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Another day, another VoIP client!
The Internets are starting to buzz about a new VoIP peer-to-peer client of ambiguous origins called Barablu. They want to take down Skype. Yup, just like Napster wants to shank iTunes and iPod. The client, leaves me cold for many reasons, the biggest being I cannot be sure about the company [...]

Update #2: Six Apart, the San Francisco-based start-up behind TypePad, MoveableType and Live Journal is rumored to have raised another $12 million in Series C financing, according to a report in Investment Dealers’ Digest. The names of investors have not been disclosed. (I am burning up the phone lines to find the details!) The report [...]

British Telecom is getting serious about VoIP. Under competitive pressure from upstarts, they are taking battle into the enemy camp. The proof of this comes in their decision to bring price parity in their BT Communicator (PC-client) and BT Broadband Talk (that uses an ATA) services. The British incumbent will also offer its BT Broadband [...]

South Korea is looking to turn one of its cities and a university into an all Linux-zone. They plan to conduct this experiment in an effort to move away from an over reliance on Microsoft software, according to The Korea Times. It successful other cities will follow suit.
The selected government and university will be required [...]

By Jackson West
Tom Lantos wins the first ever Two Dot Roundup Straight Shooter Award for Excellence in Calling Bullsh*t. The transcript of him going after Oracle, Microsoft, Google and Yahoo is classic, especially considering that he represents a number of their employees in California’s 12th Congressional District. Google’s arguments sound pretty hollow after [...]

Microsoft folks must be grinning ear to ear. Despite some flubs, the XBox 360 is going to stay in cat bird seat for a long long time. Analysts over at Merrill Lynch are predicting delays for PlayStation 3 gaming console. The impact of this could be felt through the entire food chain - impacting [...]