June 2007

Guess who the mystery Webware 100 VoIP app is…

June 19, 2007

The CNET Webware 100 came out yesterday, and in the category of communications apps there were the usual suspects — the AIM, GMail, MSN Messengers and Trillians of the world — plus a couple of VoIP interlopers. Can you guess who they were?  Skype was the obvious choice, but the other was none other than Craig [...]

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T-Mobile and the circling VoIP sharks

June 18, 2007

What do you do if a new generation of technology is emerging which will kill your cash cow?  It's an old story in the tech business, and you really only have two choices: fight innovation, or embrace it.  T-Mobile is fighting at the moment.  They're refusing to connect calls on Truphone, arguing that Truphone isn't shouldering [...]

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First look: Windows Home Server

June 18, 2007

I retired an old friend yesterday.  No, I am not talking about a pet or a beloved pair of broken in hiking boots.  Rather I'm talking about a near decade old Pentium II 400 PC.  It had finally reached the end of its useful life.  When I bought it it was only the third Pentium II machine [...]

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Talk-Now with new look and features, including click-to-call.

June 16, 2007

Hey!  Summer has arrived in Ontario, and that means BBQ's, patios and swimming… for most people.  Now I know you all are probably figuring that's what the iotum team has been up to, but it's not true!  We've been thinking about your needs too!   I'm proud to tell you about a nice new release of Talk-Now for BlackBerry [...]

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Mobile video might possibly, maybe…

June 15, 2007

This morning Techmeme surfaced a news release put out yesterday on Businesswire that came with the following headline: The Number of Customers Actually Purchasing Mobile Video Service Could Climb from Only Five Million at the End of 2006 to Almost 80 Million by the End of 2012. I had to reread the headline twice, just to make sure it [...]

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News of the week

June 15, 2007

While I've been rebuilding PC's this week, a lot has been going on.  Some of what caught my eye includes:  The Skype Journal has been at the Skype Ebay Devcon.  Among the more notable items: Jim Courtney's discovery of IM+ for Skype.  If you need access to your Skype buddy list, and to be able to make [...]

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My week in IT Hell

June 15, 2007

It's been a whacky hardware week here, and I'm still not done digging out of the mess.  Sunday my desktop PC at home experienced a catastrophe.  The motherboard or power supply (still don't know which) died.  Monday night, I installed Safari for Windows on my laptop in the Toronto airport lounge.  It was the last [...]

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Take a pass on Safari

June 13, 2007

It's been a couple of days since Steve Jobs announced Safari for Windows. Curious about Apple's vision of internet browsing, especially given my personal history, I downloaded it Monday night and gave it a test drive on a couple of machines.   It's slow, taking a very long time to load. The font rendering is hard to read, and downright irritating.  Just try to [...]

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Securit’s Ottawa Grand Opening

June 13, 2007

A couple of days ago a media advisory for the Grand Opening of Securit's new records management / document storage facility in Ottawa crossed my desk.  A little off-topic for this blog, I was nevertheless curious.  iotum makes regular backups to DVD which are stored offsite, but I wondered if there might be a more efficient way [...]

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History in the making

June 12, 2007

Moments ago this popped up in Skype, from Jim Courtney. Greetings from Fenway Park. This is the first Skype message to come live from Fenway where the Red Sox have just taken a 1-0 lead. Jim's been playing with Skype IM using a piece of software called IM+ that runs on his BlackBerry.  Cool!

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