A story making the rounds today over the Associated Press newswire sites many woes being expressed by 911 call center directors. My view is that there are likely solutions that will work, but that county government is not ready to spend the money to modernise their E911 services.
Mark Evans :: VOIP: A Black Hole? presents a pointer to a skeptical POV (point of view) about VoIP.
It has been tried with cellular, and now it’s being tried with VoIP. Getting free VoIP in exchange for listening to commercials while the call is being connected.
Slashdot | Canary Wireless Digital Hotspotter Reviewed over on Slashdot. I got one too and have tried it within the office environment. It’s very useful but not as portable as my key chain WiFi detector, but it’s much better as it gives information about the SSID and if the Hotspot is WEP’d or not ! Buy … Read more
SIPthat.com: Wrapping up the year! has a note from Erik that a new version of Eyebeam is due out soon. I keep thinking this is a better solution than a box that you can’t really have with you on the go if the concept of a video phone is ever going to take off.
It sure sounds like Jeff and his team may have a first on their hands. A pre-release version of the next rendition of the Pulver Communicator is in private testing now, and likely will be released in time for CES. This is a huge step as it allows IM sessions between Skype users and PC … Read more
I mentioned VoIP at CES earlier, but I forget to mention why it will be such a big deal. In a nutshell, Pulver.com. Jeff and his team have been in the VoIP arena putting on conferences longer than anyone. Now that VoIP is going mainstream with more “consumer” products than ever before, his groups participation … Read more
Telephony and Music: More than just an “On-Hold” Relationship according to my favorite Telecom blogger, Jeff Pulver. The reason I say telecom, is while his focus is clearly VoIP and Pulver Communications related efforts, Jeff does have the best perspective on Telecom from years of doing what he has done. His points about the blending of … Read more
The Jeff Pulver Blog: Municipal and State Governments to VoIP Industry: “Deploy VoIP … but Give Us All your Money” — Zen Koan or Catch 22? Jeff waxes on about the proposed efforts by governments at all levels to tax VoIP, comparing the tax rates to Sin Taxes, but only greater. My gut says that … Read more
Unbound Spiral has a whole series of how toos, what may be and possible implications around Skypecasting, Skype Voice Recording and the blending in with PodCasting. This series of posts by Stuart is one of the most comprehensive on the subject and worth going through his blog to make sense of what is really going on.
