I couldn’t put it better so I won’t. From Paul Hoffman: Reading the ensuing Slashdot and other coverage gave me the feeling that nearly everyone talking was from the US, UK, or Australia, the three countries that have the least native need for IDNs. It also became clear that few of the folks in the […]
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Eat your magazine
New Scientist has an article about a Chef who loaded fruit and vegetable concoction into a printer and loaded edible papers made of soybean and potato starch and then print out images he has downloaded from the web. And Cantu’s ideas go much further. He plans to cook steak by using a hand-held laser to […]
IDN and homographs spoofing
There is a published spoofing attack using homographs IDN. By using a Cyrillic SMALL LETTER A (U+430), Securnia is able to pretend to be http://www.paypal.com/. Actually this is well-documented in RFC 3490 under the Security Consideration: To help prevent confusion between characters that are visually similar, it is suggested that implementations provide visual indications where […]
DualPhone, Taiwanese version
Remember DualPhone which I got so excited about? Several people also email me to ask me what I think about it. Sorry for the not replying but that’s because all I get from DualPhone is ‘Sorry, we don’t ship to Singapore’. Anyway, Taiwanese manufacturer Sysgration gave this new cool Skype device ASG-300. The way it […]
Warning about VoIP?
US warns on risk of net-based telephony reports FT Internet-based telephony known as voice over internet protocol, or VoIP promises lower costs and greater flexibility by using existing data networks. But a report by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, which develops technology guidelines for US government agencies, warns of the “inherent vulnerabilities†of […]
New technologies, new lens
Be afraid said Businessweek (via VoIP Watch) The big mistake many people make with new technologies, from personal computers to the World Wide Web and, most likely, VOIP, is to compare them with existing ways of doing things, and then–big surprise!–they don’t measure up. Yet already, more than 22 million people, plus 70,000 more every […]
Thoughts on Bellster
The latest hot news on VoIP is Bellster, a P2P phone service by Jeff Pulver and friends. And it is really hot – just barely a week into the launch, the market is buzzing about it, from Wall Street Journal to CNet and of course, in the blogging world. Now, I won’t tell you what […]
IP Telephony in Asia
Once in a while, I would get call or email from friends who wanted to do a ‘Vonage for Asia’ and ask me what I think. By “Vonage of Asia”, the general idea revolves around an ITSP (IP Telephony Service Provider) providing flat-rate unlimited calls across Asia (or a variant of that). Well, the first […]
Dinner with Michael Everson
I have a wonderful dinner with Michael Everson. We actually met in Bali 2 weeks ago (briefly) and planned to have dinner last week but I have to cancel it last minute. I felt pretty bad about it, but luckily he is transiting in Singapore again from Xiamen on his way home (Ireland) from SC2 […]
Phone of the Future – Newsweek
Saw this on the newsstand yesterday. Great article about VoIP industry with an excellent review of Jeff Pulver, Vonage and many others! Phone of the Future indeed. I look forward more frontpage news for VoIP this year! Speaking of VoIP, sometimes I wish we would use IP Telephony for what’s happening today. There were many […]