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Linux Foundation Embedded Solutions Director's Case for Open Source and Connected Car

By Suzanne Bowen on Monday, Jun 17

The car of 2013 is different from the one I learned to drive, a 1974 Ford Maverick with rear federal bumpers, aluminum...

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Tagged Connected car, Ford Maverick, Ford Motor Company, Linus Torvalds, Linux, linux foundation, Mercedes Benz, open source, Original equipment manufacturer, rudolf streif, Tata Elxsi | Responses

Business Video and Queen Lead Guitarist Brian May

By Suzanne Bowen on Monday, Jun 17

"A good video can make all the difference," says Brian May (Ph.D. Astro-Physics and Queen lead guitarist). Such is true for business!Even...

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Tagged Bohemian Rhapsody, Brian May, Business, Complete History of the Universe, Muntwo, Queen, Video, Youtube | Responses

What's a VAR to do?

By Peter on Monday, Jun 17

Value-added Resellers (VARs) have a business model dependent on hardware sales. The big ticket items bring in cash in a lump...

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Tagged strategy, VAR

Yealink SIP T-38G Review

By Rich Tehrani on Monday, Jun 17

The Yealink SIP T-38G Gigabit color LCD PoE IP phone is another impressive IP phone following in the steps of the Yealink...

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Tagged color lcd, dhcp, ethernet, gigabit, ip phone, sip, t-38g, tom keating, voip, yealink

Logitech Sets Sights on Unified Communications

By Tom Keating on Friday, Jun 14

Logitech said in their February corporate report that "Some of our other peripherals product categories are experiencing significant market challenges. As the...

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Tagged bluetooth, cisco, jabber, logitech, lync, microsoft, sip, softphone, uc, unified communications, voip

telyHD Review

By Tom Keating on Friday, Jun 14

The telyHD appliance brings powerful, affordable HD video conferencing to SMBs and larger enterprises, rivaling high-end telepresence platforms from Cisco, LifeSize, and...

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Tagged android, bluejeans networks, h.264, hd, hdmi, sip, skype, video conferencing

Toogethr Founder Voorzanger on Peer to Peer Transport and Connected Cars

By Suzanne Bowen on Thursday, Jun 13

Many thanks to Connected Cars Conference scheduled June 25 - 26, 2013 in Amsterdam for introducing Martin Voorzanger founder of startup Toogethr...

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Tagged Android, Audible, Connected car, m2m, martin voorzanger, multimodal trip planner, open source api, Podcast, Toogethr | Responses

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Vonage sued by MP3.com founder Michael Robertson

September 30, 2004

Just the other day I was speaking with someone at SIPPhone and their market positioning. I didn't get a chance to speak with Michael Robertson (founder of MP3.com), and now the president of SIPPhone, but I plan to follow-up with Michael.

What I did hear from SIPPhone was very intriguing. I was told that Michael's aim is "to drive VoIP price-points down to ZERO, NADA, ZILCH, FREE!"

Wow!

Posted in Vonage

Tagged: vonage : Related Tags: service providers, michael robertson, service provider, michael, sipphone, linksys

AT&T CallVantage and Circuit City news

September 30, 2004

Add another retaler to the VoIP mix...
Tomorrow, Circuit City will start selling AT&T CallVantage broadband phone services in many of its outlets and through its Web site, the two companies said yesterday. I should point out that CallVantage is also available at Best Buy.

Posted in VoIP

Tagged: at&t, voip : Related Tags: callvantage

Skype debate

September 30, 2004

Was reading this debate on Skype:
Skype and five good reasons why you shouldn't cancel your other phone services just yet - The Unofficial Apple Weblog - apple.weblogsinc.com" href="http://apple.weblogsinc.com/entry/7391864753130518/">My gripe with the hype around Skype and five good reasons why you shouldn't cancel your other phone services just yet - The Unofficial Apple Weblog - apple.weblogsinc.com

I posted some comments there as well as Om's blog.

Basically, I think what Skype needs to do next is two-fold
1) change to open standards - i.e. SIP so they can terminate with more service providers and offer better interoperability. Although their architecture may not lend itself to this.
2) Work with hardware vendors, such as Linksys, Netgear, etc.

