http://www.sipy.com Where are going SIP, ENUM, VoIP, Skype...? Thu, 20 Nov 2008 04:38:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So DISH Network keeps upgrading my DVR software without my asking. Tonight, I go to record a pay-per-view movie and the dialog box says, "You only have 24 hours to watch this movie before we remove it from your DVR."  Well, that stinks. We used to buy them and watch ... http://www.sipy.com/2008/11/20/dish-gets-drm/ I’m a geek groupie when it comes to technology. I can’t actually produce any of these life-changing products, but I can recognize something cool when I see it. And the 100-Gigabit data transfer demo that Ciena was showing off at SC 08 in Austin, Texas, today was very cool. Unlike ... http://www.sipy.com/2008/11/20/sc08-video-ciena-demo-of-100-gigabit-data-transfer/ Of all the goodies that Google has rolled out over the few years, you could make a strong argument that GMail has done better and had more of an impact than anything else to come out of the Googleplex. After hitting the online e-mail scene at a time when Yahoo and ... http://www.sipy.com/2008/11/20/some-more-gmail-goodness/ After a very successful debut last year, The Crunchies are returning to once again celebrate the best of entrepreneurship and new startups. With the economy being what it is, 2009 is going to be a tough year for everyone and I see events like The Crunchies as a big morale ... http://www.sipy.com/2008/11/20/here-come-the-crunchies-again/ Vudu, a startup that sells and rents movies via its Internet-connected set-top box, has boosted High-Definition library to 1,100 on-demand titles -- for now, outdistancing any cable operator's HD video-on-demand service. To build what it claimed is the largest library of HD content available to consumers, Vudu added on ... http://www.sipy.com/2008/11/20/vudu-does-hd-vod-big-time/ The folks in charge of the SC 08 conference being held in Austin, Texas, this week have trumpeted the phenomenal growth of the supercomputing show, with attendance up by almost 10 percent from the previous year, but I’m beginning to doubt that high-performance computing is driving this growth as much ... http://www.sipy.com/2008/11/20/sc08-the-new-data-center-conference/ From the first time Steve Jobs demonstrated "the pinch" -- the two-finger gesture used to zoom in and out of photos and Web pages on the iPhone -- some Apple observers assumed it was just a matter of time before a multitouch-enabled screen showed up on the Mac.That hasn't happened ... http://www.sipy.com/2008/11/19/hp-debuts-first-multi-touch-notebook-yes-hp-not-apple-now-thats-a-surprise/ Meraki, the Google and Sequoia-backed startup that focuses on citywide Wi-Fi networks, hasn’t let the demise of municipal Wi-Fi halt its efforts to make money or make the wireless network technology available in more places. It has scaled back considerably on its visions of open source, low-cost Wi-Fi for municipalities, ... http://www.sipy.com/2008/11/19/meraki-seeks-money-making-outlet-for-free-wi-fi/ Have we been talked into a recession? There's little question that's where the economy is now and it seems to be spiraling deeper by the day as we anxiously cut back on almost everything and, in the process, help make our worst economic fears come true. Did it have to be ... http://www.sipy.com/2008/11/19/nothing-to-fear-but-fear-mongers-themselves/ Now that Yahoo co-founder and CEO Jerry Yang has finally stepped aside, removing what many saw as one of the main barriers to bringing the two companies together, Microsoft should re-ignite acquisition talks with the company. But that’s not the only reason. There are plenty of other good ones why ... http://www.sipy.com/2008/11/19/why-microsoft-should-bid-again-%e2%80%94-and-yahoo-should-accept/ A report prepared for The Broadband Forum by research firm Point Topic and released today says that there are now 400 million broadband subscribers worldwide. In 1998, there were only 57,200 subscribers — that’s growth of nearly 600,000 percent. I was there — chronicling the emergence of now-forgotten names ... http://www.sipy.com/2008/11/19/globally-now-400m-broadband-subscribers/ Katie over on Earth2Tech just tipped me off on President Elect Barack Obama’s CTO website. They are using Digg-like social voting to figure out what are the top priorities for this new job. There are some interesting ideas there and hopefully some of them will actually make it to ... http://www.sipy.com/2008/11/19/this-is-cool-social-news-obama%e2%80%99s-cto/ If you didn’t know already, today is World Toilet Day. At first blush, you may wonder why there’s a need for a World Toilet Day given we take toilets for granted. The sad reality is 2.6 billion people, or 40% of the world’s population - don’t have access to a ... http://www.sipy.com/2008/11/19/the-technology-of-toilets/ Quantance chip Quantance, a San Mateo, Calif.