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Mobile World – Alec Saunders previews the new Nokia handsets
Continue Reading: Mobile World – Alec Saunders previews the new Nokia handsetsOver on his Saunderslog site, Alec Saunders previews the new phones announced by Nokia today over at the Mobile World Congress (formerly “3GSM”) in Barcelona:When you think of companies who really understand mobility and mobility use cases, there’s only one contender, and it’s Nokia. Even Apple’s iPhone, as pretty as it is, is a sophisticated expression of ideas that others pioneered first. If you want to know where mobile is going, the company to watch is Nokia.
So it was with a great deal of anticipation that I accepted the invitation to sit down with a few of Nokia’s product managers to preview their announcements for today – the Nokia 6210 Navigator, 6220 Classic, and the newest members of their multimedia computer line, the N78 and N96. These products are at the confluence of the two major mobile trends today – social networking and multimedia. They represent, in my opinion, both the future of mobility and the next logical expression of many trends that have been emerging for the last several years.
Alec goes on at some length explaining the new features of the various handsets and the new applications that are coming out along with the handsets.
Alec also…
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TAUG – “Asterisk and Open Telephony Conference” – Toronto, April 7-9
Continue Reading: TAUG – “Asterisk and Open Telephony Conference” – Toronto, April 7-9Those of you interested in Asterisk and open source telephony may be interested in the “Asterisk & Open Telephony Conference” in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on April 7-9, 2008. Part of the larger IT360 conference, this Asterisk conference is being organized by members of the Toronto Asterisk User Group which is one of the largest Asterisk user groups in the world. Because of the TAUG influence, I expect it to be a solid show from a technical point of view with lots of practical information. I’m not currently planning to be there, but it looks to be a good one if you can get there.Technorati Tags: asterisk, conferences, open source, voip, ip telephony, taug, toronto, it360
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Joining ooVoo for video… are you an ooVoo user?
Continue Reading: Joining ooVoo for video… are you an ooVoo user?I gave in today and installed ooVoo on my Mac. I’d resisted because I’m a wee bit swamped right now, but with friends talking about “My ooVoo Day” starting on Monday I finally succumbed and installed it. I admit to being a skeptic… but I’m also open to being surprised. My skepticism is mainly because I already have a zillion ways for people to contact me and I already run several IM/voice/video clients… so it’s really NOT clear to me that I need another one. Still, the interface looks interesting and they’ve incorporated many of the features you would see in Skype and other clients… presence, status messages, etc. Many of the features are intriguing, such as the ability to do video conferencing with up to six people.
So as the admitted chaser of bright shiny objects that I am, and since they do have a Mac version – and my Mac has a webcam, I’ve installed it. Of course, given that sites like this don’t yet support what DataPortability.org is aiming to do, I have no contacts, so it’s rather useless to me right now. Yes, I can use the “Find Friends” feature to import contacts from…
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IETF “RUCUS” BOF to be held about SPIT…
Continue Reading: IETF “RUCUS” BOF to be held about SPIT…Over on the Voice of VOIPSA blog today I posted about a new session has been approved for the IETF 71 meeting coming up in Philadelphia in March called “Reducing Unwanted Communications using SIP” a.k.a. “RUCUS”.Hannes Tschofenig, who submitted the proposal, has created a RUCUS web page and is looking for feedback. I’m planning to be at the RUCUS session at IETF 71 and would encourage others who want to talk about voice spam / SPIT to join in as well!Technorati Tags: rucus, spit, spam, voice spam, voip, voip security, security, ietf, standards
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Wacky Telstra TV commercial about the shutdown of their CDMA network tomorrow…
Continue Reading: Wacky Telstra TV commercial about the shutdown of their CDMA network tomorrow…Courtesy of Pat Phelan, I learned of this TV commercial from Telstra about the shutdown of their CDMA network tomorrow:Obviously the intent is to make sure you have moved over to their NextG network. Being no fan of CDMA (and pretty much stuck with it where I live in Vermont), I just had to laugh. Kudos to Telstra for doing something “funny” in the world of telephony!
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Heading off to Florida tomorrow morning for Internet Telephony Expo and a Voxeo visit
Continue Reading: Heading off to Florida tomorrow morning for Internet Telephony Expo and a Voxeo visitI haven’t really written any blog posts on any of my blogs today (until this one) largely because I’ve been straight out trying to get everything tied up before flying out tomorrow morning down to Orlando, Florida. Once in Orlando, I’ll be driving down to Miami Beach tomorrow afternoon/evening to speak at Internet Telephony Expo on Thursday, go to a SIP Forum meeting on Friday and then drive back up to Orlando to spend some time at the Voxeo office. I’ll be in Orlando over the weekend and then there through next Wednesday, January 30th.I am very much looking forward to trying out Jet Blue‘s new direct, nonstop service between Burlington, Vermont, and Orlando tomorrow. Flight leaves at 8:20 in the morning and arrives in Orlando at 11:50am. I am looking forward to NOT having to make a stop in JFK or any of the other hub airports.
