Making calls has become fifth most frequent use for a Smartphone for newly-networked generation of users

How long we spend using our smartphones (by activity) each day

Activity Time/day
Browsing the internet 24.81
Checking social networks 17.49
Playing games 14.44
Listening to music 15.64
Making calls 12.13
Checking/writing emails 11.1
Text messaging 10.2
Watching TV/films 9.39
Reading books 9.3
Taking photographs 3.42
Total 128

via O2 News Centre.

Share your stuff with a link!

We’re super excited to announce a whole new way to share: now you can send a link to the files or folders in your Dropbox!

Sharing with friends and family is easy! Once you’ve saved that video of your niece’s birthday party to Dropbox, just make a link to send to grandma and she can simply watch online — no download required! This saves you the hassle of having to re-upload or attach it to an email.

via The Dropbox Blog » Blog Archive » Share your stuff with a link!.

Asterisk Key System Emulation

Multi Phone Hold

We have a number of locals that dial more than one set and, on our legacy Nortel Meridian, the users used to be able to place the call on hold on one set, and pick it up on another. When we switched to Asterisk, this was the most complained about missing feature, so I came up with the following trickery to make our Polycoms emulate the same functionality.

via Asterisk Key System Emulation – voip-info.org.

SLA=Shared Line Experience

SLA can also be confused with Service Level Agreement which is also a telecom acronym.