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Here's why so many ITs don't care about Net Neutrality

Rich Tehrani believes this. I think he is right. Let me explain why. But first, a backgrounder.Rich writes that at the last ITEXPO in San Diego earlier this month he asked hundreds of people attending the keynote if they care about net neutrality."Out of somewhere around 500-700 people," Rich...

Tags: information technology, Net Neutrality

Blog posts 2006-10-21

Avaya's IP solution to nuke waste accident risk

Fellow VoIP blogger and TMCnet President Rich Tehrani is at his company's VoIP Developer Conference in San Francisco.Last night, he put up a fascinating blog entry that he titled Avaya Touts Just In Time Communications.Rich recounts a session yesterday in which IP telephony solutions provider Avaya's director of application enablement...

Tags: Avaya Inc., Rich Tehrani

Blog posts 2005-08-04

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Nortel Demos Virtual World Platform

Nortel demoed a virtual world prototype here in a Ottawa at a day long event. Dubbed Project Chainsaw, the virtual world is the first project to come out of Nortel new research effort that imposes a VC-like model for funding research. Like other virtual worlds, Project...

Tags: Collaboration, Nortel Networks Corp., Voice, World Platform, Project Chainsaw, Telecommunications, Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2008-05-16

Here are six reasons why Google could buy Sprint-but the BIG reason they won't

Rich Tehrani, Om Malik and others have been blogging about the bizarre-sounding but not implausible possibility that Google may purchase beleaguered, lost-at-sea telecom giant SprintNextel. Makes sense to me except for one big honkin' "but" (that's "but" with one "t"): Makes sense because: ...

Tags: Google Inc., SprintNextel, Portals, WiMAX, Mergers & Acquisitions, Blogging, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Internet, Wireless, Investment, Finance, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2007-11-12

Here's what other bloggers are saying about Vonage's toils and snares

Ive been dialing around to some other blogs that cover VoIP, and gathering up reactions to the turnover in Vonages executive suite and what it means to the company.Opinions are varied, but the consensus seems to be that Mike Snyders departure represents the will of founder-Chairman Jeff Citron to right...

Tags: Vonage, General

Blog posts 2007-04-12

Comcast VoIP 1, Dave "Grandfather of Internet" Farber, 0

And so, as Rich Tehrani reports, it played out in a Texas courtroom yesterday when Comcast successfully defended itself against a $2.2 billion lawsuit filed by Caritas Techologies.Dave Farber, who is often cited as the "grandfather of the Internet," holds a series of VoIP-related patents. That was, and is,...

Tags: Telephony, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Internet, Comcast Corp., conferee, telephone, Caritas Techologies.Dave Farber, patent, VoIP, in-charge conferee, PSTN, network

Blog posts 2006-11-14

Thursday's Mobile Review Roundup

Our reviews team was very busy with a bunch of new mobile products in the last day. Here's some of what our reviews team published in the last 24 hours:The big screen of handhelds? Creative's Zen Vision W video review here: It almost looks more like an OQO (that...

Tags: Revision, EVDO

Blog posts 2006-09-14

Intel sells off DSP division Dialogic

August 9, 2006, Intel announced that it would sell off its DSP Digital Signal Processing media and signal processing business known as the Dialogic division to Eicon Networks which Intel had originally acquired Dialogic back in 1999. This comes on the heals of Intel's sale of the ARM processor...

Tags: DSP, Intel Corp., Dialogic

Blog posts 2006-08-10

Wondering what is up with Google and Dell

Wall Street seems to hate the notion of Google paying Dell one billion dollars (cue the Dr. Evil music) to include something Google-ish on its PCs. Henry Blodgett thinks Google will scare off increasingly skittish Google-vestors if it appears the cool kids now have to buy distribution. Blodgett and...

Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Office

Blog posts 2006-02-08

Prediction- Google-powered Star Office suite for Dell

CNBC reports that Google is in negotiation with Dell on a $1 billion deal that would let Google install some of its software on all new Dell computers.Fellow blogger Rich Tehrani writes that for that amount of money, we should expect something "radically" new. He surmises this could be...

Tags: Google Inc.

Blog posts 2006-02-07

Report: Vonage in talks to sell to BellSouth

Late this afternoon, Rich Tehrani, publisher of technology news site TMCnet, reported on his blog that:"Rumor has it that Vonage is in talks with BellSouth to sell their VoIP service company for about 3.5 billion dollars." Tehrani added that when Vonage's 800,000 or so subscribers are factored in to the...

Tags: BellSouth Corp., Vonage Holdings Corp., TMCnet

Blog posts 2005-07-13

Study: VoIP reliability, audio quality still not equal to PSTN

Update: this post contains corrected information, based on additional data sent to us by Keynote Systems.Keynote Systems is out with a five-week study that claims VoIP reliability and audio quality still fall short of PSTN Public Switched Telephone Network standards. For its "Keynote VoIP Competitive Intelligence Study," Keynote tested VoIP...

Tags: KeyNote, PSTN

Blog posts 2005-07-11

VoIP community sees incoming FCC chief Martin as open-minded

Incoming FCC Commissioner Kevin Martin will have a lot to say about VoIP regulation - or lack thereof.So far, the VoIP community seems to be somewhat upbeat. Can't really tell if the sentiments are more out of courtesy or a sense of ideological compatibility - but they do sound sincere.Here's...

Tags: VoIP, Commissioner Martin

Blog posts 2005-03-18