Michael Gallagher is the Assistant Secretary, US Dept of Commerce. Apparently, his title does not do him justice : He actually advises the President on ICT development in US. Anyway, he sound like campaigning for the President ;-) but it has been very informative filled with data, President’s policies and how it is affecting the […]
Singapore overtakes US to lead Global IT Report
Wohoo! (WEF Weblog) Singapore is the world’s top economy in exploiting global IT developments, according to the world Economic Forum’s Global Information Technology Report 2004-2005. The US ceded its top spot and dropped to fifth place, while the Nordic countries continued their impressive track record. Asia performed extremely well this year, as did Estonia, South […]
VON Exhibits (Part 1)
Walked a little bit around VON Exhibition in the late afternoon but only managed to half of it before they closed. Anyway, lots of gadgets on displays but a lot of it are just “me too”. But here are also some pretty cool toys. 1) Motorola They are finally here – GSM + WiFi phone! […]
10 years backward, 10 years forward
One of the things that striked me at the evening panel (as titled above) was that several panelists mentioned that 10 years ago, numerous (AT&T lab) engineers told them VoIP was not possible at all. Reasons cited inclued needing a lot of CPU power, lack of bandwidth, poor sound quality etc etc. But wala, here […]
Michael Powell Farewell
Many stood up and welcome Michael Powell, Chairman of FCC, as he entered the room. He gave an excellent stateman-like speech, a farewell nevertheless. I feel quite sad1 that he is leaving office in the time when the VoIP industry needs a pro-active FCC chairman in these times. His final remark is that of the […]
Indexing Voice and Video
Hossein Eslambolchi CTO/CIO of AT&T shared their “Miracle”, literally speaking. Based on an AT&T lab research work to index video and voice, it offers a variety of interesting application, such as indexing movie clips and allow searching of a word/phrase said in a TV programe. Or indexing a voice conference and search segment of the […]
AOL Phone Service
Jon Miller, Chairman and CEO of AOL, just revealed AOL Phone Service (to be launch next month) at this morning session.
VON Town Hall
This is my first townhall session at VON. Basically an open mike no-barrier Q&A session with FCC folks (Jeffrey Carlisle, Chief, Wireline Competition Bureau and Robertt Pepper, Chief of Policy Development). What is amazing is how open they are in answering the questions, about FCC views, position or thoughts on a whole slew of issues. […]
Outlook of Telecom Industry
There are a lot of discussion about termination charges at VON. Particularly, the recent Madison River blocking Vonage incident bring out more horror stories about Rural LECs (e.g. high termination charges). Well, what do you expect? RLEC used to be a mini-monoploy and the gateway to their communtiy. In the past, there are no way […]
VON Pre-conference
I spent my morning at Wifi VoIP Summit as I was given a slot to give a presentation about the APEET Trial. When I told the audience that QoS is the last thing in our mind in our trial, one of the audience jumped and said something to the effect that 802.11b can only support […]