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P2P Textbook Sharing

In my University days I often recall having new textbooks issued every few years and if students happened to be entering a class when the new textbook came out, we were all forced to buy the new edition as opposed...

Posted on July 27, 2008 12:22 PM

Optical Drivers and Trends

The optical space is alive and well and surprisingly robust. In 2001-2 it was common to talk about the death of the fiber market and often I heard people tell me that there would be no need for more optical...

Posted on July 25, 2008 4:52 PM

Show Me the Opportunities!

This past week has had me thinking a great deal about telecom and how it is evolving. I have come to some conclusions worth sharing. The first is that customers could care less about walled gardens. Sure, we hear...

Posted on July 19, 2008 11:05 AM

Google Gears Powers MySpace

There is a fascinating transformation always taking place in computing. Mainframe computing relied on dumb terminals and then as clients became smarter, we started to migrate to client/server environments. Over time, news ways of working appeared and disappeared and more...

Posted on May 28, 2008 2:15 PM

Skype+Keyboard Convergence

Everything seems to be coming together -- camera, phones, e-mail devices, etc. It was just a matter of time before a company decided to merge Skype, a keyboard and silicon to develop a VoIP-ready keyboard with microphone and speaker...

Posted on March 31, 2008 8:39 AM

Comcast and BitTorrent Collaborate

In a dramatic turn of events, two companies that seemed to be at each other's throats just a few months back, Comcast and BitTorrent have decided to join forces and work together to advance ways in which rich media can...

Posted on March 27, 2008 8:20 AM

Comcast Gets Kevin Martin's Wrath

Kevin Martin seems to be genuinely upset at Comcast and the fact they weren't forthcoming about their traffic shaping of BitTorrent traffic. "A hallmark of what should be seen as a reasonable business practice is certainly whether or not the...

Posted on March 10, 2008 6:28 AM

Webot Review

It is almost embarrassing to call it a review as getting Webot up and running was almost too simple for words. Once you sign up to the music streaming and photo sharing service you are offered a download of software...

Posted on January 7, 2008 12:59 PM

Share Music, Get Fined

In case you haven’t heard of the woman who was fined $220,000 for sharing music, here she is with her feelings on the matter. If you feel up to it, this link will allow you to donate to her cause....

Posted on October 8, 2007 6:43 AM

Zennstrom no Longer Skype CEO

I just noticed Greg Galitzine wrote about Niklas Zennstrom stepping down as Skype’s CEO. will become non-executive chairman of the Skype Board of Directors. Michael van Swaaij, eBay's Chief Strategy Officer, will become acting CEO until a permanent successor...

Posted on October 1, 2007 1:53 PM

Skype Kills Hotel Internet

Looks like Dan York has the same problem with “Skypee” that I had. Dan, don’t you know you need to turn off the “Skypee” to get to the internet? Seriously – if you travel you should read Dan’s post and...

Posted on September 29, 2007 8:08 PM

Skype Retracts Microsoft Blame

In previous posts it was mentioned that Skype blames Microsoft for the recent outage it had last week. More recently Skype has issued a statement saying it does not diectly blame Microsoft for the problem but instead it clarified the...

Posted on August 22, 2007 9:39 AM

Skype Outage Article

Jon Arnold and I were both quoted recently in a San Francisco Chronicle article titled Skype reveals outage source, tells customers it won't happen again. The article is extremely well-written, gets perspective from a number of people and weaves each...

Posted on August 21, 2007 1:19 PM

Skype P2P Problems

By now it seems the whole world is aware Skype had major problems last week. For most people, Skype was down. Tom Keating speculated the cause was a Microsoft patch which rebooted massive numbers of machines. He has a point...

Posted on August 20, 2007 10:13 AM

TMC Gets Some Press

Having your cake and eating it too is how it think about this article in the San Francisco Chronicle with a quote from TMC’s Tom Keating and TMC friend Om Malik. Here is an excerpt:   Tom Keating, chief technology...

Posted on August 17, 2007 10:33 AM

Ooma Hysteria

I received e-mails from a number of bloggers this morning linking to their stories about ooma, the latest p2p VoIP scheme promising free long distance to the masses. The difference between ooma and other p2p solutions like Skype is the...

Posted on July 19, 2007 11:44 AM

Forrester VoIP Study

Apparently VoIP Could grow more quickly according to a study from Forrester. The company says their research shows VoIP software is too hard to use. I have asked for the report but haven’t received it yet. I just wonder if...

Posted on April 16, 2007 11:03 AM

SpamThru: P2P Anti-Virus Trojan

A state of the art p2p Trojan horse called SpamThru includes its own anti-virus software to ensure it isn’t competing with other viruses or Trojan horses. We are seeing viruses enter the age the of the ultimate selfishness where they...

Posted on October 23, 2006 11:32 AM

Fusion Telecommunications

It is worth checking out Tom’s analysis of Fusion telecommunication’s “intriguing” p2p solution."This technology will give Fusion the opportunity to expand its existing suite of paid service offerings and participate in the growing peer-to-peer telephony market through its efonica brand,...

Posted on March 3, 2006 11:34 AM

Top VoIP Investments/Trends

Reprinted from the January 2006 issue of Internet Telephony Magazine.Last year in response to many requests I started a Top 10 investments list in which I outlined some of the best investments for 2005. Here is an update on last...

Posted on December 20, 2005 6:30 PM

Skype 2.0

The challenge for service providers everywhere is how to deal with Skype. The ubiquitous software is a revenue killer for the competition and while many service providers fight to add new features quickly in order to have a better product...

Posted on December 1, 2005 11:11 AM

Ban Skype

Info-Tech Research says you should ban corporate Skype usage ASAP. Should you? Well they cite a few reasons you should such as:Skype is not standards-compliant, allowing it and any vulnerability to pass through corporate firewalls.Skype's encryption is closed source and...

Posted on November 10, 2005 12:24 PM