October 2008

iPhone restored… stability restored.

October 26, 2008

See the image below? Yeah… it’s clipped from iTunes. And see that big ol’ button marked “Restore”? It’s your weapon of last resort when your iPhone becomes too flaky to use. By middle of last week, my iPhone was crashing virtually every time I opened the Safari browser, either from within another iPhone application, or [...]

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Squawk Box October 24: Vonage, Cox, AT&T, and Open Source DRM

October 24, 2008

Image by wilding.andrew via Flickr For our final daily SquawkBox, we discussed these stories: Reports are emerging that AT&T is developing an iPhone tethering plan, but network glitches are holding it up! Marlin, a digital rights technology created by Sony and Samsung, is apparently ready for prime time. An open source solution, it claims to [...]

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Squawk Box October 24: Vonage, Cox, AT&T, and Open Source DRM

October 24, 2008

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Squawk Box October 23: The End of the Enhanced Service Exemption

October 23, 2008

Image via Wikipedia It’s Regulatory Thursday, and Carl Ford leads a discussion of the the end of the enhanced service exemption. The FCC wants to revoke the ESP exemption for Interconnected VoIP traffic. Such a decision would not only have a financial impact on Interconnected VoIP provider. The FCC’s counsel has already told the court [...]

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Daily SquawkBox to be discontinued.

October 22, 2008

The format of SquawkBox is changing friends. I’ll be discontinuing the regular recording of SquawkBox on Friday of this week. The reason is simply that SquawkBox takes a huge effort to do well, and if I can’t do a good job of it, I don’t want to do it at all. Expect to see the [...]

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Squawk Box October 22: RIM Announcements

October 22, 2008

This morning’s discussion focused on the announcements RIM made at their developer conference yesterday. RIM’s application store is coming in March, and developers will get 80% of the revenue from the store, as opposed to the 70% that Apple is offering. Plus: New Web Tools Become Available (still using Java as foundation); WebSignals allows developers [...]

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RIM unveils a storefront

October 22, 2008

Yesterday RIM announced the BlackBerry Application Storefront and BlackBerry Application Center, their response to the undeniable success that Apple has had with the iPhone AppStore. Kudos to RIM for creating opportunities for developers outside the carrier orbit, and for paying attention to customer experience when it’s clearly the winning strategy here. Moreover, RIM’s choice to [...]

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Squawk Box October 20: Virtual Worlds, Entertainment Industry Stupidity, and more!

October 20, 2008

On this morning’s conference call, we discuss a wide range of topics from virtual worlds to the latest entertainment industry craziness.

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Squawk Box October 17: Mobile Botnets, Security and Android

October 17, 2008

This morning one of the hot stories is about cell phone botnets, and the cybercrime economy. The theory is that bots invading cell phone handsets could be used to perpetrate massive denial of service attacks. Should we be worried, or is just science fiction? Another security story is about several state-level legislatures passing laws requiring [...]

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Squawk Box October 16: Regulatory Thursday

October 16, 2008

Shouldn’t VoIP be perfect for delivering more media and information to emergency services than just plain 911? The problems facing the VoIP service provider are the issues of bringing the new into the old paradigm. Rick Jones of National Emergency Number Association joined Jim Kohlenberger and Carl Ford in discussing the current market. Other participants [...]

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