July 2008

SquawkBox – July 10, 2008 – Voice biometrics and VoiceVerified.com

July 14, 2008

Do you remember the 1992 movie “Sneakers” with the phrase “My voice is my password”? Voice “biometrics” has come a long way since those days and today our special guests, David Standig and Patrick Osborne of VoiceVerified.com, talked  about the current state of the industry and technology and also about what VoiceVerified brings to the [...]

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SquawkBox – July 9, 2008 – P2PSIP – Guest: David Bryan

July 9, 2008

Does Peer-to-Peer (P2P) SIP represent the future of SIP communication? Does it have the possibility to enable the creation of a peer-to-peer communication cloud that could rival Skype but be based on open standards? Where would P2P SIP fit? In an enterprise environment? consumer? What’s the technology behind it all, anyway? Today’s Squawk Box was [...]

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SquawkBox – Tuesday, July 8, 2008 – WiFi in cars and wearable computing

July 9, 2008

Do we really want to turn our cars into rolling WiFi hotspots? Will this be a boon to the “always-on” culture or just yet another source of driver distraction? And do we really want wearable computers that involve us answering a phone by sticking a finger in our ear? On today’s Squawk Box we’ll journey [...]

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SquawkBox – July 7, 2008 – Is Voicemail Dead?

July 7, 2008

SquawkBox for July 7, 2008 Today on the show we had a very lively discussion on the topic of “Is Voicemail Dead?” revolving around Michael Arrington’s post “Think Before You Voicemail” and Andy Abramson’s followup. Discussion included: is voicemail really dead? or has it merely evolved into another form? There was much discussion about services [...]

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Squawk Box calls for the week of July 7th

July 7, 2008

Alec is still away but we’ve got quite a week set up for the calls! Is Voicemail dead? Could Peer-to-Peer SIP (P2P SIP) be the “next big thing” and create an open standard rival to SIP? What’s the current state of voice biometrics and what is one startup (VoiceVerified) doing to address that? And do [...]

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SquawkBox – July 3, 2008 – Greg Clinton with Talk Soup, and a conversation about identi.ca

July 3, 2008

On today’s show we had special guest Greg Clinton, developer of a new application called Talk Soup that lets people easily start podcasting. Available at the URL http://talk.appspot.com/ , the application involves two people simply calling each other, talking for some period of time and then at the end of the call both agreeing to [...]

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Squawk Box – July 2, 2008

July 3, 2008

On the Squawk Box for Wednesday, July 2, 2008, we talked about: news that Google and Yahoo would start indexing Flash-based websites. Adobe handed over control of PDF to ISO so that it is an approved standard. Amazon discovered that cloud computing made a great platform for… spammers! In some circumstances, encrypted VoIP calls can [...]

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Squawk Box – July 1, 2008 – Jonathan Zittrain interview, author of "The Future of the Internet And How To Stop It"

July 1, 2008

On today’s Squawk Box we had a fascinating discussion with noted academic Jonathan Zittrain about his new book, “The Future of The Internet And How To Stop It“.   Zittrain’s central thesis is that we’ve gone from proprietary mainframes and information services to a world of personal computers and the open Internet and now we are [...]

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Squawk Box – June 30, 2008

July 1, 2008

On today’s SquawkBox (June 30), we talked a lot about the changes at Microsoft and what may be next for the company. With Bill Gates formally departing Microsoft (see his farewell speech), much of the conversation has been about “what comes next” for Microsoft. We talked a small bit about that and particularly Steve Gillmor’s view. [...]

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