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Skype Causing Spam?

If you’ve been seeing all the spam in your inbox and you use Skype there’s a good chance this Trojan horse virus has infected someone you know.

Google And Time Warner Telecom?

Time Warner Telecom, which was spun out a few years back from TimeWarner/AOL may be in cahoots with Google. TWT does have a very good network. They want only enterprise customers and the have the build out to be able to supply Google with some aspects of what they want, likely filling in gaps beyond … Read more

Slashdot Asks If Calea Will Wreck Skype

One of the supposed strengths of Skype and other P2P platforms is their encryption, making it harder for prying ears to listen in. Slashdot begs the question today, via a News.com account, if pending efforts by the FBI under CALEA will basically do away with the idea of software like that, and more importantly what … Read more

Trouble in Paradise?

Within one hour today, during conversations with three different people, in different parts of the world I heard the following Skype stories: 1. That the programmers in Estonia saw nothing to very little in the way of stock options. 2. That two days before the sale to eBay employees were told by Nicklas that the … Read more

Cable Labs Seeking Peering Knowledge

In what has to be a boon to Level3, AT&T and all the SIP based providers, CableLabs has issued a request for information about VoIP peering. This is along lead matter but clearly signals the market that the cable guys are making some serious moves into VoIP and looking to get further from the traditional … Read more