Archive for July 22nd, 2008
See All the IP Devices at Home?
Can you believe that shipments of Internet-Protocol (IP)-enabled consumer electronics reached 64 million units in 2007 — a growth of more than 70%? However, the market continues to be dominated by Internet-enabled video game consoles. While many of these game console IP interfaces remain unconnected, the enormous developing installed base represents a “Trojan horse” with enormous potential for online gaming, music and video downloads as well as for a variety of Internet-based ...
Comcast Clarifies Its Network Management Efforts Again
Comcast sure is bearing the brunt of the anger being levied against broadband providers these days. Earlier this year it was hauled before the FCC over allegations that it was blocking peer-to-peer traffic. During the subsequent hearing the FCC made clear that it, too, was unimpressed with Comcast’s so-called network management efforts because it felt that customers were not adequately informed about them. Further, as the agency acknowledged, “managing” P2P traffic could resu...
2 Weeks Until AdTech Chicago
Ifbyphone is looking forward to attending AdTech Chicago, which starts two weeks from today on August 5-6 at Navy Pier. Our suite of telephone application services provides all of the tools needed to integrate telephony into your next campaign. If you are at the show, we invite you to stop by booth 410, schedule a meeting with us, or attend a seminar on Tuesday August 5th at 3:00PM given by our CEO, Irv Shapiro. Here is more information about the seminar: /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNorma...
AMD Won’t Offer Netbook Chips
AMD isn’t going after the mobile Internet device market that Intel and other chip vendors are eying. AMD’s senior VP and chief marketing officer, Nigel Dessau, told eWeek, “What we are saying is that we are a smaller company and we have to focus on what we do well at this point. We are watching that segment rather than playing in it, but as it matures we’ll see where it goes.” Sounds like a good plan for AMD, which already has chips that might work for Netbooks an...
Catching Up: Skype’s New COO Goes Public
Over the past couple of weeks, during which I have taken a vacation and then dealt with an internal network issue at my home office, there has been no holiday on news related to the IP Communications space. So this week I will offer a series of posts talking about communications from Skype’s new executive team, about building strong partnerships in an IP-based communications space, about the role of API’s and finally about our mobile-enabled world. Each of the players I reference wil...
The Kaminsky Hack: DNS Exploits in the Wild
DNS is the cornerstone of the Internet: It turns www.gigaom.com into an IP address that the routers can use to connect a browser to a web site. For this reason, it’s the subject of many attacks. If you convince someone that your server, rather than the real one, is the site they wanted, you can get up to all kinds of mischief. You can make them think you’re their bank, solicit their private information, monitor what they do, or even feed them Trojans. Of course, DNS has protections....
Objectworld Offers Unified Communications for 7 Cents a Day
Today, Objectworld introduced Unified Communications for just 7 cents per day per user. Their platform can work with your existing non-VoIP PBX via gateways or you can go the 100% VoIP route as well since their server can communicate with any SIP-based IP-PBX. It’s a pretty feature-rich solution offering VoIP, personal call control, text-to-speech, conference server, unified messaging, integrated fax server, Active Directory-based administration, ODBC-enabled service creation environment, ...
Wireless Spectrum Auction Completed Status Quo or Real Competition?
Canadas AWS auction finally finished yesterday, and there should be no doubt about the perceived value of wireless spectrum. The final take was $4.25 billion thats a lot of free money for the federal government, and that raises an issue unto itself. How those proceeds are spent or invested will say a lot about what kind of a country Canada wants to be. To me, its a philosophical issue as much as economic these windfalls dont come along often. Its like getting a one-off gi...
At Fortune Brainstorm Tech Conference, Players Out to Play
One of the reasons my posting has been sporadic is because I am currently attending Fortune’s Brainstorm Tech Conference, which is being held at the Ritz-Carlton in Half Moon Bay. David Kirkpatrick, a veteran technology journalist and author of the upcoming book, “The Facebook Effect”, is hosting the event, which has managed to draw some of the biggest technology names in the business, though I couldn’t find Mark Zuckerberg. I guess he might be busy preparing for another...
A Time to EXTEND Yourself
There comes a time when you need to extend yourself outside of your comfort zone and push out beyond your personal boundaries. This is something only YOU can do for YOU. You can not buy this and you can not outsource this. This is something only YOU can do. Once you commit to yourself to extend yourself, pick your moment(s) and just do it. How you start to extend yourself is up to you. Every situation is different. Extending yourself comes in different forms. Sometimes you end up doing something...
