Archive for October 20th, 2008
Google CEO to Stump for Obama, Boon for Energy Action
Google was the second most active cleantech investor last quarter, has unveiled a $4.4 trillion U.S. energy plan, and could one day actually make revenues off energy management tools. But Google CEO Eric Schmidt has his own plans when it comes to energy and politics. Schmidt, who has been acting as the spokesperson for Google’s energy plan, has also been advising the Obama campaign on both energy and technology issues and tells the Wall Street Journal that he will personally back Obama a...
Pic>1kword: How the world sees the U.S.
New Find Me Option: Simultaneous Call Forwarding
Ifbyphone is excited to announce the release of a new Find Me Call Forwarding option. Our customers can now use the simultaneous calls options to ring multiple phone numbers at the same time. How would this be used? For example, let’s say you are distributing leads. When a call comes in, let it ring every sales person’s phone. The person who picks up first will get the lead. Alternatively, if you are out of the office you can let the Find Me forward calls to both your home phone and ...
Mobile VoIP Challenges
Today, Global IP Solutions (GIPS) announced the public availability of a whitepaper that highlights the challenges and opportunities critical for high quality when implementing mobile VoIP, called “Implementing VoIP for iPhones and Smartphones.” The paper can be found at http://gipscorp.com/products/gips_in_action.php, and addresses how developers can overcome problems inherent in mobile IP communications, such as packet loss and delay, jitter, acoustic echo and OS tuning. Forget the...
14 million online - The fastest million ever
Skype Numerologist Jean Mercier writes: "We needed only 35 days to go from 13 million concurrent users online to 14 million." 17h55 GMT ...
Samplify Emerges with Good Enough Compression
Samplify Systems, a two-year-old chip startup coming out of stealth mode today, has the potential to create faster data compression and simplified gadgetry for everything from wireless communications to ultrasound machines — as long as users don’t mind losing a little data. The startup offers a mixed-signal chip that translates analog signals, such as sound waves, into digital signals comprised of zeros and ones; but it can compress data too. This results is less circuitry on the ch...
New US HEART tax law should be good for Skype
Heroes Earnings Assistance and Relief Tax Act, a new US law, will tax the income of green card workers for ten years after they leave the US if they stay in the US for 8 years or more. Dean Collins, an Aussie geek in New York, suggests permanent residents should leave before their 8th year to avoid the painful double income taxation. Any forced exodus should boost the demand for international talk, an area where Skype is growing quickly. Few people want to abandon their social capital when pre...
Comcast To Double Speeds, Offer Faster Connections
Comcast, the largest cable company in the U.S., is going to boost its consumer broadband speeds — in some cases, doubling them — without raising the price, according to DSL Reports. The new offerings are likely to be made available in a few weeks. I’m not using Comcast anymore, but if you’re a customer and are willing to put up with their metered broadband philosophy, you might find this information useful. Performance: 6/1 Mbps will now get 12/2 Mbps for $42.95 a mon...
TMC & Digium Announce Registrations open for Digium|Asterisk World
Registration to the upcoming Digium|Asterisk World conference is now open, according to an announcement today from Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) and Digium, the open source Asterisk Company. So you early bird types can now register and add it to your Calendar now, lest you forget. TMC and Digium also announced the launch of the new event Web site at www.digiumasteriskworld.com. Digium|Asterisk World is collocated with TMC’s INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO East 2009...
Excellent Telecom & Voice over IP Blog
If you haven’t been reading On Rad’s Radar, you should. This TMC blog is written by Peter Radizeski the CEO of Rad-Info, Inc. Let me take an excerpt from his bio. “Today, I am still an agent for about 20 carriers (all through other master agents), but I spend more time consulting for service providers (ISP, WISP, CLEC, MSO, FTTH, and ITSP) on strategy, marketing, messaging, and sales training. I also spend a good deal of time blogging here at TMC and other places. Thanks for ...
Vonage Lives to Fight Another Day…
Vonage today announced an agreement for a $220.3 million financing which is seen by many experts as crucial to its survival. Silver Point Finance LLC, which already holds a $216 million financing stake in Vonage, will lead the financial deal, which consists of $130.3 million in senior secured first-lien credit, $72.0 million in senior secured second-lien credit and the sale of $18.0 million of convertible secured third-lien notes. The proceeds will be used to help refinance $253 million of debt....
In Las Vegas to be a Judge at CEAs i-stage Competition
In a couple of hours, Ryan Block (Wired Magazine), Kevin Kelly (formerly of Engadget) and I will be the judges at the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) new technology competition i-stage taking place at the the Four Seasons Hotel. Molly Wood is our host. i-stage is a technology event featuring the most innovative new consumer technology products that will soon come to market. The winner of the i-stage competition will receive $50,000 to develop its product line, as well as free turnkey ex...
