Mark Evans thinks there is a double standard when it comes to Apple and Microsoft. He says: No matter how often drops the ball with a service (MobileMe) or product (3G Apple iPhone) that doesn’t work, batteries (iPod Nano, MacBook) that over-heat or slashing prices only a few months a product has been...
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Skype – as broken as ever
Every time I’m forced to mess around with Skype, I find it still has issues making it not worth the effort. Here’s the recent rash of the latest open issues: It will not deliver caller ID (of my US mobile) on SkypeOut PSTN calls to the US – it is all setup on the...
Need help locating my missing 92 Yr old Aunt
RILEY, MARGARET/ 92 YOA / DOB 11/30/1915 Missing from her Regina Way address in Grants Pass, OR. since 7/12/08. Margaret lives alone, she is considered an endangered missing person. ANY INFORMATION ON MARGARET RILEY’S WHEREABOUTS PLEASE NOTIFY, GRANTS PASS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY AT (541) 474-6370. WFA, 5’03 HT, 145 LBS, GRY, BLUE Official...
PhoneGnome launches virtual PBX features
Today PhoneGnome introduced the new “PhoneGnome for Business” product with “Virtual Receptionist” for small/medium business (SMB) communication. The service works with or without the PhoneGnome box, but one of the unique things about it is that when using it with the $100 box, you can use any existing number with the “Virtual Receptionist” (as...
SIP, Interrupted
Brough Turner in his post SIP revolution, massively delayed speaks about why SIP has not taken off for user-to-user VoIP: When SIP emerged in 1996, it’s support for direct connections from one user to another was extremely compelling. This was the VoIP protocol which would lead to a complete revolution in communications. Yes, you...
Diversion: SF Giants 2008 HDTV games
For 2008, the San Francisco Giants TV rights were sold to NBC-11 (KNTV) and Comcast Sports Bay Area. The SF Giants site has a cool feature to download a CSV game schedule. Unfortunately, it doesn’t include data about TV or radio broadcasts and the broadcast schedule on the site doesn’t specify which games are...
Craigslist – Who do you love?
There has been an ongoing battle between spammers and Craigslist. More recently, VoIP bloggers like Dan York, Cory Andrews, and others took note of a thread on BroadbandReports.com discussing how Craigslist is preventing VoIP users from placing ads. The blocking of VoIP and prepaid cell phone numbers by Craiglist points to the larger question...
Gizmo5 “backdoor dialing” restrictions kill value of it
The VoIP press jumped all over “backdoor dialing” when Gizmo announced it. This is (or was) a catchy name for peering relationships that allowed Gizmo5 users to make free calls to a portion of US phone numbers. But there are problems in using the service in practice and the VoIP press and bloggers have...
Another cord-cutting study shows VoIP users don’t use it to replacing landline
Ike Elliot pointed me to Tech Untangled’s citing of a new Harris Interactive poll on telephony usage. The Harris Interactive data shows that about 14% of adults use a cell phone exclusively for voice communication, which aligns well with the recent CDC research which showed 15.8%. One interesting thing about the Harris Interactive data...
CDC data shows wireless-only households on the rise
There has been a bit of buzz about the latest statistics from CDC/National Center for Health Statistics on fixed/mobile substitution (FMS). As Dean Bubley says “it’s quite refreshing to see a genuinely independent piece of research.” The CDC began looking at FMS to determine whether their current telephone survey approach for collecting data that...
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