How about a complete system for your front door? The Aiphone version of the old fashioned doorbell has both chimes and voice capabilities! The CCS-1A Chime Com2 Door Entry compact unit takes up no more room than a light switch plate and delivers clear audio to the user.
The Aiphone Tenant Station is another excellent product. It offers great features such as a large Push-To-Talk button, door release button, 4” black and white monitor, security guard call button, volume control, and you can use up to 500 stations in one system. (more…)

3G wireless seems to be all about new technology, multibillion-dollar expansions and high-wire international finance deals with little or no discussion of service offerings or value propositions. Surely investors know what this could lead to, so why is most of the wireless world making this huge bet on 3G?
One important motivation: 3G is more efficient and simply works better. Since it is packet-based it uses wireless spectrum more efficiently than first- or second-generation systems. This is particularly important for data communications because of the discontinuous and bursty nature of the traffic. Secondly, a packet-based system can send and receive messages (and calls) simultaneously from two or more cell sites while 2G systems choose the “best” site and stay locked on it until the signal is handed off. The packet-by-packet approach provides more reliable and better quality communications by a statistical hedging process similar to the portfolio theory of stock market investing. (more…)

When was the last time you surfed the Net on your mobile phone and were limited by its small screen? Have you ever wanted to hook onto the Web but found yourself connectivity-handicapped because you were not in a hotspot? Wireless technologies of all kinds ranging from mobile phones running on 3G technologies to laptops utilising Wi-Fi facilities are fast re-shaping the way we work and play.
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U.S. service providers looking to keep consumers online long enough to sop up excess network bandwidth might follow the example of British Telecom, which is testing its luck with online gambling.

BT’s AOL-like openworld service, which already runs sites on music, games, travel and shopping, among other things, now offers a sports and betting online service. Operated in partnerships with casino operators from Las Vegas and the Isle of Man, the “Sport & Bets” site has sections devoted to casinos, sports betting, lottery and bingo.

“Betting, games and music are a accepted as being the three biggest mass market subscription revenue generators outside, of adult services,” says BTopenworld executive John Raczka. “We have already established leading games and music destination sites in the U.K., and we will soon have a unrivaled offering as an ISP across all three categories.”
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