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Tip: Do NOT upgrade your iPhone 3G to iOS 4.0! Here’s why…
Continue Reading: Tip: Do NOT upgrade your iPhone 3G to iOS 4.0! Here’s why…Last week I made one of the stupidest IT decisions I’ve made in recent years:I upgraded my iPhone 3G to iOS 4.0!
Dumb, dumb, dumb…
You see, the “Update” button was just sitting there waiting to be pressed in iTunes… and caught up in all the hype around iOS 4.0 I forgot all about those articles I had read… and so I did a backup of my iPhone 3G, and hit the button…
I should have perhaps seen it as a sign when after the upgrade my old backup WOULD NOT RESTORE onto the phone! It was an ugly process… and a couple of hours and multiple restore attempts later my iPhone was in a weird state where it seemed to have data for some apps, but not all. I wound up syncing the apps via iTunes and got the iPhone 3G back into near normal operation – only minus data for some of the apps.
It was then I realized that the only real feature I wanted in iOS – multitasking – doesn’t work on the iPhone 3G! It only works on the iPhone 3GS and of course the new iPhone 4.0. Yes, there is a way to…
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Calling all communications startups! StartupCamp2: Comm Edition coming to ITEXPO in L.A. in October
Continue Reading: Calling all communications startups! StartupCamp2: Comm Edition coming to ITEXPO in L.A. in OctoberWhen I was down in Miami speaking at ITEXPO East back in January, one of the interesting parts of the event was the “Startup Camp Telephony” that Larry Lisser produced where a number of startups stood up and gave their pitch on what they are doing. As the pictures on the bottom of the TMC page show, there was great attendance at the event.Larry’s back at it and has plans for “StartupCamp 2: Comm Edition” at the ITEXPO West event in Los Angeles on October 4th:
Five startups will be selected to give brief 5-minute “pitch” presentations following which a panel of industry experts and the audience will ask questions and provide valuable feedback. Early stage telephony companies – voice, mobile, video, network and other – wishing to be included in the pitch roster, should click here to enter their details. Startups will benefit from significant exposure leading up to, at and after the event
I’m slated to speak out there doing my usual security part of Ingate’s SIP Trunking sessions, so while I’m there I’ll be looking forward to seeing what startups show up and what cool things they are doing!
P.S. TMC did put out a…
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Calling all Ruby and Asterisk developers! First Adhearsion Conference in SF Aug 14-15
Continue Reading: Calling all Ruby and Asterisk developers! First Adhearsion Conference in SF Aug 14-15For all of you out there working with the Adhearsion open source telephony framework to easily create communications apps on top of Asterisk using the Ruby programming language…. the first “AdhearsionConf” will be held August 14-15 in San Francisco.Jay Phillips, the creator of Adhearsion, will be in the event and undoubtedly a great amount of hacking on Adhearsion will occur throughout the time.
The exact location and schedule are still being confirmed, but mark the date!
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Skype leases 90,000 sq feet in Palo Alto!
Continue Reading: Skype leases 90,000 sq feet in Palo Alto!Skype announced their expansion in Silicon Valley today and while such an announcement might be routine and not really worth mentioning, I was certainly struck by the size of the space they are leasing:Today, I’m pleased to announce that Skype will expand its operations in Silicon Valley, and has just signed a lease with Stanford University for a 90,000 square foot office space in the Stanford Research Park at 3210 Porter Drive in Palo Alto, CA. Silicon Valley will add to Skype’s excellent engineering team in Estonia, Prague and Stockholm, and will also become the home of regional marketing, business development, and the Skype for Business team.
90,000 square feet is good bit of space! Obviously they have solid ideas around growing. It’s great to see Skype continuing on its path as its own company and I wish them all the best with the move.
