Some of the aims of the “physiome project” at the $6 million Auckland Bioengineering Institute at the University of Auckland are: Carrying out virtual operations to predict results of surgery on children with cerebral palsy. Surgeons would lengthen or shorten muscles on computer models to simulate the child’s gait to test the likely success of surgery. Testing drug toxicity using computers.
Nov
27
Skype has hit a snag with SkypeIn, its service that enables people to attach a traditional phone number to their Skype account. It has had to write to some owners of 0207 London numbers to explain that their numbers will have to change. In an email, Skype explained that some 0207 numbers would stop working on Thursday 20th December: “We’re very sorry to tell you that we have to change your SkypeIn number,” it said.
Nov
27
Some customers claim this latest incident, coupled with a two-day outage on the service earlier this summer , could lead them to desert the service. “Like others, I have printed marketing material with this number, which I guess I’m now going to have to sticker over,” complains another Skype user.
Nov
26
OnState was created to give SMEs and large enterprises a simple, low-cost, and scalable call center and customer contact management solution. The company was founded by call center pioneers who launched GeoTel Communications (acquired by Cisco Systems), and have been at the forefront of technologies spanning Automatic Call Distributors (ACD), Intelligent Call Routing, Network Call Routing, Computer Telephony Integration (CTI), Voice Response Units (VRU), and Agent Performance Management.
Nov
24
So today we re rolling out a new feature to make it even more convenient and useful to chat from Gmail: you can now chat with all your AIM buddies right inside Gmail. Just click on the upside-down triangle next to set status here in your Gmail chat and select Sign into AIM from the drop down menu. Once you ve entered your AIM log-in information, your AIM contacts will appear intermingled among your Gmail contacts, and you can select an AIM contact and chat with them directly.
Nov
23
I’d love to say “Terrorists, you should do this instead…” but I don’t want feds knocking on my door. I don’t support terrorism, however I do support raising public awareness of digital security and mentioning whats working for us is also fighting against us. Through P2P VPN networks, TOR networks, anonymous relays and botnets you can become mostly untraceable.
Nov
21
Founded in September 2005, meebo continues to catch on with IMers across the globe. After announcing 500,000 user-accounts in October 2006, user registration on meebo has rocketed to 3.5 million in just twelve months with more than six million unique people logging in monthly. More than 1 million people spend more than two-and-a-half hours logged in every day. meebo s investors include Sequoia Capital and Draper Fisher Jurvetson. Visit www.meebo.com today to connect with people live on the Web.
Nov
21
2007-11-28 10:54:44 - ipoque’s Internet Study 2007 provides amazing data about P2P, VoIP, Skype, file hosters like RapidShare and streaming services like YouTube. With comprehensive statistics about user behavior, it provides a unique overview of the Internet’s current state. Three petabytes of anonymous data representing over one million users in Australia, Eastern Europe, Germany, the Middle East and Southern Europe have been analyzed.
Nov
21
If you ve never heard of Skype, I d be very surprised. It s a great service for making phone calls over the internet. I generally only use it when making international calls, as my cell phone can pretty much take care of the rest. However, there are some people that actually make most of their calls using the Skype service. This Skype Travel Mouse is perfect for those people.
Nov
21
Founded in September 2005, meebo continues to catch on with IMers across the globe. After announcing 500,000 user-accounts in October 2006, user registration on meebo has rocketed to 3.5 million in just twelve months with more than six million unique people logging in monthly. One million people spend more than two-and-a-half hours with us every day. meebo s investors include Sequoia Capital and Draper Fisher Jurvetson. Visit www.meebo.com today to connect with people live on the Web.