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YouTube: Invention of the Year

I suppose selling your business for almost 2 billion dollars is great but does this make your invention worthy of being the Invention of the Year from Time Magazine? There have been many video sharing sites over the years and YouTube can be considered if anything to be a copycat on many levels. Do the Time Magazine people just don’t get it? Here is a good blog post explaining why YouTube should (or should not) win this coveted award.

But really, do you think at this point the founders of YouTube really care one way or another? These guys are probably glued to MarketWatch all day tracking Google’s stock price.

Here is the story from USA Today.

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CounterPath

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Cell Phones Reduce Traffic

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NTP Sues Palm

It would seem the cost for mobile computing is set to increase across the board. Now NTP is going after Palm. As you may remember a while back the nation was worried that Blackberry service was going to be shut down because Blackberry parent RIM did not want to settle a related patent dispute. As you recall the US military and politicians are Blackberry users and although they would have been exempt from the shut down there was fear that such a shut down would wreak havoc on the US economy and political system.

Ken Camp thinks NTP is going to make out nicely from this lawsuit and I agree. Here is what CIO Magazine thinks.

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Verizon FiOS

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Bible For Dummies

As he waited in line at the supermarket, Rich wondered if we have taken this I am in a hurry lifestyle a bit too far.


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SIPit

Some of the most complicated, acronym laden conversations I get into are with the people behind the protocols of VoIP. Actually the testing companies too can give you some mind-bending info on how you can mix the science of protocols while determining jitter levels that can affect voice quality.

But I digress. I really wanted to talk a bit about the recent SIPit event and more specifically that there have been 19 of these so far. Data Connection was a participant in the last event which was hosted by the University of New Hampshire Interoperability Laboratory.

According to Jonathon Cumming of Data Connection, the event was great as it allowed the company to test interoperability with the IPv6 implementation of their DC-SIP its carrier grade protocol stack. Here is some more information on Data Connection’s participation in the event and a link to SIP Magazine if you are interested in staying up to date on the world of SIP.

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Microsoft VoIP

Andy has an entry titled Microsoft to Enter the VoIP World today and it seems to sync up with what I am seeing and hearing from the company as well. It remains to be see how seriously Microsoft pushes into VoIP in 2007 though. What I can tell you is many large enterprises are looking at what Microsoft does very closely. Many shared these thoughts with me at the last ITEXPO.

In particular many enterprises are focusing on Microsoft’s vision for the endpoints their employees will be using. Will phones be obsolete soon they wonder? These discussions have been around for years of course – now that Microsoft is more seriously in the game they are being revisited.

One might imagine that Microsoft doesn’t need to push phones but in reality Microsoft will be playing more seriously in the enterprise phone business and let’s not forget Windows Mobile devices that will work with the company’s VoIP initiatives as well.

What most people don’t realize is that Microsoft is reentering the VoIP space. They entered it in around 1996 with NetMeeting and then left it for a number of years. Yes Microsoft is never first but was second in the mid-nineties when they decided to copy the softphone from VocalTec.

A few years later when Microsoft realized they “missed the Internet” they pulled most telecom development and refocused it on killing off Netscape. As long as Microsoft keeps their focus this time they could be a serious threat to many others in the industry. It is a bit early to know who is at biggest risk as the software giant is partnering with so many companies in the PBX space who you would imagine would be afraid of Microsoft taking them out.

Let’s see how this one plays out.

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