Carolyn Schuk
| News and views on the world of IP communications from the VoIP Princess, Carolyn Schuk.
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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.
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.
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?
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.
