Archive for: September 2009

27 September 2009

How Inbound VoIP Calls Could Happen on the iPhone

Filed under: Services, iphone, software, telecom, voip - 27 Sep 2009

Imagine if you will, a VoIP service hooked into Apple’s Push Notification Service (APNS). An inbound call comes in on your VoIP service. The notification is pushed to your handset. From that notification, you can launch a VoIP app that …

21 September 2009

Check Point’s New Multi-Core Pricing

Filed under: business, check point - 21 Sep 2009

I don’t normally announce changes to my employer’s pricelist on my personal blog. That being said, I actually had something to do with making this happen. :)

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Net Neutrality and CTIA Straw Men

Read FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski’s speech on net neutrality and then read the CTIA’s response to it. I’m not sure these two letters are about the same thing. Here’s a quote from the CTIA response:
As a justification …

9 September 2009

Nokia Finally Reissues My Ovi Store Download

Filed under: mobile phones, nokia, software - 09 Sep 2009

While i’ve complained about Nokia’s Ovi Store a couple of times on my blog, I figure I should come back and tell everyone that while the road was long, the story …

6 September 2009

Twitter and The Mix Tape

Filed under: music, social networking, twitter - 06 Sep 2009

Back when I was in college, I had a stereo with a dual cassette recorder and a CD player. This was fairly common back in the early 1990s. The king of “personal music devices” back …

3 September 2009

Two Months Later, Nokia’s Ovi Store Still Not Delivering

Filed under: mobile phones, nokia, software - 03 Sep 2009

On the continuing saga of my issues with Nokia’s Ovi Store, I got this email today in regards to the ticket I had opened on this issue more than two months ago:
Thank you for e-mailing the Nokia Care Contact …

2 September 2009

PhoneBoy @ VMworld 2009, Security Gateway R70 Virtual Edition

Filed under: check point, networking, security, software - 02 Sep 2009

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Over the past couple of days, I was out at VMworld 2009 at Moscone Center in San Francisco, which is a trade show put …

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