VoIP service providers are now offering videophone at the lowest price we’ve seen on the VoIP service market. The tremendous drop in prices will see more individuals and SMB’s investing in this affordable futuristic way of communicating.
VoIP services are fast becoming the way to communicate worldwide and with the recent drop in videophone and service plan prices many individuals will be able to get a taste of the future at cost-effective prices. Today’s videophone offers more clarity than ever before and at a lower cost.
The videophone has become popular for conferencing with geographically challenged offices in real-time and for lawyer firms in taking depositions. I expect to see more videophones in offices in the next few months and individuals adding videophones as a practical conversational communication option to there current telcom arsenal.
Watch for the VoIP service field to grow in great leaps and bounds in the next year along with more important features being established such as emergency 911 and 411 services. The last few weeks have seen the FCC take a closer look at the VoIP industry, along with other consumer groups which is a plus for consumers. Consumers should see the lower level providers fade away and the tier 1 VoIP providers battle it out for the best technology and lowest price plans. Some providers have already added a Regulatory Recovery Fee to cover the cost of the new obligations being imposed on the VoIP providers, but, don’t expect prices to go up much. VoIP services are still the most economical way of communicating today.
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Friday, March 18, 2011
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Bluetooth Computer Headsets – Enjoy Wireless Freedom
Wireless Computer Headsets
Till recently, few options were available to people interested in using cordless headsets with their computers. Dedicated wireless Headsets are available, however they often cost upwards of $200 US puttititle="Bluetooth Computer Headsets"ng them out of reach of the average user.
Bluetooth Headsets
Cellular telephone users have long embraced the benefits of Bluetooth Technology for use with their handsets. One of the more popular Bluetooth devices available to Cell phone users are Bluetooth Headsets. Although Bluetooth Headsets were initially quite expensive, the average price has dropped considerably in recent years bringing them within reach of millions of people.
Aside from using Bluetooth Headsets with Cellular Telephones, Bluetooth Headsets can be used just as effectively with computers. All one needs to do is make their computer ‘Bluetooth Enabled’ and the procedures involved in using the Bluetooth Headset with a computer compare with those used for cellular telephones.
Bluetooth Computer Headsets
There are literally hundreds of different Cellular Telephone Bluetooth Headsets available on the market. Any of these Headsets will work with your computer however end-users are anxiously awaiting the introduction of dedicated Bluetooth Computer Headsets. Although they haven’t hit the market at time of writing, rumours and press releases hint at the imminent arrival of dedicated Bluetooth Computer Headsets.
Price
Initially, one can anticipate that Bluetooth Computer Headsets will be relatively expensive when compared to their ‘corded’ couterparts. However, as with most computer-related hardware, the price should drop once additional manufacturers release Bluetooth Computer Headsets and competition thrives.
Logically, one could also anticipate that Bluetooth Computer Headsets will be less expensive to manufacture than their cellular telephone headset counterparts due primarily to the fact that a far lesser degree of miniturization will be required. Whereas cellular telephone Bluetooth Headsets are designed to be portable, Bluetooth Computer Headsets will likely be designed primarily for comfort, audio quality and range. Lesser miniturization generally results in lower manufacturing costs which hopefully will be passed on to the consumer.
Expectations
So what can one expect from a Bluetooth Computer Headset? Ideally they’ll be light-weight, comfortable, incorporate an integrated boom microphone, be capable of stereo sound and above all, be realistically priced. Furthermore, Bluetooth Computer Headsets should be simple to install/use and boast an operating range that encompasses the average user’s home or office.
Provided these basic requirements are met, Bluetooth Computer Headsets should prove extremely popular once released and we await their arrival with eager anticipation
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Wednesday, March 16, 2011
The FCC Unanimously Approves Mandatory 911 for VoIP Service
The Federal Communications Commission unanimously approved a 10-page measure that will require Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) providers to provide a reliable 911 system to their customers. The measure will also require that state and local governments to levy taxes on VoIP service providers in exchange for providing access to 911 dispatchers. Internet phone providers have 120 days to improve the current 911 situations.
