Author: Dan York
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Returning from Mitel Forum…
Continue Reading: Returning from Mitel Forum…It’s been an absolutely exhausting week out in Las Vegas for Mitel Forum. Presentations, meetings and events basically from dawn until late in the evening both Tuesday and Wednesday… travel all day yesterday… I’m tired. Very tired. But… I do have to say that it was an absolutely outstanding event. Great meetings with our resellers/solutions providers. Excellent sessions with analysts. Great exhibits showing the work of many of our partners – many cool things to write about here in the days ahead! There was such a level of excitement there at the event… it’s definitely a great time to be part of Mitel.
Hopefully we will be able to follow some of the analysts’ blog postings as they get home and start writing… right now, though, a Technorati search on Mitel is just a wee bit preoccupied with other recent news releases. 🙂
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Wow! Quite the week to take off!
Continue Reading: Wow! Quite the week to take off!Wow! As I’ve been scanning my email and notes from the last week, it seems like it was quite a heck of a week to take off! Lots going on… and much to write about. We’ll see how much writing I get done. As mentioned previously, I’m now at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas for “Mitel Forum”, our annual event for solution providers, consultants, the Mitel User Group and analysts. Should be a very good – and involved – event!
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Light blogging ahead… offline until Monday, June 25th
Continue Reading: Light blogging ahead… offline until Monday, June 25thDon’t expect to see much from me here for the next bit. In a few minutes I’m shutting down my systems and heading offline on vacation for the next week. I’ll be back online Monday, June 25th, although I’ll be travelling to a Mitel conference in Las Vegas for most of that week.
We’re not planning to go anywhere extravagent… maybe some day trips around Vermont… some camping… work around the house… all in all just a pleasant way to spend some time before the heat of summer hits.
See you in a week!
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Heading out to Mitel Forum June 25-27 in Las Vegas…
Continue Reading: Heading out to Mitel Forum June 25-27 in Las Vegas…FYI, while I don’t usually write a whole lot about Mitel here, I do in fact work for Mitel and after I return from a week of vacation I’ll be heading down to Las Vegas on Monday, June 25th, to speak at our Mitel Forum event for resellers, consultants and analysts. If any of you who read this weblog will be down there, I’ll look forward to seeing you there (and please say hello). You’ll find me giving presentations on… gee…. “VoIP Security” and “Business Continuity”! (Surprise, surprise…) Should be a very good event.
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Why did I wind up in Burlington, VT? Martyn Davies interviews me for his "Bending The Needle" podcasts
Continue Reading: Why did I wind up in Burlington, VT? Martyn Davies interviews me for his "Bending The Needle" podcastsEver wonder why I wound up in Burlington, VT, after living in Ottawa, Ontario, for most of 5 years? Well, maybe you haven’t… but that and other items about me are now available in an interview that Martyn Davies has posted as part of his new “Bending the Needle” podcast series. When Martyn was over here and visited me back in the winter, he recorded this brief interview sitting in my home studio. He just recorded it on his handy little Zoom H4 portable recorder which worked quite well. He also took this picture to the right, which remains among my favorite as far as pictures of me go.
Martyn had told me that he was teaming up with Dean Elwood from VoIPuser.org to do a podcast series and this “Bending the Needle” seems to be their work. The subtitle is “Interviews with the Leading Edge Personalities in the VoIP Space” and so it’s an honor to be among the first interviewees he has up there. I’ll subscribe and will be interested to see their other interviews.
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Skype Journal offers more on Skype over Blackberry… and I *still* want to know where the PC is making the conf call!
Continue Reading: Skype Journal offers more on Skype over Blackberry… and I *still* want to know where the PC is making the conf call!Over at Skype Journal, Jim Courtney continues his exploration of the IM+ client that allows you to use Skype on the Blackberry. As I mentioned yesterday, one of my main questions is – where is the PC making the conference call? As Jim noted, he called me today using the client and I snapped the screenshot he uses in his post. You can see in the image on the right that we are in a conference call. The call is hosted by Jim’s Skype client and then brings in his mobile phone and then my Skype account.
But where is that version of Skype running as Jim? It’s not on his PC. It’s not on his Blackberry.
So where is it?
Now, the IM+ client has Jim’s username and password… and so I am guessing there must be a server back at Shape Services, the maker of IM+, that is running instances of Skype for each person using it. Is that how they do it? I would wonder how easily it would scale if this is, in fact, the case.
This all is a concern to me because it does come down to a matter of trust. Where is that…
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Have Skype and Global IP Solutions (GIPS) parted ways?
Continue Reading: Have Skype and Global IP Solutions (GIPS) parted ways?Ever since Skype first launched, they have really been one of the showcases for Global IP Solutions‘ (GIPS – formerly “Global IP Sound”) codecs, particularly the wideband iSAC codec which you could argue is largely what has accounted for the great audio quality you can often get on Skype calls. Now, of course GIPS has many other customers – in fact their customer/partner list reads like a veritable “Who’s Who” of companies within the VoIP industry. Skype, though, has always been one of the great examples to point to.
It would seem, though, that Skype and GIPS have had a parting of the ways. Back in March, there was discussion of new codecs in the Skype 3.2 beta and the possibility that this was as a result of an acquisition Skype had made. Yesterday, though, there was a post to the main Skype blog that included this (my emphasis in bold):
And because we’ve replaced our audio engine in our most recent releases — it’s now fully built in-house — it’s worth bearing in mind that you may run into some bumps when a call is placed from an older version of Skype to newer versions.
So “it’s now fully built…
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FBI’s "Operation Bot Roast" cracks down on botnets…
Continue Reading: FBI’s "Operation Bot Roast" cracks down on botnets…Since I’ve been writing about botnets (here and here), I just had to mention that the FBI announced yesterday some arrests of botherders as part of “Operation Bot Roast” (what a great name, eh?). More coverage is available on ZDNet’s Government blog and also the Washington Post’s Security Fix blog. It’s interesting (but not surprising) to note that one of the three arrests is of Robert Soloway, the “spam king” currently in jail awaiting trial related to sending spam. The botnet saga continues…
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