Nokia has done with this mobile gadget  Nokia calls it a “kinetic device,” a prototype with a flexible display the company showed at Nokia World 2011 in London.

Instead of the pinch to zoom capabilities copied throughout the smartphone industry.

Nokia has come up with a novel way to accomplish the same thing When you bend and twist this handset.

The image on its screen does your bidding in a highly intuitive way.

One of the advantages Nokia touts for such a device is the ability to use it without looking at it for instance, twisting it in your pocket to dismiss a call or change song on a music player.

How does it work? According to CNET, a Nokia demonstrator said the company was experimenting with bundles of carbon nanotubes whose  properties change when they’re stretched.

Those nanotubes are embedded in a flexible substance that allows the device to control the screen when twisted and bent.

An additional advantage.

The device is much tougher and is water resistant, too.

We’ve heard of displays that might be capable of folding like a newspaper and rolled up like a tube, but the idea of controlling by bending is different.

Imagine the possibilities, Perhaps it could be used by blind people, where the bending properties of the device would not require vision to intuitively control a smartphone.

When will we see such a thing in the real world? Nokia’s not saying precisely when its kinetic device will be released, but one rep tells IntoMobile in the video embedded below, “hopefully soon.”

The case of Daniel David Rigmaiden, set to open in the U.S. District Court of Arizona, sheds light on the use of “stingrays,” a generic name for devices designed to locate a mobile phone even when it’s not being used to make a call.

They are considered so critical to FBI investigations that the federal agency aims to keep information about their design and use under wraps.

Mobile phone tracking is raising concern over constitutional rights, as federal law enforcement continues to use “stingray” technology to locate crime.

However, Judge David Campbell will hear a request by Rigmaiden to have information about the government’s secret usage of stingrays disclosed to him in order to build a defense. Rigmaiden currently faces fraud charges.

Rigmaiden’s defense invokes the Constitution’s Fourth Amendment, which prohibits unreasonable search and seizure.

Rigmaiden, who maintains his innocence, claims that stingrays used to search for devices, such as smartphones, in homes without a valid warrant is in violation of the Constitution.

The Fourth Amendment raises questions about the use of location-tracking technology in general, and Rigmaiden’s case focuses specifically on what kind of court approval is necessary to ensure the amendment’s protections.

Prosecutor Frederick A. Battista said the government obtained a “court order that satisfied the language” in the federal law on warrants, but the information provided to get the court order to use the stingray device reportedly didn’t reveal the technology, which may be standard practice.

The litigation includes argument over whether the orders used to authorize stingrays were appropriate, with the defense maintaining that it needs to know the information about the stingray’s use.

The government argues that disclosure of that information would defeat the technology or make it easily detectable.

Local law enforcement in Minnesota, Arizona, Miami and Durham, N.C., either possess the devices or have considered buying them, according to the Wall Street Journal.

The sheriff’s department in Maricopa County, Ariz., reportedly uses the equipment on a monthly basis.

The information stingray-like devices reveal is useful to law enforcement, and supporters argue that information pertains only location.

Not the contents of conversations, which is addressed by wiretap laws and require a warrant.

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John usually talks to audiences who are very unhappy because they don’t own the network nor have control over QoS, but WISPs and other ISPs attending ISPCON are in control and do own the network. The voice they sell can be as good or bad as they are willing to enable with the power they have.

Asterisk is a viable tool to provide voIP. Often used as a telephony toolkit, as voie application, set of APIs, and PBX. Decide to make the call go over SIP or PRI or SS7 link. The APIs give call control over other interfaces for web 2.0 apps, pre-existing database to make calls out… The PBX is very popular worldwide.

“You’re using Asterisk. You just don’t know it.”

Asterisk experienced more than a million downloads in 2008. Watch the video for more info and stats. This video was recorded by me Suzanne during ISPcon 2008.

If you the ISP or WISP is not using and selling Asterisk-based product, who is? That’s a question Todd posed. I would say, “Someone is. No, many are.”