5 Technology Trends for 2008

03 January 2007


We will all have our own views on what will be hot or not in 2008, but this list of 5 areas to look at seems pretty spot on to me:

  • The Web To Go - The year for Gears, Air and Silverlight.
  • Ultra Mobile PC’s - Building on the Asus EEE, and utilizing flash memory.
  • IPTV - With the growth of broadband accessibility and speed expect to see Internet TV grow and grow.
  • WIMAX - City, or even country wide high speed wireless connectivity.
  • Mobile VOIP - Seamless switch between VOIP, landline and cell phone to get the cheapest calls all the time from one hand set.
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VoIP to benefit from higher broadband speed
31 December 2007

Experts are predicting that VoIP telephony solutions stand to benefit from advances in the UK's broadband network.

The Internet Service Providers' Association (ISPA) said that as demand for high-quality online TV grows, broadband providers will increasingly warm to the idea of upgrading their connections.

Countries such as South Korea, France and Germany have already begun investing in ultra-fast 100 megabit broadband networks, capable of streaming up to a dozen high-definition TV channels.

And with the industry regular Ofcom warning that the UK economy stands to suffer if it cannot keep up with the pace, the ISPA says the benefits of faster connections will ripple throughout the wider industry into filesharing, gameplay and IP telephony sectors.
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Touchmods hack brings VoIP to iPod Touch

02 January 2007

The Touchmods team have released version 1.0 of SIP-VoIP for the iPod Touch. This hack will allow the Touch to make phone calls over its WiFi connection. Although named version 1.0, it is most certainly still a beta, and will take some special magic on your part to get things going.

The Touchmodders are giving away the software and hope to make money on their iPod Touch microphone, without which you'll be having a very one-sided conversation.

Installation is easy if your iPod Touch is already hacked. You'll need to add the Touchmod team's server to the Installer's source list (http://touchmods.net/rep.xml) before the application will show up.

You'll then need to get a SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) account. SIP is the open protocol for VoIP. I tried with my Gizmo Project account details with little success, but as you can see in the video, it does work. The application will need some prettying up and a little more user feedback (error messages are absent), but this is shaping up to be a nice little hack.

Project page [Touchmods]
 
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