The new FCC Chairman, Kevin Martin stated, “The requirement to provide access to 911 is about public safety. Because the commission previously found that the VoIP services at issue were interstate, the commission assumed the responsibility to ensure that basic public safety requirements are implemented and satisfied.”
Currently VoIP service users who dial 911 run into many problems such as being redirected to administrative offices instead of a dispatcher. Also, when calls are received by dispatchers contact information for the caller such as the telephone number and location of the caller is not provided with the current VoIP 911 system. The lack of a reliable 911 system has brought several lawsuits against VoIP providers.
Sen. Conrad Burn, a sponsor of the bill made the comment, “The few seconds it takes someone to realize that their broadband connection cannot reach 911 can be the difference between life and death, and we cannot waste that time during an emergency.”
VoIP providers are being required to update and inform all customers, both new and old, of the limitations and problems that can come with calling 911 from a VoIP phone. The measure will require that 911 dispatchers must receive all calls to 911 and that the calls are accompanied by the caller’s information and location.
“Anyone who dials 911 has a reasonable expectation that he or she will be connected to an emergency operator. This expectation exists whether that person is dialing 911 from a traditional wire line phone, a wireless phone or a VoIP phone,” states Martin, “Today, we take this action to ensure this expectation is met as soon as possible.
Broadband phone service subscribers can check with their current VoIP provider for updates to their VoIP 911 plans. New updates and changes are being added to VoIP to meet the FCC’s new regulation so VoIP users are encouraged to check with their VoIP providers.
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Monday, March 14, 2011
The Best VoIP Service – Sunrocket vs. Vonage and Packet8
Sunrocket internet phone service is one of the best VoIP deals available today for those looking for quality service at an inexpensive price. Once a very small player in the broadband phone game, Sunrocket has been growing by leaps and bounds and is now considered one of the best VoIP companies. With call quality comparable to top of the line broadband phone service providers Vonage and Packet8, Sunrocket is the leader when it comes to price.
Currently at $199 per year for unlimited local and long distance calling, Sunrocket will save you $100 a year compared to Vonage’s annual price of $299.88. Annual savings over Packet8′s 12 month price of $239.88 is around $40. With call quality being about equal among these three VoIP providers, if you’re looking for cheap unlimited local and long distance domestic phone service without a lot of extra bells and whistles, Sunrocket is the way to go.
Comparing VoIP Plans
All three providers include free Canada calling with their unlimited plans, online account management and billing, voicemail, voicemail to email, three way conference calling, call forwarding, call waiting, call return and speed dial. These basic features are pretty much standard among all VoIP service providers, and are included free. For most average telephone users who are used to land line service, these features are a nice “bonus”, as most POTS (plain old telephone service) users have to pay extra to get these enhancements.
Sun Rocket offers very low international rates, with many calling locations as low as .03 per minute. As a special promotion that has been running for some time, Sunrocket gives new subscribers a free cordless phone when they sign up via a referral.
At $24.99 per month, Vonage offers a larger set of features as well as unlimited international calling to most of Western Europe. Vonage has more enhanced features than Sunrocket, such as caller ID with name, call transfer, ring lists, international call blocking and click to call computer calling. International rates are very competitive.
For $19.99 per month, Packet8 also offers a larger set of free features with their unlimited local and long distance plan including caller ID blocking, anonymous call blocking, simultaneous ringing on multiple phone numbers, and a “find me, follow me” feature that can be set to ring different phone numbers one at a time until someone answers. Packet 8 also offers an optional video phone plan that is used with the video telephone they sell. This allows you to make videoconferencing phone calls with other video phone users. As like most VoIP providers, Packet 8 offers very competitive international rates. An unlimited international calling plan is available for an additional fee.
When comparing VoIP providers, you can see that all digital phone service plans are not created equal. If low cost is your primary goal, you make little to no international calls and you are happy with basic features, Sunrocket is a great choice. If you make frequent calls to Western Europe and want some extra features, Vonage is the option for you. If you want extra features, primarily call within the U.S. and Canada, or want to use video conferencing, Packet8 is an excellent choice.
