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Toktumi recently announced a partnership with Dell to distribute its small business VoIP service through a co-branded site on Dell.com (www.dell.com/voip), which also features Fonality, Nortel, and Bandwidth.com. So what’s so special about Toktumi, (a word play on ‘talk to me′) and it’s USB-based plug-in device? Well, Toktumi is very similar to the popular Magicjack, which also uses a USB connector for connecting an analog phone. However, Magicjack is only $19.99/year (first year is $39.95) for unlimited U.S. calling while Toktumi is $179.40/year ($14.95/month) for unlimited dialing inside the U.S. and Canada. So what does this extra cost get you?

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Tags: Bandwidth.com, Fonality, Magicjack, Nortel, packet8, Toktuni, voip

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Original post by nafiz

Filed under: Desktops

Dousing your gaming rig in oil is a technique we′ve seen from custom shops before, but not quite like the offerings from Minnesota-based start-up Hardcore Computer. Its Reactor line of submerged gaming rigs, shipping to real, live customers in about a month, use custom enclosures to dunk everything from the CPU to the SSDs in a blue-dyed, non-conductive concoction that we hope is mineral oil (it doesn’t break down and go rancid like canola). A pump circulates the liquid through a side-mounted radiator for cooling while all the wet components slide out of the top for potentially mess-free maintenance. You can get your choice of Core 2 Extreme processors, up to 8GB of DDR3 memory, and even three GeForce GTX 280 GPUs stacked right on top of each other if you have the bank. Prices start at about $4,500, which isn’t as bad for a crazy setup like this, with a well-spec’d, triple-SLI machine coming in just under $10k. We’d certainly call that hardcore — despite the gushy center.

[Thanks, Havok and Jamie]

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Original post by Tim Stevens

Filed under: Cellphones, Digital Cameras

LG, a major player in the cameraphone megapixel wars, is aiming to knock out the competition via a one-two punch of the KC920 Renoir and the newly official KC780. That latter phone still lacks a cute nickname, but now has a few official specs to go along with its resolution. Just 13.9mm thick, it sports a 2.4-inch LCD on the front and an unsurprisingly Schneider-Kreuznach certified lens on the back, the latter augmented by some advanced “face-enhancing features” like smile detection and Beauty Mode to digitally smooth blemishes. It should perform decently in low light, courtesy of an ISO 1600 shooting mode and built-in image stabilization; good things both because we don’t expect that tiny flash will brighten any room. The phone records videos at 640 x 480, and interestingly, it can act as a wireless Bluetooth webcam for a PC. Price is unconfirmed, but European release is coming next month ahead of a worldwide launch “later.”

[Via Engadget Spanish]

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Original post by Tim Stevens

Some interesting 2Q08 VoIP numbers to share put out by iLocus. VoIP shows some slowing in some sectors, but growth in others. Considering the unstable U.S. economy, these numbers are still very impressive.

7.7 million VoIP access lines shipped during the quarter, down from 7.9 million lines in 1ᾬ. This represents second sequentially quarterly decline from 4ᾫ. Of the 7.7 million lines shipped during the quarter, estimated 6.8 million went towards residential VoBB. The remaining were deployed as IP Centrex lines.

6.8 million Class 4 VoIP softswitch licenses shipped during the quarter, down from 7.1 million in 1Q08.

8.9 million service provider media gateways ports shipped during 2Q08, up significantly from 8.1 million ports in the previous quarter.

5.2 million SBC sessions capacity shipped in 2Q08, down from 8.9 million in 1Q08. Revenue, however, did now show such a depression Q-o-Q. Revenue decreased 1.3% sequentially.
more…

via Packet Data Everywhere!

Tags: 2Q08, access lines, Class 4, iLocus, media gateways, Q2, sbc, voip, VoIP softswitch

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Original post by nafiz

Filed under: Displays, HDTV, Home Entertainment

Pioneer got official with its 50-inch KRP-500A and 60-inch KRP-600A over in Europe earlier this summer, and just as each set got set to ship, the firm felt it necessary to bring ‘em to Japan. Best of all, AkihabaraNews was able to see just how deep those blacks really were at a recent press event, and it was kind enough to host up a plethora of photographs for us common folk to gaze at. If we just rang your bell, pop down into the links below for specs and images galore.

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Original post by Darren Murph

Filed under: Gaming

This toaster may only have one setting, but that setting is NES, and that’s good enough for us. Created by the same console modder behind the monstrous Super Genintari, this project is certainly a good deal less ambitious than that endeavor, but it hits all the right marks nonetheless, including a functional front lever that acts as a power switch, and some red LEDs that light up your cart but probably won’t do much for your toast. Be sure to hit up the link below for plenty more pics and a look at the complete build process.

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Original post by Donald Melanson

Filed under: Robots

It looks like attempts to sneak across the border into Britain could soon become a battle of humans versus the machines, as the country’s border guards have now recruited some robots normally used in warzones to help root out folks trying to smuggle themselves into the country. Developed by BAE Systems, the so-called “Hero” bots are equipped with searchlights and high-resolution video cameras that let it search the inside and undersides of vehicles, and they could potentially be outfitted with heartbeat detectors as well, or even sensors to detect chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear materials being smuggled into the country. While it’s apparently only been tested in one location so far, the Border Agency seems to be all but sold on the bot, and it’s now looking at rolling ‘em out to other locations in the country. No word if they have any plans to employ BAE’s spider bots, though.