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I’ll be speaking at Ingate’s SIP Trunking Seminars at IT Expo in Miami next week
Continue Reading: I’ll be speaking at Ingate’s SIP Trunking Seminars at IT Expo in Miami next weekIf any of you will be in Miami next week for Internet Telephony Expo, I will be speaking on VOIPSA’s behalf at Ingate’s SIP Trunking Seminar Series held in conjunction with IT Expo. Predictably, my session from 8:30-9:45am on Thursday, January 24th is titled “Seminar/myth 1: VoIP is not secure“.If you are going to be down at IT Expo, do check out the full schedule for Ingate’s SIP Trunking Seminar Series. They have a good range of speakers and the seminars are free.
If any of you are attending either IT Expo or the SIP Trunking Seminar Series, please do drop a note as I’m always interested in meeting readers.
Technorati Tags: sip, sip trunking, ingate, itexpo, conferences
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Skype says “No” to VoIP interoperability – *because customers aren’t asking for it!* – Well, I am!
Continue Reading: Skype says “No” to VoIP interoperability – *because customers aren’t asking for it!* – Well, I am!So Skype says that they have no plans for interoperability with other VoIP systems because their customers aren’t asking for it??
By way of Dameon Welch-Abernathy today I learned of Phil Wolff’s post back in December about ZDNet’s interview (Got all that? 😉 with Skype’s VP of telecoms, Stefan Oberg. The article was primarily about Skype’s London phone number debacle, but this was the part that most irritated me:
Another issue which may concern business users of VoIP is the Enum registry, which aims to unite not only the various VoIP providers — referred to by some as “islands” due to their lack of interconnection with each other — but the entire VoIP and traditional telephony worlds.
Asked whether Skype had considered opening up its famously closed communications protocols, Oberg claimed that there had been no customer demand for interconnection. “[Customers] are not saying they would love to call a VoIP provider on a different network,” he said. “Customers are asking for better video and better conference calling. If it is something that customers really ask for, we would consider it, but it is very easy for anyone to get on the island.”
Well, Mr. Oberg, here is one paying customer of Skype…
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Voice mashups – Notes on Alec’s conference call today
Continue Reading: Voice mashups – Notes on Alec’s conference call todayUPDATE, Jan 11: The recording of this conference call is now available.
As I mentioned in an earlier post today, Alec Saunders convened a 30-minute conference call today on voice mashups. The call was recorded and will be available as a podcast from his site. (I’ll add the link here once I’m online.)
I was traveling down through the state of Vermont today and so while I had no Internet access I did call in and joined the call from my Blackberry. (My wife was driving the car at the time.) I wrote down the following notes on my laptop during the call.
Alec introduced the call, mentioned that it would be recorded and distributed as a podcast. He then muted all the callers except for himself, Thomas Howe, Jim Courtney and Andy Abramson. For callers with Facebook open, they could press a button to “raise their hand” at which point Alec could unmute them. I was calling in on my cell phone while traveling with no Internet access, so for me it was to press “*2” to raise my hand.
Alec tossed out the first question which was “what is a voice mashup?” Thomas laid out one definition which…
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Want to talk about voice mashups? – Today, 9:30am Eastern US – Conf Call with Alec Saunders – Talking about Voice Mashups
Continue Reading: Want to talk about voice mashups? – Today, 9:30am Eastern US – Conf Call with Alec Saunders – Talking about Voice MashupsIf you are interested in “voice mashups”, as I am, and are available today from 9:30 – 10:00am Eastern US time, you might be interested in joining a conference call hosted by Alec Saunders and several others. More information can be found over at Alec Saunders blog:
Talking about Voice Mashups: “Thursday morning a few of us will be doing a round table discussion on Voice Mashups using the iotum FREE Conference Call service. Andy Abramson, Tom Howe, Jim Courtney and myself will convene for 30 minutes to have a con-cast (Conference Call + PodCast). If you’re interested in the topic, please join us and contribute. “
I’m going to be traveling today, but if cell service works, I’ll be joining in. Should be an interesting conversation.
Technorati Tags: apis, applications, voip, mashups, iotum, alec saunders
Disruptive Telephony
Dan York on how Voice over IP is rewriting (almost) everything you thought you understood about telephony…