New PCs can wake up when they get phone calls
August 14, 2008 By PETER SVENSSON , AP Technology Writer
Intel South Asia, Director Sales, R. Ravichandran, unseen, shows newly launched Intel Centrino 2 processor technology in the planner (mother board) of a laptop, at a press conference, in New Delhi, India, in this Tuesday, July 15, 2008 file photo. Intel Corp. is unveiling new technology Thursday Aug. 14, 2008 that will let computers wake up from their power-saving sleep state when they receive a phone call over the Internet. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
(AP) -- Intel Corp. is unveiling new technology that will let computers wake up from their power-saving sleep state when they receive a phone call over the Internet.
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...but you still have to buy that computer (@$30/month over 3 yrs)
Meanwhile,Ma Bell's phones don't cost you anything for electricity...unless you absolutely need a wireless one, and they continue working when the power goes off (like during a natural disaster, when you'd MOST need a phone!)
adding this to ethernet connections isn't "new technology" its a rehash of old tech to new.
in fact, Wake-On-Lan (WoL), which this essentially is, has been around for decades.