No matter which internet phone service provider you choose, as long as you stick with a highly rated VoIP company that has a reputation for good voice quality of calls, you can’t go wrong. Broadband phone service is the future of telecommunications, and you can save a lot of money on phone bills by switching to VoIP. The only requirement is a broadband internet connection. For home or small business users, cable internet service will provide the biggest savings, as most DSL service requires a land line telephone service account.
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Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Will VoIP be a Mass Market Product?
A common thinking among “Marketing people ” is that for every product that enters the market there must be a path, a target, a need ( real or created) that decides how the product must enter the consumer’s life, which part of the population is more likely to go for it, which niche it is going to fill and, most important “…certain things being stated, something other than what is stated follows of necessity from their being so.” and that is the final issue: the price.
Depending on those anavoidable patterns a product is more or less ready for a certain market.
High technologically devices, the ones that offer perfect quality and cost a fortune will target the elitarian market, where the price has not big importance (on the contrary, if the price would be lower than what certain people can afford, the product wouldn’t reach them) since it means luxury.
When a product ceases to be luxury and begins to be a need, then the mass market is ready. The product can enter 60% of consumers’ lives, reach easily a good upgrade in the percentage and become ” The New Product of the year 200….”.
Let’s consider the VoIP market.
Prior to recent theoretical work on social needs, the usual purpose of a product invoked individual (social) behaviors. We now know that these assumptions are not completely wrong.
Wrong would be NON considering them.
In systems where many people are free to choose between many options, a small subset of the whole offer will get a disproportionate amount of traffic (or attention, or income), even if no one of the system actively work towards such an outcome. This has nothing to do with moral weakness, selling out, or any other psychological explanation. The very act of choosing, spread widely enough and freely enough, creates a power law distribution.
Now, thanks to a series of breakthroughs in network theory by researchers we know that power law distributions tend to arise in social systems where many people express their preferences among many options. We also know that as the number of options rise, the curve becomes more extreme. This is a counter-intuitive finding – most of us would expect a rising number of choices to flatten the curve, but in fact, increasing the size of the system increases the gap between the #1 spot and the median spot.
In other words: give to the people the choice among desktop phones and mobile phones and the majority will choose what they think more convenient, in spite of the cost of the service.
In a way the cost of the service is the only left advantage in favour of the fixed telephony.
If the price was the same the desktop phones would disappear from the life of the average consumer (mass market consumer).
To see how freedom of choice could create such unequal distributions, consider a hypothetical population of a thousand people, each picking their favorite way of telecommunication. One way to model such a system is simply to assume that each person has an equal chance of liking each kind of telephony. This distribution would be basically flat – most kind of telephony will have the same number of people listing it as a favorite. A few will be more popular than average and a few less, of course, but that will be statistical noise. The bulk of the telephony will be of average popularity, and the highs and lows will not be too far different from this average. In this model, neither the quality of the voice, the availability, the design of the device nor other people’s choices have any effect; there are no shared tastes, no preferred genres, no effects from marketing or recommendations from friends.
This is the mass market of VoIP as dreamed and forecasted by most hardware producers.
People would choose VoIP in spite of the fact that the systems are not intercommunicating, the available phones are just desktop phones, most of the population doesn’t have a “Flat rate DSL” and some do not even have a decent connection, (just one ” UP to…) and just because VoIP means cutting cost.
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Depending on those anavoidable patterns a product is more or less ready for a certain market.
High technologically devices, the ones that offer perfect quality and cost a fortune will target the elitarian market, where the price has not big importance (on the contrary, if the price would be lower than what certain people can afford, the product wouldn’t reach them) since it means luxury.
When a product ceases to be luxury and begins to be a need, then the mass market is ready. The product can enter 60% of consumers’ lives, reach easily a good upgrade in the percentage and become ” The New Product of the year 200….”.
Let’s consider the VoIP market.
Prior to recent theoretical work on social needs, the usual purpose of a product invoked individual (social) behaviors. We now know that these assumptions are not completely wrong.
