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3Com and Digium News

If you haven’t been watching lately there has been lots of activity in the IP PBX and networking space from 3Com and Digium. Here is a recap.   3Com was recently purchased and a minority investor was China’s Huawei....

Posted on October 2, 2007 9:11 AM

Vonage Loses to Sprint Nextel

These are mighty difficult times for Vonage as the incumbent providers have ganged up against them and have decided to compete on patents as opposed to technology. A federal jury has ruled that Vonage has to pay $69.5 million in...

Posted on September 25, 2007 5:31 PM

Would you like VoIP with that Order?

What is the state of the art in pizza technology these days? You might think it has to do with the dough or the ovens but no… It is all about IP communications. It seems the only thing changing the...

Posted on September 23, 2007 3:37 PM

Pika Asterisk-Based Device

Pika Technologies has just released an Asterisk-based appliance which developers can use as a platform to get into the small phone system business. The system supports 100 trunks/ports and can allow a company to rapidly get into the private label...

Posted on September 18, 2007 10:21 AM

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

VoIP Supply Thanks TMC

One of the most satisfying parts of my job is working with smaller and newer companies and helping them become larger, more profitable and eventually large. I like to help large companies as well of course but the small...

Posted on September 2, 2007 10:54 AM

Skype, SIP and Asterisk

As the worlds of Skype, SIP and Asterisk become ever more popular, it was only a matter of time before a company started to converge the three. TMCnet’s Tom Keating has some analysis of a new gateway from Italy-based Skip2PBX…...

Posted on September 1, 2007 1:52 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

What We Learned From the Skype Outage

As organizations move to VoIP and other forms of IP communications it is imperative they realize the world of IP is far different from the PSTN and circuit-switched networks of yesterday. While Internet Protocol is the protocol of the Internet...

Posted on August 20, 2007 4:26 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

Fonality

Here is a podcast interview of Chris Lyman the CEO of Fonality. Topics of interest? I asked Chris why he started Fonality, what pains his company solves for customers and we get into a discussion of trixbox Pro and trixnet....

Posted on August 17, 2007 3:16 PM

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

Jesus Phone

The LA times has a comprehensive overview of Apple’s iPhone or as the article references “Jesus Phone.” In addition there is some focus on security, the FCC and the 700 MHz auction....

Posted on August 9, 2007 11:20 AM

Vista Remote Desktop Problems

TMC's Tom Keating found some bugs in Remote Desktop on Vista. The problem revolves around a super-slow connection. Actually I am happy he found the solution to the problem before I upgrade to Vista next week. I just came across...

Posted on July 22, 2007 11:39 AM

Digium Fine Line

There is a fine line between competing with partners and ensuring your company can continue to grow so it is strong enough to keep the R&D going to ensure your partners do well. Microsoft, SalesForce.com, Intel and now Digium all...

Posted on July 12, 2007 8:21 PM

iPhone Skype

OK so you really can’t run Skype on your iPhone as of yet but what you can do is use an AJAX-based application which acts sort of like a Skype remote control. SoonR Talk is the application which allows a...

Posted on July 9, 2007 12:51 PM

Fring on Windows Mobile

Tom Keating has the scoop on Fring coming to a Windows Mobile device near you. Why should you care? Well because Fring could help integrate your disparate communications clients into a single unified application. I am looking forward to trying...

Posted on June 19, 2007 12:00 PM

Office Live Meeting 2007

Tom Keating has a great review/first look at Microsoft’s Office Live Meeting 2007 which seems a voluminous name for a product. But perhaps this is intentional as the software is stuffed with features. For example the same desktop client is...

Posted on June 5, 2007 9:59 AM

Palm Foleo

I love gadgets and I love what Palm has done for the handheld market. I love the concept of Palm rolling out a new laptop-sized device. But that is where it ends. The new Palm Foleo has a fraction of...

Posted on May 31, 2007 9:18 AM

Bad Vonage News

Many of my readers have been contacting me regarding recent Vonage quality and customer service issues. Tom covered some of these problems yesterday. There are also reports of potential Vonage bankruptcy related to the Verizon patent issues in case you...

Posted on April 20, 2007 8:05 AM

More on The VoIP Patent Mess

A number of people in the telecom industry tell me they have looked at the Verizon patents being used against Vonage and they say they have been doing the things that are claimed in the patents before Verizon filed. My...

Posted on April 20, 2007 7:13 AM

SMC Skype Phone

Here is a blog entry from Tom Keating on the FON router community and an SMC Skype phone that takes advantage of this new network of WiFi routers. Apparently – according to Tom -- you can even win a FON...

Posted on April 14, 2007 5:55 AM

Cisco Lost the iPhone Trademark

So it seems Cisco did not keep the trademark for the iPhone name. Why? No use. If you don’t produce a product with the named trademark you lose it. Makes sense right? Anyway it seems that Cisco may have tried...

Posted on January 13, 2007 6:34 PM

Too Busy Reading Spam to Read This Article

I spent some time in Canada away from internet connections and as such I am hundreds of e-mails behind. One of these e-mails came from Tom Keating and it points to an article which explains how spam is skyrocketing due...

Posted on November 20, 2006 7:56 PM

Skype Journal on ITEXPO

Phil Wolf over at Skype Journal proudly tells me his blog is for suits and geeks and while I may not have recalled the two in the exact order and perhaps my memory is not as photographic as I would...

Posted on October 19, 2006 5:58 PM