Teleo Brings SIP to the Desktop

ITworld.com – Skype One-Upped by Teleo
"A software telephone on the laptop ties into your Microsoft software making it a one-click operation to call anyone listed in your laptop. Highlight the name of an e-mail sender who’s in your address book, click to call, and hear that person’s phone ring. See a phone number on a Web site in IE? Click and call. Calls to other Teleo users are encrypted like Skype calls.

The phone number assigned to your laptop accepts incoming calls from any other telephone, something Skype has yet to introduce (their SkypeIn service is still in test mode). When your laptop is off, forward the calls to your cell phone. No modern road warrior/expense account white collar wage slave is without one of the two every hour of the day and night."

Unlike Skype, Teleo is using SIP to power their system. It would be neat if you could route the line to an Asterisk PBX .  Of course, the technology behind this is pretty straight forward and open to anyone if your handy with Linux:)

Podcasting Sports

USATODAY.com – ESPN is networking college basketball tournaments to the maximum
Sam Coutin launched thepodcastnetwork.com this week to offer anybody the chance to create their own sports podcasts. So far, early adapters have been slow to gravitate to sports podcasts “because of the lack of a correlation between sports and geekiness,” Coutin says. Some scientists might dispute that notion.

Just yesterday John and I thought we’d go for a ‘cease & desist’ by doing live streaming webcasts and podcasting of baseball games using a cellphone and the new Astercast technology.