SIP

Net2Phone: Owner of the VoIP A-Bomb?

June 6, 2006

IDT (IDT) subsidiary Net2Phone sued Skype for patent infringement in the middle of last week, and somehow I missed it. Courtesy of Om Malik, here is a copy of the suit, including the patent which was submitted as evidence.  Rich Tehrani commented that “Anyone who has been in this business long enough knows that before Skype ever [...]

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Radio Handi, Now On The Air

May 16, 2006

The beta of Radio Handi, billing itself as the Party Line for Planet Earth, went live this evening.  In a nutshell, Radio Handi is an open-line conferencing+BBS+Email notification system+SMS notification system, married to a social network.  Wrap your head around that for a minute.  You can do things like: quickly relay voice messages about news [...]

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Tom Keating Previews Cisco Unified Communications

March 5, 2006

Tom Keating has an extensive preview of Cisco’s new Unified Communications systems, which will be announced tomorrow.  Aside from all the cool new features in their Unified Presence Server, their new Unified Communications Clients, and the Linux appliance that runs Call Manager, the biggest news may be Cisco’s full-on embrace of SIP. SCCP will still be [...]

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Google Opens Up

January 20, 2006

Earlier this week we had a coffee with GoogleTalk product manager, Mike Jazayeri.  Mike mentioned that this announcement (Google Opens IM and Talk) was going to hit the next day.  Google has allowed anyone using XMPP to send traffic openly to and from their cloud.  This is in sharp contrast with the federation agreement announced [...]

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PhoneGnome and Skype? Just use Gizmo

December 16, 2005

Stuart Henshall asks "Should Skype have a PhoneGnome Strategy".  The answer is a resounding yes. However, Skype’s proprietary protocol is a real handicap in this scenario.  Many of the benefits of the strategy Stuart advocates are already available with standards-based solutions, such as Gizmo Project. Stuart says some of the benefits would be: Home Phone numbers to [...]

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Oh Canada

November 20, 2005

Rich Tehrani marvels about the pace of innovation in the Great White North.  It’s not the water, Rich. Stuff’s frozen most of the year anyway… The official explanation is that it’s really cold here, and you can only watch so much hockey on TV before looking for something else to do.  Now you know what geeky Canadian’s [...]

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Cisco Acquired Scientific Atlanta

November 18, 2005

Cisco announced today that they have acquired set-top box maker Scientific Atlanta for $6.9 billion. Scientific Atlanta‘s customer list reads like a who’s who of the cable industry — Time Warner, Comcast, Cox, Adelphia, Rogers, Videotron.   According to Om Malik, the acquisition brings them End-to-End Subscriber Systems, DVR & Non-DVR Set tops, HD & standard definition Set [...]

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More thoughts on PhoneGnome

October 13, 2005

Now that I’ve had a day to play with PhoneGnome, it’s becoming clearer to me just what a clever strategy founder David Beckemeyer is driving. PhoneGnome, if you didn’t read my post yesterday, is a small piece of hardware which sits between your in-home phones, and the PSTN, and transparently routes calls you make across the [...]

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MSN / Yahoo

October 12, 2005

I just tuned into the conference call on the MSN / Yahoo Interop Agreement that was announced this morning.  The salient details?  In six to nine months users of both networks will have text, voice, emoticon and presence interoperability, creating a community of 250 million users globally. Jeff Pulver asks does it mean anything?  Only [...]

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MSN / Yahoo Alliance

October 11, 2005

Andy Abramson, CNET, the Seattle PI, and the Wall Street Journal report that MSN and Yahoo will announce an alliance allowing IM users to communicate between networks.  From the WSJ Story: In a competitive realignment of the heated Internet industry, Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. are expected to announce Wednesday that consumers using their free communications [...]

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