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Russell Shaw and Frank Macari will be Missed

This morning I woke to horrible news as I just learned Russell Shaw has passed away. Apparently he died in his hotel room on a business trip. I cannot be sadder. Russell was a fantastic guy… And he seemed to...

Posted on March 16, 2008 10:03 AM

Vonage Spent $1.4 million on Lobbying

Vonage spent $1.4 million dollars lobbying last year but some think this may not be enough to counterbalance the huge telcos who have been at this lobbying game for far longer. More from the AP and Russell Shaw...

Posted on March 1, 2008 8:43 AM

Google Gives Away Voicemail to Homeless

For those of you who were in telecom back in the day, you may recall that the Computer Telephony show in Los Angeles, CA had a press event where they got together with exhibitors to give away free voicemail to...

Posted on February 28, 2008 2:30 PM

Senate Approves Surveillance Measure

Earlier today the U.S. Senate defeated an Amendment to strike the provisions providing immunity from civil liability to electronic communication service providers for certain assistance provided to the Government. The White House-backed surveillance measure, which grants legal immunity to companies...

Posted on February 13, 2008 3:06 AM

UK Threatens to turn off Web Access

Russell Shaw discusses the talks in the UK which center around three strikes and your out legislation which will turn off broadband connectivity to those people who are repeated infringing downloaders. What upsets Shaw most -- and I rarely see...

Posted on February 12, 2008 9:59 AM

Dell/Fonality Phone System

Russell Shaw has some analysis of the new Dell Fonality VoIP Phone System launched at ITEXPO this week and talks a bit more about the product and how it compares with the competition. Best of all, he has some screen...

Posted on January 25, 2008 7:54 AM

Vonage to Follow SunRocket?

When asked for a surprising prediction for 2008, Blogger Russell Shaw answered among other things that Vonage could go the way of SunRocket or potentially get picked up by Sprint Nextel. Actually, with all the negative (rumor)coming out of this...

Posted on January 18, 2008 3:18 PM

Using Phones in-Flight

Lately there has been much coverage of airline broadband connections. Soon we will all be able to talk on our cell phones while in flight. Well really I made that last part up... But I do think there are many...

Posted on January 4, 2008 10:29 AM

Nortel Sues Vonage

Vonage just can’t catch a break these days and seems to be the target of more lawsuits related to patent infringements than just about any other company out there. The latest patent fight is with Nortel, a company who says...

Posted on December 17, 2007 10:37 AM

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

The Future is UnClearWire

TMCnet’s Russell Shaw reports in his Regulation blog that Clearwire and Sprint Nextel are not going to work together on a nationwide WiMAX network. Citing a story in the Wall Street Journal, Shaw says:   A letter of intent to...

Posted on November 9, 2007 8:19 AM

iPhone as Invention?

Is Apple’s iPhone an invention? I wonder. I would have said it was an invention until I started reading Russell Shaw’s blog where he has the definition of invention spelled out.   Russell says, “The iPhone strikes me as more...

Posted on November 2, 2007 2:00 PM

ITEXPO West 2007 News

ITEXPO West 2007 News The staggering amount of news and analysis generated from last week’s Internet Telephony Conference & Expo is mind-boggling. Thanks to all the analysts, bloggers, members of the press and everyone else who covered ITEXPO.   Here...

Posted on September 18, 2007 9:20 AM

Off to ITEXPO West 2007

I am sitting in the airport this morning on my way to LA and reading Russell Shaw’s coverage of new research which discusses how websites of telecom companies are no good. Russell says this is information we already know. Interestingly...

Posted on September 9, 2007 9:31 AM

VoEX

VoEX, Inc., is a VoIP managed-service provider offering global peering infrastructure, network interoperability, industry-leading quality of service, and advanced applications capabilities for top tier carriers, mobile operators, cable operators, voice service providers, academic institutions and enterprises. VoEX maps the world’s...

Posted on August 24, 2007 5:02 PM

SunRocket Bankrupt

I am not really so surprised by the SunRocket bankruptcy news. The company was an innovator and had some great ideas early on but for the last few years they were extremely quiet. There was little press outreach and there...

Posted on July 17, 2007 9:57 AM

Mad at Hilary Clinton

Russell Shaw is mad at Hillary Clinton due to her support for increasing taxes.   Here are my stances. I can’t decide which one makes the most sense so I am throwing them both out there.   He is right...

Posted on July 14, 2007 4:44 PM

iPhone: No Mechanical Keyboard

I mentioned a few months back the lack of a keyboard could be the Achilles heal of the Apple iPhone. Now the NY Times has an article on the same topic. Russell Shaw mentions this in his blog today and...

Posted on June 13, 2007 8:19 AM

Wikipedia Dead Links

Russell Shaw raises an interesting point about a problem with Wikipedia being the fact that links expire. I know someone who words for a rival publisher and this company makes an encyclopedia as well. This person’s job is to scan...

Posted on February 17, 2007 7:44 PM

Marcelo Rodriguez on Corruption

Marcelo Rodriguez has some very interesting commentary over at Voxilla. He observes a great deal of behavior in the US that smells of corruption. This is in response to a blog post that Russell Shaw posted and I picked up...

Posted on September 24, 2006 6:58 PM

Blackberry Saga Continues

The saga that is the NTP versus Rim case may soon be (hopefully) coming to an end. The judge is impatient with the case and it seems that the pendulum is swinging ever so slowly back to RIM’s side. In...

Posted on February 24, 2006 2:47 PM

Blackberry Workaround

This is great news for everyone that depends on Blackberries to be productive as well as those people concerned about the state of the US economy in the wake of all Blackberries simultaneously being disconnected. In a stressful game of...

Posted on February 9, 2006 8:57 AM