Jajah and Intel announce first collaboration
Intel took a sizeable investment in Jajah last year and whilst most of us speculated that the final product would be a virtual phone on a PC it appears to have gone a lot further than we had guessed.
JAJAH’s telephony functionality being paired with Intel’s latest Remote Wake Technology which is being announced later today.
“The combination of these technologies enables a PC to make and receive calls over the JAJAH network and critically – to ‘wake up’ from energy efficient sleep mode to receive a call. Currently, the inability for a PC to function as a phone in sleep mode has meant people are actually missing calls while their PC is powered down, or are being forced to leave their PC running all the time, which is clearly not very energy efficient. With this new technology, people are able to conserve power consumption by putting their PC into sleep mode, without the risk of missing a call”
This is nice and would definitely encourage me to add a phone line to the home server.
Cool but with marginal use. How many people use a PC as a primary line that they need it to sleep and awake.
Though if you want to use it for controlling your home devices that might be useful. People have been known to set up Asterisk to control lights in their home, turn on the microwave etc..
This would be cool back in the Skype days but now I don’t really see the usability for it as we’re slowly but surely liberating ourselves from our computers when it comes to VoIP.