Tag archive: Edison

Thousands of new inventions are registered (or stolen) and reach the global marketplace every year, but only a tiny handful become staples of modern life. The telegraph, the telephone, the lightbulb, and radio were each breakthroughs which had tremendous impacts on today's culture, but one de facto standard of modern life probably rests in your hand every day: the television remote control. Robert Adler, the co-inventor of the… Read More

In a somewhat surprising move to promote its Windows Live Local mapping service, software giant Microsoft has unveiled CelebFavorites, a new Web site based on Microsoft's Windows Live Local mapping service which pinpoints the favorite spots and hangouts of eight celebrities and entertainers. Unlike other celeb-spotting sites (like the controversial Gawker Stalker Map), celebrities are willingly participating in CelebFavorites: instead… Read More

“Vonage users who are customers of the broadband provider reported late last year that they suddenly couldn't use the Vonage service, says Brooke Schulz, vice president of corporate communications at Vonage, in Edison, New Jersey. Vonage did some troubleshooting and discovered that network ports over which its calls traveled had been deliberately blocked, she says. Vonage then manually rerouted its calls through the network as a… Read More

In an announcement stating it was lowering the cost of it's highest-priced residential plan, Vonage also said that its subscriber base has exceeded 155,000 users. The company had announced it reached the 100,000 subscriber mark in February of 2004. Pricing for the company's ”Premium Unlimited” plan is now $29.99, a $5 reduction in the price of the plan. Edison, N.J. based Vonage is the nation's leading… Read More