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- Packet8 shows profitability is achievable in pure-play VoIP
- Arguably, the three highest profile, full-fledged VoIP services to flash across our radar screen in the last year or two have been SunRocket, Vonage, and 8x8' s Packet8 service.SunRocket, of course, is gone. Vonage, which traded yesterday at an all-time-low of $1.86 a share, is a money loser with a...
- Tags: Vonage, Packet 8
- Blog posts 2007-08-03
- EXCLUSIVE: Interview with SunRocket preferred provider TeleBlend distribution partner's CEO
- TeleBlend is one of two "preferred" VoIP service providers suggested by Sherwood Partners, which is handling SunRocket's dissolutionWith more than a week since the shutoff, and former SunRocket customers still transitioning to new homes, I thought it might be interesting to check in with someone on the TeleBlend side for...
- Tags: News, Packet 8, Vonage
- Blog posts 2007-07-25
- SunRocket creditors announce two preferred providers: Vonage takes big hit
- As has been rumored ever since SunRocket went belly up Monday, their creditors have signed deals with former SR competitors 8x8 and Unified Communications Corp. to be "preferred service providers" for SR's 200,000 orphaned customers.The deal has to be good for 8x8, and its Packet 8 service. Normal start up...
- Tags: Vonage, Predictions and Observations, Packet 8, News
- Blog posts 2007-07-19
- 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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- Hi Def Voice: Cool Sounding, But Do You Care?
- Hi Def Voice: Cool Sounding, But Do You Care?We have been suffering so long with poor quality voice, that we are used toit. It almost does not seem like a phone call when the quality is good. But, talking so someone with high quality voice IS really nice. Of course...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, phone
- Discussion threads 2008-12-01
- Hi Def Voice: Cool Sounding, But Do You Care?
- Who doesn't hate a bad phone connection, but just how bad does a connection have to be before you're willing to pay for a really good one? That's the question telephony vendors are wondering, as they deliver hi-def...
- Tags: Phone, Voice, Codec, Voice Channel, Telecom & Utilities, Dave Greenfield
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- AlertPay hit by a large scale DDoS attack
- AlertPay hit by a large scale DDoS attackThey make devices that quickly mitigate DDOS attacksThe fact that they failed to impliment them, means they are not serious about protecting their business.If i ran a payment processing system, i would have every protection available running on my systems and network. ...
- Tags: SECURITY, distributed denial of service, denial of service, AlertPay
- Discussion threads 2008-12-01
- From Chapter Three: The Windows Culture
- From Chapter Three: The Windows CultureYou forgot to mentionany bit of the Lotus 1-2-3 stories and the whole memory problem (expanded memory cards, EMS, HMS)And the IPX stories (Novell's Internetwork Packet Exchange).Internet or intranet?By December, 1995 there were still only 16 million internet users. That number wouldn't support a...
- Tags: Operating systems, IBM OS/2, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows NT, IBM Corp., Internet
- Discussion threads 2008-11-21
- Mobile industry calls for RFID payment push
- Mobile industry calls for RFID payment pushyet another way to hack into your wallet!Invisibly with no pain at all, your bank account can now be drained even more efficiently, and the phone and credit card companies will only charge you yet another fee for the "convenience". To them, that is...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, RFID, RFID payment, Mobile Industry, mobile, payment, phone
- Discussion threads 2008-11-18
- VoIP vulnerabilities in Microsoft Communicator
- Researchers at VoIPshield Labs have pinpointed a wide range of denial-of-service vulnerabilities in Microsoft Communicator, the unified communications that features business-grade instant messaging , voice, and video tools. The flaws, rated "high severity," could cripple VoIP-powered communications on Office Communications Server 2007, Office Communicator and Windows Live Messenger....
- Tags: Denial Of Service, VoIP, Vulnerability, Microsoft Corp., Security, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-11-17
- BriefingsDirect analysts review new SOA governance book, propose scope for U.S. tech czar
- Our experts examine SOA governance, how to do it right, its scope, its future, and impact. We interview Todd Biske, author of the new Packet Publishing book, SOA Governance. The panel also focuses on the IT policies that an Obama administration should pursue, as well as ruminate about what a...