-based chip firm, has raised a $12 million second round of funding to build a component part that will improve cell phone data reception by boosting the signal the phone sends to the base station. The funding, led by the TD Fund, with DoCoMO Capital, ... http://www.sipy.com/2008/11/19/quantance-gets-12m-to-boost-cell-phone-reception/ Yesterday I attended Tekelec’s industry analyst day, which was held at their headquarters in Morrisville, N.C. That was a new stop for me, but very much worth the time, and should add this was their first such event. I really like this format – it’s small in scale and ... http://www.sipy.com/2008/11/19/tekelec-industry-analyst-day/ I grew up reading PC Magazine and I looked forward each couple weeks to picking up my copy of PC Magazine at the local grocery store. But today, Ziff Davis has announced that the legendary PC Magazine print publication is shutting down its print publication and focusing exclusively on online ... http://www.sipy.com/2008/11/19/pc-magazine-stops-the-presses-online-only/ Typical Sales Situation: So I meet a prospective buyer. We exchange cards. A couple weeks later, he has a circuit need to be quoted. We have a conversation. It gets complicated. Next thing you know I am competing against the inside sales team and the Reseller. So why ... http://www.sipy.com/2008/11/19/typical-situation/ KPN and FTTH operator Reggefiber are planning to roll out a fiber-to-the-home network that could cost as much as seven billion euros. The network might take up to seven years to build out and is going to cover pretty much every part of Netherlands. KPN, which is the incumbent ... http://www.sipy.com/2008/11/19/coming-soon-fiber-to-all-of-netherlands/ The new Xbox Live look is supposed to kick off today so be sure to take a peek.The gaming platform now includes customizable avatars, an iPod-like display and easier viewing of Netflix downloads. It's got to be an improvement over what was there before ... or at least we hope so!Let's ... http://www.sipy.com/2008/11/19/anybody-like-the-new-xbox-live/ In case you feel bad about things not going well, here's a video of other failures to give you hope.  (It can't be embedded sorry). Then there's my short list of telecom failures that I am certain will be updated in 2009. And then one last hopeful video: Did You ... http://www.sipy.com/2008/11/19/big-failures/ On December 18th, 2008 Dror Gill and I are hosting a session about the future of TV at the Garage Geeks in Holon, Israel This is the second time such an event takes place - for coverage of the first event, see http://www.blonde2dot0.com/blog/2007/05/01/a-peak-into-the-future-of-tv/ and http://www.degardener.com/2007/04/30/jeff-pulver-garagegeeks-notes-on-the-future-of-tv/ We are looking for innovative people ... http://www.sipy.com/2008/11/19/call-for-speakers-television-ii-another-peek-into-the-future-of-tv/ Dave Winer wrote a poignant post this week about President-elect Barack Obama’s interview on “60 Minutes,” prompting me to actually go to the CBS web site in search of the most-watched “60 Minutes” episode…ever. It was hard to find the video on CBS.com, and only after I searched for it ... http://www.sipy.com/2008/11/19/web-video-is-still-an-inexact-science/ Nov 19th - Last day to pitch Jeff to speak at the Social Media Jungle @ CES 2009, taking place January 7, 2009 in Las Vegas. Nov 20th - Breakfast with Jeff Pulver and Friends in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Nov 28th: The Green Geek Unconference in Israel Dec 1st - Breakfast with Jeff Pulver ... http://www.sipy.com/2008/11/19/updated-jeff-pulver-event-calendar/ I’m intrigued by the idea of personal supercomputers such as the Cray CX1, which was unveiled earlier this year, as well as the Dell Workstation that was given a teraflop boost using an Nvidia Telsa card. So I jumped at the chance to chat with SiCortex, a maker of high-performance ... http://www.sipy.com/2008/11/19/sc08-video-put-a-green-supercomputer-on-your-desk/ If we go back to our early September interview with Josh Silverman where we discussed "The Way Ahead - Platforms and Partners", Josh stated in response to our question about addressing ongoing partner communications issues:What I don't want to do is over promise. Step one is, when you get ... http://www.sipy.com/2008/11/19/skype-seeking-skype-developer-community-manager/