February 12, 2004
News.Com: FCC: 'Pure' VoIP not a phone service.
The Federal Communications Commission, in a split decision, approved a request from Voice over Internet Protocol provider Pulver.com to be immune from the hefty stack of government rules, taxes and requirements that applies to 20th-century telephone networks.
EE Times: FCC affirms hands-off approach to VoIP and IP services.
The moves are designed to ensure more opportunities for consumers through VoIP, while recognizing the advantages of other services in terms of communications costs, innovative services and features, greater economic productivity and growth and expanded network redundancy.
eWEEK: Microsoft Research Ready with Aura.
Research Sociologist Marc Smith, demonstrating Aura during his keynote presentation, explained that the project uses mobile devices to interact with physical objects to retrieve information about them from the Internet as well as to automatically capture and annotate data from them.
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