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Dial N for Net Phone: An online phone service shows that Internet telephony’s time may finally have come

The system worked by taking a person’s voice, digitizing it, breaking that digital data into packets, and finally sending those packets over a high-speed network. At the other end, another Etherphone reversed the whole process. Read the Full Story

Showing off the phones of tomorrow

A whiff of economic recovery was in the air as tens of thousands of industry professionals flocked to a beach-front conference center in this French Riviera town for the opening of the 3GSM World Congress. Organizers of the four-day show said they had received 35,000 visitor registrations — almost one-third more than last year. Read […]

“Rural Lands Of Opportunity: Broadband Deployment In America’s Heartland”

Thank you for the opportunity to join you today to discuss the challenges and opportunities facing rural America in meeting the telecommunications needs of the 21st Century. I appreciate Representative Tom Sloan’s tireless efforts to put together this forum of distinguished legislative, regulatory, and industry experts from all over the state. I also applaud Senator […]

Elluminate Introduces Elluminate Live! Version 5 With Competitive Buy-Out Offer

POMPANO BEACH, FL — (MARKET WIRE) — 02/23/2004 — Elluminate, Inc., a leader in Web conferencing and live eLearning for real-time organizations, today announced Elluminate Live! version 5 with three new editions for corporate, academic and small group environments. Formerly called vClass™, Elluminate Live! has been renamed to better capture its rich, real-time capabilities. Read […]

Georgia to build student data system

Georgia’s Education Department serves approximately 1.5 million prekindergarten through 12th-grade students. The information held in the SIS will be available to almost 120,000 employees, teachers, administrators and staff within 182 school districts across the state. Read the Full Story

Sonim and Polycom Partner To Develop Next Generation Wireless Group Communications Solutions

SAN MATEO and PLEASANTON, Calif. – Feb. 23, 2004 – Sonim Technologies, the leading developer of PoC-standard Push-to-Talk (PTT) and IP-enabled wireless voice applications, today announced a strategic partnership with Polycom, Inc. (Nasdaq: PLCM), the world’s leader in video and voice conferencing, conference bridges, and integrated web collaboration solutions, to develop breakthrough collaboration solutions, offering […]

EMS Technologies Demonstrates Distance Education Over Satellite at Georgia’s High-Tech Day Feb. 25

Sponsored by the Technology Leadership Coalition, High-Tech Day brings together state lawmakers and leaders in the high-tech community. The EMS demonstration will begin at 5:30 p.m. at the Georgia Railroad Freight Depot in downtown Atlanta. Read the Full Story

Real founder of the Internet ponders: What’s next?

Cerf, 60, co-designed the TCP/IP protocol and the architecture of the Internet during his tenure at the U.S. Department of Defense’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) about 30 years ago. Read the Full Story

PBS Automates

PBS announced that it has developed a highly automated multistream television station that fits in just six equipment racks, which the network expects to place with several of its member stations in the near future. Read the Full Story

Navigating Digital Home Networks

They are also to form the center of a digital home network, smartly knitting together television sets, video game consoles, home theater systems, portable music players, cameras and camcorders, telephones and almost anything else that can bear a microchip and liquid crystal display screen. Read the Full Story