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EXCLUSIVE: Interview with SunRocket preferred provider TeleBlend distribution partner's CEO: TeleBlend is one of two "preferred" VoIP service providers suggested by Sherwood Partners, which is handling SunRocket's dissolutionWith more than a week since the shutoff, and former SunRocket customers still transitioning to new homes, I thought it might be interesting to check in with someone on the TeleBlend side for...; Tags: News, Packet 8, Vonage; Blog posts 2007-07-25
Reader:recommendation by SunRocket like tobacco company suggesting cancer MD: Re the above-- YA THINK?And the bricks keep on being tossed on the gravestone:Reader Phil from Fairfax County Virginia in the D.C. suburbs writes to tell me briefly considered switching from the deceased SunRocket to either TeleBlend or Packet 8.Yet it was the manner in which SunRocket left its subscribers...; Tags: Packet 8; Blog posts 2007-07-23
Reader: transferred from SunRocket to TeleBlend and I am still waiting: Just a few minutes ago, I received an email from a reader who has been attempting to transfer his VoIP service from the now-discontinued SunRocket to TeleBlend.Along with 8x8's Packet8 service, TeleBlend is one of the two "recommended service providers" suggested by SunRocket creditors as a successor service to their...; Tags: Providers, Packet 8; Blog posts 2007-07-23
SunRocket creditors announce two preferred providers: Vonage takes big hit: As has been rumored ever since SunRocket went belly up Monday, their creditors have signed deals with former SR competitors 8x8 and Unified Communications Corp. to be "preferred service providers" for SR's 200,000 orphaned customers.The deal has to be good for 8x8, and its Packet 8 service. Normal start up...; Tags: Vonage, Predictions and Observations, Packet 8, News; Blog posts 2007-07-19
So why is SunRocket's site still up? Here's why: I guess the few remaining SunRocket employees had to pack up and leave so darn quickly on Monday, no one had time to put up a placeholder on the site saying no new orders are being accepted, and as a matter of fact, we're gone.You would have thought that, anyway.But...; Tags: Predictions and Observations, Packet 8, News; Blog posts 2007-07-18

Here's where many of those orphaned SunRocket users will go: Now I know why SunRocket instituted their $199 a year plan. Perhaps not so much as a clever competitive marketing strategy but as a desperate move to raise cash.Not enough cash was raised to sustain operations, or even to capture the interest of a lender or buyer.With the shutdown of...; Tags: Predictions and Observations, Packet 8; Blog posts 2007-07-17
SunRocket's discount price: clever marketing or desperate move?: SunRocket's discount price: clever marketing or desperate move?Could not disagree moreSunrocket has been growing at a very fast clip. They are now the second-fastest growing "standalone" VOIP provider with about 10,000 customers added each month. Adding the $9.95 plan is the natural expansion of SRs successful business...; Tags: Telephony, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, marketing, Packet 8, SunRocket, VoIP; Discussion threads 2005-12-12

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Snort Security Platform (Snort SP) 3.0 beta released: Congrats to Martin Roesch and crew for delivering the next in a long line of well respected open source security products. From Snort's site: Snort Security Platform SnortSP 3.0 Beta We're pleased to introduce our first beta release built on the new Snort 3.0 architecture. The Snort 3.0...; Tags: Snort, Beta, SnortSP, Snort 3.0 Architecture, Databases, Networking, Security, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Nathan McFeters; Blog posts 2008-07-01
Apple plugs 25 Mac OS X security vulnerabilities: Apple has shipped another Mac OS X monster update to fix a total of 25 documented vulnerabilities that could lead to arbitrary code execution attacks. With Security Update 2008-004, Apple fixes code execution flaws in Launch Services, SMB File Server, System Configuration, VPN and WebKit. ...; Tags: Security, Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Arbitrary Code Execution, Small And Medium Business, Apache Tomcat, Application Termination, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS, Smb/Sme, Operating Systems, Software, Ryan Naraine; Blog posts 2008-06-30
MySpeed Standard (exe): MySpeed Server broadband testing software enables you to quickly and easily provide bandwidth speed test services to your customers and end users. Bandwidth tests accurately measure data transfer speeds via HTTP between your end-users and your server. The consistency of data transfer speeds is reported, a key measure of connection...; Tags: Speed, Visualware, Telephony, Tcp/Ip, VOIP, Telecommunications, Java, Networking, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development; Software downloads 2008-06-26
What works, what doesn't: What works, what doesn'tYou forgot an important pointThat is, once any software base finally stabilizes, force an upgrade to a new super shiny alpha implementation down everybody's throats. This is called the bullsiht baffles brains scenario.Rough figures that I've come across are that 80% of people aren't really capable of...; Tags: Cellular phones, Telecom & Utilities, Asterisk PBX, cell phone, phone; Discussion threads 2008-06-24
Ipfilter (zip): Ipfilter is an easy-to-use packet filter for TCP/IP. It's features: Block outgoing IP packet based on set of predefined rules. Block incoming IP packet based on set of predefined rules. You can block any UDP, TCP, ICMP packet. And rules are flexible. Version 1 includes unspecified updates.; Tags: Packet, Stone Zhong, Ipfilter, Tcp/Ip, Networking, Network Technology; Software downloads 2008-06-20
Sprint announces low cost unlimited everything shared plans: Sprint announces low cost unlimited everything shared plansIt's all still too expensive...The day I can buy a plan that is $50 for EVERYTHING, unlimited, and there's no more nickle and diming, is the day I buy a cell phone from one of these Buzzards.Until then VOIP it is.Basically no change...; Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Sprint Communications, phone; Discussion threads 2008-06-13
MyConnection Server NetworkCenter (exe): MyConnection Server MCS broadband testing software enables businesses to test connections for bandwidth speeds and connection quality for time critical applications such as VoIP, Video conferencing and IPTV. MCS helps organizations to assess networks for deployment of new/additional services, and identify and resolve last mile customer connectivity problems with little...; Tags: IP Television, Last Mile, Visualware, TVs, Broadband Internet, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Telecommunications; Software downloads 2008-06-06
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Samba dinged by 'highly critical' flaw: Researchers at Secunia have flagged a "highly critical" vulnerability in Samba, the widely deployed open-source software for networked file sharing and printing. According to an advisory from Secunia, the vulnerability affects Samba versions 3.0.28a and 3.0.29 and can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable...; Tags: Samba, Small And Medium Business, Flaw, Exploitation, Smb/Sme, Servers, Security, Hardware, Ryan Naraine; Blog posts 2008-05-28
Cloud computing's earthly bonds: Cloud computing's earthly bondsThis echos my talkbacks...on nearly every cloud blog posted on this web site. The cloud is not happening for all but the smallest entities. Any company would be stupid to trust their sensitive data to some third party. Even home grown cloud computing is dangerous with deep...; Tags: Blogging, cloud computing, bond; Discussion threads 2008-05-27
Certeon's aCelera Application Acceleration Appliance: The good folks from Certeon brought their new aCelera application acceleration software appliance to my attention a short while ago. After my recent conversation with Coyote Point, it's beginning to appear that protocol and data caching and optimization tools are going to be the trend du mois. Certeon believes it...; Tags: Software, Performance, Network, VMware Inc., Hardware, Virtual Machine, Certeon, aCelera Software, Application Response, Data Management, Performance Management, Tools & Techniques, Networking, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management, Dan Kusnetzky; Blog posts 2008-05-27