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October 12 2007
I'm sorry to report that the 2008 O'Reilly Emerging Telephony conference has been cancelled. From the conference web site: Due to changed circumstances since ETel 2008 was announced, we have decided not to move forward with the conference this year.... read moreSeptember 27 2007
An interesting move by Digium today as they've announced the acquisition of Switchvox, a provider of SMB IP PBX systems. Digium has an informative FAQ up on its site about the deal. This move gives Digium a turnkey SMB system,... read morePropel Launches Personal Bandwidth Manager
September 27 2007
Propel, the company behind the most widely used Internet accelerator by ISPs has just announced an interesting new product for consumers who want to manage their own bandwidth usage. The Propel Personal Bandwidth Manager (PBM) could be especially relevant for... read moreSeptember 26 2007
Truphone participated in this year's prestigious DEMO conference and the highlight of their presentation was showing off the running of their voip service on Apple's iPhone. Andy Abramson has all of the details, as well as a video of the... read moreThe End Of The Language Barrier
September 11 2007
O'Reilly author and ETel regular Brian McConnell has just published a thought provoking essay, The End Of The Language Barrier. Brian is the the leader of the Worldwide Lexicon project, which we've highlighted here before. He predicts that the language... read moreMacVoices Interviews Tatiana Apandi on O'Reilly's "Women in Technology" Series
September 11 2007
O’Reilly Editor Tatiana Apandi talks to Chuck Joiner of MacVoices about the Women in Technology series on the O’Reilly Network, how it came to be, and what she wants to accomplish by giving a voice to a wide variety of women in the technology industry. Tatiana shares some of her… read moreSeptember 10 2007
The MVNO market is a tough one, and most companies who have tried to make it work have flamed out. Amp'd was the most recent MVNO to go belly-up, after burning through $360 million. There's a relatively new entrant in... read moreSeptember 10 2007
I receive (and ignore) a lot of press releases and new product announcements, but this one caught my eye and looks pretty interesting. MicroNet has just released a low-end NAS storage solution that can put terrabytes of storage into your home network for a surprisingly affordable price — their 1TB… read moreAugust 29 2007
While it takes Nokia's marketing department to task, this rather off-color comparison of the E70 to the iPhone from maddox's The Best Page in the Universe has to be causing some smiles back in Finland. I'm having trouble finding a... read moreAugust 23 2007
Dan York broke the news from VoiceCon that IBM has just announced its acquisition of WebDialogs, maker of the popular Unyte web conferencing and collaboration software that works in conjunction with Skype (and other platforms). I think that’s great news for WebDialogs and the Skype ecosystem, and a smart move… read moreiPhone 1.0.2 Update Available, Boosts WiFi?
August 23 2007
The second iPhone update was released earlier this week, officially released for undescribed “bug fixes”. There have been reports that the 1.0.2 update improves scrolling in Safari and that it may even boost the phone’s WiFi reception. The update reportedly uses a validation process to wipe out hacked versions which… read moreETel 2008 Call for Participation Now Open
August 21 2007
The Call for Participation for our next Emerging Telephony conference is now open. This is my favorite conference of the year, and not just because I work for O’Reilly. ETel has become a showcase for the most interesting and innovative things happening in telecommunications. We welcome plenary submissions for our… read moreSkype Outage Caused by Windows Updates?
August 20 2007
The latest news from Skype about their recent major outage is pointing the finger towards the autmatic Windows Update feature. Well, to be fair, they are actually blaming a “a previously unseen software bug within the network resource allocation algorithm which prevented the self-healing function from working quickly.” But the… read moreAugust 08 2007
We’ve done a lot of grousing about Apple’s .Mac service here over the past couple of years, so I was happy to hear yesterday that it’s getting a long-deserved update. The new .Mac service now includes a fairly slick web photo gallery, which integrates nicely with the iTunes and the… read moreOSCON Video of Simon Peyton Jones' Haskell Tutorial
August 02 2007
Simon Peyton Jones, author of the "Beautiful Concurrency" chapter, presented this well received Haskell tutorial at OSCON. Update: This tutorial is split up into two videos, the second part is here. (Thanks, Brian!)... read more
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