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ETech and ETel: The Perfect Double Bill (Call for Participation Closes Soon!)

September 14 2007

I'm happy to see these two together. This coming March in San Diego, O'Reilly's ETel (emerging telephony)and ETech (emerging technologies) conferences will be under the same roof at the same time. Each has its own distinct audience, but I am... read more

Lignup for calls in the computing cloud

January 15 2007

Once in a while something comes up that really startles you and makes you rethink some of your basic tenets of how you do things. One of those things is Utility computing. Also known as Grid computing and Elastic computing. The general principle in telecoms is to overbuild and over specify their… read more

Lignup for calls in the computing cloud

January 15 2007

Once in a while something comes up that really startles you and makes you rethink some of your basic tenets of how you do things. One of those things is Utility computing. Also known as Grid computing and Elastic computing. The general principle in telecoms is to overbuild and over… read more

On the road to ETel 07 - Asterisk and Freeswitch

July 23 2006

A few weeks ago I got a call from Gina Blaber, the head of OReilly conferences telling me, ahem, instructing me, that the time had come to start the truffle hunt for speakers and ideas for the next ETel. So I poured a cup of tea and started to scribble… read more

Cluecon - Developers Telephony Conference

July 23 2006

A shameless plug for Cluecon - if you’re an active programmer / developer on voip systems you need to go to this conference ( And Etel of course! ) . First week of August this year in Chicago and its affordable. It’s organized by open source telephony developers and activists.… read more

ETel Launchpad - Invitation to Communications Startups

O'Reilly is proud to announce that in conjunction with Om Malik and GigaOm the first Emerging Telephony Launchpad for new telecoms start-ups is to be held. Lots of access to drinks, food and people should ensure good cheer and an... read more

technolust #1 - iPhone just launched.

Steve Jobs has just launched the iPhone at Macworld 2007. Wow. All I can say is that bloody iPhone had better have a developer program for it!!! :-) As I mentioned in my last post, the iPhone has had a... read more

Fancy an open iPhone like device in the meantime?

Yes I know that was sensationalist but not completely unfounded. In my piece on the iPhone and in my request for a developer kit for it, I have been getting rumor, hearsay and little concrete fact. Apple is understandably tight... read more

Freetel@ Etel: Free Day conference on Technology for social change.

Simon Ditner and Rabble approached us with the idea of a free conference about how communications technologies are being used for social good. Last year Rabble and Blaine presented a very welcome talk at ETel about how telephone systems... read more

The Google WiFi Saga / Creative Commons Spectrum

You remember the whole Google wi-fi ruckus and saga right? They were going to start in Mountain View and try it out, then they bid to do it in San Francisco and then the world was up in arms that... read more

Where's the 8 bit revolution for my kids?

Just had my second child. I reminisced to aspects of my childhood now that i am a "Daddy" times two. Atari. BBC model B. TRS 80. Sharp MZ80K. Commodore Vic 20 / C64. Apple IIe. Oric. TI/94a. Sinclair Timex. Fidonet.... read more

Go on, start your own Mobile Phone brand

Sonopia lets you start your own mobile phone company. One of the winners of this years Etel launch pad was the FlatPlanet Phone company. The proposition was simple. They will give you everything you need to start your own phone... read more

Racks and Pipes for Pennies

After Etel I have been taking a short break from the normal routine and doing some fact-finding about Cloud computing. I have a nagging voice that says this is a good tech for entrepreneurs. The ability to buy at will... read more

The human voice around photographs

This one is really simple and "lovely". Photo's are a way to share experience and often when you show photo's to someone else your voice is often an accompanying narrative adding a story. Voicethread allows the viewers of the photo... read more