April 2006

AT&T’s Deal With the Devil

by alec on April 28, 2006

Andy has some very interesting analysis on the Yahoo / AT&T deal.  Specifically, he notes that it’s Yahoo who’s in charge of routing.  It’s Yahoo’s LCR engine that determines which carriers to pass traffic over.  It’s a deal with the devil that over time makes a Yahoo ID more valuable than a phone number. 

Wow!

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Barcamp Ottawa in Citizen Tech-Weekly

by alec on April 27, 2006

The Ottawa Citizen’s Peter Hum lurked around BarCamp for the whole day, with a photographer in tow.  Today’s Citizen Tech Weekly is a BarCamp extravaganza.  The front cover is loaded with photos, which you can see here, and pages 3 and 4 are one huge Barcamp story.  Unfortunately, there is no online edition of the story, so run out and grab yourself a copy of the paper.

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Horsefeathers, John! Get the Facts Straight.

April 27, 2006

Dvorak’s latest rant, this time on the great "IE Blunder" is convenient, revisionist, and ignorant of the facts.  He ignores the fact that Netscape didn’t even exist in the summer of 1994 when the plan to put the browser into the OS was hatched.  In the fall of 1994 when the Spyglass deal was done, the [...]

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Commoditization in the Cellular Market

April 27, 2006

IP Communications is a newsletter from investment firm New York Global Securities.  I don’t remember how I got on their mailing list, but recently the content has been outstanding.  Email research@nygsresearch.com to be added.  This week’s issue delves into commoditization of the cellular voice market.  Analyst Keith Dalrymple notes that ARPU (average revenue per user) [...]

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AssetMetrix Acquired!

April 26, 2006

Congratulations to the AssetMetrix team!  Ina Fried at CNET reports that they’ve been bought by none other than Microsoft. AssetMetrix’ software is an asset management system for IT departments.  Capable of cataloging every PC and all the installed software on your network, it’s an essential part of the IT managers toolkit. 

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Phishing with VoIP

April 26, 2006

Here’s a fascinating new development.  Cloudmark has announced anti-phishing software for VoIP systems.  The latest new criminal scam is to clone a bank’s IVR using Asterisk, or some other inexpensive IVR system, and then send email to users asking them to call the bank’s (er scammers) number, and enter in account and PIN information.  Adam J. [...]

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Is it a Business or…

April 26, 2006

Wendy Kennedy asks the perennial marketing question Would you pay for this?  Is it a business, or a hobby?  Or, as many VC’s ask in today’s built-to-flip world, "is it a company or a feature?"  Go read the rest of her post.

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Osh Momoh’s Toolkit

April 26, 2006

Right on the heels of my own post about getting your blog noticed, Osh Momoh has published his blog setup.  His post isn’t about blog optimization, but rather about the toolset that he uses to run his blog.  His suggestions are excellent. I’ve been thinking about Akismet for a while (spam is a real issue). [...]

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Asterisk Advisory Council Formed

April 26, 2006

Via Bruce Stewart on the O’Reilly ETel blog comes the news that an Asterisk Advisory Council has been formed.  According to the press release, "the Council will assist in the management of the Asterisk open source telephony project. Responsibilities of the council include the selection and supervision of community developers, management of release cycles, and [...]

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Bickering Over the Dead

April 25, 2006

Our politicians are at it again, bickering over dead soldiers.  This time around it’s  whether or not flags should be flown at half mast on Parliament Hill when soldiers are killed abroad, and whether the media should be permitted to be present at the repatriation of soldiers remains.  The Globe and Mail covered the story, [...]

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