Remember my personal iTunes server I setup last year? I upgraded it a couple days ago to daapd-0.2.4 which support playlist. And I also added iTune streaming over the Internet so now I can listen to my music library whereever I am, thanks to Rendezous Proxy ;-)
Juniper bought Kagoor
The latest news is Juniper snaped Kagoor up for 64.5M. See articles on Red Herring and Forbes. Actually 64.5M might be considered cheap considering the potential of Kagoor of its session border controller. But what could this means? Is it because Juniper starting to see Kagoor making headways with the Tier-1 carriers (ie, their customers) […]
ITU on Internet Governance
There is an article on CNet with a misleading title The U.N. thinks about tomorrow’s cyberspace The International Telecommunication Union is one of the most venerable of bureaucracies. Created in 1865 to facilitate telegraph transmissions, its mandate has expanded to include radio and telephone communications. But the ITU enjoys virtually no influence over the Internet. […]
MPlayer Shutdown
I was looking around for mplayer doc today to use an obscure function but imaging my surprise when I get to mplayer homepage: This site has been shut down because of numerous patent violations in MPlayer. The other free software multimedia players are next. Multimedia is a patent minefield. All important techniques and formats are […]
Singnet IPv6 Trial
I just discovered Singnet is offering IPv6 Trial to its ATM or Lease Line customers. And they also have a very cute IPv6 test modeled after the famous dancing turtle @ kame.net.
Naked DSL dilemma
I have been thinking about Naked DSL ever since the story about FCC is about to grant Bellsouth naked DSL petition broke a few days ago. And of course, the subsequent suspension of various states decision by FCC. Most propongates of IP Telephony considered Naked DSL as absolutely neccessary to get VoIP adoption. Afterall, why […]
Yahoo! Creative Common Search Engine
Wohoo! Yahoo released a Creative Common Search Engine! Actually, this isn’t the first. Creative Commons actually also developed their own search engine. They mention it is based on Semantic Web (yah!) at ETech last week. But Yahoo! probably has the ability to reach more people and bring awareness to Creative Commons. Now, all eyes is […]
Mobile Gadget Form Factors
Russell has a very good article about all the different mobile gadget form factors. I like the diagram he has particularly as it is a fairly good summary of all the form factors we seen so far. We already see devices that ‘transform’ itself to multiple form factors. For example, the Motolora MPx or Nokia […]
End of e-Mail as we know it
via CNet These results alone should be enough to convince us that we’re approaching the end of e-mail as we know it. The schemes are critical pieces of the technology that should be adopted by any site or company that depends on the reliable delivery of their outbound e-mail or the protection of their brand […]
VoIP Job Posting
I been using feedster to montior keyword voip and I notice a there are more and more job postings on voip like this. I am very happy to see jobs created by voip (hey “voip engineer” could be the new job position in your company) and I am equally impressed that people are using blog […]