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Funny is hard

My ire was raised by the results of an interview I had thought would result in a tribute to my late friend Russell Shaw. Instead Matt Richel made it plain he aimed to claim blogging killed Russell, which was so crazy I began to laugh. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Satire, Humor, Russell Shaw, Intellectual Property, Open Source, Research & Development, Business Operations, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-12-22

Sorry, Gizmodo, VoIP over iPhone isn't going to be "huge"

Gizmodo's Brian Lam (no, not the C-SPAN guy, that'd be Brian Lamb) notes a snippet from Apple's SDK-coming-out-part press conference in which one Mr. Jobs noted that any third-party iPhone developer cooks up a VoIP program for iPhone, the utility will be allowed to work via...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Gizmodo, Brian, Mobile VoIP, Telephony, VOIP, Telecommunications, Networking, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2008-03-07

Over WiFi at DIA, free speech is DOA

SI model Jessica Gomes, if you must know. Our own Maggie Reardon expands on a  Denver Post story that notes the Denver International Airport has chosen to block Wi-Fi access to such sites as boingboing.net,  the website of Vanity Fair magazine, and even the web link to...

Tags: Sports Illustrated, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2008-03-07

Exclusive: iPhone DevCamp's Raven on iPhone SDK and what it means

Just a few minutes ago, I had a most enlightening email conversation with someone who knows as much about the new iPhone SDK, and its effects/potential, as anyone who doesn't work at Apple. And probably know more than most who do. That'd...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Developer, SDK, Apple Inc., Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, RS, RZ, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2008-03-06

Is proprietary iPhone video player on the way?

In remarks to analysts yesterday, Apple CEO Steve Jobs clarified why the iPhone does not support Flash. Jobs said a key reason is that Adobe's Flash Player is optimally built for laptops. Because laptops are larger than the iPhone, the performance of...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Steve Jobs, Video, Video Player, Media Players, Corporate Communications, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2008-03-05

Truphone cuts international rates with new Tru Zone offering

Today, Wi-Fi centered mobile Internet service provider Truphone announced a pretty significant per-minute calling cost reduction on calls from the U.S. to 40 countries. Marketed as Tru Zone, these calls will be USD0.06 per minute to landlines and USD0.30 per minute. ...

Tags: Mobile, Call, Truphone, Advertising & Promotion, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Marketing, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2008-03-04

Score one for the little guy: FCC entirely backs consumer in Sprint slamming case

The meme that this FCC is highly partial to the interests of large broadband service providers and telcos has often been hammered home on these screens. While I am certainly not ready to contradict those overarching feelings, I nevertheless...

Tags: FCC, Commission, Subscriber, Charge, Rule, Sprint Communications, Carrier, Complainant, Section 258, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2008-03-04

Fonality boosts presence detection in new PBXtra4.0

Got a guided tour the other day of business phone system solutions provider Fonality's new PBXtra 4.0 phone system. Announced this morning, the new rev offers enhanced presence detection under the aegis of FindMe with Boomerang Mobile Integration. The sell...

Tags: Phone, Fonality, Telecom & Utilities, Mice, Hardware, Peripherals, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2008-03-04

Uh-oh: Oprah's streamed New Earth Event runs short on bandwidth

Last night's inaugural, Skype co-sponsored  webcast of Oprah Winfrey's Oprah.com New Earth Event scored 500,000 simultaneous log-ins. That would be all well and good, but the gathering multitudes resulted in 242 Gbps of information moving over the 'net at the same time. ...

Tags: Bandwidth, Webcast, Statement, Oprah Winfrey, Podcasts, Digital Media, Internet, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2008-03-04

Reader: AT&T tells me Time Warner Cable is blocking his VoIP

A reader and information technology professional in the New York area sent me an email this morning that raises the possibility that his high-speed Internet service provider Time Warner Cable may be blocking his AT&T CallVantage VoIP service. Not only does the reader wish to describe...

