IVR Hacks

"Are you sick of those annoying interactive voice response (IVR) systems that many companies use? "Press 1 for Customer Service, Press 2 for Sales," as you navigate an increasingly frustrating maze of options in an effort to reach a human being who can answer your question or process your sale.

ivrhacks.com is a directory of shortcuts to IVR systems for companies around the world. These shortcuts allow you to exit this maze as quickly and as effortlessly as possible, taking you to a human operator who can respond to your call in the old fashioned way; using their own voice and interacting with you through conversation. "


http://ivrhacks.com/

Save Our Phone Box

"They are saying they are taking all the beautiful red phone-boxes away.

Link to this web site to see if you could do something to help stop this.

www.saveourphoneboxes.plaidcymru.org/"

http://www.flickr.com/photos/brynmeillion/2663600097/

Phone box that's a home from home

"Like most of us, Cadwgan Edwards would find life tough without his phone. The difference is, however, that his is in a public call box outside his house."



http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/mid/7493506.stm

Find the MAC address on your N95

"To find out what yours is, enter *#62209526#"

or

"I took the battery out and read it off the back of a tiny sticker!"

http://myn95.com/?p=18

GooSync - Synchronise Google Calendar and Phone

"Synchronize your Google Calendar with your mobile phone or PDA.

GooSync will seamlessly synchronize almost any mobile device with your Google Calendar. It's quick and simple, sign-up and start syncing"

https://www.goosync.com/

Mobile web server

A webserver on your mobile phone

http://mymobilesite.net/

Transatlantic Submarine Cables Reaching Land - Taryn Simon

"These submarine telecommunication cables extend more than 8,000 miles across the Atlantic Ocean before reaching this endpoint in Avon, New Jersey. They transmit as many as 60 million simultaneous conversations. "There's a humor because the cables are so important, yet they look so unguarded and unimportant," Simon said."

http://www.wired.com/culture/art/multimedia/2008/01/gallery_simon?slide=10&slideView=1

European Media Phone of the Year 2007-2008: Nokia N95

Commenting on the award, EISA praised the Nokia N95 as containing “practically every feature one could imagine in a mobile device.” Additionally, the award citation of the EISA jury goes on to say: “It’s no mere mobile phone and no mere status symbol. Pick up a Nokia N95 and you hold in your hands a state-of-the-art communication tool - the ideal way to remain permanently in touch and on track with the world that surrounds you.”

http://n95blog.com/european-media-phone-of-the-year-2007-2008-nokia-n95/

Best Tips and tricks for Nokia N95

http://sjc-123.blogspot.com/2007/07/best-tips-and-tricks-for-nokia-n95.html

The Nokia N95 Mega Review

Since the first pictures of the N95 started appearing on the net it made a really big impact not only in the mobile community, but also other tech related media, even the non-tech media covered the phone. Before the release to the public, forums were packed with discussions about this mobile phone and since then it has become some kind of ultimate gadget lover’s phone.

http://www.gadgetnutz.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=00349

The future of telecom is in Wales

The city of Cardiff may seem like an unlikely place for a technological revolution, but in a few months the capital of Wales will be home to a new kind of telecommunications network that could drastically change the way phone calls, Web pages, e-mail and other data are shipped to and fro.

http://money.cnn.com/2006/06/07/news/companies/pluggedin_fortune/index.htm