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- The iPhone Telephony Tragedy
- Instant reaction ...... Apple and ATT ... two of the biggest global companies. Products and service in the 21st century? Crap :-(Obsolescence is the rule This does not excuse ATT's bad network, but anybody, buying any digital product should know that it will be surpassed in months, and obsolete within...
- Tags: Smart phones, Telecom & Utilities, Obsolescence, Apple iPhone, iPhone Telephony tragedy, iPhone Telephony, phone, tragedy, AT&T Corp., telephony
- Discussion threads 2009-08-20
- Hey readers, what's your problem with Patents?
- Hey readers, what's your problem with Patents?Patents OK; software patents badNews at 11.Patent abuse is rampant.1. Software patents are just wrong. These things are so bad that having a reply system with a button labeled "Submit My Reply" could infringe on one or more patents. 2. Business process patents are...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Business process patent, patent, software
- Discussion threads 2007-05-29
- "They" CAN spy on your IM and VoIP conversations- through walls!
- No I am not making this up, and I have not gone off the deep end. U.K.-based New Scientist magazines online tech editor Tom Simonite reports that Cambridge University computer security researcher Markus Kuhn has developed a way for a radio antenna and radio receiver to grab images...
- Tags: Security, General
- Blog posts 2007-04-20
- What about emergency operator interrupts to and from VoIP calls?
- In a post I put up on Friday about the applicability of "phone song" lyrics to current telecom tech, I noted one song where the singer seems to be thinking about asking the operator to interrupt a call.Then, I started to think to myself about the long history of...
- Tags: VoIP, General, Security
- Blog posts 2006-11-27
- Biggest need in the VoIP space: Web-based, carrier-neutral universal VoIP phone directory
- Wouldn't it be great if there was a Web-based centralized directory of inbound VoIP phone numbers from all carriers? A third-party website where customers of Vonage, Skype's SkypeIn service, Packet8, AT&T CallVantage, Verizon VoiceWing, and pretty much any other IP phone service you could think of could list their inbound...
- Tags: telephone, VoIP
- Blog posts 2006-06-21
- SipTalk
- GlobalTouch Telecom targets its SipTalk VoIP service toward home and business users who want to make VoIP calls using their traditional telephone handsets. The company hits the bull's-eye in several respects: SipTalk offers fantastic call quality, lots of functionality, and rate plans that are priced a few bucks below competing...
- Tags: SipTalk VoIP service, adapter
- Product reviews 2006-05-30
- Tello, let me jump in your game
- Tello, let me jump in your gameAbbeynet offers private labeled softphone todayAbbeynet.com offers any non-tech company a customized softphone that is web based and therefore better than Xten. see italian newspaper www.repubblica.it who offers a skype type service, but better than skype's softphone, because it is web based. Abbeynet can...
- Tags: Channel management, Games, softphone, Abbeynet, Tello, Web, game
- Discussion threads 2006-01-29
- Next big thing: private label softphones for non-tech websites
- Next big thing: private label softphones for non-tech websitesprivate label softphones from my bank?yep, i agree with you that this is surely a possibility. were i "mr. vonage" and my bank began offering such a service (using somebody else as a supplier of the bandwidth/voip minutes), i'd surely take...
- Tags: VOIP, Web site development, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Web site, softphone, USB TV
- Discussion threads 2006-01-27
- Next big thing: private label softphones for non-tech websites
- Yesterday at the VoIP 2.0 IP Telephony Conference in Fort Lauderdale - wearing my ZDNet badge ever-proudly -I moderated a "VoIP Mobility Reality Check" panel.Over the next several days I will be seeding this blog with statements and insights offered via this panel, as well as some take-aways I obtained...
- Tags: CounterPath Solutions Inc., VoIP
- Blog posts 2006-01-27
- With MySpace tglo, VoIP awaits millions of disciples
- I have been writing that MySpace would be an ideal acquirer for Net2Phone's underpriced, iconic softphone's assets.Now it appears that the hugely popular social networking site- owned by News Corp.- has had other ideas.MySpace has partnered with theglobe.com to release tglophone for MySpace users.Any Myspace user who downloads the tglo...
- Tags: MySpace
- Blog posts 2006-01-27
- Here's why VoIP videophones haven't caught on yet
- I visited the Packet 8 booth at the Consumer Electronics Show. Tried the Packet 8 videophone, a product that has been having some modest success via direct website sales but has frankly not wowed them at retail. The phone was stocked at New York's J&R Music World last year- but...
- Tags: videophone
- Blog posts 2006-01-06
- VoIP's latest fashion show: the softphone UI
- I'm posting this from the Sands Exhibition Center, which is the Consumer Electronics Show's overflow exhibition and conference facility here in Las Vegas.Just had demos of the new softphone from NetZero Voice, as well as Packet 8's new softphone.Unlike more familar softphones such as Skype - these softphones are, in...
- Tags: NetZero, NetZero Voice, softphone
- Blog posts 2006-01-05
- Skype Groups helps refute Skype's consumer-centered stereotype
- Skype Groups, a Skype-run service that allows business users of Skype the ability to centralize their purchases, marks both a recognition on the part of Skype that their user base contains a more significant percentage of enterprise users than the popular press, the tech press and even some VoIP bloggers...
- Tags: Skype Technologies S.A.
- Blog posts 2005-10-25
- Bloggers debate impact of Skype acquisition
- Bloggers debate impact of Skype acquisitionSkype Ebay Deal Far Visioned Power MoveSkype and Ebay see a deal that will Far out-vision some of the best deals seen in our new marketplace. This is more than the purchase of a great tech business. More than an analyst's business transaction, the deal...
- Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate law, Real estate, eBay Inc., Skype Technologies S.A., Skype acquisition, acquisition
- Discussion threads 2005-09-14
- Vonage's Web and phone support is a jumbled mess
- Vonage's Web site, as well as its phone-based tech support -have some endemic and major taxonomy and usability issues. Vonage, why are you making us work so hard to find the help resources we need?The information is all there, and is quite informative, but requires the mouse-click equivalent of search...
- Tags: Vonage Holdings Corp.
- Blog posts 2005-05-13
- Popular packet analyzer doesn't recognize Skype traffic
- In my last post, I referred to the Skype softphone keypad's seeming hit-or-miss audio performance.Now, I've got another tip about Skype, drawn from my own experience. If you deploy or are considering deploying Skype in your company or organization, you should know that some popular VoIP call-quality measuring software does...
- Tags: Skype Technologies S.A.
- Blog posts 2005-05-13
- Group ranks VoIP #2 in list of "confusing" tech buzzwords
- The Global Language Monitor GLM is a self-appointed group that covers the fungible world of word meanings and usage.Recently, GLM published their Top 10 Most Confusing yet widely used High-Tech Buzzwords. The compilation was generated from what the group calls "a worldwide Internet and media analysis."VoIP was number 2. Next...
- Tags: VoIP, Global Language Monitor
- Blog posts 2005-04-24
- Readers to VoIP providers: if you want our business, don't charge for E-911
- Readers to VoIP providers: if you want our business, don't charge for E-911It's a dilemma with no easy fix ...On the one hand, people want to be able to surf the internet as anonymously as possible (be it to avoid targeted ads, minimize risk of cyber-stalking, or to not have...
- Tags: Telephony, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Telecom & Utilities, E911, VoIP, softphone, POTS, VoIP company, phone
- Discussion threads 2005-03-03
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