Carolyn Schuk
| News and views on the world of IP communications from the VoIP Princess, Carolyn Schuk.
WebRTC Webinar Q&A #2 "Why WebRTC when we have Skype?"
“Why Implement WebRTC when we have Skype”?” This is a really good question. After all, Skype is the dominant real-time communications...
Full Story »WebRTC Webinar Q&A #2 "Why WebRTC when we have Skype?"
“Why Implement WebRTC when we have Skype”?” This is a really good question. After all, Skype is the dominant real-time communications...
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Big Changes at Broadvox
Just over a year ago, big changes happened at Broadvox. Bruce Chatterley, who was CEO of Speakeasy until MegaPath absorbed Speakeasy and...
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That Sound You Heard Was The Hard Drive Market Crumbling
Flash memory has already made major inroads in data centers and on Macs and PCs – augmenting hard disks by prefetching...
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With Tablets and Smartphones Eating the PC, What Can Microsoft Do?
These are very dark days for people who work for many divisions of Microsoft as tablets and smartphones have absolutely decimated the...
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LTE / Diameter Interworking (Part 2 of 2)
Two days ago, I wrote a blog about Diameter Interworking use cases. If you are a network operator, are these issues...
Full Story »LTE / Diameter Interworking (Part 2 of 2)
Two days ago, I wrote a blog about Diameter Interworking use cases. If you are a network operator, are these issues...
Full Story »Santa Clara Free WiFi Builds on City Investment in Communications Infrastructure
April 16, 2013The success of Santa Clara's new municipal WiFi system builds on the city's telecommunications infrastructure, making the new home of the San Francisco 49ers a stand-out for customer service and connectivity.
Over the last decade, a number of cities attempted to roll out municipal wireless Internet access, but ended up rolling them back up in the face of mounting cost, logistical problems, or pressure from for-profit telecomm providers. â¨â¨"What makes Santa Clara unique is that we've provided a public WiFi network for the whole city for free," explains Larry Owens, Manager of Customer Services for Santa Clara's municipal electric utility, Silicon Valley Power.
Is Facebook Doomed?
May 30, 2012
Michael Wolff at Technology Review seems to think so, as he explains in a well-written analysis, "The Facebook Fallacy." It's really the inevitable question: what happens when the price of advertising goes to zero? How is that a viable business model?
Facebook's "disappointing" IPO -- like so many IPOs that failed to live up to expectations, Vonage comes to mind here -- is a key indicator of bubbles ready to burst. Like Abe Lincoln said, you can't fool all the people all the time. But over the past 20 years, the Internet has come pretty close.
Facebook's "disappointing" IPO -- like so many IPOs that failed to live up to expectations, Vonage comes to mind here -- is a key indicator of bubbles ready to burst. Like Abe Lincoln said, you can't fool all the people all the time. But over the past 20 years, the Internet has come pretty close.
Per Vices' Phi Brings to New Meaning to Anything, Anywhere
May 3, 2012When we think about unified communications we think about messages and devices. But why stop there? Why not carry on that unification to the signal?
That's what the curiously-named Per Vices – it's pronounced pir-veessiss – company is up to with its new Phi card, a transciever that captures all wireless signals from the air and demodulates and processes them, according to a post today by Broadcast Engineering's Michael Grotticelli has a good today about Per Vices.
Cloud Dreamin' - Google wants to build what?
September 3, 2011Last week at DreamForce, Salesforce.com's annual orgy of self-congratulation, Google CEO Eric Schmidt took the opportunity to explain why Google dropped $12.5 billion for Motorola: The Internet search giant wants to make... telephones.
The world's most famous Internet company uses the annual conference of the company that practically invented the Software-as-a-Service industry to announce that Google's next business move is manufacturing telephones.
While everyone is running around with "software prohibited" buttons pinned to their sky-blue lanyards – get it, clouds in the sky?
Microsoft Buys Skype: Play it Again Sam...
May 10, 2011
I woke up this morning with the world around me atwitter. Not the finches on the back fence, but with the news that the Evil Empire had acquired Skype. I was temped to post a link to this 2008 VoIP Princess post and go back to sleep.
"In Skype, Microsoft is buying the leader in Internet voice and video ... " You might guess that this headline was written by some wit on the editorial staff of The Onion.
"In Skype, Microsoft is buying the leader in Internet voice and video ... " You might guess that this headline was written by some wit on the editorial staff of The Onion.
Back to the Future: Skype's Latest Outage
December 28, 2010The more things change the more they stay the same. Like Skype outages. Three years ago I talked to VoIP gray-beard Erik Lagerway – whose VoIP pedigree includes executive roles at Shift Networks and Eyeball Networks as well as founding Vocalscape Communications and Counterpath – about the Skype outage during the summer of 2007. What Lagerway said then is just as pertinent now.
Back to the Future: Skype's Latest Outage
December 28, 2010The more things change the more they stay the same. Like Skype outages. Three years ago I talked to VoIP gray-beard Erik Lagerway – whose VoIP pedigree includes executive roles at Shift Networks and Eyeball Networks as well as founding Vocalscape Communications and Counterpath – about the Skype outage during the summer of 2007. What Lagerway said then is just as pertinent now.
Wave goodbye to all-you-can-eat mobile data plans
June 8, 2010The iPhone 4 was unveiled yesterday and already 1.9 billion comments about it have been published in cyberspace. The more interesting news, from the perspective of an industry observer is AT&T's far less-heralded - a mere 215 million hits - data plan change. Namely: no more unlimited data.
Another brick in Google's VoIP wall
May 18, 2010This morning Global IP Solutions announced that it has entered into a $68 million buyout agreement with Google. Add that to Google's February, 2010 announcement that it was undertaking an "experiment" to build 1-Gbps FTTH networks, and it's clear that Google has plans to become a serious telecom infrastructure player.
In the last two years, Google has made several forays in the voice market. After buying VoIP startup GrandCentral in 2008, Google went on to buy the peer-to-peer softphone Gizmo5.