More Radios, Fewer Chips: Why Wireless Integration is Hot
Without a radio, your cell phone is a small computer that can’t show web pages, check email or even make phone calls. In a sense it’s BrickBreaker playing brick. While it may come as a surprise to learn that it’s radios that do the heavy lifting to keep us connected to GPS satellites, cellular networks, nearby Wi-Fi and in some cases network television, so it is with laptops as well, especially those aiming to be Netbooks or cloud PCs. In fact there are too many radios, especi...
Jeff Pulver on pulverTV: Wednesday July 23rd at 2PM EDT / 11AM PDT / 1800 GMT
The next edition of the Jeff Pulver Show, my LIVE (unscripted) Internet TV Talk show on will be airing on Wednesday July 23rd at 2PM EDT / 1800 GMT. I am planning on broadcasting the show on both UStream and BlogTV. Topics for this show include: Billy Joel - Last Play at Shea and Advise to PR Firms on Pitching Bloggers. Our special in-studio guest will be: Phil Campbell. If you would like to be an in-studio guest on a future show, please send Jeff Pulver a message on Facebook. Archives of past ...
AT&T, Time Warner Cable Up The Metered Internet Ante
Time Warner Cable and AT&T are busy trying to force their vision of the metered Internet on the consumers, taking small but vital steps towards a time when all data is going to be metered in methods no different than current utilities. Of course, they (and other incumbents) will continue to dress up their desires in legal mumbo-jumbo that no-human can actually understand. Yesterday, according to a Reuters news report, AT&T Senior VP Robert Quinn got in front of the US regulators and sa...
The Death of Free Wi-Fi
It used to be that jumping on a free Wi-Fi network to check e-mail or do some casual Web browsing was easy. Most people didn’t lock down their networks because they were happy to share and/or they didn’t know how to do lock down their networks. Few people abused the privilege, and it was a win-win all around. Today, it’s a different world. It’s increasingly diificult to find a free and open Wi-Fi connection. Most networks have the evil “lock” icon. This is al...
Never More Than a Click Away
Travel Go, the Travel Channel’s new mobile travel information service offers a wealth of destination information to any Internet-connected mobile phone. And what’s even better is that when you’re searching for a restaurant or entertainment while you’re on vacation, the service is designed so that “one click does it all” — from finding to calling for reservations. ...
What Cool New Stuff Is Apple Cooking Up?
Apple’s second quarter 2008 earnings proved to be a huge blowout, though Wall Street reacted negatively to company’s conservative outlook. Well, they are almost always wrong on Apple - which is clearly a sentiment driven company. Nevertheless, the highlight of the quarterly earnings was the supercharged Mac sales. The numbers match-up with recent reports that Apple was leaping up the US PC-sales charts. Revenues for the quarter were up 38%, highest since 2005 despite slowing iPod s...
GigaNET PM: S3’s Outage Numbers, Virtual Carbon, SnagFilms
Web Worker Daily: Just how bad was the S3 outage? WWD has the numbers. Earth2Tech: Carbon offsets have been available for purchase for avatars of the user-created world Second Life for some time. Now you can literally see the carbon emission levels of all the virtual cars, planes, and appliances around you, too. NewTeeVee: SnagFilms, a widget platform for watching and sharing documentary films, has a business model that may represent the most notable advance in the doc film industry since Netfl...
A Crapware-Free PC? Now, You’re Talking!
Sick and tired of getting a new PC and discovering all of the free trial software and other stuff you don’t need, didn’t ask for and now have clogging up valuable drive space on your new baby? Well, looks like Sony has taken the noble step of making it possible to configure your own PC (like the VAIO notebook) without any of that extra stuff included. And they do it for free. Like the concept? Then read more about it here. Tags: sony, vaio Related Entries Bond Goes Sony at the Casino...
Brocade Buying Foundry for $3 Billion
Wow…it is turning out to be a big Merger Monday. First Roche decides to try and pick up the part of Genentech it doesn’t already own for a whopping $43.7 billion. And now there is news that Brocade, a old school storage networking vendor, is buying Foundry Networks for $3 billion. Foundry is well known for its switches and other data networking products. Under the agreement, Brocade will pay a combination of $18.50 of cash plus 0.0907 shares of Brocade common stock in exchange for...
Inside, Really Inside the Lego Factory
Anybody want to guess how many Lego bricks are made every year? How about a clue? Let’s say more than 50 million a day? Sounds like a lot. And yes it is! To the tune of 19 billion every year. Yes, 19 billion of those little bricks that can build just about anything — from castles and spaceships to monster and robots. Now Gizmodo is giving us a chance to take a video tour of the factory that makes all of this stuff. Get this part: “While the storage areas are the mos...
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