- Tags: SOA, SOA Governance, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Cloud Computing, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner, Governance, Information Technology, Government
- Blog posts 2008-11-16
- Are visits to massage parlors and bars impacting your credit?
- Tech blogs are quick to point out when things appear to be a bit too big-brotherish for our comfort levels - cookies, deep packet inspection, Gmail ads. Now, it appears that the one to watch out for is the credit card companies. Money Magazine, in its December...
- Tags: Credit Card, Credit Card Company, American Express Co., Magazine, Tech Blog, Sales Channel, ATM, Financial Services, Sales, Networking, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-11-12
- NebuAd, ISPs, named in class action lawsuit
- NebuAd, ISPs, named in class action lawsuitSeem like this University is pushing the envelope on DPI alsohttp://netequalizer.wordpress.com/2008/11/11/rackmonty-university-embraces-deep-packet-inspection-dpi/RE: NebuAd, ISPs, named in class action lawsuitAbout that university, please check the editor's note."Editors Note: We made this up"
- Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), NebuAd, class action lawsuit, class action, Internet Service Provider
- Discussion threads 2008-11-12
- NebuAd, ISPs, named in class action lawsuit
- NebuAd, the controversial company that was trying to sell deep-packet inspection technology as a means of delivering more relevant ads, has already had most of the life sucked out of it. Now, a class action lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in San Francisco today, could put the final nail...
- Tags: Internet Service Provider, Class Action, NebuAd, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-11-11
- SPAM and the free lunch
- SPAM and the free lunchSIMPLE SOLUTION: Mandatory email server registration!(1) Get rid of "Reply-to:" tags.(2) Mandatory email server registration using credit cards, at yearly rate $2~3 dollars.This will make spammers impossible to operate without being caught.What SPAM is that?During the height of the "bad old days" of spam, I got...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, spam
- Discussion threads 2008-11-10
- SPAM and the free lunch
- The Air Force wants people to submit ideas for improving internet security - with particular regard to phishing, spam, and network based attacks. I don't believe that a perfect solution exists, but putting unalterable origin identifiers into packet headers has got to be the way to start. by Paul Murphy
- Tags: Phishing, Internet, Cyberthreats, Spam, Security, Network Security, Viruses And Worms, Spam And Phishing, Networking, Paul Murphy, Packet, Router, Network, Routers & Switches, Network Technology
- Blog posts 2008-11-10
- No longer safe: WPA encryption cracked in 12 to 15 minutes
- No longer safe: WPA encryption cracked in 12 to 15 minutesI've said it before, I'll say it again...Wireless and Retail do not mix!http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-12691-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=45392&messageID=838312&start=-9957WPA is not cracked - only TKIP is, no access to data..Here is why :- Attack does not give you access to the data transmited- Why? Only the...
- Tags: Wi-Fi, Network security, WIRELESS, TKIP, WPA
- Discussion threads 2008-11-06
- Solera Networks - a different take on management and security
- I was contacted recently by an old acquaintence, Alan Hall, formally from Novell and now with Solera Networks. Hmm. That didn't come out right. Alan is someone I've known for a while. I'm not saying he's old. Alan wanted me to hear about a different way to...
- Tags: Security, Network, Network Traffic, Analysis, Alan, Solera Networks Technology, Packet Capture, Networking, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-11-06
- FCC opens up wireless 'white spaces;' Assessing winners, losers and wild-cards
- FCC opens up wireless 'white spaces;' Assessing winners, losers and wild-cardsCo-optingIf the new frequencies are open to any company and if some companies are threatened by competition using the new frequencies, then why shouldn't the threatened companies jam the new frequencies?That seems one of the points of this quoted quote:The...
- Tags: Federal government, Wi-Fi, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Amateur Radio, white space, spectrum, FCC, wireless
- Discussion threads 2008-11-05
- 3d Visual Trace Route (exe)
- Visually see where packets travel throughout the Internet work. See through which city, state, country, IP addresses, and DNS the packets travel. You can also view the response times, ISP, latitude/longitude, and packet loss. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Tags: Packet, 3DSNMP, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Domain Names, Networking
- Software downloads 2008-11-05
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