre Love Triangle"
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From: T. Sean Weintz <strap@hanh-ct.org>
Subject: Re: Sperm - Not so Mobile
Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2005 09:44:57 -0400
Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com
T. Sean Weintz wrote:
> Damn. Now I need to take the cell phones away from my mice. How are
> they supposed to call me at work to let me know when they are out of
> cheese now?
> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Very clever retort, but my presumption
> is the researchers would rather experiment with mice than with human
> children, etc. PAT]
Yes, of course. But what many folks don't realize is they use
specially bred mice that are VERY susceptible to tumors for these
types of experiments.
Which means there is a very GOOD chance that the same exposure will
have no effect whatsoever on a normal healthy human.
------------------------------
From: eljainc@ameritech.net
Subject: Re: Question on Caller ID on Panasonic KX-TA624
Date: 8 Apr 2005 07:19:42 -0700
Organization: http://groups.google.com
We never had the users manual for the TA624, only the installation
manual. I did find it on-line late yesterday though. Thanks for the
tip.
Mike
------------------------------
From: Isaiah Beard <sacredpoet@sacredpoet.com>
Subject: Re: VoIP Adapter With High REN?
Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2005 10:32:14 -0400
Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com
Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> I am trying to switch two of three phone lines in a very large, very
> old house over to VoIP. The house has quite literally twenty
> extensions split between the three lines -- I think I need at least 4
> or 5 REN per line, plus the ability to drive all the wire leading to
> those handsets (over 100' in some cases) without exploding the audio
> output circuit in the ATA.
The Linksys PAP2 supports 5 REN and seems pretty robust for such a small
unit. The PAP2-NA version can be purchased separately and used on any
VoIP provider that allows outside equipment, or you can get a
Vonage-locked version at retail stores for around $50, usually free
after mail-in rebate.
E-mail fudged to thwart spammers.
Transpose the c's and a's in my e-mail address to reply.
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