http://www.sipy.com Where are going SIP, ENUM, VoIP, Skype...? Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:00:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Things may finally be turning around for troubled satellite radio venture Sirius XM. Following a long and costly merger, the company became desperate for new financing just as credit dried up, and managed to avert bankruptcy only by selling 40 percent of itself to John Malone in exchange for a ... http://www.sipy.com/2009/07/03/why-the-mobile-web-won%e2%80%99t-save-sirius-xm/ Join the most influential investors, mobile industry executives, entrepreneurs, press and analysts at MobileBeat 2009 for one day of in-depth discussion, debate and power networking, held on July 16 at the Parc 55 Hotel in San Francisco. MobileBeat will focus on apps: the people who use them, the people who ... http://www.sipy.com/2009/07/03/venturebeat-presents-mobilebeat-2009/ There are lots of things to like about Montreal - the nightlife, restaurants, cafes, parks, shopping, et al - but the thing that has really impressed me over the past week has been a system called Bixi that lets people use bicycles when needed. There are stations scattered throughout downtown Montreal ... http://www.sipy.com/2009/07/03/bixi-bicycles-booming-in-montreal/ In 1988, “Saturday Night Live” aired a parody commercial deriding clumsy business models. “At First CityWide Change Bank, our business is making change,” said actor Jim Downey, portraying a naive “service representative.” After listing various ways in which his company could break a five, he explained how money is ... http://www.sipy.com/2009/07/03/maybe-%e2%80%9cpaid%e2%80%9d-is-the-future-of-online-business/ Millions of people logged onto the web when the news of Michael Jackson’s sudden death broke last week, and they’re continuing to flock to eBay to get their hands on the pop king’s memorabilia. The online auction site said it’s since seen the percentages of daily searches, listings ... http://www.sipy.com/2009/07/03/mj-fans-flock-to-ebay-for-memorabilia/ We’d like to say thanks to this week’s GigaOM sponsors: PEER 1: Fully Scalable Hosting Solutions RackSpace: Experience fanatical support StrataScale: It’s your infrastructure – On Demand Fuze Meeting: HD Meetings – From Fuze Meeting Mozy: Back up your photos, music, and files with Mozy for as low as $4.34 per month. Juniper Networks: Demand more ... http://www.sipy.com/2009/07/03/thanks-to-our-gigaom-sponsors-18/ The launch of Apple’s new iPhone 3GS was the best sales day ever for AT&T’s retail stores, while the number of orders taken at its online store also hit an all-time high, according to an internal memo obtained by MacDailyNews, a blog devoted to all things Apple. While the memo ... http://www.sipy.com/2009/07/03/att-simply-addicted-to-the-iphone/ A range of publications wrote about our Call Distributor announcement this week:Speech Tech Magazine - Ifbyphone Unveils Virtual Call Center ServiceFocus - Ifbyphone Introduces Hosted "Cloud" Call Center http://www.sipy.com/2009/07/02/call-distributor-press/ Akamai today said it would provide adaptive bit-rate streaming to deliver video content from web sites to the Apple iPhone 3G and devices running the iPhone OS 3.0 operating system. Basically, using adaptive bit-rate streaming means folks can watch streaming video on their iPhones or iPod Touches with fewer stops ... http://www.sipy.com/2009/07/02/akamai-to-make-iphone-video-streaming-smooth/ Will Michael Jackson’s funeral be live-streamed? (NewTeeVee) Is Obama building new energy policy council with cleantech leaders? (Earth2Tech) Must-have iPhone apps for air travel (WebWorkerDaily) 14 free iTunes visualizers (TheAppleBlog) With the rollout of Symbian’s OS platform, expect a shakeout (OStatic) MIA: One of the few apps in Palm Pre App Catalog (jkOnTheRun) Tweet This ... http://www.sipy.com/2009/07/02/what-to-read-on-the-gigaom-network-76/ As MySpace struggles to regain ground it’s lost to Facebook and sort out its revenue woes, executive departures from MySpace Latino, a combination Spanish-English site targeted at U.S.