Category: VoIP
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Does the Skype/Mangosoft patent settlement about “dynamic directory service” bode ill for the emerging P2P landscape?
Continue Reading: Does the Skype/Mangosoft patent settlement about “dynamic directory service” bode ill for the emerging P2P landscape?Now that we see some incredibly powerful peer-to-peer (P2P) technology models emerging in the telephony/communication space, will we see that innovation being challenged or delayed by patent lawsuits?The New Hampshire Business Review reported this week that Skype has settled a patent lawsuit with Mangosoft for $2.3 million over a patent apparently related to “dynamic directory service”. Now per the NHBR article, it would appear that Mangosoft is fading away as a company and indeed while the website appears on initial view to be there, the management team is simply the one CEO and the newest “news” on the web site dates from early 2007. Their news release about the settlement with eBay is very brief and refers now to “MangoSoft Intellectual Property, Inc.” Phil Wolff over at Skype Journal notes that MangoSoft’s SEC filing is also brief (but discloses the amount). Looking back at MangoSoft’s 2007 annual report, they are themselves very clear on what they are doing:
BUSINESS STRATEGY
We no longer develop new software products or services. We continue to market, sell and support our software services. Our strategy also includes seeking strategic business partnerships and distribution channels to leverage our patented technology. All of our business…
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I’ll be speaking today in a “Hosted Speech Solutions” webinar…
Continue Reading: I’ll be speaking today in a “Hosted Speech Solutions” webinar…In about 2.5 hours, at 11am US Pacific / 2pm US Eastern, I (Dan York) will be participating in a “Hosted Speech Solutions” webinar sponsored by Speech Tech Magazine. I’ll be joining colleagues from Microsoft (TellMe), Angel.com and Convergys. We’ll be talking about each of our hosted offerings and then answering a series of questions before then throwing it open to questions from the audience.If you would like to join in and learn about our solutions (and those of our competitors), you can register for free.
Technorati Tags: voxeo, dan york, danyork, speech, hosted, cloud, cloudcomputing, ivr, voice, voip
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Want to join an emerging communications/tech dinner in San Francisco Wednesday night?
Continue Reading: Want to join an emerging communications/tech dinner in San Francisco Wednesday night?If you are in the San Francisco area (perhaps for VoiceCon?) and are interested in “emerging communications” or “emerging technology”, would you like to join a group of similar folks at a dinner Wednesday night (Nov 12, 2008)?Lee Dryburgh, the organizer of the eComm Emerging Communications conference, is hosting a private dinner in conjunction with Thomas Howe at the San Francisco Airport Marriott (Burlingame). There are currently some 50+ folks attending and some seats left and if you are tracking or pushing things forwards in the communications space you may like to try and reserve a seat (75.00 USD) by emailing Lee.
I’ll be there, naturally, along with Thomas Howe, Eric Burger, Ken Camp, Sheryl Breuker and many others who are involved in the space. If you do want to join us, please email Lee very soon.
Technorati Tags: ecomm, ecomm2009, voip, san francisco
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Blue Box Podcasts #83 and #84 now online – VoIP, SIP, Skype security…
Continue Reading: Blue Box Podcasts #83 and #84 now online – VoIP, SIP, Skype security…Over on Blue Box, I’ve now uploaded two recent episodes:- Blue Box #83: SIP and Asterisk vulnerabilities, voice biometrics, P2PSIP, Aircell blocking Skype, VoIP security news and more…
- Blue Box #84: New Cisco, Avaya, Nortel VoIP security vulnerabilities from VoIPShield, Skype in China, UCSniff and other new tools, news and more
With that I am almost caught up with our main shows… and I still have a bunch of Special Editions to finish producing and post. I’m hoping to finish post-production on #85 tonight so that I can post it tomorrow. We’ll see…
Technorati Tags: bluebox, blue box, voip, voip security, security, voice, skype, sip, dan york, jonathan zar, voipsa
- Blue Box #83: SIP and Asterisk vulnerabilities, voice biometrics, P2PSIP, Aircell blocking Skype, VoIP security news and more…
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Jon Arnold interviews me about voice and web services, cloud computing and more
Continue Reading: Jon Arnold interviews me about voice and web services, cloud computing and moreIs the role of “voice” diminished or enhanced by the availability of web services? How does voice fit into the “cloud”? Where do service providers fit into the picture?Out at ITEXPO last month in Los Angeles, industry analyst Jon Arnold asked me (Dan York) to participate in a series of video interviews he was recording for his IPConvergence.TV site. In the interview, which is now available for viewing, we talked about “voice-enabling” business processes, web services, “cloud computing”, the challenges to service providers and customers and much, much more. Jon also asked me to talk a bit about what I see ahead of us in the next few years. It was a fun interview to do and I appreciated the opportunity.
