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Ooma and Dialpad are two of the top-rated VoIP solutions. Learn about key features of these VoIP solutions in our head-to-head product comparison.
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While rarely seen by users, the technology behind telephone exchanges is actually quite interesting. In the first hundred or so years of their existence they evolved from manually-operated switchboards to …read more Continue reading The Simplest Electro-Mechanical Telephone Exchange That Actually Works
I have heard many prank calls from ~2004-2007. In many of them, completely different people all mention the same thing about them "tracking the pranker", clearly in an attempt to scare the prank caller into ceasing to call them, … Continue reading Is there any truth to the (to me) bizarre idea that you can "track" a phone call better depending on how long it goes on? [duplicate]
I have heard many prank calls from ~2004-2007. In many of them, completely different people all mention the same thing about them "tracking the pranker", clearly in an attempt to scare the prank caller into ceasing to call them, … Continue reading Is there any truth to the (to me) bizarre idea that you can "track" a phone call better depending on how long it goes on? [duplicate]
Good news from Jezero crater as the Mars rover Perseverance manages to accomplish for the first time what it was sent to do: collect and cache core samples from rocks. …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: September 5, 2021
The modern consumer is not overly concerned with their phone conversations being monitored. For one thing, Google and Amazon have done a tremendous job of conditioning them to believe that electronic gadgets listening to their every word isn’t just acceptable, …read more
Walking is great exercise, but it’s good for the mind too: it gives one time to observe and to think. At least that’s what I do on my daily walks, and being me, what I usually observe and think about is the local infrastructure along my route. Recently, I was …read more
Continue reading Ask Hackaday: With Landline Use in Decline, What’s to be Done with the Local Loop?
Anyone who was active in the phreaking scene or was even the least bit curious about the phone system back in the Ma Bell days no doubt remembers the carbon capsule microphone in the mouthpiece of many telephone handsets. With carbon granules sandwiched between a diaphragm and a metal plate, …read more
Continue reading Wood and Carbon Rods Used for This Handsome and Effective Microphone
Sorry to bear sad tidings, but your car’s extended warranty is about to expire. At least that’s what you’ll likely hear if you answer one of those robocalls that have descended like a plague upon us. We applaud any effort to control the flood of robocalls, even if it means …read more
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After spotting some interesting military phones at a museum, [CuriousMarc] wondered what it would take to retrofit these heavy duty pieces of telecom equipment for civilian use. He knew most of the internals would be a lost cause, but reasoned that if he could reverse engineer key elements such as …read more
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