Wrong would be NON considering them.
In systems where many people are free to choose between many options, a small subset of the whole offer will get a disproportionate amount of traffic (or attention, or income), even if no one of the system actively work towards such an outcome. This has nothing to do with moral weakness, selling out, or any other psychological explanation. The very act of choosing, spread widely enough and freely enough, creates a power law distribution.
Now, thanks to a series of breakthroughs in network theory by researchers we know that power law distributions tend to arise in social systems where many people express their preferences among many options. We also know that as the number of options rise, the curve becomes more extreme. This is a counter-intuitive finding – most of us would expect a rising number of choices to flatten the curve, but in fact, increasing the size of the system increases the gap between the #1 spot and the median spot.
In other words: give to the people the choice among desktop phones and mobile phones and the majority will choose what they think more convenient, in spite of the cost of the service.
In a way the cost of the service is the only left advantage in favour of the fixed telephony.
If the price was the same the desktop phones would disappear from the life of the average consumer (mass market consumer).
To see how freedom of choice could create such unequal distributions, consider a hypothetical population of a thousand people, each picking their favorite way of telecommunication. One way to model such a system is simply to assume that each person has an equal chance of liking each kind of telephony. This distribution would be basically flat – most kind of telephony will have the same number of people listing it as a favorite. A few will be more popular than average and a few less, of course, but that will be statistical noise. The bulk of the telephony will be of average popularity, and the highs and lows will not be too far different from this average. In this model, neither the quality of the voice, the availability, the design of the device nor other people’s choices have any effect; there are no shared tastes, no preferred genres, no effects from marketing or recommendations from friends.
This is the mass market of VoIP as dreamed and forecasted by most hardware producers.
People would choose VoIP in spite of the fact that the systems are not intercommunicating, the available phones are just desktop phones, most of the population doesn’t have a “Flat rate DSL” and some do not even have a decent connection, (just one ” UP to…) and just because VoIP means cutting cost.
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Saturday, February 26, 2011
KONTES SEO 2011 : Javahostindo Web Hosting Indonesia
KONTES SEO 2011 : Javahostindo Web Hosting Indonesia
Sebagai salah satu penyedia layanan web hosting Indonesia yang berusaha meningkat pelayanan dengan melihat kualitas layanan dari sudut pandang para blogger maka Javahostindo mengadakan blog review mengenai produk dan layanan dari Javahostindo.
Peserta review harus menulis secara rinci semua produk dan layanan Javahostindo menurut pendapat individu. Tulisan yang dimuat diharapkan bisa menjadi masukan untuk Javahostindo agar bisa memberikan pelayanan lebih baik.
NAMA ACARA
Review Javahostindo 2011
Review Javahostindo 2011
PENDAFTARAN
15 Februari 2011 – 31 Maret 2011
15 Februari 2011 – 31 Maret 2011
PENGUMUMAN
3 April 2011
3 April 2011
JURI
Google.co.id pada 3 April 2011 jam 13.00 WIB
Google.co.id pada 3 April 2011 jam 13.00 WIB
KEYWORD
Javahostindo Web Hosting Indonesia
Javahostindo Web Hosting Indonesia
HADIAH
Juara I : Uang Tunai Rp 2.000.000
Juara II : Uang Tunai Rp 1.000.000
Juara III : Uang Tunai Rp 500.000
Hadiah Hiburan : 20 domain dan hosting (1 GB space, 100 GB bandwidth) untuk 20 orang pemenang selama 1 tahun.
Juara I : Uang Tunai Rp 2.000.000
Juara II : Uang Tunai Rp 1.000.000
Juara III : Uang Tunai Rp 500.000
Hadiah Hiburan : 20 domain dan hosting (1 GB space, 100 GB bandwidth) untuk 20 orang pemenang selama 1 tahun.
Total hadiah Rp.7.500.000 untuk 23 orang pemenang.
