November 2010 Archives

Today's WSJ has an interesting article"":http://http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704444304575628610624607130.html?mod=WSJ_Tech_LEADTop about the use of cookies.

As someone who used to build VoIP services, I want to speak in praise of cookies and particularly their use for stateful things like Presence and Call Control.

When I worked on the first class 5 softswitch, we made a bad decision that was based on keeping state of a call on the network. My SOB friend from Harvard filled me in on his advice for the rest of the community that came to late to save me.

Welcome, LightSquared, to the circus that is the current stage for 4G developments. To your left you can see Clearwire, the star of this performance so far, but that's subject to change should a more talented star comes along. One, for example, that would be capable of handling all of Clearwire’s issues with grace. One such company that will be able to exceed the current standard minimums that the present leading 4G providers are barely even managing to accomplish.

Welcome, LightSquared, to the circus that is the current stage for 4G developments. To your left you can see Clearwire, the star of this performance so far, but that's subject to change should a more talented star comes along. One, for example, that would be capable of handling all of Clearwire’s issues with grace. One such company that will be able to exceed the current standard minimums that the present leading 4G providers are barely even managing to accomplish.

-       We as an Industry are consolidating Profitablly.

Sparked by the ViVo acquistion efforts in Brazil the Headlines today are from the WSJ about Telefonica and their expansion.  We are friendly with many of their company employees from O2 in Europe and Movistar in Latin America.  The article's quote César Alierta, CEO of Telefonica is very true to our experience of key personnel in these companies representing the management of capital and brand.

"The key factor for Telefónica to do anything is: first, human resources. Second, money," he explains.