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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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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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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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Squawk Box October 15: The State of Voice 2.0

October 15, 2008

One of the persistent stories making the rounds over the last couple of weeks has been the failure of Voice 2.0 startups. Fierce wireless characterized EQO’s staff cuts reported October 12 as “the latest of the Voice / Phone 2.0 facing imminent disaster”, while techvibes and GigaOm chose a similar tone.

This morning’s discussion was about the state of Voice 2.0, and some of the successes and failures in the space. The Voice 2.0 Manifesto described Voice 2.0 as being driven by directory, presence and a number of other characteristics. Today the simplest way to describe it as the intersection of the Web and voice, because in so many ways the web has the same characteristics as the Voice 2.0 model.

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SquawkBox October 14: Election Day in Canada, plus new MacBooks

October 14, 2008

It’s election day here in Canada. Today on the SquawkBox we talked about the impact of digital media and the web on the election campaign, both here and in the United States where they’ve got a little less than a month to go on their election. After a little bit of good-natured ribbing from my [...]

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Squawk Box October 10: Friday Wrap

October 11, 2008

First up — the economy. On Wednesday and Thursday, VC’s in the US started to warn their portfolio companies to tighten belts. Are there safe ports in this storm? Which companies are most likely to crash? BlackBerry Bold quality has been another issue this week. AT&T have delayed deployment, Orange has dropped deployment, and the [...]

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Squawk Box October 9: Regulatory Thursday!

October 10, 2008

InterCarrier compensation battles continue at the FCC. Most recently, Verizon has sent their view.

Guest host Carl Ford takes a look at the last six months of petitions and discussions and ask the question “What is the impact of the election on the commissions decision?”.

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SquawkBox October 8: Touch phone smack down!

October 8, 2008

This morning the news is all about RIM‘s Blackberry Storm. Today is the day that has been officially announced, not that there haven’t been leaks galore. And last week, Nokia announced their MusicXpress 5800. Both touch phones, with music, these devices are designed to go up against Apple‘s iPhone. Each of these phones, and the [...]

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