Posted in Skype

Tagged: skype : Related Tags: skype, dialing

Linksys and Verizon to offer VoIP

September 29, 2004

Linksys, announced today that Verizon will use Linksys home networking adapters with Verizon's VoiceWing broadband VoIP phone service.

The Linksys phone adapter connects a customer's phone to the broadband network, similar to the Cisco ATA-186 or the Sipura SPA-3000. It converts analog signals into digital packets that travel over the Internet. It also offers various calling and call management features, but it's unclear from the news I read whether or not this is a standalone device or if it's included along with LinkSys's existing home broadband router product line.

Tagged: linksys : Related Tags: linksys, device, broadband, verizon, phone

Popular Telephony and QuesCom Deal

September 29, 2004

As previously mentioned, I'll be writing about Popular Telephony's Peerio for Internet Telephony Magazine. But in the meantime, I came across another win for Popular Telephony.

Here's the release:
POPULAR TELEPHONY AND QUESCOM to Deliver Complete Serverless Enterprise Telephony Solution

(Sophia Antipolis, September 29, 2004). Popular Telephony, the telecommunications middleware company and creator of Peerio™ – the innovative technology for server-free, peer-to-peer communications, and QuesCom, the leading European provider of GSM gateways for IP and ISDN environments, today announced that the QuesCom 400 GSM media gateway will support the serverless functionality of Peerio-based network, providing the essential call direction from IP to PSTN and vice versa.

Posted in VoIP

Tagged: popular, popular telephony, telephony : Related Tags: popular telephony, peerio enabled, complete serverless, telephony quescom, telephony solution, peerio

George Bush vs John Kerry Debate

September 29, 2004

The George Bush vs. John Kerry debate tomorrow has me excited like a kid the night before Christmas. I just can't wait for tomorrow to be here. I'm so giddy these past two days in anticipation of the debates, it's like I'm waiting for the SuperBowl kickoff, or waiting for the tipoff of an NCAA Final Four game (especially when UCONN is in it).

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Microsoft P2P VoIP plans

September 28, 2004

So what are Microsoft's P2P plans? And how does their P2P/peer-to-peer plans relate to VoIP?

The latest Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack (SP2) has advanced networking features installed, including a P2P feature, but it must be turned on by doing the following:

1. Click Start, click Control Panel, and then click Add or Remove Programs.

2.

Posted in VoIP

Tagged: microsoft, p2p, voip : Related Tags: voice messages, enhanced adding, conaito voicemail, voicemail capabilities, customers leave, microsoft

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Enterprise Adoption of Hosted IP Voice

September 28, 2004

Thought I would share an excerpt from an interesting research report released by IDC

Sept. 27, 2004--After years of hype, VOIP has made the shift from an emerging technology to a viable business solution. Although the consumer market has attracted the most attention from the press, VOIP is gaining accelerated business adoption. The market for hosted IP voice services among US businesses is expected to reach nearly $60 million by the end of 2004. IDC projects a compound annual growth rate of 282% to reach $7.6 billion in 2008.

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Skype Niklas Zennstrom keynotes Internet Telephony Expo

September 28, 2004

Greg Galitzine recently blogged the fact that Niklas Zennstrom, CEO and co-founder of Skype, will address the audience at Internet Telephony Conference & EXPO in Los Angeles on October 6.

Skype has certainly helped make VoIP mainstream and they have built a loyal following. But can Skype match the hype? Can Skype become a truly killer app that brings traditional telephony service providers to their knees?

Posted in Skype

Tagged: skype : Related Tags: internet telephony, niklas ennstrom, telephony conference, phone companies, skype, telephony

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Popular Telephony and Logicom consumer VoIP phone

September 28, 2004

I'm actually in the process of writing an article on Popular Telephony's Peerio product, which you can think of as an enterprise-oriented peer-to-peer (P2P) version of the popular consumer-oriented Skype.

Is Peerio a Skype-killer? Well, read my article in Internet Telephony Magazine to find out. It will be out in a little while.

In the meantime, I came across this news release that Logicom, the #2 largest phone manufacturer in France has inked a deal with Popular Telephony to develop a feature-rich prototype Peerio-intelligent IP DECT (DECT = cordless for us non-Europeans) telephone.

Posted in VoIP

Tagged: popular, popular telephony, telephony : Related Tags: popular telephony, telephony logicom, popular, telephony, logicom, peerio

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