Mark Evans on What To Do With Your Billions
Mark’s suggestions to Niklas Zennstrom makes for good coffee time reading.
The Comback Kids
Om, who is still recovering from overwork and too many hours blogging and a chain like addiction to Dunhills, has a great post, despite being very much under the weather, about the Tech Comeback. Given Om’s weakened state, the post is still his usual on the mark, hit it out of the park style that … Read more
The Conference I Want To Be At But Can’t
Due to an unreal travel schedule in the month of November that has me in 10 cities, on at least a dozen different airplanes spread over seven different airlines and in three different countries something had to give and not make it on the calendar. Unfortunately IP4IT was it. With the Peripheral Visionaries Summit just … Read more
Investor’s Business Daily on Vonage and Others
Brian Deagon of Investor’s Business Daily interviewed me during the recent IT Expo and it seems he chose to quote me.
VoIP Threat Taxonomy Released
The VoIPSA (the VoIP Security Alliance) has released a very comprehensive PDF file describing many of the possible threats and problems that exist.
VoIP by Stealth
Robert Poe has a nice story about how the RBOC’s plan to roll out VoIP via Stealth means. I tend to like this approach simply because it is really the harbinger of things to come. The telcos know VoIP is their future. How they sell it and migrate are their challenges.
SBC To Become AT&T In Name With New Look
Months back I said here in the blog and in interviews with members of the media that the SBC name goes away and AT&T becomes the new name for many reasons, not the least is tradition and history. But the real reason is on a global basis AT&T carries a lot more clout and recognition … Read more
Erik Really Gives a SPIT
Pal Erik Lagerway has moved his blog to TMC and has views on SPIT. His new company, EyeBall Networks has a piece of software to help prevent it. I call it the VoIP flu shot. You may not ever get SPAT upon, but if you do, you’re protected.
WSJ on Voice IM
Talk about a story that’s late. The Wall Street Journal has a story about Voice over IM clients, focusing on Yahoo and MSN, omitting Skype and AIM. The write pans Yahoo Messenger and seems to give the nod to MSN Messenger. It would have more interesting if he had reviewed Skype and GizmoProject.
Just Try And Move Your Number
Last summer, pal Bob Cox of The National Debate had a problem porting his number with Cablevision when he moved around the corner in New Rochelle New York. Now it seems a Time Warner Cable customer has a similar problem. It seems local number portability, which should be easier in the VoIP universe doesn’t apply … Read more