Is VoIP for Everyone?
A few VoIP bloggers got their panties in a twist when they read the Lance Ulanoff article saying that VoIP wasn’t for everyone. Yeah, what else is new? While I do not disagree with the premise, and neither does …
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Archive for: April 200530 April 2005 Is VoIP for Everyone?A few VoIP bloggers got their panties in a twist when they read the Lance Ulanoff article saying that VoIP wasn’t for everyone. Yeah, what else is new? While I do not disagree with the premise, and neither does …
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28 April 2005 One Year AgoThis evening, I spent some time migrating over old blog entries from the TWiki version of my blog. This is a project I’ve been meaning to do for some time, along with moving some other content on oldblog.phoneboy.com to …
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27 April 2005 Nokia N Series PhonesPersonally, I thought my phone lust had died down. Then I saw the Nokia N series phones. All I can say is: Oh. My. God. N90. Or do I want an N91? Or an N71? Ah the choices… I …
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26 April 2005 USB Powered Fish TankLast time I went to a CPUG Meeting, I won a USB Powered fish tank. Good thing they are plastic fish.:)
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King County’s Education Campaign on VoIP and E911I was looking in a recent issue of Computer Source Magazine, a Seattle tech publication. There was an ad in there from King County (Seattle is in King County), which explains that NOT ALL VoIP/Broadband Phone carriers provide full …
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Sipura gets acquired by Linksys, er CiscoWhen I saw this press release came across my blog reader, my first thought was: holy @%@#%, Batman. Linksys is assimilating Sipura. I privately joked that this was a possiblity, but I had no real knowledge that such …
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Skype’s NAT Support Isn’t SpecialLeave it to smart dudes like Aswath to dig in and discover, in Skype’s own documentation, that Skype’s NAT traversal system is none other than UDP hole punching, which is basically what every commercial VoIP provider does. Instead of …
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25 April 2005 Blogging from my MobileNow that I have blogging software that doesn’t suck as bad, I’m now set up to blog from my mobile phone using a Nucleus plugin called PostMan. A new blog entry is only an MMS from my phone away. …
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My First Podcast, and it was ROTSSI heard the hype about podcasts, but I finally decided to see what it was about. And I picked a good first podcast, too: Revenge of The Screen Savers. For those like me who have been living in …
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