Thursday, August 14, 2008

Squawk Box August 14 – Guest Peter Diedrich

by alec on August 14, 2008

Today’s guest was Mobivox CEO Peter Diedrich. Peter was part of the VC funding group that funded Mobivox two and a half years ago, spent 18 months as the CEO of TBayTel in Canada, and then took on the CEO role at Mobivox in June of this year.

We discussed what Mobivox is, and the Mobivox experience plus the things that Peter saw in Mobivox when he took on the CEO role that really make it special. He also gave us an update on some of the price change controversies that erupted a couple of months ago, and talked with us a little about partnering opportunities with Mobivox, and the recent deal they did with JAJAH to produce the JAJAH Concierge.

Peter’s background as a telecom executive and VC brings a different flavour to this interview from many of our interviews.

Enjoy the call!

On today’s free conference call: Brad Jones, Jim Courtney (who also wrote about Mobivox today), Mark Hewitt, Jeb Brilliant, Bill Volk, Warren Bent, James Body, Mike Pruyn, Sheryl Breuker, Greg McQuay, and Peter Diedrich.

Squawk Box August 14 [ 42:24 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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JAJAH and Intel go Green

by alec on August 14, 2008

If you’re green geek or a tech geek, you’ll appreciate JAJAH and Intel’s announcement today that they have partnered up to release “remote wake” aware telephony software for a new generation of Intel motherboards. What this means is that a properly equipped PC will be able to go to sleep to save energy, and then wake up to receive an incoming telephone call. A modern PC can draw 300W of energy when on. In a household like mine, with 7 or 8 PC’s running at any time, that’s as much as 20 electric light bulbs left on constantly.

The motherboards in question will be available next month.

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Open Source licenses gain teeth

August 14, 2008

Image via Wikipedia Lawrence Lessig reports that free software licenses have been upheld. According to Lessig, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has said that CC licenses set conditions (rather than covenants) on the use of copyrighted work. When you violate the condition, the license disappears, meaning you’re simply a copyright infringer. [...]

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Qik needs to get Qikly approved by Apple

August 14, 2008

Before bed last night, I caught sight of the fact that Qik has announced iPhone 3G support! Huzzah! Popped over to the web site and discovered that it requires a “jailbroken” iPhone 3G. Haven’t done that yet, and until (a) there’s a reliable way to unlock the phone as well and (b) Apple’s bug releases [...]

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