VoIP Princess Blog http://blog.tmcnet.com/voip-princess/ News and views on the world of IP communications from the VoIP Princess, Carolyn Schuk. en-us Copyright 2012 2012-03-06T22:16:36+00:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 New Social Network Aims to Link Lunchers http://blog.tmcnet.com/voip-princess/2012/03/new-social-network-aims-to-link-lunchers.html 48942@http://blog.tmcnet.com/voip-princess/ It's said that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach. Now someone thinks that's equally true of business networks.

The London-based startup GetLunched.com aims to help you make the lunch connection – via linkedIn, AIM, or phone – with people who share your interests, location or have a need you can fill.

If, like me, you think lunch is never a bad idea, though, you'll be disappointed that the service is only available in London. However, you can read Joann Pan's article at Mashable.com.

 

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]]> social media social network getlunched linkedin london social network getlunched linkedin social network social media Joann Pan Mashable.com startup new social network Tue, 06 Mar 2012 22:16:36 +0000 2012-03-06T22:16:36+00:00 Cloud Dreamin' - Google wants to build what? http://blog.tmcnet.com/voip-princess/2011/09/cloud-dreamin---google-wants-to-build-what.html 47419@http://blog.tmcnet.com/voip-princess/ Last 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? – one of the industry leaders in no-software applications is talking about making actual stuff.

Let that sink in.

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    ]]>     Google SaaS Simplicity handset telecom business Amazon Kindle Eric Schmidt Google Motorola DreamForce Salesforce.com eric schmidt google telephone Internet devices Internet appliance Amazon.com Kindle e-reader simplicity software as a service saas cloud dreamin google amazon kindle cloud annual Sat, 03 Sep 2011 03:02:41 +0000 2011-09-03T03:02:41+00:00     Microsoft Buys Skype: Play it Again Sam... http://blog.tmcnet.com/voip-princess/2011/05/microsoft-buys-skype-play-it-again-sam.html 46697@http://blog.tmcnet.com/voip-princess/ 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. ]]> Continue Reading... Tags: , , , , , , , Related tags: , , , ,
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    ]]>     Andy Abramson Apple Inc Evil Empire FaceTime Google Microsoft Skype Voice over IP Skype Microsoft Google VoIP Andy Abramson Phil Wolff VoIP Princess competitive threat strong competitive skype microsoft google Tue, 10 May 2011 16:46:00 +0000 2011-05-10T16:46:00+00:00     Back to the Future: Skype's Latest Outage http://blog.tmcnet.com/voip-princess/2010/12/back-to-the-future-skypes-latest-outage-1.html 45628@http://blog.tmcnet.com/voip-princess/ The 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. ]]> Continue Reading... Tags: Related tags: , , , , ,

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    ]]>     telecom business server network skype outage client server upstream provider network skype Tue, 28 Dec 2010 17:04:38 +0000 2010-12-28T17:04:38+00:00     Back to the Future: Skype's Latest Outage http://blog.tmcnet.com/voip-princess/2010/12/back-to-the-future-skypes-latest-outage.html 45627@http://blog.tmcnet.com/voip-princess/ The 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. ]]> Continue Reading... Tags: , , , , Related tags: , , , , ,
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    ]]>     Erik Lagerway Peer-to-peer Skype Supernode (networking) Voice over Internet Protocol Skype Skype outage VoIP Erik Lagerway peer to peer reliability open standards SIP server network skype outage client server upstream provider network skype Tue, 28 Dec 2010 16:56:31 +0000 2010-12-28T16:56:31+00:00     Wave goodbye to all-you-can-eat mobile data plans http://blog.tmcnet.com/voip-princess/2010/06/wave-goodbye-to-all-you-can-eat-mobile-data-plans.html 44104@http://blog.tmcnet.com/voip-princess/ The 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. ]]> Continue Reading... Tags: , , , , Related tags: , , , , ,
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    ]]>     Google iPhone infrastructure telecom business ARPU AT&T Google iPhone smart phone iPhone iPhone 4 AT&T ARPU Google smart phone data plan unlimited data smartphone ARPU APPU mobile infrastructure mobile network network infrastructure rich media network operator infrastructure business iphone google network company Tue, 08 Jun 2010 19:03:47 +0000 2010-06-08T19:03:47+00:00     Another brick in Google's VoIP wall http://blog.tmcnet.com/voip-princess/2010/05/another-brick-in-googles-voip-wall-1.html 43988@http://blog.tmcnet.com/voip-princess/ This 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.

