2-29-08 Technology Week in Review
Posted on February 29, 2008 - Filed Under Commentary, Industry News, Net Neutrality | Leave a Comment
Comcast, what are you doing? You just lost pretty much any credibility you ever may have had, at least with the public. These dirty little tactics may work well in D.C., but taking them to a public open meeting on a college campus will win you no friends. You should definitely consider firing your PR guy.
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Read More..>>Internet Not Perfect
Posted on February 27, 2008 - Filed Under Blogs, Commentary | Leave a Comment
Some strange things have been happening to the Internet lately…All this just goes to show that the Internet is not perfect, and is vulnerable to things that happen, malicious or not. But what isn’t?
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Read More..>>Software Based PBX for Windows
Posted on February 26, 2008 - Filed Under Industry News, VoIP News | Leave a Comment
3CX has released a new version of 3CX Phone System for Windows. The latest version of the award-winning software-based IP PBX has an integrated 3CX Tunnel which simplifies firewall configuration by channeling all VoIP traffic over a single port; making it easy for remote workers to connect to their company’s PBX and for Network Managers […]
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Read More..>>FCC Forum on ISP Traffic Management
Posted on February 25, 2008 - Filed Under Industry News, Net Neutrality | Leave a Comment
Speaking of the Cablecos and their bandwidth, the FCC’s open forum on traffic management starts today in Harvard. Speakers will include representatives from Comcast and Verizon, U.S. Rep Ed Markey of the Internet Freedom Preservation Act, and Professor Timothy Wu, original coiner of the phrase “net neutrality”.
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Read More..>>Residential VoIP to Double by 2011
Posted on February 25, 2008 - Filed Under Industry News | Leave a Comment
The Telecom Industry Association’s 2008 Market Review & Forecast came out today, and as previewed on FierceVoIP, the U.S. residential VoIP market is expected to grow at a compound annual rate of 20% over the next four years. Cable companies will continue to gain market share at the expense of the pure play providers.
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Read More..>>2-22-2008 Technology Week in Review
Posted on February 22, 2008 - Filed Under Commentary, Industry News | Leave a Comment
Largest 802.11n deployment planned by Duke University, Star Wars 2008, Broadband Balloons, and T-Mobile goes VoIP. News and Commentary on the weeks more interesting stories.
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Read More..>>Bill Gates on Yahoo
Posted on February 21, 2008 - Filed Under Articles, Commentary, Industry News | Leave a Comment
It has been said that the two companies have significant cultural differences, Yahoo being very collaborative with a Linux based open source philosophy. Microsoft has never been accused of being a champion of open source technologies. The engineers that thrive in that kind of innovative environment are even now considering bolting.
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Read More..>>Mid East Cable Cuts Sabotage? No Way!
Posted on February 20, 2008 - Filed Under Commentary, Industry News | Leave a Comment
The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) is looking into sabotage as a possible cause of the five submarine cable cuts that affected the Mid East and south Asian Internet and phone services in late January and early February.
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Read More..>>2-15-2008 Communications Week in Review
Posted on February 15, 2008 - Filed Under Commentary, Industry News | Leave a Comment
Some of this weeks top stories: Microsoft leaps into the low end cell phone market, as the Mobile World Congress kicks off in Barcelona. Vonage gains some market share while VoIP Inc. sues for patent infringement and the WiMax forum comes clean about its FDD plans. Also, an awful lot about Comcast in the news this week.
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Read More..>>Net Neutrality Act Reintroduced in Congress
Posted on February 14, 2008 - Filed Under Commentary, Industry News, Net Neutrality | Leave a Comment
Without a net neutrality law in place, publicly traded service providers will always straddle the fence between their customers and shareholders. More often than not, they will opt for the bottom line, leaving consumers rights by the wayside. It is exactly the absence of such legislation that has allowed the cell phone industry to wall in their gardens, offering dumbed down browsers that only access the content that the provider wants you to see (and pay them for). Left to their own devices, ISPs could be headed down the same road. If it starts with BitTorrent, where does it stop?
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