VoIP You

• [Daily Post from my people] VoIP You: VoIP: Surveys, Surveys, Surveys

"America seems to be a bit obsessed with surveys and polls. It's quite natural. If all of those years of math class taught us anything, it’s that you can try to boil almost any problem down to the numbers. Those numbers turn up in politics, sports, and pop music TV show contests. They can also give us insight into the current and future state of VoIP and telecommunications as a whole."

• BusinessWeek Online: VoIP's Triple-Digit Growth

"Internet-based calling is set to soar in 2006. As carriers aim to reduce the cost of sending phone calls and subscribers aim for lower phone bills, the number of people subscribing to Voice over Internet Protocol, or VoIP, services will almost double this year, to 47.3 million, according to consultancy Infonetics."

• O'Reilly Emerging Telephony: DIY Cell Phone Tracking with Mologogo

Cool/creepy! For $6 a month you can turn your cell phone into a GPS tracking device that places little push pins on a map and tracks your every movement.

• The Jeff Pulver Blog: Viral Marketing Contest to Save the Internet

"I am officially putting my money where my mouth is. I am initiating a Viral Video "Save the Net" Marketing Contest....Send us short, creative ideas -- videos, flash ads, other Internet-based gimmicks -- that you think might effectively communicate to government that they must write rules to enable us the Internet innovators to transform the Internet and communications experience."

• Gizmodo: The Lost Experience Alternate Reality Gae
  

Or, this could be a trick by The Others. "Fans looking to solve the puzzle will find audio, video, and text clues in locations around the world, along with an online community in which to connect and collaborate with others. Just like any other good mystery, clues can and will happen anywhere at anytime across multiple platforms."

• VoIP Now: VOIP applications for hospitals

"An increasing number of hospitals in the United States are using VoIP systems to lower costs of communications."

• InformationWeek: Minorities Are Leading Adopters of Broadband, IP Services

"English-speaking minority groups, such as Asian-Americans and Hispanics, are the leading adopters of broadband and IP communications technologies such as VoIP."

• ZDNet.com: IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband: Six miles from nearest pay phone, Navajo settlement gets VoIP

"Residents of the settlement 160 miles northwest of Albuquerque, New Mexico have been so isolated they had to drive six miles on dirt roads to use the nearest pay phone."