Archive for: March 2006

As I am sitting here on an airplane pondering the possibility of actually using my mobile phone while in flight, one question comes to mind: how will data be handled? Will it? What would it cost? Is it going to

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It would have been nice to go to VON in Santa Clara, which occurred last week, but instead I've gotta go visit my day job in California this week. It'll be interesting to see if I can get some of …

Digg had pointed me to an article about you are what you post, which reminded me of something I’ve know about for ages: that the Internet has an almost infinite memory. To reaffirm this, I looked on Google (where …

A dial plan essentially defines what numbers are “valid” when trying to make a telephone call. In the PSTN world, something similar to a dial plan is in place at the central office. In the VoIP world, the dial plan …

The fine folks at PhoneGnome have come up with an API that will allow you to control your PhoneGnome service from anywhere. To demonstrate the power of this API, a sample J2ME applet was created that will allow you …

One of my favorite movies of all times is Cool Hand Luke. The subject of this blog post has nothing to do with the movie, of course, but the quote from the character played by Paul Newman seemed like a …

This past week I’ve had two different brushes with people who think video over the Internet will be the next big thing. First I had a video conversation with the CEO of SightSpeed about, among other things, how big …

I have to say that after playing with this application, I think I have found a use for Skype. Though I do have other ways of accomplishing more or less the same thing, I still think this is a neat …

There has been a lot of interesting stuff going on, what with AT&T buying Bellsouth, which of course is happening for one reason and one reason only: to acquire 100% ownership of Cingular (which is 40% owned by Bellsouth) and …

When I was blogging about Pink Floyd, I most certainly wasn’t thinking about VoIP. But Ted goes and says he’d love to Skype David Gilmour. I have to agree with that choice, though I would also happily Skype any …