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Report: maker of Ojo VoIP/videophone likely on bankruptcy path

Tom Keating is one of those VoIP bloggers who understands business and technology, and mixes journalistic doggedness with the backgrounding of an engineer. I say this because Tom reports this morning that Worldgate Communications is experiencing a financial rough patch. A really bad...

Tags: VoIP, Videophone, Worldgate Communications, Bankruptcy, Tom Keating, Litigation, Telephony, Business Operations, Networking, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2008-02-05

Fellow VoIP blogger Tom Keating loves Parus in the pingtime

Fellow VoIP blogger Tom Keating loves Parus in the pingtimeMicrosoft VOIPHi,I want to know what's gonna happen with VOIP when Microsoft enter this marketJair SantosSoftware EngineerCliconnect Internet Telephonywww.cliconnect.com

Tags: Blogging, Telephony, VOIP, Parus, Fellow VoIP, Tom Keating

Discussion threads 2005-10-24

Fellow VoIP blogger Tom Keating loves Parus in the pingtime

VoIP Blogger colleague Tom Keating was first with this storyabout an IP-based interactive voice solution from Parus Interactive. Sold to retailers, the new interactive voice applications can perform speech recognition-powered driving directions, inventory checks, and other cool stuff for customers using SIP phones.What's even better, the technology has a "follow-me"...

Tags: Tom, Tom Keating

Blog posts 2005-01-20

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Ubuntu a minor player? Not outside the States

Ubuntu a minor player? Not outside the StatesAgreed, with one minor point difference . . .I believe that the reason you're seeing what you are in China is that since most Windows installations are pirated copies, they get no support. And if you're going to have no support, might...

Tags: Operating systems, Linux/Ubuntu, Ubuntu, Microsoft Windows, Linux, minor player, open source

Discussion threads 2009-06-17

Linux on the iPhone?

Linux on the iPhone?Open source parasitesNothing like preaching Open Source after someone spends tens of millions to develop a first-class piece of hardware.If it wasn't for google (a for-profit perhaps even more evil than MS), there wouldn't be an android either.These open source guys really have to see the forest...

Tags: Apple Mac OS X, Operating systems, UNIX, facination, hardware, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Linux, evil, open source

Discussion threads 2008-11-17

Snom VoIP phone vulnerability enables phone history theft, addy book poisoning, and more

Fellow VoIP blogger and multi-skilled polymath Tom Keating picks up on security consultancy GNUCitizen.org's description of a  security vulnerability in snom Technology's model 320 VoIP phone. GNUCitizen, in turn, found this via what they term a "side result" of a router hacking challenge...

Tags: VoIP, Phone, Vulnerability, XSS, VoIP Phone, Snom, Telecom & Utilities, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2008-02-12

Skype WiFi outage explained: server-host network difficulties

  Did you have trouble logging on to Skype with your Skype-certified WiFi phone this weekend? Fellow blogger Tom Keating was first up with this news. And now another colleague and friend, Skype Journal's Jim Courtney, reports that a Skype Public Chat carried a...

Tags: Network, Skype Technologies S.A., Wi-Fi, Outage, Wireless LANs, Networking, Wireless, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2007-11-13

Internuts: Skype outage caused by wiretapping retrofit for CIA

Fellow VoIP blogger Tom Keating writes that he's been receiving email from "tin-foil hatters" (i.e. wackos) that the Skype sign-in outage is being caused by fallout from a project intended to make all Skype calls interceptible by the CIA and FBI.Tom writes:Tin foil hatters are emailing me to tell...

Tags: CIA, Skype Technologies S.A., Outage, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2007-08-17

Skype-Toshiba pre-bundle: convenient but not transformative

I'm a bit late to this one (concentrating on the debut of (what was that again?) but I've just sipped a cup o' Joe a-cogitatin' about the meaning of this new program where Skype  will be bundled into several new Toshiba laptops.As fellow blogger Tom Keating notes, these will...

