June 2006

Going the Way of the Dodo

June 25, 2006

Inflight data and voice services seem to be really hitting a wall these days.  First it was Verizon killing Airfone, and now it looks as if Boeing may put Connexion (their inflight data service) down.  I’ve never experienced it directly myself, but I’ve certainly had several Skype calls from Andy Abramson, while he’s been in [...]

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The New Jon Arnold

June 24, 2006

i just had a quick peek at Jon Arnold’s new website.  Looks great Jon! I’ve used Jon’s services at both Versatel Networks, and iotum, and I’ve always found him to be a competent, and deep commentator on the VoIP industry.  It’s nice to see him hanging out his shingle a little more visibly.

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For 30% of us, the Top Peeve at Work: Ringing Cell Phones

June 24, 2006

In More Companies Tell Workers to Silence Cell Phones, USA Today reports due to the productivity impact, more companies are telling workers to silence cell phones on the job, and in some cases banning the devices outright.  According to the Society for Human Resource Management, more than a third of companies have policies in place [...]

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Rosenberg: Marrying Presence and Search

June 24, 2006

Art Rosenberg’s thought piece Using Search Technology to Contact People is worth a read.  He observes that business communications is composed of three main tasks: information access, business process transactions, and initiating / receiving contacts with people.  Rosenberg posits that search will change the nature of last activity, just as it revolutionized information access. Naturally [...]

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The Radio Silence…

June 24, 2006

I just hit the ground in Canada after returning from Astricon.  The silence for the last couple of days has been do to two things:  travel, and the terrible French WiFi.  I’ve still got another three hours of travelling, but two of them involve me parking myself on the floor in Montreal airport, and catching [...]

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"When I Invented the Web…"

June 22, 2006

So begins Tim Berners-Lee’s short piece arguing for net neutrality.  He applies Occam’s Razor to the arguments being made by the big media companies, and service providers, finds them wanting, and reduces the case for net neutrality to this simple statement. If I pay to connect to the Net with a certain quality of service, [...]

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Microsoft & Predatory Pricing

June 22, 2006

Alex Eckelberry has written a piece lambasting Microsoft’s pricing for its new security products.  He has noted how very cheap they are compared to their competitors, and has concluded that they are acting in a predatory manner.  Go read it in its entirety. As a counter to Alex’s opinion, I would note that: Security is [...]

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Sipifying the World With Communigate Pro 5.1

June 22, 2006

For the last few weeks I’ve been learning about Communigate and their products at a pretty mad rate. I was introduced to them by the folks at Versature, who have been using Communigate for some time as the foundation for their services. Communigate is one of the unsung stories of the VoIP world. From their [...]

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Leaving Berlin…

June 21, 2006

Astricon Europe has left Berlin and is now heading to Paris. This was my first trip to Berlin, and I managed to squeeze in a little time for sight seeing, between business meetings. Berlin is a fascinating place – a city of many contrasts. There’s the east and the west. Even though the wall came [...]

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iotum Wins Emerging Technology Award

June 20, 2006

I’ve had trouble keeping this under my hat all day. In a few minutes, my partner and friend Howard Thaw will be on stage in Ottawa at the annual Canadian Technology Alliance gala to accept the 3M Canada Company Emerging Technology Award. iotum is one of 8 companies to be honored at the banquet award, [...]

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