It looks like the evil geniuses who love to bait unsuspecting users have found ways around the Skype security platform and are now affecting users of Skype according to CNET’s NEWS.com. I’ve decided to call it SKUUM for SKYPE UNWANTED/UNAPPROVED MESSAGING Now what we need from Skype is some UNSKUUM to prevent it.
Tom Keating of TMC writes up the Jazinga box. Unlike Tom, I’ve been using my box up until the latest round of home remodeling, and can only give it the highest form of compliments. It’s VoIPWatch approved. Now for the sake of transparency, we’ve been helping the leadership of Jazinga get their box out and … Read more
When you read the story out of the UK that has Skype saying “No 999” you’ll at first want to be outraged. But then Skype has insisted from day one that they are not a phone service. This is consistent with what they have said here in the USA. But, the if you apply the … Read more
Meet Damon. He produces the Smart Show, a cool show about life and technology. I’m going to be on an upcoming episode.
I expect that the move by Verizon Wireless to allow people to go month to month without a contract and bring their own devices to their network will cause a similar reaction with other mobile operators here in the USA. This also means the market for higher-end, more feature rich phones will finally come to … Read more
John Carroll at ZDNet takes a developer’s perspective and explains why SIP Is it. Tom Keating highlights the patriotism of SightSpeed and the Pros vs. Joes activities they are supporting. Dan York takes a both sides of the street approach to the public discussion between Skype and GizmoProject about SIP and Skype and being more … Read more
In what has to be a blow to the homeland favorite, SPIRIT DSP, Norwegian codec king GIPS grabbed the voice communications crown in Russia, winning the contract to supply a voice engine to Mail.ru reports VoIP-News out of the UK. GIPS, which is best known as the creators and inventors of iLBC, and as the … Read more
Some may call this trolling, but I have to air these thoughts out: 1. T-Mobile or Three will create a true VOIP play complete with a softclient for the PC. Bets are it will be either Counterpath’s eyeBeam or SipPhone’s Gizmo Project client as they are both multi-platform, but I give Gizmo the edge as … Read more
It’s great to see two friends (and clients) finish first. While I’m a few days late to the congratulatory circle, I have to say, it feels great to know that two very close friends, Thomas (Professor Mashup) Howe and Shai Berger (Fonolo) have captured very impressive crowns this past week in different competitions. First was … Read more
Rich Tehrani refers to a post earlier that I made about the possibility of Google buying Skype and suggests a few others. While Google has the bucks to make the buy, as does Cisco and Oracle, I don’t see the latter two jumping in. They like to be enterprise friendly, and Skype is perceived as … Read more