Tags: Predictions and Observations, Skype

Blog posts 2007-06-28

Vonage's $3.99 a month offer to defectors would be huge sign of desperation

Andy notes our fellow blogger Tom Keating's report that Vonage seems to be preparing a deal for defecting customers that would only charge them $3.99 a month to stick around for the following 12 months.When or if Vonage announces such a deal, they will portray it as a golden...

Tags: Russell Shaw, Vonage, Vonage Holdings Corp.

Blog posts 2007-06-25

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

Two very different VoIP platforms. One company (Microsoft). Will the two ever meet?

Under the headline Microsoft unveils VoIP-enabled phone platform, WindowsForDevices.com has a story about the hardware coming to market thats uses Microsofts Windows XP Embedded-based "Response Point." According to the post:Microsoft last week unveiled a VoIP-enabled phone system software platform based on Windows XP Embedded. "Response Point," currently in beta,...

Tags: Telephony, Software Infrastructure, IT Management, Hardware Infrastructure, General

Blog posts 2007-04-02

One user's time in Vonage-cancel hell

Not only is Tom Keating a fellow VoIP blogger who writes about IP call technology, he's an trained engineer (B.S. In Computer Engineering) who- like your trained auto mechanic- is adept at lifting the hood up to see what the problem is.And then fixing it.But for reasons he explains...

Tags: America Online Inc., Tom, Vonage Holdings Corp.

Blog posts 2006-09-26

Frustrated VoIP Customer: ""Number Portability My Ass"

Fellow VoIP blogger Tom Keating is most circumspect when it comes to even PG-rated four-letter words.Today he writes of his incalculable frustration attempting to port his Vonage number over to Charter Cable. He had intended to do so because he was frustrated with some Vonage call quality issues, but was...

Tags: Tom, Vonage Holdings Corp.

Blog posts 2006-09-05

Here's the most overlooked reason for cordless VoIP phones

After reading fellow blogger Tom Keating's excellent review of USRobotics' USR Cordless Phone for Skype (due later this month at $119.99, and his comparison of this product with the Linksys Cordless Internet Telephony Kit, I immediately thought of a reason why VoIP-capable cordless phones not only seem to...

Tags: Telephony, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, VoIP phone, VoIP, telephone

Blog posts 2006-09-01

Triple-play VoIP services: and their appeal to the risk-averse

Last week, while I was busy moving, fellow blogger Tom Keating put up an exceedingly thoughtful post comparing pure VoIP- as offered by the likes of Vonage, Packet8, SunRocket and others- vs. telephone and cable VoIP.Tom framed his argument by mapping back to a VoIP.com assertion that since telcos and...

Tags: Tom, VoIP

Blog posts 2006-08-23

Microsoft Office Comm Server: feature glut, proprietary, pricey, and too Enterprise-centric

During "Unified Communications Day" in San Francisco, Microsoft announced that a new Office Communications Server 2007 would bundle voice (including presence-based VoIP call management), video, IM and email into a single enterprise applications platform.Additionally, Office Communications Server 2007 will contain the Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 client -which will in turn,...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, SIP

Blog posts 2006-06-27

And now this: Verizon sues Vonage for patent infringement: what's the deal?

Already busy fielding nine shareholder class-action lawsuits related to its IPO, Vonage has just been served with a patent infringement lawsuit from Verizon units Verizon Service Corp. and Verizon Laboratories. The suit alleges that Vonage has infringed on seven VoIP-related patents held...

Tags: Verizon Communications Inc., Vonage Holdings Corp.

Blog posts 2006-06-19

Lycos Phone? No thanks

Remember Lycos? At one time, they had an important search service. Now, after being at the periphery of search, they are using a partnership with India-based Global 7 to launch a softphone product called Lycos Phone. (First duh: Lycos Phone got its own website before a link to it...

Tags: Lycos Inc., Lycos Phone

Blog posts 2006-03-27

Report: Vonage to open their SIP credentials

Fellow blogger Tom Keating reports that "a source" has just informed him that Vonage has plans to open up their Session Initiation Protocol credentials. The move reportedly would occur in March or April of this year.Such a move would, as Tom writes, let Vonage users configure their own Vonage-compatible...

Tags: Vonage Holdings Corp., SIP

Blog posts 2006-02-08