Other shopping

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The other bit of shopping I did today, other than my new PC, was to visit the LCBO Vintages store. Vintages brought Rosemount’s remarkable GSM (year 2000) in today. This is a fabulous bottle of wine, albeit a little pricy at C$34.95. I still have nine left from the 1999 vintage which are just starting to drink really well. Stay tuned, I may open a bottle over the next few days.

I also grabbed a bottle of Hogue’s Genesis Merlot (1999), which I am sipping at right now in celebration of my triumphant VoIP experiences today. The 1999 is still a little young and quite tannic. Lovely fruity nose, and plenty of raspberry / currant flavours in the wine, but the tannins need time to settle out. Nice long finish. It would be worth grabbing a half dozen of these and cellaring them for a bit.

Published on September 20th, 2003 under Other

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How The Other Half Travels

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I admit, I travel alot and usually better than most. I learned years ago from my friends in TV that if you have to be "on" after landing that going more than 4 hours is draining, and…

Published on November 27th, 2008 under Other, Travel

Another Week, Another Conference

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This week is a busy week, and there’s no relief in sight. That’s a good thing as this Wednesday and Thursday in San Francisco is the Open Mobile Summit.

It’s really shaping…

Published on November 17th, 2008 under conference, Other

Truphone and Other Cost Cutting Tactics for the International Traveler

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Tim Leffel of Tripso has a story on the MSNBC site about cost cutting telephone tactics. One of the services Leffel gives high praise to is Truphone, an agency client.
The key points Leffel makes…

Published on September 19th, 2008 under NAT, Other, Phone, Travel, truphone

Big Companies Banking on Telepresence While Other Options Abound

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As someone who is clearly vested in the game of video conferencing with SightSpeed as a client, its great to see how much pioneering work giant Cisco is doing with Telepresence. While other companies…

Published on September 8th, 2008 under ban, IE, Other, pr, presence

EQO Goes Boldly Where No Other Mobile VoIP Client Has Gone Before

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Ok, so I took the line and some journalistic license in the headline, but the news out of Vancouver from EQO is simply this.

EQO has announced an IM and Mobile VOIP client for the Blackberry…

Published on August 28th, 2008 under EQO, IE, IP, mobile, Mobile VoIP, Other, VoIP, VoIP Client

Voxeo Shows Growth, Another Sign that VoIP Is On the Way Up

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A few weeks after BT grabbed Silicon Valley startup, Ribbit, Voxeo, located out of the usual tech belt in Florida, has shown us once again that the business of VoIP is on the way up, not down…

Published on August 21st, 2008 under IP, Other, VoIP, vox, voxeo

Oh Mother!

Source: www.voip-news.com

Oh yea, baby. That’s what I’m talking about.
Intel is working on four new motherboards that will feature a wake when VoIP rings feature. Nice. So you can let your computer sleep without worrying…

Published on August 14th, 2008 under Other

Nimbuzz Raises Another $15 Million

Source: www.voip-news.com

What’s the buzz on Nimbuzz?
The company has raised another $15 million for product development. This was Nimbuzz’s second round of fund raising. Naspers/MIH and Mangrove Capital Partners…

Published on July 7th, 2008 under IM, MI, Other

Did 8×8 Put Vonage, Skype and Others Behind the 8 Ball?

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The patent announcement today by Packet8’s parent 8×8 regarding distributed gateways and VoIP on the surface reads to me like companies dumping calls into the PSTN from the IP world may be in…

Published on July 2nd, 2008 under 8X8, DID, GE, kype, Other, Skype, VON, Vonage

Brazoria Using Alcatel-Lucent to Deploy VoIP, Other Services

Source: www.voip-news.com

Brazoria Telephone is using Alcatel-Lucent’s Triple Play Service Delivery Architecture to provide voice, video and data services to customers in its service area south of Houston in Texas…

Published on June 17th, 2008 under Alcatel-Lucent, CES, IP, Other, SER, UC, US, VoIP

Rumor–The Mother of All European Equity Plays

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Reports out of Europe and the UK (where I’ve been last week) have the Mother of All European Equity Plays coming down the pike the second half of the year. KKR (the investment bank that knows…

Published on June 9th, 2008 under EU, Other

Hello, Big Brother

Source: www.voip-news.com

A company in Finland is trying to take the guesswork out of calling.
ICT and Sesca Group has launched new components to Sesca’s iDial solution. With the iDial Mobile application, users can …

Published on February 13th, 2008 under Other

Another Friend Joins The Blogosphere

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Pal Paul Amery, who was unceremoniously made redundant in the month of December by the grinches at Skype along with a few others in the developer program, has joined the blogosphere.

Paul w…

Published on January 13th, 2008 under blog, IE, OSP, Other

Vonage Puts Another Lawsuit to Bed

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The settlement between AT&T and Vonage has been put to rest according to a news account.

The suit, like the Verizon and Sprint lawsuits had to do with patent infringement by the VoIP company…

Published on December 21st, 2007 under GE, Other, VON, Vonage

Another Blow for Vonage

Source: www.voip-news.com

-news.comIs it me, or does it seem that Vonage just can’t catch a break? I’d be willing to bet that they’re going to be glad to put a close to 2007 in a concerted effort to start anew. …

Published on December 18th, 2007 under GE, Other, VON, Vonage

Skype On 3 and Other Ways to Save on UK Mobile Costs For the Visitor

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One of the best deals already in the UK for next gen services comes from mobile operator 3.

I’m using their very cheap pay as you go data plan, and just picked up a second SIM before leaving…

Published on October 22nd, 2007 under kype, mobile, Other, Skype, UK

Apple To Open iPhone To Developers; Good News for TalkPlus, Truphone and Others

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I have to give credit to two of my agencies clients, Truphone and TalkPlus. Both showed a lot of guts and insight in betting the farm so to speak and going forward with advanced development of…

Published on October 18th, 2007 under Apple, developer, IP, iPhone, news, Other, Phone, talkplus, truphone, US

Something Other Than Voice 2.0–> Office 2.0

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Why is it that I’m not amazed that Yahoo isn’t planning to be at the Office 2.0 Conference in San Francisco to continue the Voice 2.0 Story that Brad Garlinghouse talked about at VON in 2006…hmm…at…

Published on August 25th, 2007 under FIC, Other, voic, voice, voice 2, voice 2.0

Truphone wins injunction against T-Mobile. Lives to fight another day.

Source: saunderslog.com

Widely reported yesterday, Truphone scored a small victory in its fight with T-Mobile over access. T-Mobile ha. chosen to block calls to Truphone numbers, arguing that Truphone was not…

Published on July 17th, 2007 under mobile, Other, Phone, T-Mobile, truphone, UNC