I am glad to hear Dan is on the ball, SIMPLE is the future. ---- Dan Graves, Sun group product manager for collaboration products, downplayed that contention and said the decision to adopt XMPP was made primarily from a features standpoint and in no way represents a decision to favor one IM protocol over the other. Sun, he said, plans to address SIMPLE in the future. more..
March 2005 Archives
eyeBeam has been selling so well that Xten is now looking to outsource X-PRO development to a few chosen partners. Xten is currently looking for Preferred Development Partners (PDP) in countries all around the globe to continue the development of our X-PRO and X-Lite product line. To qualify as a PDP your company must have seasoned C++ developers available and be familiar with the Xten X-PRO SDK. The X-PRO SDK is available for free for evaluation. The chosen partners will be listed on the Xten website as Preferred Development Partners and will be the only referral for X-PRO and X-Lite co-branding and private labeled business. There will be one partner selected for each region, e.g. Canada, USA, West Europe, East Europe etc. For more information on the PDP program please contact sales by filling out the NDA and the form found here.
Yahoo!'s Phising attacks a couple of days ago and now Trillian's age-old buffering issues point to more secure IM solutions. TLS, S/MIME and SIP Certs are promising to address these issues from an open standards perspective. I am sure there will be some attention paid to this at SIPit to be held in in Banff this year. more..
ineen seems to be doing well in the early stages of the Beta trials and I have been reading some bloggings so I thought I would provide some info on what's around the corner. Incidentally, the word "ineen" essentially means together in Dutch. A Pocket PC version [no video] will be available shortly, I expect it will be available in the next few weeks. A Linux version will be available sometime this year I hope, not sure when. Users will be able to select their own User ID, e.g. elagerway instead of being allocated an ineen number. I am pushing for this to be changed in the coming weeks. File transfer and Security via TLS and S/MIME will follow some time near the end of the 3rd quarter '05. At the same time we are working on a more IM-centric interface so users can open up the advanced features when desired providing a better experience for those less technically inclined. Try the ineen wish list if you want to see something added or changed in ineen.
It's cool, it's free, check it out.. ineen.com
By lowering international calling prices, INX intends to create a global telephone service. Customers in India with an Internet connection, broadband, wireless or dial-up, can have an affordable US or Canadian phone number. more...
SANTA CLARA, CA, March 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Xten Networks, Inc. (OTCBB: XNWK - News), a provider of award-winning VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol), Video over IP, Instant Messaging (IM), and Presence SIP softphones, today reported financial results for the third quarter ended January 31, 2005. Total revenue for the quarter climbed to a record $928,608, compared to $677,364 for the quarter ended October 31, 2004, an increase of 37% quarter-over-quarter. This compared to $10,874 in the year-earlier period ended January 31, 2004. Net loss for the quarter was $88,827, or ($0.00) per diluted share, compared to a net loss of $198,275, or ($0.01) per diluted share, in the previous quarter. This compared to $102,500, or ($0.02) per diluted share, in the year-earlier period. The diluted weighted average common shares outstanding for the three months ended January 31, 2005 were 37,638,462 shares compared to 6,226,484 shares in the year-earlier period. For the first nine months of fiscal 2005, total revenue climbed to $2,093,123, compared to $345,873 (+505%) in the corresponding period in fiscal 2004. Net loss for the first nine months of fiscal 2005 was $478,235, or ($0.01) per diluted share, compared to a net loss of $143,961, or ($0.03) per diluted share, in the corresponding period in fiscal 2004. Software sales for the quarter totaled $838,163 compared to $653,618 for the quarter ended October 31, 2004, a 28% increase quarter-over-quarter. This compared to $6,820 in the year-earlier period ended January 31, 2004. For the nine-month period, software sales were $1,958,432 compared to $228,281 in the year-earlier period. more..
Light Reading reported that AT&T were seen demonstrating service at VON using Xten's Softphones. Excerpt... Other alliances were brought to light in the exhibit hall. Light Reading learned that AT&T is using Xten Networks Inc. SIP softphones; the (AT&T-branded) softphones appeared briefly at the AT&T booth, but were quickly removed after their cover was blown. more...
ineen is new P2P IM software with VoIP and Video that's easy and free to use. The client was built using Xten's eyeBeam SDK and makes use of SIMPLE for P2P IM and Presence. VoIP is supported by SIP and the Video media is H.263[+]. You can use ineen to call over other networks as well, including: Free World Dialup, SIPphone, & iptel.org. Xten will be demonstrating ineen at VON next week.
The FCC action came after VoIP providers Vonage and Nuvio complained to the agency broadband providers are blocking or degrading their Internet telephony services. In public comments, neither Vonage nor Nuvio named the providers blocking their traffic. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) today fined a North Carolina telecom holding company $15,000 for blocking Voice over IP (define) calls to their customers. In addition to the fine, Madison River Communications of Mebane, N.C., agreed to refrain from blocking VoIP traffic and to put measures into place to ensure that such blocking won't happen again. more...
Costa Rica's state-owned telecommunications monopoly is lobbying to criminalise internet telephony. The Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE) is pushing for stringent controls over VoIP that at their most draconian could make internet telephony a crime, Costa Rican daily La Nación reports. According to the paper, 20 per cent of Costa Rica international calls are made using VoIP rather than over conventional phone circuits. ICE argues that VoIP ought to be treated as a substitute telephone service and regulated more tightly than data services. It reckons tough rules against "unlicensed operators", including criminal sanctions if necessary, are needed. more...