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    ]]>     Google infrastructure Global IP Sound Google telephony VoIP Google Global IP Sound VoIP telecom voice telecom network infrastructure Internet telephone google internet Tue, 18 May 2010 17:38:54 +0000 2010-05-18T17:38:54+00:00     Another brick in Google's VoIP wall http://blog.tmcnet.com/voip-princess/2010/05/another-brick-in-googles-voip-wall.html 43987@http://blog.tmcnet.com/voip-princess/ This 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.

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    ]]>     Google infrastructure Global IP Sound Google telephony VoIP Google Global IP Sound VoIP telecom voice telecom network infrastructure Internet telephone google internet Tue, 18 May 2010 17:38:54 +0000 2010-05-18T17:38:54+00:00     FCC's Modest Broadband Oversight Proposal Not Cause for Hysteria http://blog.tmcnet.com/voip-princess/2010/05/fccs-modest-broadband-oversight-proposal-not-cause-for-hysteria-1.html 43971@http://blog.tmcnet.com/voip-princess/ I checked in this morning to see how the FCC's latest Net neutrality proposal last week was faring with the unhinged fringe.

    Fox News, with its customary fair and balanced perspective, offers "FCC Goes For Nuclear Option - Seeks To Control Interent," and "Genachowski's 'Third Way' Is a Washington Internet Takeover."

    Over at Whited Sepulchre we have: "The announcement last week by Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski that the agency planned to assert authority over the Internet raises all kinds of red flags...Every street in America should look like one of Chairman Mao's Cultural Revolution Rallies."

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    ]]>     telecom policy FCC national broadband policy net neutrality FCC net neutrality broadband Genachowski telecommunications act 1934 telecommunications act 1996 internet oversight telecom policy US telecom policy internet access information services telecommunications services natural monopoly chairman julius internet Mon, 17 May 2010 18:33:14 +0000 2010-05-17T18:33:14+00:00     FCC's Modest Broadband Oversight Proposal Not Cause for Hysteria http://blog.tmcnet.com/voip-princess/2010/05/fccs-modest-broadband-oversight-proposal-not-cause-for-hysteria.html 43970@http://blog.tmcnet.com/voip-princess/ I checked in this morning to see how the FCC's latest Net neutrality proposal last week was faring with the unhinged fringe.

    Fox News, with its customary fair and balanced perspective, offers "FCC Goes For Nuclear Option - Seeks To Control Interent," and "Genachowski's 'Third Way' Is a Washington Internet Takeover."

    Over at Whited Sepulchre we have: "The announcement last week by Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski that the agency planned to assert authority over the Internet raises all kinds of red flags...Every street in America should look like one of Chairman Mao's Cultural Revolution Rallies."

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    ]]>     telecom policy FCC national broadband policy net neutrality FCC net neutrality broadband Genachowski telecommunications act 1934 telecommunications act 1996 internet oversight telecom policy US telecom policy internet access information services telecommunications services natural monopoly chairman julius internet Mon, 17 May 2010 18:33:14 +0000 2010-05-17T18:33:14+00:00     Skype slights Mac community, Dan York bristles http://blog.tmcnet.com/voip-princess/2010/05/skype-slights-mac-community-dan-york-bristles.html 43950@http://blog.tmcnet.com/voip-princess/ kvetch about Skype's video group calling: Mac users need not apply for this Windows-only beta.

