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RIM Vs. Visto

May 1, 2006

Blackberry maker Research in Motion must have incorporated on Friday the 13th because they seem to continually be in the spotlight for patent infringement problems. This time it isn't NTP but Visto who wants (take a wild guess) an injunction and monetary damages.

Here is a quote from Tom Keating's blog.

"Friday's sweeping decision against Seven Networks validates our claims that Visto's intellectual property serves as the basis for this industry's birth," said Brian Bogosian, Visto's Chairman, President and CEO. "There was no ambiguity in the jury's decision. Likewise we believe that RIM's infringement of Visto's technology will be halted.

Posted in CRM, Technology, VoIP, Wireless

TMCnet breaks One Million Unique Visitors

May 1, 2006

I just landed and checked e-mail and one of the first messages I saw is that TMCnet broke one million filtered unique visitors in the month of April 2006.

I was really hoping April would be the month we reached this goal.

I have to thank you once again for visiting TMCnet and helping us achieve this goal. By the way the official number is 1,053,840.

We have two more goals. One is Alexa of 1,000 -- which would put TMCnet in the top 1,000 sites in the entire world. We are currently ranked 1,387 so we are close.

Posted in Broadband, CRM, Call Center, Conferencing, Consumer Electronics, Google, IMS, IPTV, ITEXPO, JITC, Open Source, Personal, Rates Technology, SIP, Speech Technologies, TMC Video, Technology, Video, VoIP, WiMAX, Wireless

Triple-Play Symposium

May 1, 2006

Service providers from around the word are signing up for the second annual Triple-Play Symposium. TMC is a title sponsor of this event – The symposium is being hosted by Netcentrex and iPlay3. Light Reading and host of other media outlets are also sponsoring. Be sure to be there. The events take place in Dallas, Boston and Paris. Here is more information.

Posted in Broadband, IMS, IPTV, SIP, Video, VoIP, WiMAX, Wireless

FLEXengine from Carrier Access

April 28, 2006

I am intrigued by the new software defined circuit and packet processing technology from Carrier Access... FLEXengine is used for cell site access, switching center and transport hub locations. FLEXengine integrates data interworking functions to optimize the transport of 2G and 3G broadband data over both existing and new packet-based broadband wireless access networks. Carrier Access says the technology will allow wireless carriers to save money when upgrading cell sites to mobile switching centers deploying new web and video data services. The question we all want to know is will this technology actually lower cell phone bills? :-)

Posted in Wireless

Channels

April 22, 2006

Be sure to check out the TMCnet channels when you get a moment… Think of them as micro-publications on various topics. There are a number of new ones here and there are XML feeds on the channels if you would prefer to use an RSS reader. Broadband Telephony Broadband Voice Conference Call-Audio-Web Customer Interaction Management E911 Enterprise VoIP Gateways Headsets Hosted IP Hosted PBX

Posted in Broadband, CRM, Call Center, Conferencing, Consumer Electronics, IMS, IPTV, JITC, Open Source, SIP, Speech Technologies, Technology, VoIP, Wireless

Channels

April 22, 2006

Posted in Broadband, CRM, Call Center, Conferencing, Consumer Electronics, IMS, IPTV, JITC, Open Source, SIP, Speech Technologies, Technology, VoIP, Wireless

TMCnet Video: part 2

April 21, 2006

Here is the release on TMC video – I have had many questions on this today. We are very excited to get this rolling.

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Critical Mention Launches ClipSyndicate, a 'One Stop Shop' For Web Site Publishers to Syndicate Video News Segments From Respected Broadcasters
Clear Channel, MultiVu, a PR Newswire company, and Other Leading Broadcast News Providers, Ink Deals with ClipSyndicate to Drive Syndication Revenue and Brand Extension to Vertical Web Sites

NEW YORK, April 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Critical Mention, Inc., the leading Web-based television news search and broadcast monitoring service, today announced the formation of a new technology platform and business venture, ClipSyndicate, providing an exceptional value proposition for broadcasters, advertisers and Web site publishers in the "long tail" of the Internet. Broadcasters can extend the reach and value of their news clips, advertisers are able to get their video and banner ads in front of targeted "eyeballs" and Web site publishers are provided with the simplest way to syndicate and profit from timely and respected broadcast news segments that are relevant to their users/visitors.

ClipSyndicate enables broadcasters and other video content producers to easily monetize their content and extend their brands through an Internet distribution channel that syndicates video clips to thousands of vertical Web sites in need of content for their end-users, while providing advertisers new reach to an extremely targeted audience.

Posted in Broadband, CRM, Call Center, Conferencing, Consumer Electronics, Google, IMS, IPTV, ITEXPO, JITC, Open Source, Rates Technology, SIP, Speech Technologies, Technology, VoIP, WiMAX, Wireless

Save The Internet

April 21, 2006

I received an e-mail below from freepress.net pushing me to savetheinternet.com. The e-mail and site are intended to save net neutrality. With all the talk on this topic I expected the savetheinternet domain to have huge traffic. I checked to see when it was registered and the records indicate it was picked up back in January 1999.

Posted in Broadband, Google, IMS, IPTV, SIP, Technology, VoIP, WiMAX, Wireless

Quoted in RCR Wireless

April 21, 2006

I was recently quoted in RCR Wireless a magazine from Crain Communications. If you don’t subscribe, you should check it out at http://www.rcrnews.com/. I am a subscriber by the way. Here is the article.

Posted in Broadband, SIP, Technology, VoIP, Wireless

Alltel My Circle

April 21, 2006

The “Friends and Family" plan popularized by MCI more than a decade ago has come to wireless callers. Alltel will now allow anyone spending $59.95 or more on their calling plans to have a feature called “My Circle,” allowing the caller to make unlimited free calls to 10 phone numbers.

These calls will not be part of the allotment of minutes calculated in a calling plan.

Even though other carriers have plans that offer free calling at select times or within their respective networks this new initiative from the Nation’s number 5 wireless provider will allow callers to take advantage of calling at any time and to callers on any network.

I believe this plan will likely be successful as there are many callers that cannot control the phone networks of their friends and family members.

In addition this sort of plan makes sense to offer because customers perceive they are getting something for free – even though they are paying $59.95/month.

It is too soon to know if this sort of plan will have any impact on fixed line telephony as many VoIP providers already provide unlimited calling for a flat rate. Perhaps if VoIP rates continue to fall, a plan like this will be rolled out by popular VoIP providers as well.

In the end the phone businesses is becoming more and more commoditized and new service offerings and marketing ideas such as this are healthy. Customers will always spend more on service if service providers are able to find the right customer hot-buttons to push.

Posted in Conferencing, VoIP, Wireless

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