NOTE: There is no way to currently embed the video, so you’ll need to watch it over on TMC’s site. I’ll also note that on my Mac I couldn’t watch the video in Firefox but instead had to use Safari. Now this may be due to some local configuration issue on my system, but I thought I’d mention it.
Technorati Tags: voxeo, dan york, jon arnold, itexpo, commdev
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Inspiring video of Skype used for augmented vision
Continue Reading: Inspiring video of Skype used for augmented visionWhile I write here mostly about technology, my interest has always been in the social impacts of all this communication technology. Here on the Today show was a fascinating story of someone who is blind using VoIP (and specifically Skype) to allow him to “see” courtesy of a remote person seeing his view and telling him what is there.Fascinating…
P.S. Thanks to Chaim Haas for passing this along…
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Join the disruption – speak at eComm 2009!
Continue Reading: Join the disruption – speak at eComm 2009!If you read this blog, the Voxeo blogs or follow my Twitter stream, you know that I very frequently travel and speak at conferences related to VoIP, telecommunications, etc. Often to the tune of 1-2 weeks per month. I enjoy the presenting immensely in that I get to teach people and tell the story about the disruption going on within telephony and communications in general… and also get to learn from some of the amazing people out there about what they see happening all around us.Yet while I greatly enjoy and find so much value in the large VoiceCon and ITEXPO shows and so many of the others that I attend, one show stands out each year among them all:
…. eComm 2008 as well as the O’Reilly ETel shows that proceeded it in 2006 and 2007.
Why? Mostly because eComm and the earlier ETel shows were NOT the big conferences. There is no massive trade show. There aren’t a huge number of different tracks. It’s small… it’s focused… and it has some amazing speakers who are truly out on the bleeding edge of how the ways in which we communicate are changing. It’s a place to…
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Slides from my ITEXPO security talk – SIP Trunking and Security in an Enterprise Network
Continue Reading: Slides from my ITEXPO security talk – SIP Trunking and Security in an Enterprise NetworkEarlier this month out at ITEXPO in Los Angeles, I participated in the Ingate SIP Trunking seminars as I have been doing for the last year or so. My talk was “SIP Trunking and Security in an Enterprise Network“. The slides are available for viewing or download from my SlideShare account and I’ll also embed them here in this post.I did record the presentation in both audio and video and hope to be making that available as a Blue Box podcast some time soon. I’ll then sync the slides to the audio. Meanwhile… enjoy the slides! SIP Trunking & Security in an Enterprise NetworkView SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: telephony danyork)
Technorati Tags: voip, voip security, sip, sip security, voice, security, dan york, itexpo, commdev, voipsa
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Clarifying how Asterisk could possibly be used as a Skype-to-SIP gateway
Continue Reading: Clarifying how Asterisk could possibly be used as a Skype-to-SIP gatewayAfter my post yesterday about “Skype for Asterisk” (and the update post) and the potential it allows for SIP interoperability via Asterisk, I’ve received a few comments that seemed to interpret what I wrote as somehow indicating that the Skype announcement somehow meant that there was new “Skype to SIP” functionality in the “Skype for Asterisk” announcement.
Just to be clear, there isn’t any new “Skype to SIP” functionality in the “Skype for Asterisk” piece announced yesterday by Digium and Skype. None.
It is purely a commercially-licensed software module (which most of us speculate will be a binary software module, i.e. we won’t be able to actually see the code) that provides two-way connectivity from Asterisk to and from the Skype cloud. Skype users can call into an Asterisk system. Users connected to an Asterisk system can call out to Skype users. Users on the Asterisk system can also call to the PSTN (via what was called “SkypeOut”) and receive calls from the PSTN (via what was called “SkypeIn”).
That’s it. That was the announcement yesterday. Period. End-of-story.
However, the point I was making in my post yesterday was this announcement has the potential to turn Asterisk into a two-way…