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    Use your cell phone as a WiFi VOIP phone

    Posted September 11, 2013 - 12:00 am

    Does your home or office use a VOIP based phone system? Wouldn’t it be great if you could use your cell phone as a VOIP phone instead of running back and forth to your desk whenever the phone rings? It turns out that this can be a reality quite easily, provided you can wrangle the proper details from your IT folks.

  • Mobilize!RSS

    What does Google want out of your Voice?

    Posted March 23, 2012 - 11:03 am

    Why is managing every single phone call for you so attractive to Google? There’s a cynical guess, a reasonable line you can draw through their previous voice-based initiatives, and then there’s just a question mark the size of a server farm.

  • Thank You For Not SharingRSS

    Beware of Skype voice spam

    Posted June 3, 2011 - 1:01 pm

    My Skype line rang the other day. The caller was listed simply as “Online Help.” Curious, I picked up the line.

  • Open for DiscussionRSS

    Microsoft's Skype acquisition may impact Linux users

    Posted May 9, 2011 - 11:59 pm

    Microsoft is picking up Skype for around $8 billion. If true, it means big changes for Microsoft's place in the cloud and mobile markets... and probably the end of the road for Skype for Linux.

  • CoreITRSS

    Cisco finds way to improve switch revenue: kill the Flip videocam

    Posted April 12, 2011 - 1:32 pm

    Cisco has five major product lines and 30 peripheral businesses. A drop in switching forced it to refocus on its most lucrative businesses.

  • The Digital WorkspaceRSS

    Workers reject videoconferencing for some very simple reasons

    Posted January 31, 2011 - 2:36 pm

    A recent study showed that a majority of workers don't want desktop video conferencing to become part of their daily lives despite the hype from vendors and executives. Some very basic realities about most workplaces, human behavior, and real productivity may be the reasons.

  • CoreITRSS

    Citrix, Cisco update virtual desktop "experience"

    Posted November 15, 2010 - 7:42 pm

    Cisco and Citrix have added a couple of new thin clients and updated the packaging of their all-in-one server/network/storage/virtual desktop package. It's still not simple, the name is weak, and the cost-saving estimations are misleading.

  • CoreITRSS

    Avaya end-to-end virtualization solution, isn't

    Posted November 11, 2010 - 1:39 pm

    Vendor hyperbole is always over the top, but sometimes it's hard to even figure out what it says it can do, let alone what it really can.

  • Inside GoogleRSS

    Google Voice + iPad multi-tasking = no more iPhone?

    Posted April 8, 2010 - 5:40 pm

    Steve Jobs announced today that the next version of the operating system (OS) that powers both the iPhone and the iPad would support multi-tasking. Jobs said the iPhone gets the new OS this summer, and the iPad gets it in the Fall. Jobs also said iPhone OS 4.0 would support VoIP.

  • Security: Secrets and HypeRSS

    Fuzzing Is Still Widely Unknown

    Posted January 19, 2009 - 10:18 am

    Based on a recent study by Gary McGraw and other well known security gurus, all major product security teams apparently use fuzzing. But most (even security specialists) still seem to misunderstand what fuzzing really is about. Enter the world of fuzzing!

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    Smart Tech for Small BizRSS

    VoIP Now Voice Over Internet Plumbing

    Posted January 9, 2009 - 2:51 pm

    I've never liked the acronym VoIP because it sounds so stupid out loud (vo-eep). But alas, the world yet again ignored my suggestions. Now I will try to recast the acronym to at least mean something much closer to the perception of many in the VoIP business: VoIP is now just phones over different plumbing, and no longer a Big Deal.

  • Smart Tech for Small BizRSS

    Hosted and Distributed Phone Systems

    Posted November 17, 2008 - 2:07 pm

    Every vendor paying a public relations person (and that's all of them) want to spin bad news for you into good news for them. Since we have plenty of bad news lately, at least economically, their PR machines are working overtime.

  • Security: Secrets and HypeRSS

    Good VoIP Deployment Guidelines (Do Not Exist?)

    Posted October 23, 2008 - 8:27 am

    I get questions regarding VoIP deployment all the time. Sometimes it is someone looking for simple and cheap Enterprise VoIP, who are unsure if VoIP can be deployed securely with those two parameters in the equation. More often it is the security aware people who are willing to invest almost anything to make it work, but cannot. As always, there is no silver bullet solution for either. If you look at my past opinions, I keep changing my mind between cheap that works, and secure that doesn't. What do you think? Which way should we go in VoIP?

  • Security: Secrets and HypeRSS

    VoIP Still Not Ready For Carrier-Grade Networks

    Posted October 2, 2008 - 1:22 pm

    After a quick tour of some Really Talented Groups dedicated to fuzzing research, I noticed three things: 1) Most teams are focused on fuzzing VoIP 2) Most if not all VoIP devices still break with fuzzing 3) Most VoIP vendors still do not get it. The tour continues...

  • Security: Secrets and HypeRSS

    (Is There) Motivation for VoIP Fuzzing

    Posted September 4, 2008 - 3:06 am

    What have we learned during these six or so years of proactive security work with VoIP fuzzing? Here is my top ten discoveries.

  • Security: Secrets and HypeRSS

    VoIP security auditing is becoming more and more complex ... Not!

    Posted August 15, 2008 - 7:14 am

    I am curious how people can conduct penetration tests of a complex VoIP system when they barely understand how VoIP infrastructure works. Today, security people are still stuck to auditing practices from 1990s. When asked to do a penetration test, a consultant often is only looking at past issues that can be detected using various vulnerability scanners. Very few of them know that vulnerability scanners have extremely bad coverage of vulnerabilities in VoIP solutions. And even if the tools did know VoIP, who really cares about past issues that might have been relevant several years ago.

  • Security: Secrets and HypeRSS

    Greatest Challenge in VoIP Security

    Posted July 16, 2008 - 3:08 am

    The greatest challenge in VoIP security is that there are very few good example case studies available. There are some very good VoIP deployments. But try to find a white-paper with someone disclosing all the their success stories in building a perfect VoIP network. No luck! Unfortunately much of that data is hidden in confidential documents. Still, I have really loved to see VoIP security emerge and evolve from being a hindrance in VoIP deployment, into a key marketing value. Finally some of those success stories will get a chance to see daylight.

  • Smart Tech for Small BizRSS

    New Phones Driving Network Upgrades

    Posted July 3, 2008 - 11:51 am

    Does the road to small business technology sales now go through a phone system upgrade? I've talked to several companies selling products, and resellers leveraging Voice over Internet Protocol system sales into general networking sales and management services lately. All point the same way direction: the way to a small business owner's heart, or at least checkbook, is through a phone system upgrade.
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