Will Turner: “We’re going to steal a ship? That ship?”
Jack Sparrow: “Commandeer. We’re going to commandeer that ship. Nautical term.”
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
The CEO of YMax Corp. and the inventor of the original magicJack, Dan Borislow, unveiled his latest creation at the Consumer Electronics Show last week. The new magicJack is a miniature GSM femtocell that uses exclusively licensed wireless spectrum. The device connects to your PC and then to any GSM handset that comes within 8 feet. Once a handset is linked to the device, any calls made over the handset are routed through the magicJack over the Internet rather than through the wireless carrier’s cellular network. Because the call is routed through the Internet, no minutes are subtracted from the handset user’s account with the wireless carrier (although extra fees for international calls are subtracted from the user’s account with magicJack). Read the rest of this entry »