The long slow death of Skype for Asterisk.
My guess is that Skype had a change of heart between the project’s announcement and beta. So Skype deliberately hobbled SFA. What were they scared of ? Openness I think.
The gtalk/skype/sip/irc asynchronous UC mashup
Users from all three of the ‘islands’ in the VoIP world (SIP, Skype and GoogleTalk) could all participate on an equal basis in a conference about VoIP. Not only that, but their IM messages were also exchanged freely, all with the correct attribution.
The way to create a new product or service when you already have one.
Contrast Digium’s careful step-by-step community involvement in the design of Asterisk Scalable Communications Framework with the way Skype treats their ecosystem (like Fring and Nimbuzz )
The cracks start to appear in the Skype architecture.
An increasing number of Skype’s endpoints don’t fully interoperate.
The zero-install femtocell – AKA FaceTime
So where does Facetime leave the carrier ? On the face of it Apple are doing them out of minutes for no return. Surprisingly the carriers are probably going to be pretty relaxed about it.
The Countess of Lovelace, ordinary or exceptional?
She was an extraordinary woman, exceptionally rich, well educated and clever. She was often ill as a child. Her father (Lord Byron) was hardly conventional, these factors combined to give her the opportunity to explore and develop her mathematical abilities, a thing that very few women of her time (however rich) were allowed to do
The way to communicate via clouds.
In essence I’m proposing the equivalent of tabbed-browsing for your ears.
The benefits of a managed spectrum
We also found that there was widespread use of 900Mhz Wifi equipment … This was a surprise, especially since 900Mhz is designated by the ITU as spectrum for licensed mobile …
The first GSM call on Niue
We finally got (most of) our equipment and fired up OpenBTS
The island phone system adventure…
The pacific island of Niue currently has no GSM operator, we are working to install a pilot system to provide mobile phone coverage using OpenBTS and asterisk – both of which are open source.