Tags: Time Warner Inc., VoIP, Phone, AT&T Corp., AT&T CallVantage, ATT, Telecom & Utilities, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Networking, Telecommunications, Internet, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2008-03-03

Apple co-founder Woz: sometimes I use a Moto Razr instead of an iPhone

In Sydney, Australia for a keynote speech at the Broadband and Beyond Conference this morning, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak appeared to lament the fact that the iPhone doesn't have 3G support in the U.S During a press conference immediately after his keynote, the Sydney Morning Herald's Asher...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Co-founder, Motorola Razr, Apple Inc., Internet, 3G, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2008-03-03

Sexism at the Apple Store? Woman claims "Genius" totally ignored her while pitching her husband

Seems as though when Consumerist reader Arjela and her husband entered an Apple store in Bellevue, Wash. to shop for a MacBook Air last week, she felt as though the Apple Store "genius" concentrated all of his sales efforts on the hubby and not on both....

Tags: Genius, Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Computer, Productivity, Notebooks, Sales Strategy, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Sales, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2008-03-03

No Government rules on packet throttling, blocking, colleague says on Capitol Hill

Colleague George Ou, who is not a proponent of most net neutrality regulations, stated his opinions before a Congressional staffer-panel on Network Management sponsored by iGrowthGlobal. That outfit, whose board is full of board members who have served in a similar capacity on...

Tags: Network, Wireless Network, Network Management, Networking, Government, Network Administration, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2008-03-03

Same old, same old control-freak Apple: they'll be "gatekeeper" for third-party iPhone apps

Jeremy Horvitz from iLounge has been listening to some developers with apparent knowledge of the iPhone SDK due next week. He's gleaned that Apple plans to require that all mobile applications be distributed through its iTunes Store. Perhaps more important, Jeremy notes his sources...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple iPod, SDK, Apple Inc., Apple iTunes, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2008-02-29

Man mistakenly assigned Vonage number now has to go thru PITA of requesting it back

Yesterday I blogged about the case of reader dmuniz, who wrote to tell me that his Packet8 phone number was mistakenly assigned to Vonage- even though he is not, and never has been a Vonage customer. Just a few mins. ago I got...

Tags: Vonage Holdings Corp., Packet8, Telecom & Utilities, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2008-02-29

Vonage spent nearly $1.4 million to lobby Feds in 2007

The Associated Press reports that Vonage spent nearly $1.4 million to lobby the federal government in 2007. Vonage's key lobbying activities  were related to  telecommunications competition and consumer issues. That's according...

Tags: Vonage Holdings Corp., Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Networking, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2008-02-29

Should software be patented? This site would like the practice stopped

A new website entitled End Software Patents is attempting to galvanize public support to accomplish that goal. Here's the core of their argument: Patents differ from copyright in one key manner: independent invention is a valid defense against claims of copyright...

Tags: Software, Bureaucracy, Software Patent, Tools & Techniques, Management, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2008-02-29

Asterisk Voicemail for iPhone on way; here's a peek

On his website, Asterisk developer Chris Carey posts an interesting preview of something he is building called Asterisk Voicemail for iPhone. Chris says Voicemail for iPhone will allow you to check your voicemail messages on your house or business line from...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Chris, Internet, Tools & Techniques, Web Site Development, Open Source, Telecommunications, Management, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2008-02-29

Don't want Comcast junk mailers? They'll charge you $1.99 "service fee"

Update: Comcast has contacted the customer referenced below, has apologized for the charge, has refunded it, says was applied in error, counseled the customer service rep not to do this, and said it won't happen again.  But not before this all went down:...

Tags: Comcast Corp., Telecom & Utilities, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2008-02-29

BlackBerry with slide-out keyboard described in new Patent app

A new BlackBerry Patent app just published Thursday describes technology for a BlackBerry device with a slide-out keyboard. The Patent app is entitled,  Hybrid Portrait-Landscape Handheld Device With Trackball Navigation and Qwerty Hideaway Keyboard. The Patent abstract, and the accompanying...

Tags: Orientation, Device, RIM BlackBerry, Patent App, Keyboards, E-mail, Hardware, Peripherals, Online Communications, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2008-02-28