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What should be your Plan B if Vonage locks you out or goes away?

In light of todays U.S. District Court ruling that Vonage will not be able to add any new customers until some form of final resolution is reached in the issue of infringement of three of Verizons patents, many, including colleague Larry Dignan are wondering about such issues as: ...

Tags: yahoo, Vonage, Skype, News, Gizmo Project, General, AOL

Blog posts 2007-04-06

USA Weekend bites at Jajah p.r. pitch

To read the puff piece by Reed Tucker in yesterdays USA Weekend Sunday newspaper supplement, youd think there were only two Internet phone services- Vonage and Jajah.Well, give Jajah credit for another p.r. coup. Were talking about a publication stuffed into more than 23,400,000 individual Sunday newspaper copies. "Unlike...

Tags: Vonage, Skype, General

Blog posts 2007-04-02

Alexa mashup site alexaholic lets you compare VoIP provider site traffic over time

Ive been having a little fun with alexaholic, a type of Alexa mash-up that lets you compare estimated page view totals and traffic patterns for several websites over specific lengths of time.Lets compare relative page view rankings for Skype, Vonage, Packet 8, Gizmo Project and SunRocket site views over a...

Tags: Web site development, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, VoIP, Alexa Internet Inc., mashup

Blog posts 2006-11-17

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F-Secure Internet Security 2009

F-Secure Internet Security 2009 is a complete suite of antivirus, antispyware, antispam, antiphishing, and personal firewall tools for personal desktops. We've been hearing good things and looking forward to reviewing F-Secure for years, however, several little things bothered us about this release. F-Secure Internet Security 2009 costs more than the...

Tags: Firewalls, Spyware, adware & malware, SECURITY, Viruses and worms, Cyberthreats, Network security, F-Secure Corp., F-Secure Internet Security 2009, F-Secure Internet Security

Product reviews 2008-10-08

Open source in a time of recession

We face what my late friend Russell Shaw called "a shrinking water hole." Not every company will survive the drought. But open source as a business model will survive, because it's an adaptation that is meant for days like these. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Recession, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-10-08

News to know: Green PCs, IT; IBM; Nokia; Apple

 Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Larry Dignan: IBM launches beta of 'Bluehouse,' eyes Cisco's WebEx Matthew Miller: First impressions of the Nokia N96. Gallery right. Mary Jo...

Tags: Steve Jobs, Larry Dignan, Nokia Corp., PC, Information Technology, Yahoo! Inc., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Matthew Miller, IBM Corp., Podcasts, Linux, Internet, Operating Systems, Software

Blog posts 2008-10-06

fring lets you make Skype calls from your iPhone, available for free

fring lets you make Skype calls from your iPhone, available for freeI've been waiting for an application like this . . .Great to see that some really useful applications are starting to make their way through the Apple screening process.If you're interested, you can read about my experiences with many...

Tags: VOIP, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Apple iPhone, fring, Skype Call, Skype Technologies S.A.

Discussion threads 2008-10-05

fring lets you make Skype calls from your iPhone, available for free

Back in April I wrote about the availability of fring on the iPhone, but at that time you needed a jailbroken iPhone to use it and the iPhone 3G wasn't yet available. You may recall that fring is a VoIP application that lets you use Skype, MSN, Google Talk, ICQ,...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Skype Technologies S.A., 3G, Wireless LANs, Microsoft Windows, Wireless, Wi-Fi, Telephony, Instant Messaging, Operating Systems, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Software, Networking, Internet, Online Communications, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2008-10-04

I'm Cookoo about Cucku Backup

I'm Cookoo about Cucku BackupBare metal restores?I didn't want to watch the whole video. Can this do "bare metal" restores? If so, could you please elaborate? If not, what's the minimum amount of software a user must reinstall to begin the restore process (Windows, Skype, Cucko, etc.?)Thanks.RE:...

Tags: Backups, Microsoft Windows, Corporate communications, Cucku Backup, Cookoo

Discussion threads 2008-10-03

When it comes to China, is Skype the new Yahoo?

When it comes to China, is Skype the new Yahoo?A reader repliesI received this in email from a user who apparently wishes not to go through ZDNet registration. So here's my policy: I will not engage in private debate through email on the content of blogs. I will post the...