    Oh sure, we'll get a separate-but-equal version "later in the year," Skype says. They just neglected to mention which year.

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    ]]>     Skype Dan York group video call Mac Skype Skype financial video call Skype video call group video call Disruptive Telephony Dan York Skype financial eBay Mac sale Skype Windows skype Thu, 13 May 2010 22:32:06 +0000 2010-05-13T22:32:06+00:00     http://blog.tmcnet.com/voip-princess/2010/05/mac-users-just-dont-get.html 43949@http://blog.tmcnet.com/voip-princess/ kvetch about Skype's video group calling: Mac users need not apply for this Windows-only beta.

    Oh sure, we'll get a separate-but-equal version "later in the year," Skype says. They just neglected to mention which year.

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    ]]>     Skype Dan York group video call Skype Skype financial video call Skype video call group video call Disruptive Telephony Dan York Skype financial eBay sale Skype Windows skype Thu, 13 May 2010 22:32:06 +0000 2010-05-13T22:32:06+00:00     Microsoft Kin: Another Misadventure in the World of Can't http://blog.tmcnet.com/voip-princess/2010/05/microsoft-kin-another-misadventure-in-the-world-of-cant.html 43888@http://blog.tmcnet.com/voip-princess/ PC World. 

    It seems that the Kin is the dumbest smartphone in a competitive lineup of contemporary devices that almost-but-not-quite do things. 

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    ]]>     carolyn Schuk Jared Newman Microsoft Kin smartphone VoIP Microsoft Kin MS Kin VoIP VoIP business SoftBank smartphone Jared Newman carolyn Schuk company therefore company business softbank world Wed, 05 May 2010 17:37:58 +0000 2010-05-05T17:37:58+00:00     Other computer makers following Apple into the smartphone market? http://blog.tmcnet.com/voip-princess/2009/01/other-computer-makers-following-apple-into-the-smartphone-market.html 39342@http://blog.tmcnet.com/voip-princess/ Dell are working on high-end smartphones, according to Juniper Research's Analyst Xpress blog today. 

    The Wall Street Journal has a story on Dell, as well, saying that "people familiar with the matter" indicate that Dell may launch a smartphone "as early as next month."
    I say, the more the merrier. Computer makers bring a different POV to the table, as we saw with the iPhone. And that can only be a good thing. ]]> Tags: Related tags: , ,
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    ]]>     handset iPhone smart phone Juniper Research Analyst Xpress handset smart phone iPhone Dell Acer mobile mobile phone computer makers makers computer Fri, 30 Jan 2009 18:24:29 +0000 2009-01-30T18:24:29+00:00     While You Were Making VoIP Calls on Your TV at CES, Mobile TV Was Calling Your Phone http://blog.tmcnet.com/voip-princess/2009/01/while-you-were-making-voip-calls-on-your-tv-at-ces-mobile-tv-was-calling-your-phone.html 39089@http://blog.tmcnet.com/voip-princess/ In his Fierce VoIP post on Monday, Doug Mohney reports that one of his takeaways from last week's CES is that your TV is morphing into a phone. Maybe so, but another - and potentially bigger - story at CES is how your phone is turning into a TV set.

    The Open Mobile Video Coalition (OMVC) debuted the new ATSC candidate standard for broadcast - free-to-air - mobile TV rolling toward final approval later this year. ]]> Continue Reading... Tags: , , , , , , , , Related tags: , , , , ,
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    ]]>     CES 2009 Mobile TV Anne Schelle ATSC broadcast mobile TV CES 2009 Doug Mohney Mobile TV OMVC standard VoIP CES 2009 Mobile TV ATSC mobile standard candidate standard OMVC broadcast mobile TV free to air mobile TV mobile TV standard Anne Schelle Doug Mohney mobile video handsets mobile phone carriers model selling local broadcasters mobile Mon, 12 Jan 2009 23:00:00 +0000 2009-01-12T23:00:00+00:00