A New Kind of Revolution in the Dorms of Dartmouth

Now, the college is venturing into the world of "voice over Internet protocol," also known as VoIP, which essentially turns a computer into a telephone.

This week, as classes begin, the 1,000 students entering the class of 2007 will be given the option of downloading software, generically known as softphones, onto Windows-based computers.

Using the software together with a headset, which can be plugged into a computer's U.S.B. port, the students can make local or long-distance telephone calls free. Each student is assigned a traditional seven-digit phone number.

voip on a computer is cool, but wouldn't it be better to use a normal telephone, one that doubles as a cell phone also:
http://geocities.com/karlsson/celliphone.html