Archive for July 16th, 2008
Want to understand Peer-to-Peer SIP (P2PSIP)? Listen to this podcast…
What if we could design SIP-based VOIP systems… but without any servers? What if we could have SIP endpoints just communicate with each other and “self-organize” into networks? What if we could essentially build an open standards-based version of Skype? How would it work? Who would use it? How would we secure it? Those are all questions we discussed in the Squawk Box podcast / interview I did with David Bryan on July 10th. David is the co-chair of the IETF’s P2PSIP ...
SK Telecom Wants Sprint? Maybe Not
SK Telecom, the South Korean carrier who till now has frittered away hundreds of millions of dollars trying to get a toehold in the U.S. market, was rumored to be looking to spend a few billion to buy Sprint, in partnership with some private equity firms, according to news reports based on a CNBC claim. That rumor caused some furious activity in the shares of those two companies. Now there are rumors that SK Telecom and Spring were looking to partner on technology. The whole thing is just too ...
Small Business IP Phones Now Cordless
Aastra recently launched it’s AastraLink RP™ platform in support of the Microsoft® Response Point™ phone system software. Let me say, the Aastra IP Phones kick butt! Aastra really went the distance on the IP Phones for their initial roll out of AastraLink RP™. They incorporated some features you are not going to find on any other Response Point handset, namely the cordless version (6757i CT RP) seen above. Microsoft® Response Point™ is now available in 3 flavors; D-Link, Syspin...
Canadians Are Wired
According to eMarketer, more than 22 million Canadians, or two-thirds of the population, will have regular access to the Internet this year. By 2012, that number will rise to 25 million. While the number is impressive sounding, it will be more interesting to see how Canadians use the Web will be impacted if the proposed - and evil - new copyright bill is enacted, and how (if?) the federal government does anything to address Net Neutrality. With enthusiastic adoption of high-speed access, Canadi...
Answer To ???Not Metcalfe???s Paradox??? Puzzle
As usual, the puzzle’s been answered well by commenters. Jason points out that this is the Monty Hall Paradox and ??? what I shoulda checked for ??? the puzzle and answer are in wikipedia. Here’s the puzzle for those who missed it: You are a guest on a game show. There are three closed doors; behind one of them is a car you want to own; behind the other two are goats you don’t want despite the fact that they don’t burn gas. You have to pick a door. After you do that, ...
BroadSoft, Fonality, and ITEXPO news all rolled in one
Some BroadSoft, Fonality, and ITEXPO news all rolled in one. First, TMC put out a release about BroadSoft keynoting the next ITEXPO, the leading VoIP conference: The energy behind the upcoming ITEXPO West 2008 (www.ITEXPO.com), the industry’s only Major Communications event taking place this Fall, continues to grow everyday. The most recent news - Broadsoft CEO, Michael Tessler, has committed to delivering a keynote speech, which will take place on Wednesday, Sept. 17...
Does Intel Know What It Wants From Atom?
Yesterday afternoon, Intel’s CEO Paul Otellini seemed a little hazy on the future home for Intel’s Atom processor during the chip maker’s quarterly earnings call — a fact I don’t find all that surprising since the netbooks or mobile Internet devices the chips are designed for exist only in a marketer’s imagination and failed product implementations. Otellini was excited about Atom, calling demand for the chip” robust,” but analysts pressed Otellin...
“Why Blu?” Sweepstakes could land you a Sony PS3
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment and Blu-ray have teamed up with Brickfish to launch the “Why Blu?” campaign at http://www.brickfish.com/Entertainment/whyblu?tab=entries&=blu_pr. The campaign asks entrants to create a poster, ad or video highlighting the “supreme quality” of Blu-ray Discs. The grand prize winner, selected by Sony from the top 50 highest-scoring entries, will win a Sony PlayStation 3 with a built in Blu-ray Disc player, and a collection of 8 Sony Pict...
HyperOffice for the Apple iPhone
Steve Leon, HyperOffice’s PR rep emailed me last night to tell me about the latest version of HyperOffice which works with the new Apple iPhone. HyperOffice gives business users of iPhone the ability to share documents with and without Microsoft Exchange, Sharepoint. HyperOffice today launched a new public beta of business collaboration tools that do more than connect the first and second-generation Apple iPhones to secure corporate email, contacts, calendars, tasks and notes. This ...
Know when to Talk Straight
One of the hardest things to do is to know when to talk straight and deal directly with things as they confront you. There are times when you owe it to yourself to be as up front about things as possible. Taking straight up will help everyone involved feel comfortable, especially in uncomfortable times. Tags: Entrepreneurship, leadership, Entrepreneur, Jeff Pulver If you enjoyed this post, please consider leaving a comment or subscribing to the feed to receive future articles delivered to y...
Pope Gets into Texting (Yes, That’s Right)
Not to be outdone by technology, Pope Benedict XVI (yes, that Pope) recently sent his first SMS to thousands of World Youth Day pilgrims who signed up to receive divine direction via technology. And this text messaging will become a daily deed! As part of the Catholic festival in Australia, Telstra erected eight temporary base stations to allow young pilgrims to send text messages to family and friends. Four giant digital “prayer wall” screens have also been erected a...
