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Explaining Voxeo in a 30-second video…
Continue Reading: Explaining Voxeo in a 30-second video…While out at ITEXPO in Los Angeles last month, I had a chance to meet up with Jeb Brilliant (yes, that’s his real name), someone who I had come to know through all the various Squawk Box conference calls/podcasts that I had participated in. He joined me as I was walking the show floor and then back at the Voxeo booth he asked if he could record a very brief 30-second video interview with me talking about what Voxeo does. He has now posted that video and you’re welcome to check it out.Technorati Tags: ccxml, commdev, dan york, danyork, itexpo, sip, voicemail, voxeo
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“Discover Best Practices for Secure Unified Communications” – a webinar I’ll be giving tomorrow
Continue Reading: “Discover Best Practices for Secure Unified Communications” – a webinar I’ll be giving tomorrowCross-posted from Voice of VoIPSA:What are you doing tomorrow, Tuesday, October 28, 2008, at 1pm US Eastern time? If you are around, you are welcome to join a free webinar I’ll be giving on “Best Practices for Secure Unified Communications“.
From time-to-time, you’ll notice that those of us working with VOIPSA will take part in seminars/webinars offered by members of VOIPSA and we definitely enjoy doing so. For instance, as readers of the blog know, I’ve been speaking at Ingate’s SIP Trunking seminars for quite some time now. We’re generally open to speaking at anyone’s event or webinar – as long as they understand that there is no endorsement of the company/vendors’s products/services and that we are there to provide an industry-neutral point-of-view.
So tomorrow at 1pm US Eastern I’ll be speaking as part of Mitel’s “Discovery Series” where they invite in guest speakers from the industry. You can join the webinar for free at Mitel’s site. They asked me to speak about the threats/risks to voice over IP and unified communications and talk about best practices for protecting them. Here’s the abstract:
Discover Best Practices for Secure Unified Communications
Presented by: Dan York, Voice Over IP Security Alliance…
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Skype crosses over 14 million simultaneous users!
Continue Reading: Skype crosses over 14 million simultaneous users!I didn’t notice the number of simultaneous users in my Skype client today, but the folks over at Skype Journal did notice and Skype Numerologist Jean Mercier captured the occasion with a screen shot. Mercier writes:“We needed only 35 days to go from 13 million concurrent users online to 14 million.”
It is indeed an impressive statistic. (Confirmed by Skype’s own blog.)
Congrats to the folks at Skype!
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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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Some initial impressions of the iPhone 3G…
Continue Reading: Some initial impressions of the iPhone 3G…As I wrote about recently both here on Disruptive Telephony and also over on the Voxeo weblogs, my employer, Voxeo, has made the switch from the Blackberry 8830 to the Apple iPhone as our corporate mobile phone. Employees in our Orlando office have already been receiving iPhones and mine just arrived last Thursday. Given that I’ve now been using it for a few days, I recorded these initial impressions:Initial impressions of the iPhone 3GAs I’ve documented on http://www.disruptivetelephony.com/ my employer recently made the switch from Blackberry to iPhone – these are some initial impressions…
The quick summary is:
- Typing – Better than I expected with the touchpad typing and Appple’s correction routines.
- Coverage – Pretty much what I expected. AT&T’s coverage here in southern New Hampshire is much less than Verizon’s. However, it wasn’t terribly bad and I did actually get better coverage in a few places like a local grocery store.
- WiFi – Very nice!
- Camera – While it’s clearly not as good as my normal digital camera, it seems to be adequate for pictures for posting to blogs, etc.
- Browsing – As expected, the browsing experience is excellent. I do like being able to switch…
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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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Voxeo switching from Blackberries to iPhones… (even as Blackberry releases the touch-screen Storm)
Continue Reading: Voxeo switching from Blackberries to iPhones… (even as Blackberry releases the touch-screen Storm)Over on one of Voxeo’s weblogs I wrote a piece yesterday, “Goodbye BlackBerry… Hello iPhone!“ that speaks to our vote in the evolving “RIM vs Apple” battle going on out there in the enterprise marketplace. It will be an interesting move that I’m very much looking forward to.
From what I’ve seen, we join a growing number of companies that are now using Apple’s iPhone for a corporate mobile phone.
Interestingly, RIM is today announcing the impending release on Verizon (US) and Vodafone (UK) networks of the Blackberry “Storm”, RIM’s touchscreen entry against the iPhone. Some links today:
- Engadget review
- Comparison with the iPhone
- Boy Genius Report post with pictures and Verizon/RIM news release
Alec Saunders also has it as the topic for today’s Squawk Box at 11am US Eastern time.
Will it be enough to stop enterprises from defecting to the iPhone? I don’t know… I’m sure it may stop some, but until RIM can come out with a development platform and distribution system rivaling Apple’s AppStore, I think you’ll see more developers choosing to go the iPhone way. We’ll see.
Regardless, it certainly is good for us as users to have the increased competition out there… in…
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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…
Disruptive Telephony
Dan York on how Voice over IP is rewriting (almost) everything you thought you understood about telephony…