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Tech Firms Fined For Helping Online Gambling

Some of technology’s biggest players were just hit with a fine of over $30 million in total for aiding in internet gambling. Yahoo!, Microsoft and Google will all be paying varying amounts and admitting varying amounts of guilt.   Far...

Posted on December 19, 2007 4:47 PM

Asterisk Hits One Million Downloads

If you have any doubt that there is tremendous interest in open source communications consider the fact that Digium has recently announced the one millionth download of Asterisk – the open-source PBX.   Yes, that is “One million!”   This...

Posted on December 19, 2007 3:56 PM

Online Advertising Growth at 25%

Online advertising grew at 25% this year and the advertising industry thinks it would have grown at a much greater rate if there were more accurate ways to measure web traffic. Having been in a number of advertiser meetings myself...

Posted on December 14, 2007 3:17 PM

Telecom Growing Nicely

It’s a good time to be in telecom. With all the housing gloom and doom it is nice to see that at least the telecom market is doing exceedingly well. Of course you have to pick your battles… Consumer VoIP...

Posted on December 5, 2007 4:04 PM

Certified WiFi Telephony

Good news for those vendors looking for 3rd-party certification of their WiFi solutions as well as companies and consumers looking for the authentic “WiFi telephony” seal so glaringly absent from the marketplace today.   Russell Shaw’s blog discusses how the...

Posted on December 4, 2007 8:27 PM

Shawn Lewis Leaves VoIP Inc.

Shawn Lewis has left VoIP Inc. Shawn is one of the better known figures in the IP communications space and was one of the Top 100 Voices of IP communications in 2006 as determined by Internet Telephony Magazine. He is...

Posted on December 4, 2007 5:12 PM

Titanium Watches? What about Headsets?

Recently I picked up a titanium watch. In fact I now am the proud owner of two titanium watches. I just love the stuff… More durable than steel and much lighter. What if everything in the world was made out...

Posted on December 3, 2007 4:08 PM

Dinosaur Mummy

Recently a dinosaur mummy was found in the Hell Creek Formation in North Dakota and while a dinosaur mummy has no skin – just rock, it has given scientists a fantastic look at what dinosaurs look like in real life....

Posted on December 3, 2007 11:48 AM

Google Maps Simulated GPS

I could not have been more excited to learn I could use Google Maps on my mobile phone to simulate GPS by utilizing cellular tower triangulation. You should have seen my face. Before I shared the information with my readers...

Posted on November 29, 2007 6:53 PM

Avaya DevConnect 2007

As you may recall from a recent post, TMC has partnered with Avaya to promote its Developer Connection or DevConnect event which is taking place this week. Here are some photos of this standing room only conference which I...

Posted on November 28, 2007 10:14 AM

Skype High Quality Video

Skype has teamed with Logitech to provide what they call a High Quality Video solution. I had a chance to test this new feature via a videoconference with Tom Keating who heads up TMC Labs.   In order to take...

Posted on November 27, 2007 6:12 PM

Black Monday For Yahoo! Merchant Services

According to CNBC there is a problem with the Yahoo! merchant services and some merchants haven’t seen a single transaction go through since six this morning. Obviously this is not good news for Yahoo! or the companies depending on...

Posted on November 26, 2007 3:32 PM

Nokia 810 Review

Tom Keating has an excellent review of the Nokia N810 and although I haven’t seen this gadget yet, based on the Nokia N800 experience I have, this could be a real killer device.   I must say that the amount...

Posted on November 21, 2007 3:43 PM

COTS to the Service Provider Rescue

There was a time when service providers had to purchase massively expensive proprietary equipment in order to deploy telephone service. Class 4 and 5 switches required enormous investment and could be justified as this equipment would be depreciated over many...

Posted on November 20, 2007 5:53 PM

Avaya DevConnect

Over the years, TMC has worked closely with Avaya to host their DevConnect Developer Conference at TMC events such as Communications/VoIP Developer. I have always found these events to be extremely valuable as Avaya does a great job getting the...

Posted on November 20, 2007 2:18 PM

TMC Thanksgiving Pot Luck Luncheon

Today is Pot Luck Luncheon day here at TMC which basically means each person in the company brings in enough food to feed five-ten people. If you play this out, we will about five times more food than we...

Posted on November 20, 2007 11:32 AM

Mobility as Strategic Advantage

It is obvious that mobile device proliferation has had a dramatic increase in productivity for knowledge workers worldwide. In addition it is well known the US government and military functions more effectively because it relies on Blackberrys.   It goes...

Posted on November 20, 2007 10:32 AM

Mobile Advertising Grows to $16.5 Billion

I was perusing some articles on mobile advertising recently and was absolutely stunned at how big some analysts think this market will be. According to this TMCnet article, Strategy Analytics predicts the global market for mobile advertising is slated to...

Posted on November 18, 2007 7:07 PM

Vonage Loses Again

If Vonage has been having great luck in terms of mindshare and being top of mind as a pure-play VoIP provider, it has been equally unlucky in the patent wars as evidenced by the recent loss in the US Court...

Posted on November 16, 2007 9:54 AM

Skype WiFi Phone Outage Details

Skype experienced its first publicized outage of WiFi phones this past weekend. TMCnet’s Tom Keating broke the news and has been posting a play by play on his blog.   Skype recently put out a statement as to what happened...

Posted on November 13, 2007 1:18 PM

A Date-Rape-Drug-Free Christmas

Buying toys is riskier than ever. I remember when I was a kid and falling off your bike was the worst problem you might have. You would get scraped, bruised, a bit beat up but you would get back on...

Posted on November 8, 2007 4:42 PM

ITEXPO Discount – Act Fast

Sometimes I think I have the best job on earth as I get to meet with the real thought leaders in the communications market and see the latest products and services in the industry. Then I get the distinct pleasure...

Posted on November 7, 2007 3:29 PM

Quantcast

You are likely familiar with Alexa, a division of Amazon that measures website traffic. I have written about the site a number of times before. A while back I discovered a site called Quantcast which is becoming a well respected...

Posted on November 6, 2007 3:46 PM

More Google Phone Speculation

Whether or not Google is coming out with a phone in addition to its work in the Open Handset Alliance is unknown. What is known is the speculation may never cease and the rumors will continue to swirl. It seems...

Posted on November 6, 2007 7:13 AM

Keating on Plagiarism

Tom Keating has some interesting thoughts on plagiarism – especially regarding an article of mine that was “borrowed” recently for another site. It is worth a read....

Posted on November 2, 2007 4:50 PM