Category: telecom

I did an interesting experiment the other day–I tried dialing 0 for a number of phones. What does dialing 0 do? In the United States and Canada, dialing zero was how you reached the operator. You needed the operator to …

About an hour ago, Pat Phelan announced to the world that Twitterfone was live. Within 40 minutes or so, he had 1500 signups. Since the service is invite only at the moment, it might be a bit before …

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I recently had a chance to talk to a manager of one of the …

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So let me get this straight. AOL is “opening” their telephony platform to allow …

IfByPhone provides a number of different tools that businesses can use to help them bring in more sales. They provide services such as: “smart” click-to-call, …

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In what looks like a similar arrangement to what Jangl did with Jajah a while ago, Jajah scores …

Dan York asked for this. Here’s the tell-tale sign from tcpdump that the user information is in the clear. Obviously, I used a different username than my own here as obscuring my password was difficult:
10:29:56.656220 IP 10.3.2.124.43852 > 69.25.76.54.80: P …

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One of the more frequent complaints I hear about Skype is that it doesn’t interface with SIP. Of course, …

I feel like I wrote too many posts this week. I did a fair amount of cross-posting this week, which ends up being good for my pocketbook. However, I feel pretty spent. I …

As you may recall, I ranted about how conference calls suck. I think I can safely say I found a solution that sucks less.

I had a …