[Via Danger Room, image courtesy of BAE Systems]

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Original post by Donald Melanson

Filed under: Cellphones

Some particularly juicy rumors die hard, and this one certainly qualifies: CNBC is reporting that SK Telecom is looking to hook up with some private equity firms to buy out Sprint Nextel, though a deal is “not imminent.” This one’s been making the rounds since last year, though it’s possible that SKT sees some new impetus for making a break into the US market now that it’s sold off its share in Helio — and buying the third largest carrier in the country would certainly qualify as “making a break.” It’s claimed that SKT’s only interested in completing a friendly deal — no crazy hostile takeovers here — and some of Sprint’s board members aren′t keen on the idea at this point, so it’s definitely a hit-or-miss proposition. If this all means we can get even half of Korea’s domestic hardware on US airwaves, then hey, no complaints on this end.

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Original post by Chris Ziegler

Filed under: Cellphones

If you’ve been hemming and hawing about whether or not you should buy a Palm Treo 800w, perhaps a ton of photos of the device would help with your decision. Well today is your lucky day, as we′ve got the thing in our hands and wanted to share our good fortune with the world. Shoot on over to Engadget Mobile for a slew of pictures, and stay tuned for a review from us coming soon.

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Original post by Joshua Topolsky

Filed under: Cellphones

We’re not sure if you check most mobile provider’s sites every ten minutes or so (like we do), but if you did, you would have noticed that the latest Palm Windows Mobile device — the Treo 800w — is available for purchase at Sprint’s online store. The phone, which features a 320 x 320 screen, EV-DO Rev. A, WiFi, and GPS, is currently listing for $249.99 after a $250 instant savings, $100 mail-in rebate, and two-year contract. So if you’ve been absolutely, positively dying to get your hands on this thing — now’s you chance.

[Via Phone Scoop]

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Original post by Joshua Topolsky

Filed under: Wireless

It’s not exactly a surprise that Sprint Nextel and Clearwire have some pretty big plans for their newly-merged WiMAX network, but a recent FCC filing has now revealed some tantalizing details about exactly just what they have in mind. As Ars Technica reports, the two companies foresee the “New Clearwire” WiMAX network as being nothing short of a true “third pipe” into the home, and a fully open one at that. That would let users use any “lawful device” on the network so long as it’s “compatible with and not harmful to the WiMAX network,” and it’d offer non-exclusive wholesale access to the network to anyone looking to hop on the WiMAX bandwagon. The two companies are also promising that customers can expect to get speeds up to 6Mbps on the downlink, and 3Mbps uplink, and that the network will cover 140 million people by 2010 — and a full 220 million by 2017.

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Original post by Donald Melanson

Filed under: Cellphones, Wireless

Text messaging rates have always been a little ridiculous, but a new class-action suit filed in Mississippi alleges that virtually every wireless carrier you can think of is basically cheating you by charging you for received texts and not allowing you to turn the service off. The suit names AT&T, Sprint, Verizon, Alltel, US Cellular, Cellular South, and Virgin Mobile (surprisingly, T-Mobile didn′t make the cut), and says that members of the class are entitled to relief for the unauthorized charges, wrongful collection, and unjust enrichment. Of course, this will all likely end in a useless settlement that nets subscribers like three extra text messages and a 20 percent discount on an “approved accessory,” while the plaintiff’s law firm banks millions, but we’ll see how things go.

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Original post by Nilay Patel

Filed under: HDTV, Home Entertainment

When MovieBeam shut down operations last December, we had a feeling we wouldn’t be mourning for long, but we definitely didn’t see it playing out like this. Reportedly, Movie Gallery is asking for bankruptcy court approval to sell its VOD service to one Dar Capital Limited for a cool $2.25 million. Should the deal go down, the firm would technically pick up 1,800 customers who had once shelled out for the dedicated set-top-box — but really, why on Earth would any halfway sane investor exhume this thoroughly decomposed corpse and attempt to breathe new life into it?

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Original post by Darren Murph

Filed under: GPS, Handhelds

MTI Micro is edging dangerously close to vaporware status, but until 2009 comes and goes, we suspect we still owe it the benefit of the doubt. The ever-boastful company is at it once again, this time showing off a purported fuel cell powered-GPS prototype at the International Small Fuel Cells Conference in Atlanta. The Mobion-powered device promises to provide “three times as much energy as GPS devices powered by four disposable AA batteries,” meaning that users could see up to 60-hours of continuous use on a large, full-color screen navigator. You’ll also find an integrated USB port for using it as an energy source, so you could theoretically utilize your NAV to charge your handset / PMP / ray gun. At this point, however, we wouldn’t get too excited here — it’s not like there’s any guarantee that we’ll ever see this thing in commercial form.

[Via I4U News]

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Original post by Darren Murph

Filed under: Cellphones

We’ve seen quite a few prototype fuel-cell powered mobile devices, but Samsung’s upping the ante by predicting that we’ll all be running our phones on water by 2010. The company says it’s developed a method to generate hydrogen by exposing water to metal, but the details are a little shaky — we’re guessing it’s similar to the system used in the HydroPak generator, but it’s hard to tell. Still, we’ve got no reason to doubt Samsung’s engineers, who say the system currently provides about 10 hours of use, or about five days of average cell usage, and will eventually allow users to simply top off and go. That’s every traveler’s dream — let’s get this to market, Sammy.

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Original post by Nilay Patel