Advanced IP Pipeline said “Cinderella Story Is Over For VoIP“. For starters, there’s the revelation from AT&T (reported here by the Newark Star-Ledger) that its massive Olympic promotion of its promotion of its CallVantage VoIP service netted just 53,000 customers — a flop off the balance beam. Woosh, hold on – CallAdvantage actually targets business, […]
How to save the Internet
via CIO Amoroso of AT&T believes that the fundamental security problem is that during the past decade, and quite unintentionally, the network’s intelligence has migrated to the edge…He thinks AT&T can make a ton of money off this idea: Return control to the network providers (like his own company’s phone system in the 1970s, he […]
Everybody is a Somebody
Finally back in Singapore after two weeks in US. Arrived back early in the morning at 5:30am and have to get back to office at 9:30am :P And gosh, I am not looking forward clearing up the 3000+ emails in my inbox :-( Anyway, it has been a great trip. On certain days, I feel […]
VoIP QoS Bullshit
I don’t believe in Quality-of-Service (QoS). I don’t buy all the vendors FUDs about “oh..you need QoS or else the world is going to end so buy my this special QoS-enabled box! now!”. It is not that I don’t believe in quality for voice – I do – but I don’t think we need special […]
The Long Tail
I notice a trend lately : I seldom watch movies or TV. I get my dose of mass media movies from my longhaul flight (SingaporeAir has great collection on their movies-on-demand). I dont watch TV because I lost interest in Mediacorp programming and more importantly, I found something that suit my need – Internet. I […]
ETech Day 2
Few more things I picked up at ETech Day 2 a) James Larsson, power hacker, showed some amazing hacks he done. Some stuff he did is amazing (and pretty dangerous!) Like turning his old CRT into a mouse trap (8Mb AVI :-) He delivered the whole thing in such a funny manner that everyone was […]
Sun or Earth
From Peter Payne: My son just finished with his final tests, his last of the third grade. He did really well in his science final, only missing one question, which was about the shadow cast by a stick in the ground. Over the course of several hours, the position of the shadow moves — why? […]
IDN Parody on verisign.com
Guilllaume Rischard setup a parody on verisign.com using the IDN spoofing trick. He managed to get one registrar to register verisign.com with a cyrillic S (U+0405) (ie xn--veriign-mog.com :-) Also check out Neustar website, the competitor to Verisign. This actually started in #joiito a couple of weeks ago after the Eric published the spoofing attack […]
Virtual Suw
Suw Charman participates in ETech virtually, thanks to KevinMarks
ETech Day 1
Here are a few things I picked up on ETech Day 1 a) Daniel Hillis from Applied Minds demostrated some video clips with very cool user interface they developing. Looks like a huge LCD/Plasma on a table, it is able to display map, zooming in, out, pan and flip through ‘layers’ etc very intuitively. And […]