Author: Enno ter Keurst

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First spinoff of Philips ink invention

The Sony reader which was presented at the Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas is the result of an invention by the Dutch firm Philips. The reader uses a display technology which is called ‘Electronic Paper Display’.
Looks like a cool gadget and I think it can be used in more ways then just for reading books. What about combining a bigger version with an online subscribtion to your newspaper(s). This is a solution which the company iRex Technologies is proposing. See this link here.
You can read more about the Electronic Paper Display at this link from Philips.

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Skype killer application

I found a possible Skype killer application; Gizmo. (http://www.gizmoproject.com/index.html).
Gizmo is a free VOIP application which is based on the open protocol
standard SIP.

Why is this important, isn’t Skype the new standard? No, Skype is the hype and nobody has bothered to look under the bonnet. Skype is a locked down box using a propriety protocol and is dependent on the availability of Skype’s central servers. None of that with a SIP based solution.