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Microsoft and MCI team up for worst name of the year

( Skype and VoIP )

That’s right, I’ll just give you a call on my “MCI Web Calling for Windows Live Call” shall I? Come on guys, can’t you at least sprinkle a few ™’s into that? Then again, at rates “starting at 2.3 cents a minute”, I guess you aren’t expecting many people to use it [...]

Come to Peripheral Visionaries

( Net Freedom and VoIP )

Earlier this Spring, I reported on an excellent one-day meeting in Washington, DC called Peripheral Visionaries. The idea was to bring together technologists and visionaries with regulators and policy people, and to get them exchanging ideas.
The meeting was so successful that there was a clamor inside the beltway to [...]

Impact of SF wifi + Skype on mobile carriers

( Mobile and Skype and VoIP and Wireless )

In the news this week San Francisco will build out a high speed city wide wi-fi network, whether donated for free by google, or built by someone else. You’ll have bits anywhere, maybe 1 mb symmetric.
Skype is embedding its (and Global IP Sound’s) technology in hardware devices. If you have [...]

Blog comment spam, and damaka

( Skype and VoIP )

Steve’s Tech Journal has been discovered by the comment spam bots — I’m now moderating 10 to 15 messages a day to the spam pile. Most of them have something to say about “1 small clove of garlic”, they all compliment my site which makes me feel very good, then they all have a [...]

So of course I will be at VoN

( VoIP )

Fall VoN starts tomorrow in my hometown Boston. I just did a little record keeping and realized I am into double digits for number of VoNs attended, this making my 11th VoN starting with Spring 2000 and including two trips to Stockholm, one to Las Vegas, and several to San Jose.
Here’s some of what [...]

Katrina wireless mesh saga

( VoIP and Wireless )

I’ve been lucky enough to be able to spend the last few days hanging out with Sascha Meinrath, of cuwireless fame. And so, I’ve been able to personally monitor and talk with him about the bizzare efforts of FEMA and other authorities to delay, obstruct, and prohibit the grass roots efforts to [...]