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Silicon Valley.com: GoFish, started by the founder of the now-defunct Musiclocker service, allows people to simultaneously search for songs from Napster, Buy.com, iTunes and a host of other online music merchants. The site also looks for audiobooks, video, ring tones and games. Continue »

FCC Chairman Michael Powell is concerned about SBC’s TIPTop enough to issue a statement today, warning the Bell that FCC has got the company within its cross hair. “Should we conclude that this tariff is being used to justify the imposition of traditional tariffed access charges on VoIP providers or to discriminate against SBC’s competitors, the Commission will take appropriate action including, but not limited to, initiating an investigation of SBC’s interstate tariff and any other tariff that proposes similar terms,” he said. “Nothing in this tariff should be interpreted to force a set of compensation relationships on VoIP providers and their connecting carriers either at this Commission or in other venues.” Continue »

CNETAsia:
McAfee chief executive George Samenuk called the VoIP platform “the next big area for attack”. Robert Graham, chief scientist from ISS, is equally leery of the resilience of VoIP. Sure everything is unsecure, but that does not mean it cannot be secured. The virus protection vendors create an environement of fear, and then sell a lot of software licenses. Their whole business model is based on the concept of “fear factor.” Continue »

Light Reading reports that UT Starcom is quietly making a push into the European market, and is banking on high demand for its fixed wireless, wireless and triple play products. It is an effort to expand beyond its very Chinese/Asian roots. Continue »

2004 is going to be remembered as a breakthrough year for VoIP, says EWeek. I said the same thing about three months ago in my Business 2.0 story, Top Technologies of the year. Nevertheless Ellen Muraskin has done a great recap and its a must read in case you missed any of the stuff. Continue »

The New York Times: Packet8 phones also do not use the new H.264 video encoding and decoding scheme, which provides high-quality, 30-frames-a-second images with half the bandwidth requirements. In some ways, the new codec may mean to video what the MP3 compression format has meant to audio. Continue »

Daily Wireless: The City of Dayton, Ohio is creating a free wireless cloud. City leaders said all a person needs is a WiFi card. The city is teaming up with the Harborlink Network. The new service will be paid through advertising. Continue »

Monte Vista Software’s embedded linux will be used in NTT DoCoMo cellular/WiFi phones. NEC and Panasonic will make these dual network mobile phones and can run on NTT DoCoMo’s 3G wireless network — FOMA — and also as a VoIP mobile phone over a wireless LAN (local area network). Continue »