July 2008 Archives
Grrr....
In fact if Rich really wants a black 16GB model, I might be able to hook him up.
Cisco announced earlier today that it is acquiring Pure Networks, a developer of home-networking software.
- Set up their network in minutes
- Print from any computer and share files
- Securely connect to a wireless network and prevent intruders from accessing the home wireless network; and more.

Enter the team of Digium -- the Asterisk company -- and AudioCodes.


For further information about the Mobile Giving Foundation, visit their Web site.


- Comcast will have to stop its practice of blocking
- Comcast will need to provide details to the Commission on the extent and manner in which the practice was been used; and
- Comcast will have to disclose to consumers details on future plans for managing its network going forward.
If you spend any time traveling internationally for business, you understand the challenge of maintaining a high level of connectivity while keeping costs down.
Rich has a blog post touching on the Google Docs outage and he asks if the advantages of such cloud computing apps outweigh the potential disadvantages:Microsoft Response Point Service Pack 1 (SP1) is now generally available. Current customers and partners in the U.S. and Canada can download SP1 for free online.
SP1 offers several new features, including SIP trunking for VoIP calling; click-to-call functionality for any contact using the Assistant software; a call history log; the ability to select music for parked calls and hold time, and more.
In a related Response Point announcement, Aastra Technologies Ltd. released its first-ever Response Point-based system, AastraLink RP. AastraLink RP comes pre-loaded with SP1 and is available to customers in the U.S. and Canada starting today.

Tom Keating has more on the ResponsePoint news in his blog today as well.
Location, location, location. We've all hear that adage before. If you want to sell a product or service you need to be where the customers are. And Telanetix, which has just announced the availability of a new VoIP offering in conjunction with Costco Wholesale, believes the customers they seek frequent the big box retailer.
Telanetix' AccessLine Division has announced a combined business phone service and business phone system package to Costco's small business members, targeting small enterprises with five or fewer employees.
According to the company, this represents over 60% of all registered businesses in the U.S.

Here's an excerpt from the release:
To simplify the purchase process for Costco Members, AccessLine Digital Phone Service is a complete package; it comes with a cutting-edge phone system, complete with all necessary phones, bundled with the phone service itself. The package is packed with features that make the whole purchase and installation process easy for the Costco business member, such as an equipment installment purchase plan rather than a large upfront charge, one point of contact rather than dealing with a service provider and an equipment provider, plug and play installation, and service quality monitoring.I previously wrote about Costco offering Syspine's Digital Operator Phone System from Quanta Computer, featuring Microsoft's Response Point phone system software.
As VoIP-based phone systems become simpler to install, I would venture to say we'll see many more such announcements from telecom equipment makers and even service providers as they try to reach the small business market.
Sangoma Technologies has just announced that it will acquire Paraxip Technologies Inc. for $4.8 million, payable as $1.9 million in cash and 2.3 million Sangoma common shares.
Paraxip develops IP connectivity software designed to empower the deployment of IP Telephony applications. Customers include IBM, Genesys (a subsidiary of Alcatel-Lucent), First Data Corporation, and the State of California.
The integration of Paraxip's SIP-based NetBorder suite into Sangoma's product line provides Sangoma with a growth path that includes the Unified Communications market, IP contact centers, commercial interactive voice response solutions and other SIP-based telephony markets.
According to the release announcing the acquisition, the combined products and channels of the two companies considerably extend Sangoma's current addressable market range by providing support for all software-based telephony applications.
"This acquisition is part of Sangoma's strategy for addressing the expanding market for telephony applications of all types, particularly the segment of the market that demands proprietary, well supported solutions," said David Mandelstam, President and CEO of Sangoma Technologies.
Developers and Asterisk enthusiasts in Asia will be gathering for AsterConference 2008 -- a regional conference dedicated to the open source telecommunication platform Asterisk -- in Kuala Lumpur, on September 10-11, 2008.
The event will take place at the Crown Princess Hotel, Kuala Lumpur.
In a run-up to the event, Sangoma is launching a contest, calling upon the growing developer community in Asia to submit a 500-word essay explaining why they've made the switch to Sangoma's cards.
The grand prize is an all-expense paid trip to AsterConference 2008 in Kuala Lumpur, and Sangoma will also throw in some spending money too!

The contest closes August 8, 2008.
For more information on how to enter, click here.
According to the latest WiMAXCounts Quarterly Report from Maravedis, the global BWA/WiMAX subscriber base increased by 260,246 in the first quarter of 2008, reaching a total of 1,988,246 subscribers
"Even with an increase of more than 19% in WiMAX subscribers in the first quarter of 2008, operators are still waiting for the tipping point that will lead to acceleration of WiMAX adoption and deployments," said Adlane Fellah, CEO and founder of Maravedis. "The key factors mainly center on certification of mobile WiMAX equipment, a reduction in CPE pricing and the emergence of a device ecosystem."
Among the report's key findings:
• 65% of Operators are already commercial, 14% are trialing, 9% are planning their launch, 10% have idle spectrum and 2% have returned/lost spectrum.
• Clearwire USA remains the top operator in number of subscribers, with an estimated 443,000 subscribers in the United States at the end of Q1 2008, an increase of 12.5% compared to the 394,000 subscribers reported in Q4 2007.
• The split by subscriber type among WiMAXCounts operators was 65% residential and 35% business.
• Motorola remains the leader in equipment deployed for both BWA/WiMAX CPEs.
To stay up to date on the latest WiMAX related news, be sure to bookmark http://wimaxtoday.tmcnet.com
According to a study published this week by researchers at The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Google and IBM Internet Security Services, Internet surfers as a group are complacent when it comes to updating their browsers to the latest available versions.
Just over 59% of us use fully patched, up-to-date browsers.
Of course this invites hackers and other ne'er do wells to potentially exploit the outdated browsers and, well, frankly that's not a good thing.
The authors of the research study, titled: Understanding the Web browser Threat: Examination Of Vulnerable Online Web Browser Populations And The "Insecurity Iceberg" propose that computer software be treated more like perishable goods such as food, complete with warnings, expiration dates, and a clear listing of missing plug-ins and patches.

For more, check out the report online.
Has AT&T seen the light? Will it offer what is arguably the hottest gadget around -- the iPhone -- without a service agreement?
Yes.
For a nominal service charge.
The two new iPhones (8MB and 16MB versions) go on sale next Friday (July 11) for $199 and $299, with two-year AT&T contracts.
If you want to purchase an iPhone 3G from AT&T -- locked for use on its network only, natch --without a service contract, you can do so for $400 more than the price of an iPhone that's locked in to a two-year service agreement.
Math challenged? Contract-free versions will cost $599 and $699.
Currently a monthly calling plan for the iPhone runs $70 per month for 450 minutes of calls and unlimited e-mail and Web browsing.



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