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NetworkWorld interviews SIP pioneer and now Skyper Jonathan Rosenberg
Continue Reading: NetworkWorld interviews SIP pioneer and now Skyper Jonathan RosenbergThis week Network World ran a great interview with Jonathan Rosenberg about his new role at Skype. Jonathan is now the “Chief Technology Strategist” at Skype, but he’s known in the industry as one of the co-authors of the original RFC 3261 that defines the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and also for his many years working at Cisco. He’s been extremely active within the IETF, writing a seriously large quantity of Internet-Drafts. I think, in fact, I first met JDR at an IETF meeting… and subsequently was on at least one panel with him (I think a VoiceCon or Interop in New York).It’s been interesting to watch Skype accumulate more and more people with strong SIP backgrounds, and hiring Jonathan was definitely an interesting – and good – move on Skype’s part.
I don’t know that the Network World interview broke any amazing new ground for those of us who have been watching Skype closely, but if you haven’t been paying attention to Skype, Jonathan gives a great view into what the company has been doing lately and where it is going. It is definitely worth a read.
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Tracking Tropo.com calls with Google Analytics
Continue Reading: Tracking Tropo.com calls with Google AnalyticsIt’s no big secret that I’m a huge fan of the Tropo cloud communications service[1] and also a huge fan of Google Analytics. Put them together, as Adam Kalsey did in this blog post today (‘Tracking calls with Google Analytics‘), and I’m excited!I admittedly had not followed the availability of client libraries for “Google Analytics Mobile”, but it makes sense given the diminished capabilities of mobile devices to execute JavaScript (which GA relies upon for tracking). Adam does a great job explaining that and walking through the source code he supplies.
Now I just have to make some time to try it out with my Tropo apps…
[1] In full disclosure, Tropo is a service created by my employer, Voxeo, as part of Voxeo Labs.
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How to use a USB headset with the Apple iPad
Continue Reading: How to use a USB headset with the Apple iPadAs I note over on the Voxeo web site, I recently posted a video showing how you can use a USB headset with the Apple iPad. The video is available on YouTube and you can see it directly here:WHY might you want to do this? Well, primarily if you want better audio quality when using VoIP on your iPad… and if you are like me and always find Bluetooth headsets sucking up too much battery power, it’s nice to have a wired option.
Next up, figure out what else can be plugged into that USB connector… 😉
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CounterPath launches SIP/VoIP softphone for iPhone/iPad and brings enterprise to mobile
Continue Reading: CounterPath launches SIP/VoIP softphone for iPhone/iPad and brings enterprise to mobileHave you wished you could easily extend your corporate IP-PBX to your iPhone? Or have you wanted a good SIP softphone for your iPhone that you could use for testing systems? Or do you just like new shiny iPhone and iPad apps?This week long-time softphone maker CounterPath Corp. released their “Bria iPhone Edition” and for $3.99 it’s a great app to have! Ever since I learned about it a couple of days ago, I’ve been playing with it and this morning I posted a video review as Emerging Tech Talk #51. I show how I’ve connected the app to Voxeo’s corporate IP-PBX, how I can use it to make calls to both regular phone numbers and also SIP URIs, how it works with the iPhone’s address book and also how I can use it on the iPad. You can view the 7-minute video here:
Now my friend Alec Saunders spoke with someone at CounterPath and published a great post yesterday discussing some of the limitations and the future plans that CounterPath has. Definitely worth a read – and I’m looking forward to some of those plans! (Like wideband codecs and multi-tasking support.)
As he notes, this Bria app…
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Voxeo Customer Summit next week…
Continue Reading: Voxeo Customer Summit next week…As I mentioned in a post last month, I will be in Orlando, Florida, next week (June 21-23) at the Voxeo Customer Summit. We’ve got a great agenda of speakers, great attendance, some excellent partners demonstrating their solutions based on Voxeo platforms, a keynote by former hacker Kevin Mitnick and much more. Some great announcements coming up as well…If you are interested in developing communications applications that work with voice, SMS/texting, IM/chat, mobile web and many other channels, the event will be a great place to learn about some of the leading offerings in the space. Registration is free.
During the event, I expect to be posting photos to my Flickr stream and tweeting to both @danyork and @voxeo. I’m sure I’ll be posting to the Voxeo blog portal as well.
If you are coming to the Voxeo Customer Summit, I’ll look forward to meeting you there!
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Disruptive Telephony
Dan York on how Voice over IP is rewriting (almost) everything you thought you understood about telephony…