Run Mac OS X on a PC
Want to run Mac OS X on a PC? Well, Steve Jobs notorious for forcing his loyal fans to run only Apple-approved hardware let the cat outta the bag once he announced Intel support (previous utilized PowerPC processors.). It was only a matter of time before some hacker found a way to run Mac OS X on PCs with Intel processors. Of course, the version of Leopard sold by Apple only includes drivers for Apple provided hardware and it requires an Apple Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI), which replaces ...
Intel Commits to Wireless Broadband in Any Flavor
Today Intel Corp. said it would add HSPA cellular connectivity to its Moorsetown chipsets, slated to hit mobile Internet devices in 2010. Coming from a firm that has spent billions pushing WiMAX, the news reads like an admission of doubt for the nascent 4G wireless broadband network build out by Sprint and Clearwire — but it’s really just a recognition that wireless broadband is so central to user experience that having multiple options makes sense. This is great news for all of us ...
3 More Hidden Powers Of Click-to-Call
Thomas Howe just wrote a post describing 5 hidden powers of Click-to-Call. While he is right on, I’d like to add a few of my own thoughts to his list: 6. Analytics - When someone calls off your website using Click-to-Call, you can access information about them not traditionally available via a regular telephone call. For example, you can see the search engine they used, the keyword term they used and the page they called from in addition to various data about the call like time and duratio...
Yahoo Fiddles While Rome Burns
The Wall St. Journal is reporting that Yahoo is poised for eliminate more than 1,000 jobs as it battles to remain viable amid fierce competition and a tumultuous economic landscape. That’s it: 1,000 positions? Not to be disrespectful or dismissive about the idea of 1,000 people losing their jobs but Yahoo is being timid when it needs to be bold. It’s nibbling at the edges right than take a big strategic bite, which seems strange given Jerry Yang’s infamous 100 Days Promise. Whi...
Acunetix goes beyond Black Box Scanning with Acusensor technology
Acunetix has just set new standards in web application security technology with its new Acusensor technology. Available as part of the new version 6, this technology identifies more more vulnerabilities, whilst generating less false positives. In addition it indicates exactly where in the code the vulnerability is and also reports debug information. Acunetix is the first and only Web ...
Too Big to Fail
There’s an excellent article in this morning’s New York Times which begins: “The financial crisis is forcing regulators to encourage the creation of bigger, more interconnected institutions. In the short term, this may serve a useful purpose by allowing healthier, well-capitalized banks like Wells Fargo, Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase to shore up weaker ones. “But it also presents a serious threat to the financial system by fostering financial behemoths that are, t...
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by David Yack (is this a good thing?) (the world is getting smaller) ...
Inside Motorola’s Android Phone
BusinessWeek says Motorola, the beleaguered Schaumburg, Ill.-based handset maker is working on an Android OS-based phone — not that it should surprise anyone. Former CEO Ed Zander was quick to sign up for the Google-sponsored Open Handset Alliance. Sanjay Jha, who now heads up Motorola’s handset business (which is likely to be spun out some time soon), was another proponent of Android, back when he was the COO of Qualcomm. (Related: GigaOM Interview with Sanjay Jha.) Here are some n...
Monday reading
Gear Cute. Minoru from Novo 3D stereoscopic webcam, works with Skype. Anthropomorphism intended. They may be competing with IPEVO at the CES I-Stage in Vegas this weekend. CNET reviews the Sony PSP 3000 (black). Skype inside. Nokia N810 WiMAX starts shipping in the US. Skype inside. Business 3 orders a campaign for the new Skypephone S2 from glue London. Glue explains their approach. Online ads "Poke" and "Beard." Pike & Fischer predicts US may have 25 million V...
WorldSpace Satellite Radio Company Files For Bankruptcy
Worldspace, a satellite radio company based in Silver Spring, Md., has filed for bankruptcy. The Wall Street Journal first reported the news, and the only reason I got interested in the company is because back when they were launching, they hit me hard with their press releases. I never really cared for the idea behind Worldspace — satellite radio services for rest of the planet — back then and I still don’t care much for it. The company, which was offering its radio services ...
How About That iPhone Bump?
It has been widely reported that iPhone owners use data connections to surf the Internet more often than people whose smartphones have built-in browsers do. Indeed, flat-rate data plans, a bigger screen, a near-desktop quality web browser along with the ability to connect to multiple networks (3G and Wi-Fi) are all contributing to the heavy Internet usage on the part of iPhone owners. Now the very same dynamics are working their magic on all those applications that were made available on the iT...
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