-based Latinos that launched a little over a year ago, indicate it may be on the chopping block. MySpace Latino’s VP of Hispanic ... http://www.sipy.com/2009/07/02/will-myspace-kill-myspace-latino/ Germany’s Yello Strom might be the coolest utility in the world — it’s embraced the intertwining of energy and home broadband connections and is one of the few that manages its smart meter service directly via its customers’ broadband link. That means it can easily offer consumers web-style smart meter ... http://www.sipy.com/2009/07/02/smart-meters-that-can-tweet-from-a-utility-that-%e2%80%9cgets%e2%80%9d-broadband/ Today we’ve received an email and seen multiple tweets alerting us to the fact that Google’s App Engine software development platform is down. We’ve emailed the company for details, but in the meantime, a check of the App Engine status page won’t even load at 11:30 a.m. PDT, and updates ... http://www.sipy.com/2009/07/02/google%e2%80%99s-app-engine-is-sputtering/ Several marketing associations supported by Google have banded together and released seven principles that they believe should govern online privacy. Are you ready for a journey to the Emerald City? Because the principles are the online advertisers’ attempts to stave off government regulation around protecting consumers’ online privacy by diverting ... http://www.sipy.com/2009/07/02/advertisers-pay-no-attention-to-the-data-we-are-stealing/ In the market for a new TV? These days, there are bargains galore, especially when it comes to those with plasma screens. The Wall Street Journal reports that the growing popularity of their LCD cousins has TV makers such as Pioneer and Vizio phasing out their entire plasma TV line-ups. Others ... http://www.sipy.com/2009/07/02/the-bell-tolls-for-plasma-tvs/ Orange, a UK ISP and mobile phone company, is reportedly close to signing a deal with an ad-supported mobile virtual network called Blyk that would offer certain Orange customers credits on their service in exchange for receiving text-based ads on their mobile phones. According to an article in New Media ... http://www.sipy.com/2009/07/02/do-lower-phone-bills-justify-ads-on-your-mobile-phone/ You have to give Microsoft’s new search engine, Bing, a lot of credit. Since the launch last month, it has done a terrific job of winning over a growing number of people with some savvy public relation efforts. The latest is the launch of results that show Twitter updates….as long as ... http://www.sipy.com/2009/07/02/twitter-bling-on-bing-for-famous-people-2/ You have to give Microsoft’s new search engine, Bing, a lot of credit. Since the launch last month, it has done a terrific job of winning over a growing number of people with some savvy public relation efforts. The latest is the launch of results that show Twitter updates….as long as ... http://www.sipy.com/2009/07/02/twitter-bling-on-bing-for-famous-people/ I was happily surfing the Web reading the Google News Top Stories when I saw a headline that said "No public viewing at Neverland, but Michael Jackson may get laid". Say what? I had to do a double-take. Then I couldn't help but laugh at how funny this headline was. ... http://www.sipy.com/2009/07/02/worst-google-news-headline-ever-no-public-viewing-at-neverland-but-michael-jackson-may-get-laid/ When a SaaS application gets popular enough, features matter less and the underlying ecosystem matters more. There’s a tipping point at which network effects outstrip software features. When that happens, users get the benefits of additional functionality — and the risk of new kinds of lock-in. Salesforce.com, for example, ... http://www.sipy.com/2009/07/02/when-saas-hits-critical-mass-the-game-changes/ The two national agencies responsible for allocating $7.2 billion in broadband grants as part of the stimulus bill today released the rules governing the process and said the government would provide about $4 billion in loans for the first of three funding rounds. That money will start flowing to ... http://www.sipy.com/2009/07/01/government-enforces-the-status-quo-with-broadband-stimulus-bucks/ Facebook is testing a set of changes to its privacy settings that will make it easier for folks to control what they share and with whom. Essentially the Palo Alto, Calif.-based social network is betting that if its users have more control over privacy, they’ll share more. To be sure, ... http://www.sipy.com/2009/07/01/facebook-simplifies-privacy-but-wants-you-to-share-more/ Globalstar today closed on $738 million in financing, while rival satellite operator TerreStar launched its new bird, TerreStar-1. Globalstar plans to use its money to fund operations and launch a new generation of satellites in 2010 that will deliver all IP-based voice and data to its customers through 2025. Before ... http://www.sipy.com/2009/07/01/today-the-stars-aligned-for-satellite-cos/ Using Skype Using Skype for Pain Management and Treatment of Chronic Pain. A hands-off therapy works just fine via Skype webcam. Alternative Health Journal. 50 Awesome Ways to Use Skype in the Classroom. It's an awesome list by/for ... http://www.sipy.com/2009/07/01/weekly-reading/ If you use self-described “web site traffic and promotion company” uSocial.net to buy votes on Digg and StumbleUpon, you’ll be thrilled to know it’s expanded its service to Twitter. For just $87, uSocial will generate an additional 1,000 Twitter followers to the account of your choosing. Sweet! Ratchet up your ... http://www.sipy.com/2009/07/01/want-more-twitter-followers-break-out-your-wallet/