WindowsForDevices.com is running a cool article with a comparison of devices running either a version of embedded Linux of embedded Windows. Make sure to click on the links in the table to see nice long lists of neat gadgets! They cover categories like PDAs, cell phones, VOIP phones, and audio/video devices.
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By Michelle Kessler, USA TODAY
When Kevin Cocco’s friends in Montreal want to chat, they dial a local Quebec phone number — but it rings 2,300 miles away in his Utah home. Cocco’s Salt Lake City friends dial a different number, local to them. It, too, rings in his home. All his calls also simultaneously ring on Cocco’s cell phone, letting him stay connected while snowboarding the Utah slopes. Think of it as a kind of high-tech call-forwarding that lets the phone ring at home, too.
The phone system costs Cocco, 34, about $20 a month because he uses a fast-growing technology called Voice over Internet Protocol, or VoIP. VoIP calls travel over the Internet, much as e-mails do. That doesn’t mean Cocco is shouting into his computer. He just plugs a regular telephone into a special adapter, which is plugged into his home’s broadband connection.
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CNET News is reporting that cell phones that double as Internet phones will become available in the United States, Europe and Asia by March.
Distributed by Dubai-based developer i-Mate, the $850 PDA2K and PDA2 cell phones come equipped with voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), a software that shifts phone services from the highly regulated and taxed traditional local phone networks onto the unregulated Internet. The VoIP software comes from Skype, a popular Europe-based Net phone provider.
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By I.J. Hudson, Tech Reporter
Skype is VoIP software from the same folks that gave you Kazaa, the peer-to-peer music sharing program. It’s Internet phone – your voice turned into packets of data, sent through the Internet to another computer and turned back into voice. All you need is a high speed connection, the free software and a headset.
For those who’d rather just dial the phone, there are other Internet phone companies ramping up, like Sunrocket. Hookup appears simple. Plug a cable from your high speed internect connection to SunRocket’s device, called a Gizmo.
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