March 2005

by alec on March 31, 2005

ASTLinux 0.2.4 is out.  Linux distribution configured for firewall, router etc along with Asterix.  Can be booted from a 32M CF card, or USB key. 

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by alec on March 31, 2005

Jon Arnold has a new blog, courtesy of Pulver Innovations.  Congratulations Jon!  No doubt there will be lots of insightful commentary. 

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March 30, 2005

The FCC says that Bell South doesn’t have to provide naked DSL. Here’s Kevin Werbach’s reaction. He’s right — it is perverse that the monopoly owner of the last mile can compel the tied purchase of two distinct services. This is the same as Kodak demanding that Kodak films be processed only by Kodak labs, [...]

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March 29, 2005

Cringely has an interesting piece on how the telcos plan to compete with the broadband parasites. The assertion is that they will not damage competing services packet flows deliberately (which has been the speculation), but rather that they will let the Internet’s existing "best efforts" regime do it for them. It’s a strategy that will [...]

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Softphones are Platforms

March 11, 2005

While I was at VON I was reminded once again that platform strategy is one of the most misunderstood business models in technology.  I dropped by the booth of one of the big name softphone vendors to have a chat and find out what it would cost to license their SDK, which was the primary [...]

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March 11, 2005

I am on the way back from San Jose and digging through my email inbox.  One item that came to me yesterday was the announcement that Avaya would provide IP Telephony capabilities on mobile phones based on the Symbian OS.  With this capability, Avaya will make mobile phones into fully functioning extensions on the corporate [...]

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March 11, 2005

The OBJ coverage on Iotum came out on Wednesday.  Now that the cat’s out of the bag, the details are: We are a venture backed startup, and our initial funder is the excellent Brightspark Ventures in Toronto. Our first products are contextually driven call routing solutions for individuals.  Basically, our goal is to make sure that your [...]

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March 11, 2005

The OBJ coverage on Iotum came out on Wednesday.  Now that the cat’s out of the bag, the details are: We are a venture backed startup, and our initial funder is the excellent Brightspark Ventures in Toronto. Our first products are contextually driven call routing solutions for individuals.  Basically, our goal is to make sure that your [...]

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March 11, 2005

Big news today – Microsoft acquires Groove.  The price was undisclosed.  If you’ve never used Groove, it’s worth a try.  It’s a distributed networking, messaging, and file sharing environment.  A good addition to the MS Office suite, and obviously Ray Ozzie is a great addition to the Bill’s cadre of CTO’s.

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March 11, 2005

Day 4 at VON: It’s done.  I am just winding down and packing up.  Didn’t have a chance to see anything on the floor today.  Met fellow blogger Aswath Rao, who asks “Why are all the VoIP revolutionaries talking about minutes?”.  Good question! I also spent over an hour in a session about consumer presence. Decidedly [...]

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