Archive for September 30th, 2008
New eBay toolbar with Skype, PayPal features
If you like such things, eBay now offers The Browser Highlighter toolbar. Skypify phone numbers, compare prices on eBay, fill forms with your PayPal data, StumbleUpon new sites. tags: skype, toolbar, skypification, eBay, PayPal, StumbleUpon Follow Phil Wolff on Twitter or FriendFeed or on Skype. Follow Skype Journal on twitter ...
Business Networking 101: How to Start Growing your Business Network
When people ask me how to get started building their business social network, my answer is a simple one. All it takes is being a little creative while using both Google and Google Blog Search and commitment to try the following advice for at least 30 days. While getting started, if you dont already have a blog, think about creating one. You will need a place which you can leverage to help you build your own social identity. To help launch your blog, consider using it as a platform to interview...
Network Management Doesn’t Have to Be Evil
Yesterday Sprint launched its Xohm WiMAX service in Baltimore, the first step toward what could become a nationwide, alternative wireless broadband network. Within a few hours, the blogosphere was in an uproar over the network management practices Sprint had disclosed on its web site. But the issue is about more than Sprint throttling traffic on its network during times of congestion; it’s about a consumers’ right to know what happens to their traffic on the network. The problem re...
Star Trek: The Continuing Mission. Episode 2: Integration
TCM Productions uses Skype to connect cast and crew of Star Trek: The Continuing Mission, an independent, fanfic, audio drama. The first episode came out in January. The second episode is out now: Download Part 1, Part 2 or The Master Cut. The Trailer. More to come; check out The Continuing Mission site for interviews with the cast and crew. tags: skype, star trek, tcm, audio, theater, entertainment, radio, drama, science fiction, scifi, workflow, collaboration, continuing mission, coord...
Broadcom Combines GPS and Wi-Fi for Location
Today Broadcom said it will add Wi-Fi-enabled geolocation sensing to its portfolio of GPS chips, which use satellites to determine where a device is. The move expands Broadcom’s location-based services portfolio and highlights the importance of location-tracking as a feature on phones, laptops and other consumer devices. Broadcom will license the Wi-Fi location technology from Boston-based Skyhook Wireless. Skyhook also has a deal with GPS chipmakers SiRF and CSR and even provided locati...
How Wall Street Can Hurt Silicon Valley
Monday’s 9.1 percent dive by the Nasdaq was so sharp — with big names like Amazon, Google, and Apple losing between 10 percent and 18 percent of their value — that some stocks are sure to bounce back. But in the meantime, something has changed: The belief that Silicon Valley is going to remain immune from the Wall Street fallout is gone. Only two single-day drops in the Nasdaq have been steeper: one in October 1987 (the infamous Black Monday) and the other in April 2000 (the c...
Service Provider Views - Is VoIP Dead?
Well, that’s what Skype’s Jonathan Christensen thinks. My latest Service Provider Views article ran yesterday on TMCnet, and the focus was on his keynote at the ITExpo earlier this month. I thought it was the most interesting presentation given, and is very much in line with what my Service Provider Views column is about. Of course, it’s a provocative question, so you’ll just have to read the article yourself to find the answer. And whether you agree or not, I’d lov...
Is Anything Off the Record?
A little while ago, I was quoted in a blog post following an e-mail exchange. At first, I was a little surprised because the exchange wasn’t an interview or a Q&A. But then I realized that I was talking to a blogger, and the rules of engagement are different. In the blogosphere, pretty much everything is on the record. Comments you make on blog posts, things you spit out on Twitter, and conversations you have at a conference all become part of the public record. It’s not very o...
Jon Arnold: Is VoIP Dead?
TMCNet Editor Michael Dinan has reported on Jonathan Christensen’s keynote two weeks ago at TMCNet’s IT Expo in Los Angeles. While many of us in the Skype world have heard pieces of this story previously, Jonathan was addressing an audience of enterprise and business telephony professionals who are dealing with VoIP implementation issues.. Jonathan’s basic thesis was that VoIP has become a commodity feature but the innovation starts by going beyond low cost voice conversations...
Jazinga VoIP System for the SoHo Business
A US$1,000 all in one box WiFi AP, Router and VoIP PBX for up to 20 extensions. Looks like plug and play SME VoIP is finally on way. Read More… ...
GigaOM White Paper: The Facts & Fiction of Bandwidth Caps
Beginning on Wednesday, Comcast, the largest broadband service provider in the U.S., is going to start capping the total amount of data you can transfer using their broadband connection — to 250GB per month. With this move, the cable company will become the symbol of a new Internet era, one that is both monitored and metered. It is an era that threatens to limit innovation and to a large extent, the possibilities for new startups. I have been very vocal about the short-sightedness of this...
Acquia Readies Commercial Drupal CMS
Acquia ,which has been putting together a commercially supported version of the popular open source Drupal content management system, is going live with Acquia Drupal–the commercially supported version–and Acquia Network–which offers subscription-based access to technical support and remote network services–will deliver a model for users of Drupal similar to the model Red Hat has pursued in the Linux arena. Acquia is headed up by Dries Buytaert, the founder and still a ...
No Surprise: Survey Shows U.S. Consumers Hate Broadband Caps
It should hardly come as a surprise to anyone — but nevertheless a survey conducted by International Data Corporation on behalf of Zeugma Systems, a company that makes an edge router for broadband networks, shows that consumers simply hate bandwidth caps and will likely switch to another carrier if they have the option. The survey polled 787 U.S. consumers. Here are some key findings of the survey: 81 percent do not like the idea of establishing a bandwidth cap and charging for use abo...
Slides from my ITEXPO security talk - SIP Trunking and Security in an Enterprise Network
Earlier this month out at ITEXPO in Los Angeles, I participated in the Ingate SIP Trunking seminars as I have been doing for the last year or so. My talk was “SIP Trunking and Security in an Enterprise Network“. The slides are available for viewing or download from my SlideShare account and I’ll also embed them here in this post. I did record the presentation in both audio and video and hope to be making that available as a Blue Box podcast some time soon. I’ll then sync...
Pandora Wins Support
In grass roots fashion, Pandora, the online music genome project, urged its users (like me) to contact Congress about extending the royalty deadline. The bill passed the House. “Pandora and other Web-based radio services have been negotiating with music-industry groups for more than a year now, hoping to agree on a workable royalty structure before the existing structure bankrupted webcasters.” [Dallas Morning News] Who was the biggest opponent of the bill? NAB. Go figure! Tags...
Skype Journal Interviews Josh Silverman: The Way Ahead - Markets
This is the fourth in a series of posts resulting from an interview a week ago Friday with Josh Silverman, Skype’s recently appointed President. In this post we talk about addressing the small-to-medium business market as well as various geographical markets. Over its five years, Skype has built up, almost totally virally, a significant base of users who take advantage of Skype to not only reduce their business communications costs but also to communicate more effectively with colleagues a...
Building a Blade Server: The HP Factory Tour
Last Friday, not only did I get a first look at HP’s containerized data center, but I was given a tour of its factory floors in Houston, where HP makes high-value custom servers for clients. One factory makes the servers, while the other assembles the computers into racks and complete systems. The systems can contain any combination of gear that a client could want, including servers from rival hardware vendors. (photos after the jump) The factories are roughly 140,000 square feet each a...
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