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Over on Pulver’s site, I noticed Buzz2Talk, a push to talk demo that runs on the Nokia 3650 and 7650 phones. It works with Free World Dialup of course. I’ve been trying to get it to work, but I’m not sure if it’s me, AT&T network or my NAT that is borking things. Any other 3650 users out there that want to give this a shot?

Just noticed on BoingBoing that Jeff Pulver / FWD are releasing an 802.11b phone. Forbes has a story here.

The WiSIP can be used with FWD and they are working on compatibility with vonage. The article also mentions that you can buy hardware to bridge your existing landline. Very cool. We totally need some of these for HackNight.

A very thorough writeup of Linksys’ violation to the GPL was picked up by /. today.

I’ve added some very basic rss support to 16photos, and released the next version of phonecam.sh

I’ve been invited to speak at the pulver.com Wireless Internet Summit down in Santa Clara. There are a lot of people I know on the schedule, so it should be a blast.

For those of you that don’t know, pulver.com hosts Free World Dialup and a variety of conferences. Jeff Pulver also has a blog

Well, it’s not kozmo, but MercuryDVD delivers movies to people in Seattle in about an hour. They have a per-rental and a netflix style deal(2 movies rotating). To return the movies, you drop the pre-paid envelope in a mailbox. Hopefully everyone will use them and they’ll start branching into Beer, Cigarettes and Ice Cream.

Rob has NoCatSplash running on the LinksysWrt54g. We’re still a little shy from making this thing the full node-in-a-box, but its getting closer everyday.

Also available for the little blue box, is a new version of Wrt54gTools thanks to CJ Collier, and Jim Buzbee has even put together a snort distro (disk to gather logs not included).

This is a great thing for wireless networks as well as wired. POP needs to go the way of telnet and just die already. One of the things that’s always amused (and slightly irritated) me about the whole “isn’t this all terribly insecure” question that I repeatedly get when talking about wireless is that The Internet is not secure by any means. At least with wireless, the question gets raised, and people can either do something about encrypting their traffic or suffer the consequences.