PENDAFTARAN
Pendaftaran blog review ke review @ javahostindo.com dengan informasi lengkap hasil review. Jangan lupa CC (salin email) ke info @ javahostindo.com
Pendaftaran blog review ke review @ javahostindo.com dengan informasi lengkap hasil review. Jangan lupa CC (salin email) ke info @ javahostindo.com
BANNER
SYARAT DAN KETENTUAN
1. Peserta menulis sebuah artikel dengan tema ” Javahostindo Web Hosting Indonesia ”
2. Peserta boleh menggunakan blog bukan berbayar (gratis).
3. Artikel yang di daftarkan dalam review belum pernah dipublikasikan.
4. Peserta bersifat umum dan bukan hanya pelanggan Javahostindo.
5. Artikel yang didaftarkan harus menggunakan bahasa indonesia.
6. Artikel harus asli dan bukan hasil plagiat
7. Setiap peserta boleh mendaftarkan lebih dari 1 blog tetapi hanya mempunyai hak mendapatkan 1 hadiah.
8. Peserta tidak boleh menggunakan judul blog, domain dan subdomain yang mengandung keyword review.
9. Panjang tulisan minimal 500 karakter dengan spasi.
10. Peserta harus mencantumkan banner review di akhir tulisan.
11. Setiap artikel yang didaftarkan harus memuat livelink ke http://www.javahostindo.com untuk beberapa kata dibawah ini (minimal 2 kata ) :
Hosting shoutcast, web hosting murah, reseller hosting streaming, hosting streaming radio, webhosting JSP, web hosting indonesia, hosting indonesia, domain indonesia, hosting tomcat, hosting streaming, reseller hosting iix
12. Keputusan penyelenggara review tidak bisa diganggu-gugat.
13. Saran dan pertanyaan dapat dikirimkan ke komentar di bawah ini atau email
review @javahostindo.com
1. Peserta menulis sebuah artikel dengan tema ” Javahostindo Web Hosting Indonesia ”
2. Peserta boleh menggunakan blog bukan berbayar (gratis).
3. Artikel yang di daftarkan dalam review belum pernah dipublikasikan.
4. Peserta bersifat umum dan bukan hanya pelanggan Javahostindo.
5. Artikel yang didaftarkan harus menggunakan bahasa indonesia.
6. Artikel harus asli dan bukan hasil plagiat
7. Setiap peserta boleh mendaftarkan lebih dari 1 blog tetapi hanya mempunyai hak mendapatkan 1 hadiah.
8. Peserta tidak boleh menggunakan judul blog, domain dan subdomain yang mengandung keyword review.
9. Panjang tulisan minimal 500 karakter dengan spasi.
10. Peserta harus mencantumkan banner review di akhir tulisan.
11. Setiap artikel yang didaftarkan harus memuat livelink ke http://www.javahostindo.com untuk beberapa kata dibawah ini (minimal 2 kata ) :
Hosting shoutcast, web hosting murah, reseller hosting streaming, hosting streaming radio, webhosting JSP, web hosting indonesia, hosting indonesia, domain indonesia, hosting tomcat, hosting streaming, reseller hosting iix
12. Keputusan penyelenggara review tidak bisa diganggu-gugat.
13. Saran dan pertanyaan dapat dikirimkan ke komentar di bawah ini atau email
review @javahostindo.com
KONTES SEO 2011 : Komodo Island is the NEW 7 Wonders of The World
KONTES SEO 2011 : Komodo Island is the NEW 7 Wonders of The World
Peraturan:- Tanggal dimulainya kontes adalah 7 Februari 2011 (Jam 12:00 wib).
- Tanggal berakhirnya kontes adalah 25 April 2011 (Jam 12:00 wib).
- Pengumuman tgl. 30 April 2011.
- Hanya teknik-teknik SEO yang etis saja yang dapat digunakan dalam kontes ini, dan para juri berhak untuk meninjau kembali teknik-teknik yang digunakan oleh para pemenang, untuk memastikannya.
- Tidak diperbolehkan adanya unsur pornografi, diskriminasi, atau tindakan yang melanggar hukum dalam pelaksanaan kontes.
