Archive for: October 2004

Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words. I think these pictures of my face, the one on the left from September 2003, the one on the right from the beginning of October 2004, tells a bit of a …

Looks like Barry finally got around to posting pictures from the 12 October 2004 CPUG meeting. There’s a few pictures of me, since I was there presenting.

Om Malik has a blog entry about Vocal Technologies a new Analog Telephone Adapter (ATA) for VoIP that is, well, “different” from others out there.

The main difference is, in the hardware, or rather …

Well, it’s official. Cingular has acquired AT&T Wireless. They even out a site called The New Cingular which attempts to explain, in clear terms, what it means.

Two things I can’t wait for:

Cheaper call …

One of my favorite quotes from a recent interview of Michael Badnarik, Libertarian candidate for President:

“If you vote for the lesser of two evils, and your candidate wins, you still get evil. If you don’t vote …

For all the tinkering I’ve done with Asterisk, some days I just want things to be simple. I just want to pick up my phone and have it “work.”

Don’t get me wrong, I love the flexibility that I’ve …

My son gets to go to a fire station on a field trip tomorrow. Since I will not be working tomorrow, I am going to take him. Hey, I went with my dad at that age, well sort of.
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I’m not sure who is imitating who here, but it looks like the VoIP CPE market is about to heat up. During VON, Sipura and Grandstream both announced they were releasing new VoIP products.

The Sipura …

There was a big hullabaloo on the news this evening about how people in a handful of states are getting to vote a whole two weeks early. While I am not in one of those states, I also partook of …

According to Tom Keating, a company is working on a Skype telephone adapter that doesn’t require a computer to use. Of course, if Skype actually used open standards (or at least published the standards they use), then you’d probably …