Ted On Gizmo Project

Ted Wallingford has a new home. DownloadSquad.com, as it seems the powers at be over at Weblogs decided to not continue to devote space to VoIP any longer. I’ve offered Ted the opportunity to post here at VoIPWatch if he ever wants to. Anyway, he makes a really good point about free. It’s something the … Read more

Only In Toronto

Jon Arnold thinks the delay by Toronto Hydro Telecom on their Muni WiFi plans could only happen in Canada. Obviously Jon Arnold has never had to deal with organizations like the California Coastal Comission or the City of Del Mar’s Design Review board. The would both make the challenges that are being aired seem mild. … Read more

Only In Toronto

Jon Arnold thinks the delay by Toronto Hydro Telecom on their Muni WiFi plans could only happen in Canada. Obviously Jon Arnold has never had to deal with organizations like the California Coastal Comission or the City of Del Mar’s Design Review board. The would both make the challenges that are being aired seem mild. … Read more

Asterisk Exploited To Go Vishing

Never give scamers tools they can exploit, because they will. Since Asterisk is open source and easy to acquire, and because it is so powerful, some of the most inventive minds in technology, the ones that develop scams, have found a way to exploit Asterisk to go Vishing, a new term to describe phishing type … Read more

Skype Applies for Trademark

Skype wants to own the trademark, “the whole world can talk for free.” With the price of telephony dropping to zero one has to wonder how about the implications like Russell Shaw ponders on in his post today.Now, Skype does have things going for them. 1. They have been using the line2. They do enable … Read more

Brother..I Know The Feeling

Rich tells us how he’s been on the go non-stop. I know the feeling..and with big news coming next week from SightSpeed as well as the rest of what’s going on in my world, I can really relate.

Jeff Ever Hopeful About The FCC

The last VON event in San Jose the FCC was noticably absent. Now through some soft shoe work Jeff and the team at Pulver are working hard to ingratiate themselves once again with Chairman Martin and others. It’s called detente, and Jeff has been VoIP’s lead ambassador to the FCC for many years. But now … Read more

The Mother of All Fixed Mobile Convergence Plays

AT&T has made a move into the Muni WiFi space, meaning things are really getting very interesting. For the longest time the MuniWiFi space was being dominated by little known startups who built things from scratch, serving as quasi integrators even though the big telcos and cable guys already had enough fiber in the ground … Read more