Thanks to those nice people at WOM I've just been lent a NOKIA E63 to evaluate for a couple of weeks.

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I first tried it with my nearest BT FON Wi-Fi hot spot discovering that FON now have a special .MOBI styled login page that makes it much easier for mobile users to login. Fring 3.36.15 also worked on the E63 now uses native NOKIA SIP services and still provides access to Skype, GoogleTalk & other VOIP and SIP services.

NOKIA have addressed a lot of the issues with the E61i now using a "standard" USB connector, "standard" 3.5mm audio connector and improved keyboard layout.

So now its an easy choice !

If I needed a mobile with GPS I'd buy a 6220c and if I needed WiFi,SIP,VOIP I'd buy a E63 !

Thanks to those nice people at WOM I've just been lent a NOKIA E63 to evaluate for a couple of weeks.

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I first tried it with my nearest BT FON Wi-Fi hot spot discovering that FON now have a special .MOBI styled login page that makes it much easier for mobile users to login. Fring 3.36.15 also worked on the E63 now uses native NOKIA SIP services and still provides access to Skype, GoogleTalk & other VOIP and SIP services.

NOKIA have addressed a lot of the issues with the E61i now using a "standard" USB connector, "standard" 3.5mm audio connector and improved keyboard layout.

So now its an easy choice !

If I needed a mobile with GPS I'd buy a 6220c and if I needed WiFi,SIP,VOIP I'd buy a E63 !

According to http://laforge.gnumonks.org/weblog/linux/gpl-violations/

Skype gives up fight against GPL
Thu, 08 May 2008
Skype withdraws appeals case, judgement from lower court accepted

The court hearing in the "Welte vs. Skype Technologies SA" case went pretty well. Initially the court again suggested that the two parties might reach some form of amicable agreement. We indicated that this has been discussed before and we're not interested in settling for anything less than full GPL compliance.

The various arguments by Skype supporting their claim that the GPL is violating German anti-trust legislation as well as further claims aiming at the GPL being invalid or incompatible with German legislation were not further analyzed by the court.

The court stated that there was not enough arguments and material brought forward by Skype to support such a claim. And even if there was some truth to that, then Skype would not be able to still claim usage rights under that very same license.

E-Mail & VoiceMail convergence !

Eyejot is the first, comprehensive, client-free online video messaging platform ideal for both personal and business communications. It offers everyone the ability to create and receive video messages in a self-contained, spam-free environment. With no client to install, you can start using Eyejot immediately with any browser, on any platform.

Watch Eyejot video examples.

View http://daryn.vox.com/library/post/eyejot-promo-video.html

I wonder if it works on the £222 ASUS EEE PCs

PS That must be why Tesco's is selling off its notebooks that DONT have webcams !

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SourceForge projects (with services) i wish i knew about earlier

SME & ERP

• http://open.mitija.com/blueerp/
  
• http://www.compiere.com/
• http://sourceforge.net/projects/openbravo/
• http://gnuaccounting.sourceforge.net/
  

• http://www.elastix.org/
• http://www.vmukti.com/
• http://vcm.sourceforge.net/
  

• http://mediacoder.sourceforge.net/
• http://desmume.org/
• http://jasperforge.org/sf/projects/jasperreports
• http://www.imgseek.net/
• http://dev.wifidog.org/
• http://wikimap.sourceforge.net/Main_Page
• http://hotelmis.sourceforge.net/
• http://www.geocities.com/henrymolinab/bwcontrol.html
  

Previously you had to chose between free worldwide wi-fi roaming or making money but NOW you can do BOTH !

Roam for free and make money with your WiFi !

Foneros can now both connect for free and make a little money by participating in the FON Community. It’s easy. Every time a visitor (non-Fonero) detects your WiFi signal there’s a good chance you can make a bit of “dinero”.

http://blog.fon.com/en/archive/general/btfon041007.html

FON and BT have partnered to create the BT FON Community to cover the entire U.K. with hundreds of thousands of BT FON hotspots. FON, the world’s largest Wi-Fi Community, and BT is one of the leading broadband providers in the world, and the birth of our BT FON Community means something uniquely special for broadband users in the U.K. and all over the world.

FON has now been integrated in BT and now more than more than 3 million Total Broadband customers are invited to join the enormous global community of people sharing their WiFi. FON equity investors include Excite, Google & Skype amongst others !

VOIP over Wi-Fi has now arrived in the UK as a viable mobile phone alternative !

fring is user friendly (and self promoting) !

fring automatically lets your MSN contacts know that :

• I'm mobile on fring www.fring.com !
  

and your Skype contacts know that

• I'm are mobile on fring www.fring.com/skype (typing slowly & can't receive videos or files) !
  

fring is a VOIP/IM solution that works on Symbian S60 series phones and lets you use GoogleTalk, MSN, Skype and make SIP VOIP calls wherever a GSM/EDGE/3G or WiFi connection is available !

PS I use it on a NOKIA E61i !

Symbian S60 (eg NOKIA E61i) + fring + GoogleTalk + MSN + Skype + SIP (via Euteliavoip) lets you communicate with everyone from everywhere (there's a Wi-Fi hotspot or GSM/EDGE/3G available) !

Yes ! fring works with all these protocols simultaneously including SIP (RFC 3261 SIP) with the need for STUN !