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BT Kills the Rabbit, err Ribbit

August 10, 2011

Ribbit, which was acquired by BT, and which Ribbit claimed was "Silicon Valley's First Phone Company" has been killed. Ribbit was a cloud-based phone system with APIs to integrate voice communications into business applications such as Salesforce.com, CRM systems, call center applications, and social networks. It was a promising concept.

So is cloud-based voice dead? That'd be too bad, since Fonality just released a Cloud VoIP for Dummies book just yesterday. Well, one defunct hosted voice platform doesn't make for an industry trend. We've still got Google Voice, Phono, Twilio, TeleSocial, and others that are going strong.

Posted in Internet, SIP, TMCnet, Unified Communications, VoIP

Delta Airlines TV FAIL! Plus my Streaming TV over Internet Workaround

August 2, 2011

I was on a Delta Airlines flight a few months ago and was excited to see each seat has a TV on the back of each seat. Jetblue was the first airline to carry live TV on all their flights and I've loved flying Jetblue ever since. It makes the droning hours pass by much quicker if you can watch TV. So in any case, I was pretty excited to see my Delta flight had TV.

After we took off, I pressed the touch-screen to see what channels were available.

My only choices were On-Air 1, On-Air 2, Movie Trailers, and Dish Network.

Posted in Gadgets, Home Entertainment, Internet, TMCnet, Technology and Science, Video Hardware & Software

Google, Mozilla, Samsung & NVIDIA Join DevCon5 HTML5 Conference

July 26, 2011

Some cool news to share about TMC's DevCon5, a HTML5, WebGL and WebCL-focused conference. Executives from several heavyweights, including Google, Mozilla, Samsung, and NVIDIA will be participating.

Check out the news...

Executives from Google, Mozilla, Samsung and NVIDIA Join the Discussion at DevCon5, Taking Place July 27-28 in New York

New Sessions Discuss the Evolution of the Browsing Experience in Today’s Mobile, “Any-to-Any” Environment

Posted in Google, Internet, TMCnet

Gmail Now Allows Multiple Calls - Just Watch that multitasking!

July 21, 2011

The Gmail Blog today announced a cool new multiple call capability within Gmail which will let you put callers on hold and pick up another call at the same time. Handling multiple VoIP calls in your browser. Doesn't get better than this!

The Gmail blog explains:

Today we're excited to relax that restriction and allow you to make or receive multiple calls in Gmail. If you’re in a call and make a second one, your first call will be put on hold while you talk on your new call.

Posted in Internet, TMCnet, VoIP

SEO Webinar Today With Search Engine Watch

July 12, 2011

Rich Tehrani is hosting a webinar with Jonathan Allen, SEO expert and director of Search Engine Watch. According to Rich, "this will be the third-part in a webinar series which has focused on helping companies build content-based and other types of online communities allowing them to gain increased thought leadership, branding, traffic and sales."

SEO Director is one of my titles, since I help manage TMC's search engine optimization strategies, so I plan on attending to keep up on this fast-changing field. Amazingly, there are over 1,000 people who have signed up (register here). The webinar takes place today, Tuesday, July 12th at 2:00 pm EST.

Posted in Internet, TMCnet

Zombies, Toshiba Laptops, and the Butterfly Effect

June 29, 2011

Butterfly effect definition: A small change at one place in a nonlinear system can result in large differences to a later state. For example, the presence or absence of a butterfly flapping its wings could lead to creation or absence of a hurricane.

Now imagine if Toshiba decided to not include the "impact smart hard drive" in their latest line of laptops. Why the devastating impact of this decision would result in a nationwide blackout, spoiled milk, and of course zombies. Don't believe me? Well, then you need to watch the funniest laptop commercial of all time to see for youself!

Posted in Computer Hardware, Internet, Technology and Science

Social ENUM Platform Enables Facebook & Twitter Phone Calls

June 27, 2011

ENUM resolves phone numbers into a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) or IP addresses. It's basically "DNS" for phone numbers, mapping a person's phone number to the person's IP address on the network for routing the call over IP over a carrier's network. ENUM offered the promise of a single point of contact for all communication devices, that has largely been unfulfilled. Now, with the exponential rise of social media networks, people are starting to self-identify themselves with their Facebook username or Twitter account ID more than their phone number.

Posted in Internet, Mobile Phones, Social Networking, TMCnet, Unified Communications, VoIP, Wireless

Elfiq LB-800E Link Balancer Review

June 27, 2011

I had the opportunity to test and review the Elfiq LB-800E Link Balancer as part of a TMC Labs review for the September issue of Internet Telephony Magazine. It's an impressive product that does traffic balancing, ISP bonding, Ethernet bonding (EtherChannel), and enables plug-and-play bandwidth redundancy. I thought I'd share my review here. Enjoy!

Posted in Internet, TMCnet, Technology and Science, VoIP

Techmeme + Memo Plugin = Blogger Heaven!

June 23, 2011

I came up with a cool recipe that takes the Movable Type Memo plugin, co-worker Vahid Hashemian's JavaScript RSS/ATOM Subscription Feed Web Widget, and Techmeme's RSS feed to display Techmeme's "Top Stories" of the day within the Movable Type CMS editor interface.

This has obvious benefits.
1) You can be blogging about something and then see a breaking news story or just an interesting story you will blog about next. I find just seeing hot stories from around the web and blogosphere within the Movable Type interface helps me keep the creative writing juices flowing.
2) You can drag-and-drop Techmeme links into the Movable Type editor. (see video demonstration below). Now I can quickly drag-and-drop a hyperlink to an important story right into Movable Type.
3) If you want to post Related Articles, you can easily just grab a few Techmeme related stories and drop them into the Movable Type editor.
4) I often get caught up during my day testing products, checking email, meetings, blogging here, phone briefings, etc., which then limits my ability to check out my Google Reader RSS feeds or visit Techmeme.

Posted in Internet, MovableType, News, TMCnet

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