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VoIP Blocking Explained

By on August 26, 2008

Dan York, Director of Emerging Communication Technology at Voxeo, but also on the Board of the Voice over IP Security Alliance (VOIPSA) has written two excellent pieces in another of his blogs, Voice of VoIPSA, discussing the blocking of VoIP calls by Aircell. The first explains how they can block Skype calls, even though they [...]

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CxO’s – Linchpins in Bringing Business to Technology

By on July 8, 2008

Since 1996 I have been involved in buying Dell laptops and desktop PC’s, not only for my own use but also helping friends and non-profits acquire PC’s for their personal and business needs. A constant throughout most of that period was that each of these PC’s came with a digital media offering called Musicmatch. Not [...]

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Skype Refreshed … And Looking Beyond Being a Telco

Skype Refreshed … And Looking Beyond Being a Telco

By on September 26, 2007

Just over a month ago a two-day Skype outage caused great consternation with predictions of gloom and doom for Skype. Early yesterday here in California (around 1600GMT) I noticed almost 9.7 million users online — back to about the same number as peak loads immediately prior to the outage. Somebody out there is continuing to [...]

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Connecting and Enabling the Global Nomad

By on June 4, 2007

Normally when I head out on the road, I find a hotel with a free Internet connection and, if it’s wired, use my Linksys Travel Router to create a wireless access point so that I can run not only my PC but also my Nokia N800 and N95 over WiFi. This combination gives me world [...]

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Can AOL Become Carrier 2.0 By Executing on Voice 2.0 Manifesto?

By on September 7, 2006

AOL has a long history of innovation. Initially launched as a proprietary pre-Internet personal communications platform building up to several million users via dialup connections, AOL has evolved its integration into the Internet to the point where it recently broke down its “closed garden” business model and opened up the majority of its content and [...]

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Gizmo Project’s “All Calls Free” – Will It Drive User Recruitment?

Gizmo Project’s “All Calls Free” – Will It Drive User Recruitment?

By on July 21, 2006

One of the challenges of entering the VoIP consumer space is to simply sign up users; so how do you match up the fact that Skype has over 100 million registered users (even if only max 7 million, and climbing, are on Skype at any given time)? A lot of posts yesterday about Gizmo Project’s [...]

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Vonage IPO Post Mortems: Reaction and Comments…

Vonage IPO Post Mortems: Reaction and Comments…

By on May 25, 2006

At the end of the second day of trading Vonage (VG) closed at $13.00 with over 11.3 million shares traded today; down 24.6% from the IPO price. There is some interesting and inisghtul commentary coming out: Andy Abramson, VoIP Watch: My Thoughts on The Vonage IPO So really, this reaction to the stock price is [...]

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