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Skype fails the “mom test”, meaning that it is too difficult for my mom to figure out.  Hell, it is too difficult for a relatively technically adept person like me to figure out. I have spent at least an hour on the forums trying to find a solution to the voice issue (after about a [...]

Buffalo, MN (located 40 miles north of Minneapolis) is the latest city to join the likes of Las Vegas, NV, Cocoa Beach, FL, Garland, TX and Medford, OR in deploying a mesh-based metro area network. The new network will offer high-speed access to police and other city employees. The city is using Mesh Networks technology. [...]

There is a big debate going on about whether cities should get into the business of providing broadband to its citizens, especially if incumbents don’t act always in their (citizens’) best interests. More than a dozen states have come-up with bills to outlaw municipal and city owned broadband. This battle is not new, says Michael [...]

Fourteen VoIP providers from Europe and SIPphone.com of US have set up an international peering network which allows them to interconnect with each other without spending any termination fees. Those in the “network” include little known names such as Callme.se (Sweden), e-fon.ch (Switzerland), Magrathea Telecommunications (Great Britain), Musimi.dk (Denmark), MS Networks (Luxembourg), and sipgate (Austria, [...]

Europeans are spending more on enterprise VoIP gear, while US spending is down according to Synergy Research Group’s Q4 2004 reports. The EMEA Enterprise IP Telephony market increased 28.1 % sequentially and 88.8% year over year while its U.S. counterpart dipped 3.5%– the first decrease ever measured for U.S. enterprise IP telephony.
The U.S. market [...]

Qwest is in news for chasing MCI and well its original founder and board member, Phil Anschutz is making headlines as well. The Denver billionaire had financed the movie about singer Ray Charles’ life. The movie, Ray won six nominations and earned Jamie Fox his first Oscar as the best actor. He is money making [...]