Comments on: Cellphones, The Cigarettes of This Decade http://saunderslog.com/2005/07/11/1690/ A daily round table on the tech industry with experts and callers from all over the globe. Join us as we pick apart the news and get to the meat of what\'s happening out there. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:12:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: VoIP For The Global Traveller - VoIP Sol http://saunderslog.com/2005/07/11/1690/comment-page-1/#comment-50551 VoIP For The Global Traveller - VoIP Sol Wed, 11 Oct 2006 17:19:34 +0000 http://saunderslog.com/?p=1690#comment-50551 [...] Same as above, but coupled with a local, regional, national, or even international toll-free number. You give contacts the 800 number, so they don’t have to pay to call you. Calls are automatically redirect to whatever number you choose. Depending on the provider, you may even be able to simulate “follow me/ find me” functionality, whereby a call is sent through a sequence of numbers until you’re “found”. If you’re not found, a voicemail would have to be recorded somewhere, possibly at the number at the end of the list. Alternately, the VoIP Call-In number itself may be the one doing the forwarding. Of course, these options violate the idea of being able to have a single phone number - which at present is difficult to implement for people who are mobile. However, you still only have to hand out a single number - your toll-free number. [...] [...] Same as above, but coupled with a local, regional, national, or even international toll-free number. You give contacts the 800 number, so they don’t have to pay to call you. Calls are automatically redirect to whatever number you choose. Depending on the provider, you may even be able to simulate “follow me/ find me” functionality, whereby a call is sent through a sequence of numbers until you’re “found”. If you’re not found, a voicemail would have to be recorded somewhere, possibly at the number at the end of the list. Alternately, the VoIP Call-In number itself may be the one doing the forwarding. Of course, these options violate the idea of being able to have a single phone number – which at present is difficult to implement for people who are mobile. However, you still only have to hand out a single number – your toll-free number. [...]

]]> By: Donald Smith http://saunderslog.com/2005/07/11/1690/comment-page-1/#comment-99 Donald Smith Wed, 13 Jul 2005 13:33:34 +0000 http://saunderslog.com/?p=1690#comment-99 My IM list pretty quickly gets pruned with people who are responsible enough to "bug" me when it's important or relevant enough for me to get involved. Blocking/deleting people is not an issue. Ditto with the cell and caller ID, email, etc. What would be great would be to have some sort of sytem that pulls all these identities together so that I can manage as a group, and by context.... - Don My IM list pretty quickly gets pruned with people who are responsible enough to “bug” me when it’s important or relevant enough for me to get involved. Blocking/deleting people is not an issue. Ditto with the cell and caller ID, email, etc. What would be great would be to have some sort of sytem that pulls all these identities together so that I can manage as a group, and by context….

– Don

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