Martin Geddes Must-Read Piece On "Peak Telecoms"
2012-02-02T10:11:39-05:00

Martin Geddes doesn't hold back! No longer beholden to corporate overlords (he used to work for BT), he is wonderfully free to say exactly what he believes. And he does.... If you are interested in the future of telecommunications /...

Are They Crazy? Digium Enters The Phone Game With Asterisk IP Phones
2012-02-01T10:00:41-05:00

When I first saw the news today, my immediate reaction was: Seriously? Digium is coming out with phones???In a rather fascinating move in an already extremely crowded market, Digium announced today that they will be producing "Digium Phones", a new...

Video: The Day The LOLcats Died ... Speak Up Before the Internet Dies...
2012-01-18T08:26:04-05:00

Truly awesome... via Techcrunch... Kudos to the LaughPong team for doing this! If you found this post interesting or useful, please consider either: following me on Twitter; adding me to a circle on Google+; subscribing to my email newsletter; or...

Out at CES In Las Vegas This Week On The Hunt For IPv6-Enabled Consumer Devices...
2012-01-09T16:08:32-05:00

As I noted over on the Deploy360 blog today, I'll be down at the massive International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas this week. I'm traveling on Wednesday, at the show Thursday through Saturday and then returning home Saturday...

And Thus Was Born... the Internet Society Deploy360 Programme!
2012-01-06T09:01:14-05:00

How can we accelerate the usage and deployment of IPv6 and DNSSEC? What are the barriers to getting those technologies more widely deployed? How can we "take away the pain" of getting started with IPv6 and DNSSEC? When I joined...

Is Skype Now "Boring"?
2012-01-04T08:00:06-05:00

Is Skype now "boring" in 2011? That's the question Phil Wolff raises over at the Skype Journal in his post "Skype is boring". Phil points out, quite correctly, that Skype is no longer the scrappy little startup intent on disrupting...

Looking for last-minute tax donations? Why not support the open Internet?
2011-12-30T22:59:14-05:00

As 2011 draws to a close, are you looking at what donations to make to charitable organizations for tax purposes? Here in the USA, this is something that many of us think about in these final days. It's a last...

3 Great Posts to Read About Why Windows Phone 7 Hasn't Taken Off...
2011-12-27T09:30:58-05:00

Jumping online this morning I noticed this trio of great posts yesterday about Windows Phone 7 and why it hasn't taken off. The discussion was started off by Charlie Kindel, a former Microsoft general manager: Windows Phone is Superior; Why...

Voxeo Imports Snow... Into Florida??? (Video)
2011-12-21T08:46:21-05:00

Kudos to my former colleagues at Voxeo for a great Holiday Letter and a truly fun video showing the making of the holiday photo. A large part of why I enjoyed working at Voxeo so much was just the wackiness...

2 Insanely Simple Steps to Completely Bypass the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)
2011-12-19T08:56:00-05:00

How completely BROKEN is the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) be? Here are the two steps ANY consumer can take to COMPLETELY bypass the DNS filtering proposed in SOPA: 1. Find The Computer's DNS Settings On a Mac, go...