voipnow.org was kind enough to include our humble little Mr Blog blog on their Top 100+ Telecom Industry Blogs. One hundred is a lot of blogs, so I can’t brag too much, but it is a good list for sure,…
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Vote for Aswath
I second Andy’s sentiments with regard to Aswath’s submission of EnThinnai for the LaunchPad competition. The “autonomous communications” platform has been a passion and work of love by our very intelligent pal for a few years now, and if for…
Armchair quarterbacks gloat in VoIP startup’s trouble
I guess we should not be surprised that those so self-absorbed as to live by their blog would be taking malicious delight in the troubles of others for their own self-gratification. Perhaps Ooma brought it on themselves with their attitude…
Are telcos working together to make their own Skype?
The blogs are all abuzz in response to Om’s reporting of a theory by ThinkEquity analyst Anton Wahlman. AT&T, in conjunction with some 10-15 incumbent telecom carriers — British Telecom, Deutsche Telecom and NTT among them — is plotting to…
Experts slam VoIP 911, but gloss over mobile 911 problems
Tom Keenan, a professor in the University of Calgary’s department of computer science, in an interview with CBC news says “land line telephones are more reliable than internet services for 911 calls.” Keenan, and other experts, have been quick to…
Carolyn Schuk nails VoIP Industry with a Reality Check
Carolyn (aka the “VoIP Princess”) writes ostensibly about Yahoo/Jajah and the AOL/AIM Open Voice project. But really, it’s something for the VoIP Industry at large to take note of: …take a walk with me down memory lane: Yahoo! buys Dialpad.…
AOL “Open Voice Program” works with PhoneGnome
Dan York gets it right when he says: Does accepting SIP connections at your SIP proxy constitute an “API”? Does providing SIP termination services to the PSTN constitute an “API”? AOL calls it their “Open Voice Program” but it’s really…
Yahoo selects Jajah as PSTN termination provider
There’s something about this that I’m not getting. Others have hailed this as some kind “next big thing” – Jon Arnold said: it’s one of the best examples I’ve seen about bringing telephony and the web together. I don’t see…
When nerds become terrorists
One of the IPs of a server I manage in a data center has been caught up in an Outblaze /24 RBL. Outblaze admits that the spam is really from a different IP range than ours: That’s a spammer to…
Boxbe – will they ever learn?
Alec Saunders, Markus Göbel, and have all reported about problems with the so-called “anti-spam” service Boxbe: Alec Saunders: “Boxbe’s spam. A fatal mistake for them and me”. My email box is jammed with people saying “can you make this thing…
