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Cherry- A New Player In The Space

Posted on July 5th, 2009 by Andy Abramson

While there may be some who think Fixed Mobile Convergence is dead, clearly someone in Belgium doesn’t. TechCrunch Robin Wauters reports on Cherry, a new company that is promising to deliver Fixed Mobile Convergence, meaning GSM and WiFi, with Voice Call Continuity at the base of it. Now, some points that need to be added: 1) Counterpath now holds the intellectual property (i.e. Patents and Patents Pending) for what was BridgePort Networks, the originators of Voice Call Continuity. 2) Another company, Outsmart Telecom, out of Israel, has similar technology that makes this work also. 3) Cicero Networks out of Ireland…

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N95 Users Now Have A Real Upgrade, The Nokia N97

Posted on July 5th, 2009 by Andy Abramson

Alec Saunders was fortunate to receive a new Nokia N97 while participating in a project we’re involved with for Nokia last week in San Francisco. His review pits the Nokia N97 against the new Apple iPhone GS and clearly shows why for multimedia, the real purpose of the N9x devices, since the N90 was first released, and it successors, the N91, N93 and the amazing N95 consistently outperform all others in that category. Most of all, Alec nailed it by saying N95 users finally have a reason to change devices.

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Joost Lacks What’s Most Important-Production Value

Posted on July 5th, 2009 by Andy Abramson

A lot has been written by people I respect who have industry knowledge about the trials and tribulations over at Joost, the P2P video start up that was founded by the founders of Skype. Despite bringing in a big name CEO from Cisco, and all the hype Joost got, the recapping of their demise by Om Malik, Michael Arrington and pal Peter Csathy all have picked apart most of the shortcomings the start-up faced. Two of the very on the mark comments speak out loudly from Arrington and Malik: Arrington in TechCrunch wrote: Here’s what I learned from Joost’s failure…

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A Tale of Many Phones

Posted on July 4th, 2009 by Andy Abramson

Over the past month I’ve tried an experiment. First I wanted to see if I could wean myself away from my Blackberries (yes I have one on T-Mobile and one on Verizon) for email and have been using both a Nokia E75 and two different E71s (one for North America and the other for Europe due to 3G radio configuration) and looked closely at the use of the Apple iPhone for the global traveler. Secondly I wanted to see what worked best for me as far as cost savings. During the past month I’ve also traversed the UK with my…

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Smackdown: Nokia N97 vs iPhone 3GS

Posted on July 3rd, 2009 by Alec

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Mesh Potato Testing and Free Potatoes

Posted on July 3rd, 2009 by david

Elektra and I have been busy testing our Mesh Potato prototypes. I have been working on Asterisk stability and mesh load testing, while Elektra has been focusing on the power supply efficiency and Wifi.
We will soon have 100 Mesh Potatoes available for free to people with the best ideas for developing, testing, or deploying [...]

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Me and My MiFis

Posted on July 2nd, 2009 by Andy Abramson

A quick note about the Novatel MiFi devices, both the CDMA version that works on Verizon and the GSM/HSPA version that works here in the USA on AT&T and on any GSM operator’s network around the globe. 1. Verizon’s network smokes the current edition of AT&T Mobile Broadband in the Bay Area for real time communications. After a day of use of the HSPA version, while it works very well, but I found that it is highly susceptible to the totem pole affect of GSM and great signals and amazing connectivity become simply marginal connectivity, especially if you are in…

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Worst Google News Headline Ever! - No public viewing at Neverland, but Michael Jackson may get laid

Posted on July 2nd, 2009 by VoIP & Gadgets Blog

I was happily surfing the Web reading the Google News Top Stories when I saw a headline that said “No public viewing at Neverland, but Michael Jackson may get laid“. Say what? I had to do a double-take. Then I couldn’t help but laugh at how funny this headline was.

No public viewing of Michael Jackson getting laid? Bummer, I’m sure that could have been a pay-per-view event. It’s The 40 50 Year Old Virgin movie come to life! Course that might be a problem unless it’s some sick necrophilia action going on. Then again, Michael Jackson did play the undead / zombie in Thriller.

Ok, we’ll let Michael Jackson Rest in Peace, though I’m sure he too would have laughed at this Google News headline.

Check out a screenshot of it below. Click for Full-screen. Look on the right-hand side. I drew an arrow as well as a box around it. The article in question can be read here. The full article headline is “No public viewing at Neverland, but Michael Jackson may get laid out at Staples Center“. Obviously, the Googlebot abbreviated in a very bad spot. Perhaps a human editor might be in order, Google?

Lastly, since Google News changes the Top Stories home page often, you too can view this news story (in its funny abbreviated form) by clicking this Google News search link. It’s abbreviated there too.

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Royalty Free Codecs

Posted on July 1st, 2009 by david

Jean-Marc Valin (primary author of Speex and part of the CELT team) has made me aware of a proposal for developing a royalty-free audio codec under the banner of the IETF. The debates on the mailing list address some persistent issues in codec development, patents, and royalties. What follows is a post I [...]

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eBuddy for iPhone Supports Push Notifications

Posted on July 1st, 2009 by VoIP & Gadgets Blog

Ok, so the just launched Skype 1.1 for iPhone doesn’t support push notifications, but eBuddy, a brand new app for the iPhone or iPod touch does support push notifications. What does this mean? It means you can close eBuddy and still receive instant messages (IMs) from your buddies. Further, eBuddy is an IM aggregator supporting MSN, Yahoo, AIM, ICQ, Gtalk, and Facebook. Too bad they don’t support Skype though like fring does. eBuddy also supports Google Android phones.

Check out the features for eBuddy on the iPhone & iPod touch:

One buddy list for MSN, Yahoo, AIM, ICQ, Gtalk, and Facebook
Stay online when you exit the app
Get push notifications for incoming messages when you exit the app*
Reconnect automatically if connection is lost
Get offline messages after reconnecting
Get new message alerts & typing alerts in the chat screen
Easily switch between chats by swiping your screen
Shake your iPhone or iPod Touch to send a buzzer
Display pictures, personal message and status
Emoticons & buzzers
Sound & vibration
Multiple IM networks
Multiple accounts for each IM network
Buddy list management
Offline messages
Group chat support

Push notifications for incoming messages are only available if you have the latest iPhone 3.0 software on your device. eBuddy will also soon be adding landscape mode. Oh, and did I mention unlike similar app Beejive ($9.99) & IM+ with Push ($9.99), eBuddy is a free app in the Apple App store? Some minor complaints include it only supports push for up to 30 minutes and it doesn’t support file sharing (audio, picture, etc.). Still for a free IM aggregator app, this one is definitely a must for the iPhone!