Archive for February, 2008
Ike Elliott’s Update on the VoIP Market
Been trying to get to this one all afternoon. Ike Elliott had a really great post earlier today about the state of the US residential VoIP market. He’s provided keen insights around a few sets of data points showing how the market shares break down. He and I follow this space quite a bit, so it’s great to share his thoughts with my readers. Basically, Ike is showing how the cablecos have strengthened their grip on this market since last year, and at this point, Vonage is a distant #3...
Service Provider Views Article - Q&A with Catharine Trebnick
My latest Service Provider Views article was posted the other day, and I wanted to share it with you here. This time around, I did a Q&A interview with Catharine Trebnick, Senior Research Analyst at America’s Growth Capital. I wanted this column to focus how investment markets are looking at service providers, and Catharine had lots of good insights to offer. We sure could have gone on at length, and hopefully we will some time in another forum, but a web column isn’t the place f...
Pooper scooper
I’m just having some fun taking a Waitrose Colombian coffee flavoured milk drink break, reading David Reed’s submission to the recent FCC hearing. It’s all about Comcast’s approach to squishing BitTorrent traffic on its broadband network. (Sorry, no link, I’ve only got a copy via email.) I’m not in favour of network neutrality regulations, and feel that Comcast did a Bad Thing™ that should be punishable under existing consumer protection, contract and ...
eComm2008 - Q&A with Lee Dryburgh/Discount Offer
Got two updates to share with you about the eComm2008 conference, which I did a background post about on Monday. First is an interview I did with Lee Dryburgh that just ran on IP Convergence TV the other day. Lee mostly talks about his views on convergence technologies, but also a bit about what you can expect to experience at eComm2008. Hope you enjoy it, and comments are welcome. Second is a special discount offer I can share with you to save 15% on registration for the conference. Hopefully, ...
How Bloggers and Journalists are Different
Call me old school, but I have my share of issues when the lines between blogging and journalism get blurry. That’s a very subjective topic, but I wanted to share an experience with you that speaks to a lot of my concerns and values. I’m not going to identify the parties by name - there’s no reason to - and I think to story will speak for itself. I recently attended an analyst event put on by a vendor, and we got a pretty good overview of their plans and how they intend to do t...
Meeting of Minds
How VoIP products sometimes come out of the blogosphere… Read More… ...
BT and Sony enter the Voice/Video/Games Market
The mobile companies are putting their eggs in the music basket. BT goes for games. Read More… ...
37signals and Gaboogie Mashup Contest
+ Developers, build a mashup application or mashup your existing application using both the Highrise API and the Lypp API and win stuff. Best app: $3000 Apple gift certificate 20,000 minutes of call time from Lypp (approx value: $1800) 12 months subscription for a Highrise MAX account (approx value: $1800) Runner-up: $1500 Apple gift certificate 10,000 minutes of call time from Lypp (approx value: $900) 6 months subscription for a Highrise MAX account (approx value: $900) 2nd Runner-up: $...
A Trip in the Time Machine from 1990
In 1990 there was no VoIP, practically no Internet. How well did they predict computing’s future? Read More… ...
Cuba and Varadero
I wanted to write a bit about my impressions in Cuba, but my son Michael did a much betterjob on his blog Mahalanobis. In addition I added some pictures on the Mac Web Gallery since I am currently sick I can only provide limited input ...
OpenSER Summit
The second OpenSER summit, and the first to be held in the US. Coupled with a new enterprise-led ‘OpenSER Pavillion’ event on the following day, this year’s VON in San Jose just got much more interesting! Read More… ...
3CX Phone System v5.1 with tunnel feature available!
We finally got it ready – 3CX Phone System V5.1. A lot of hard work of the 3CX team went into that one, and I think it shows. We have made numerous improvements and fixes, and introduced the much awaited 3CX Tunnel feature. The 3CX Tunnel allows for remote extensions and branch offices to be connected via a single TCP port. You no longer need to open a range of ports for RDP and SIP traffic ...
Legal Interception and IP Communications
Periodically this topic of should we extend legal intercept capability to IP Communications is raised and more often than not the slant of the argument is that IP Communications should be free of any regulatory requirement. Invariably one of the… ...
Are your ecomming?
The new schedule for eComm is up and is frankly bloody amazing. It’s an utter “who’s who” in the emerging personal communications space. You’d be nuts not to go. I’m stocking up on a year’s blog idea fodder… You could even combine it with VON the next week, so you can go shopping for IP telco equipment to execute the ideas from eComm. I’m probably going to get out to San Francisco on Monday 10th March, so bid now for Tuesday meetings! PS -...
Poetic Justice
“I think that the vision of the early SIP founders has been largely unreal in the SIP world. SIP is typically just used for this mundane trunkling application like the one we have or sending calls between two networks and… ...
Google strikes with unbeatable hosted anti spam and anti virus product
I recently wrote about the excellent Google domains product. Well, now its possible to use just the security ‘component’ of Google domains and combine it with any mail server. For only $3 a year per user, you can outsource your entire anti spam and anti virus to Google. For a 50 user company, that’s only $150 per year! Unbeatable, knowing how good Google anti spam and anti virus is and how much ...
Mr Ballmer! Two times zero still makes zero….!
These financial ‘analysts’ make me laugh some times. Microsoft’s intended purchase of Yahoo is supposed to ‘loosen Googles grip on ads’, ‘rock the foundation of online search’, to name just a few of the quotes I have seen. Truth of the matter is that both Yahoo and Microsoft have negligible market share in online ads, and for a very good reason: Their platforms are both very bad and have very ...
Pension
Today was my last working day - although I am already on vacation for 3 month. Currently I am in for a treatment in a health resort - or as we say on a cure - in Moorbad Neydharting in Upper Austria. Not that I am sick, but it is paid for by the state pension fund, and if it does not help, at least it does not harm. In addition, I am needing new strength and fitness anyway for my retirement activities. - I will keep you informed. Our next plans are to go to Cuba (Havana and Varadero) from the ...
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