August 2008

Squawk Box August 26 – Voxeo CEO Jonathan Taylor

August 26, 2008

Whether it’s growth and expansion, new acquisitions, technology and APIs, or awards, Voxeo is on a roll these days.  This morning we spoke with Jonathan Taylor, CEO of Voxeo on the line to chat about some of the recent events at his company. We spoke about their new release (Prophecy 9.0), their global expansion, acquisition [...]

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Squawk Box August 26 – Voxeo CEO Jonathan Taylor

August 26, 2008

Whether it’s growth and expansion, new acquisitions, technology and APIs, or awards, Voxeo is on a roll these days.  This morning we spoke with Jonathan Taylor, CEO of Voxeo on the line to chat about some of the recent events at his company. We spoke about their new release (Prophecy 9.0), their global expansion, acquisition [...]

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Blog comment spammers get bolder

August 26, 2008

Ever wanted to spam blog comments to the world?  Create thousands of back links, and annoy bloggers the world over?  Now it’s easy, with automated comment spamming systems. Yeesh.  Comment spammers are getting bolder all the time.  This morning I’ve received two piece of comment spam advertising blog comment spam systems… Don’t waste your money.  [...]

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Dumping DSL

August 26, 2008

Bell Canada’s fiber “investment” strategy is a loser.

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Squawk Box August 25 – Talking Phweet with Stuart Henshall

August 25, 2008

We talk Phweet with founder Stewart Henshall. How does this innovative service work, and how did it circumvent Aircell’s ban on VoIP while in flight.

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Enck is Back

August 25, 2008

After a work-imposed hiatus of a little more than a year, James Enck’s EuroTelcoblog is back.  Although Mr. Enck is on vacation with his family in Denmark, he continues to post tantalizing pictures and thoughts about fiber roll-outs amongst other things. Welcome back, James!

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Facebook exploit spreads

August 25, 2008

A video worm has broken out on Facebook, and appears to be propagating at high speed over the past weekend. Facebook has responded with bandages, but no cure.

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What is RIM’s Jim Balsillie thinking?

August 22, 2008

Blackberry bold: good, but not good enough to beat iPhone. Even lemmings (AKA analysts) agree.

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Andy’s Phweet Aircell call

August 22, 2008

You have to laugh at the ends that corporations are willing to go to in order to artificially shape people’s behaviour.  Case in point — the recent conversation that has been going on surrounding Aircell’s decision to ban VoIP calls from airplane seats.  For those not in the know, Aircell is the company that delivers [...]

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DiamondWare Acquired!

August 21, 2008

Image via Wikipedia DiamondWare’s Keith Weiner just pinged me to let me know that his company had been acquired by Nortel. For those not familiar with DiamondWare, they build stereo, spatially aware audio conferencing systems.  An accomplished group of audio engineers, the DiamondWare team has solved the problem of how to represent people in 3 [...]

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