Gadgetopia

Dial D for Disruption: A good article about Asterisk, the open-source phone system. Spencer is the inventor of Asterisk, a free software program that establishes phone calls over the Internet and handles voicemail, caller ID, teleconferencing and a host of novel features for the phone. With Asterisk loaded onto a ...

Asterisk on pop-up mogul's gold: An Australian gold medalist is also a reported spyware mogul. While the 21-year-old Begg-Smith may not have been involved in doping or cheating on the slopes, the way he richly supported himself while training was incredibly unsportsmanlike and probably illegal: Begg-Smith was a key player ...

Asterisk Voicemail that reacts to my AIM status: Interesting article on how to use your AIM status to control your voicemail. It occured to me that my computer already "knows" whether I'm in the office or not because my iChat status (aka my AOL Instant Messenger/AIM status, as they use ...

What's up with the software pricing model on mobile devices? More specifically, how come vendors are pricing software by the month? I just got a new Sanyo Katana, and there are some demo games loaded on it. One of them is a nifty little pool game -- Midnight Pool. It's ...

Microsoft Research is working on a couple of interesting projects. First, there's the SenseCam, a little doodad that's sort of a digital camera and sensor package. You wear it, and it records, well, everything. SenseCam is a badge-sized wearable camera that captures up to 2000 VGA images per day into ...