VoIP and Consumer Rights

by Beth McMillan on November 17, 2008

in VoIP

Have you ever considered what would happen if your VoIP provider goes out of business?  Traditional phone companies are required to give you thirty days notice.  Internet based voice providers are required to give you no notice at all.  The rollout of VoIP has been so explosive that regulators haven’t been able to keep up.  Therefore, buyer beware!

To read full details on this subject go to http://technology.inc.com/telecom/articles/200803/voip.html

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Barack Obama is like most of us in many ways.  He relies heavily on his Blackberry, uses email, and is an everyday computer user.  When he enters the Whitehouse he will be forced to give most of these up.  The reason?  Security and the Presidential Records Act.  Everything he writes will become public fodder.

He is apparently pushing to be the first President to have a computer on his desk at in the Oval Office.  Seems strange doesn’t it?  The most powerful position in the world is many ways years behind the norm of today.

To read the full article go to http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/16/us/politics/16blackberry.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

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Google Launches New Integrated Tool for Gmail

by Beth McMillan on November 14, 2008

in Conferencing, Internet, VoIP

Google has once again come up with a creative method to keep their followers loyal.  They have introduced the integration of video, VoIP, and Gmail.  This will allow folks to interact with others live, via video and directly from their Gmail inbox.  In order to use this service the user will require a web cam and a software plug-in (which can be downloaded from Google). To find out more about this new feature visit Google at http://mail.google.com/mail/help/intl/en/about_whatsnew.html

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