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ETel Coverage: The Future of Telephony
March 01 2007
When I think about Voice 2.0 (or 3.0, or whatever point-oh we feel we should be looking towards), the things that I find really give me the most optimism for the future are those things that dare to step way outside the box. This year at ETel (as was the case… read moreMarch 01 2007
Jeff Bonforte’s discussion of Anger as a driver of product adoption keeps resonating. My friend Matthew Gast lives in San Francisco, and it seems that folks in San Francisco have a problem that makes them angry. The problem is that the surface routes (in Matthew’s case, the “M” Streetcar) do not… read moreMarch 01 2007
While you might be tempted to think that I am going to write more about anger, I think that a more appropriate term would be passion. FreeSwitch was created for the same reasons that so many other open-source projects happen; a passion for a particular problem space that was not… read moreETel Coverage: Asterisk - Still Delivering the Future
March 01 2007
Mark Spencer is having fun again. Mark started off his presentation by apologizing for some of the older applications in Asterisk that are due for an overhaul. With his newfound freedom to focus on the technical direction of Asterisk, Mark will be able to give more attention to the future direction… read moreETel Coverage: Anger Management
February 28 2007
Jeff Bonforte of Yahoo! wants us to look for angry people. The premise of his highly-entertaining talk centered around the concept of getting products to market by finding the frustrated people; the folks who have pain. These are people who will pay to solve that pain. That’s why so many of us… read moreETel Coverage: Open Source in mobile devices
February 28 2007
Benoit Schillings says open source is coming to a mobile handset near you. The Qtopia Greenphone by Trolltech brings the freedom of Linux to the cell phone. Fully open and customizable, the folks at Trolltech want to provide the environment and hardware, and allow the community to figure out what… read moreETel Coverage: VOIPSA wants VoIP to be secure!
February 27 2007
Here at ETEL 2007, The VOIPSA folks just presented an excellent discussion on VoIP security issues. The fact is, we all know that security is going to be a huge issue in VoIP (or is supposed to be already), and despite all the attention, it seems that it doesn’t get the… read moreETel Coverage: I wanna learn Ruby
February 27 2007
I’m a systems integrator by trade, not a programmer, but I like to think that in a different life I might have made a good one. The last language I learned really well was REXX (even did socket and serial port programming with it [shudder]). In any case, the urge to… read moreWill any visionary carriers please step forward?
November 04 2006
The more I think about it, the more frustrated I find it that our mobile, telecom, and data networks just can’t seem to integrate with each other. On the one hand I understand that the incumbents don’t want to upset the status quo, but is this really the best we… read moreRecent Posts | All Posts
