Archive for: September 2005

Aswath reminds me that Michael Robertson of SIPphone wrote an interesting piece on Unregulated “Regulatory” Fees and the Myth of Flat Rate Calling Plans.

I left out one important “cost” in my analysis of how providers …

This is based on a posting I made to the Voxilla Forums, where there has been a rather lively discussion on the business practices of BroadVoice, an ad that was being run advertising “a billion minutes,” and whether or …

The beautiful thing about free speech/press is that it permits opposing ideas to come out in the open and get sorted. Hearing or reading those ideas might be uncomfortable for some. It’s up to the listener/reader to decide whether or …

I’ve talked with the Voxilla Staff on the Videophone twice since the show has started. But from the spam I’ve gotten and the blogosphere, nobody’s really doing anything interesting. Which is just as well, because I got to find out …

Voxilla is going to have a booth at Fall VON this year in Boston. I believe the main attraction will be a demonstration of “At Your Service”, which is a device provisioning and order fulfillment service for service providers.
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Last night, I made the mistake of loading some new firmware on my WRT54G, which ended up “bricking” the unit (i.e. making it unusable). This is even after disassembling the unit, shorting out pin 15 and 16, and getting the

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It’s actually pretty simple. eBay is ultimately in the business of hooking people up and taking a cut of the action. eBay was making a killing on auctions, and after they bought PayPal, they also got to take a second …

I have a couple of different phones that run Symbian OS. Nokia ones, of course. Most of them take MMC or RS-MMC cards. The newer ones, the Nokia 9500 and the Nokia 6260, both play MP3s. And since I take …

I did some minor housekeeping related to my website this evening. There were a couple of loose ends that resulted from me moving servers. I had forgotten, or rather ignored the fact the banner ad in my site was completely …

I have been wanting to get my wife a new mobile phone for quite some time. The main reason: her existing phone, a Nokia 3650, only has one usable frequency in the US: GSM 1900. Cingular now employs both …