Tags: E-mail, Yahoo! Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-10-03

I'm Cookoo about Cucku Backup

I recently discovered this great application, Cucku Backup at the Pepcom Holiday Spectacular party a few weeks ago. Cucku differs from other network-based personal backup solutions such as Carbonite  or Iron Mountain SOHO in that the software is free and leverages existing peer-to peer technology from the Skype VOIP network....

Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., Cucku, Backups, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-10-03

When it comes to China, is Skype the new Yahoo?

Any major Western company doing business in China is collaborating with the government to some degree. We know this. Chinese citizens know this. The best case scenario is probably Microsoft or Google's operations where access to certain information is limited. The worst case, until now, has been Yahoo's explicit cooperation...

Tags: China, Yahoo! Inc., Skype Technologies S.A., Tom, Government, Blogging, Vertical Industries, Wireless, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-10-03

Skype says Tom violated agreement for Chinese service

Skype says Tom violated agreement for Chinese serviceSo when do we clean up our own act?First we need to clean up our own operation, put a little sunshine into the dark corners of the domestic-"intelligence" "community", enact and enforce strong privacy legislation (at least on par with what's in effect...

Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., Skype Says, agreement

Discussion threads 2008-10-03

News to know: HP's Smartphone; Obama's iPhone app; Skype in China; Data breach bill

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: WSJ: H-P plans to unveil smartphone Jason D. O'Grady: Obama campaign unleashes iPhone app Track the Presidential election polls with...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Richard Koman, Hewlett-Packard Co., Skype Technologies S.A., Apple Inc., Smartphone, Obama, Smart Phones, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Cloud Computing, RSS, Financial Accounting, Open Source, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Finance, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-03

Skype says Tom violated agreement for Chinese service

Skype has a further response on the Chinese monitoring situation. And they don't sound that pleased about it. Here's Skype president Josh Silverman: In April 2006, Skype publicly disclosed that TOM operated a text filter that blocked certain words in chat messages, and it also...

Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., Agreement, Tom, Security, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-10-02

Chinese monitoring Tom-Skype messages

Chinese monitoring Tom-Skype messagescheaper solutionJust get the logs from NSA, or run a joint operation...viztorThe U.S. does the sameIs there really much difference?Zillions of warrentless wiretaps. Deep packet inspection on the backbones.Getting search records from search companies for U.S citizens.U.S. laws broken repeatedly.Who are we to call the kettle...

Tags: Tom-Skype, Chinese monitoring, Tom-Skype message, monitoring

Discussion threads 2008-10-02

The cost of doing business in China: Privacy

The cost of doing business in China: PrivacySo does the US !The only difference is, in china's case, you know and in US, you don't (or atleast most people don't). They even hijack all the data that flows through pipes of ISPs and make a copy and put analyzers on...

Tags: SECURITY, Skype Technologies S.A., fundamental human right, big deal, human right, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-10-02

The cost of doing business in China: Privacy

There's a good amount of scuttlebutt today on a report that highlights how the Chinese government is monitoring Skype traffic for keywords that may offend the Communist party. The report in question Techmeme, Breaching Trust: An analysis of surveillance and security practices on China's Tom-Skype platform, details...

Tags: China, Monitoring, Privacy, Skype Technologies S.A., Tom-Skype, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-02

News to know: Cloud wars; Apple; Google; China is watching you

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: Amazon launches pre-emptive strike against Microsoft's planned cloud platform. Techmeme A new mystery: What's Microsoft got up its Office Live sleeve? Zack Whittaker:...

Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Larry Dignan, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., IPO, Robots, Linux, E-mail, Digital Media, Financial Services, Emerging Technologies, Operating Systems, Software, Online Communications, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Blog posts 2008-10-02

Chinese monitoring Tom-Skype messages

China is running a massive operation to track and store text messages sent over Tom-Skype, a joint venture between a Chinese wireless provider and eBay-owned Skype, The New York Times reports. China has about one million censored messages, many of which contain personally identifiable information, according to...

Tags: Message, China, Monitoring, Skype Technologies S.A., eBay Inc., Government, Vertical Industries, Web Servers, Security, Servers, Wireless, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Hardware, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-10-01