XO’s IP VPN services
XO Communications is one of the largest Competitive Local Exchange Carrier (CLEC) in the country. XO provides voice, data and IP services to businesses and other telecommunications companies in 75 metropolitan markets across the United States. XO Communications offers businesses advanced IP and networking solutions to maximize performance and simplify management of their networks. They also offer SIP services, hosted IP-PBX functionality (the XO One iPBX 50 powered by Avaya IP Office), VoIP orig...
Shaun White for Nintendo Wii (Wee!!!!)
While much has been made about how little excitement Sony and Nintendo have generated at the E3 game show (click here), there’s actually some pretty cool stuff coming out. Take this for example: Nintendo had Shaun White, the gold medalist at the Olympics, demonstrating his upcoming snowboarding game, Shaun White Snowboarding, where you can stand on the sensitive balance board that Nintendo has shipped with its Wii Fit fitness system. Got to give you a pretty good feeling ...
How to Stay Productive on the Road
Andy Abramson is widely regarded as one of the top bloggers in our space, and I cite him regularly. He’s on the road again, this time on a two week European tour of duty, and his blog provides a great chronicle of the sights, sounds and tastes he’s experiencing. Aside from the travelogue posts, I really want to share one of his posts from Monday, which I only just now had a chance to review. For anyone who travels on a regular basis, his Global Nomad post is a must-read companion gui...
What Getting Buzzed Says About Yahoo
The battle over Yahoo’s search business as witnessed over the last few days seems both ridiculous and petty. And it takes the attention away from what is Yahoo’s true value: a media aggregation platform. Yahoo is the place a lot of people — some 400 million people — visit to get their news, sports scores and email. I have always liked that business, and yesterday I experienced, first-hand, the enormous strength of Yahoo. A story by Judi Sohn, who edits WebWorkerDaily, on...
Joss Whedon’s Wacky Web Experiment Kicks Off
Sometimes, a man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do. In Joss Whedon’s case, what he felt he had to do was make an online musical about a super villain who keeps getting foiled by a hero as he pines after the girl from the laundromat. So he did, funding “Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog” in “the low six figures” out of his own pocket. Teaser from Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog on Vimeo. Whedon, the creator of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,”...
Marketing 204: Building a Social Media Strategy for Enterprises
During the past year I have spent time thinking about the profound effect social media will have on Enterprises around the world. By the end of 2010, I suspect most large and medium Enterprises will have an active social media strategy. The key to leveraging social media in the Enterprise is the empowering of customers with the ability to engage in the viral marketing of that companys products and/or services. Leverage the power of the passionate customer and that customer will contribute thei...
Twitter Needs to Keep Shopping
A few months ago, I wrote a post suggesting that Twitter aggressively expand its features - an idea that didn’t resonate because many believe simplicity was the beauty of Twitter. With that in mind, Twitter’s acquisition of Summize (editor’s note: has the acquisition of a tiny search engine ever got more coverage?) suggests that I was correct. In fact, I’ll argue that Twitter should keep on making acquisition if wants to build a stickier, more attraction, sustainable and ...
Is There Money in Voice APIs?
I’ve been covering the VoIP space since 2004, and lately it seems like every other press release sent my way is from a company announcing the addition of an application programming interface (API) to its telephony platform. The promise of APIs is that they make it easy to integrate different services — even those provided by different vendors — into a single application. The press release from one carrier even went so far as to claim that its API would “boost innovation ...
Inside The Twitter-Summize Deal
Twitter has confirmed that it is buying Summize and rolling it into the San Francisco-based company’s main offering. After the rumors of the deal were reported by Josh Chandler last week, I was able to confirm that the deal was done and would be announced on time. So right on time, the two companies made a joint announcement. As indicated in the post, I promised to get some more financial details on the acquisition. Peter Kafka pegs the price at $15 million in stock and cash, though I am ...
Animal Crossing: City Folk adds VoIP & SMS
According to BetaNews, in Nintendo’s E3 keynote this morning came not only the official announcement of Animal Crossing: City Folk for the Wii, but also something unexpected - VoIP functionality (voice chat) and native SMS/e-mail interactivity. Animal Crossing: City Folk is the third in the Nintendo Animal Crossing series - a life simulator game. Sounds like Second Life to me. This follows-up the lauch of Animal Crossing in 2001 and Animal Crossing: Wild World in 2005. You assume a an...
eBay Q2 2008 Earnings Call 16 July 2008 2:00 PM PT
Just a heads-up: What: eBay’s Q2 2008 Earnings Call Times are Pacific (GMT-8). This is the investor webcast and presentation for eBay’s Q2 2008. Skype is an eBay company. eBay is traded on the NASDAQ exchange. (NASD:EBAY) When: Wednesday, July 28, 2008 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM Pacific Where: Join us in Skype Journal’s Investor Relations Chat for live commentary (and to while away the time between the Skype parts.) tags: skype, nasd, ebay, skypejournal, earnings,...
Windows Mobile gets 3G VoIP - WiFi not Required!
Last year Jajah launched the Windows Mobile 6 native SIP client for the the EM-ONE. Frederik Hermann, Director Global Marketing for Jajah emailed me to say, “Today we launched phase 2 of this project, EMOBILE users can now get their own local DID (Direct Inward Dialing number) and can be called at this number from any regular phone, which turns their device into a fully functioning mobile phone, without a cellular connection.” Importantly, it features HSDPA (High-Speed Downlink...
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