- Target Keyword: "Komodo Island is the NEW 7 Wonders of The World"
- Kontes ini menggunakan bahasa Inggris sebagai content relevansinya.
- Relevansi content sangat diperhatikan disini, buatlah content berbahasa inggris yang sesuai target kata kunci dan enak dibaca.
- Hanya peserta yang teregistrasi yang dapat bersaing dan memenangkan hadiah yang disediakan panitia.
- Pendaftaran tidak dipungut biaya dan terbuka untuk siapa saja tanpa batasan umur.
- Setiap entry halaman peserta memuat artikel mengenai Pulau Komodo di Indonesia, dan ada backlink ke website penyelenggara (backlink penyelenggara ada di bawah).
- Satu orang hanya dapat memperoleh satu hadiah.
- Umur domain maksimal 5 tahun.
- Anda diperbolehkan menggunakan domain yang telah ada, namun halaman/URL entry yang disubmit harus benar-benar baru dengan tanpa back link dan versi cache sebelumnya.
- Panitia penyelenggara dan tim pembuat komodo.me diperbolehkan mengikuti kontes, namun tidak berhak memperoleh hadiah apapun.
- Peraturan dapat ditambah atau diubah dari waktu ke waktu sesuai dengan feedback yang diterima dari peserta.
- Target pemenangan SEO Contest Komodo.me result di Google.com (66.249.89.99)
Perlu di ingat:
- Perlu diingat bahwa saat Anda register untuk kontes, Anda harus memastikan bahwa entry URL yang Anda masukkan mengacu kepada halaman sebenarnya yang Anda submit untuk kontes.
- Pada saat register, apabila terdapat kotak isian yang kosong atau URL entry tidak mengacu kepada spesifikasi yang seharusnya, maka entry akan dihapus.
- Selama kontes, kami akan memeriksa ulang halaman entry untuk memverifikasi usia dan backlink. Jika suatu entry ditemukan lebih tua dari yang diperbolehkan atau tidak memasang backlink yang seharusnya, entry tersebut akan didiskualifikasi dari kontes, maka dari itu pastikan entry Anda sesuai dengan peraturan yang berlaku pada kontes.
- Buatlah artikel dengan tujuan mengharumkan Indonesia dan bukan copy paste sehingga mudah dibaca dan dipahami.
Bersama membangun Nasionalisme bangsa.
Dikarenakan blum optimalnya hasil dari SEO Contest Komodo, maka panitia SEO Contest Komodo.me memperpanjang waktu pendaftaran SEO Contest Komodo.me sampai dengan tanggal 25 Juli 2011, dan pengumuman pemenang akan kami informasikan pada tanggal 30 Juli 2011.
Pengunduran ini kami lakukan agar nantinya Komodo Island menjadi hadiah terbaik untuk negeri tercinta Indonesia.
Dalam hal ini bukan hanya menang dan kalah dalam melakukan SEO Contest, tetapi kami kembali pada misi dan visi kita untuk memberitahu ke khalayak dunia memang Pulau Komodo merupakan 7 Keajaiban Dunia yang wajib di ketahui dan dinikmati oleh warga bumi ini.
Dikarenakan blum optimalnya hasil dari SEO Contest Komodo, maka panitia SEO Contest Komodo.me memperpanjang waktu pendaftaran SEO Contest Komodo.me sampai dengan tanggal 25 Juli 2011, dan pengumuman pemenang akan kami informasikan pada tanggal 30 Juli 2011.
Pengunduran ini kami lakukan agar nantinya Komodo Island menjadi hadiah terbaik untuk negeri tercinta Indonesia.
Dalam hal ini bukan hanya menang dan kalah dalam melakukan SEO Contest, tetapi kami kembali pada misi dan visi kita untuk memberitahu ke khalayak dunia memang Pulau Komodo merupakan 7 Keajaiban Dunia yang wajib di ketahui dan dinikmati oleh warga bumi ini.
Info lebih lanjut, kunjungi : http://contest.komodo.me/
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