VoIP News and Gadgets

"Rumor is that Google is planning to offer free nationwide WiFi. According to Om's B2Day, San Francisco's mayor Gavin Newsom will hold a press conference today detailing his plans for a citywide WiFi network."
San Francisco To Announce Free WiFi Initiatives

Feds fund VoIP tapping research | Tech News on ZDNet: "Wang discovered he could embed a unique, undetectable signature in Skype packets and then identify that signature when they reached their destination. The technique works in much the same way as a radioactive marker that a patient swallows, permitting doctors to monitor its progress through the digestive system.

'It's based on the flow itself,' Wang said. 'I embed a watermark into the flow itself, the timing of the packets. By adjusting the timing of select packets slightly, it's transparent. There's no overhead in the bandwidth, and it's very subtle. It's mingled with the background noise.'"

"Software helps you stop being a jerk"
MIT scientists come up with technology that measures vocal signals to see if you're being annoying on the phone.