Archive for March, 2011

Rebtel US immigrant study: Women almost twice as likely to Skype

Monday, March 21st, 2011

Study. 24% of immigrants to the US ? smartphone owners ? make video calls. Of those, 47% Skype for video; 74% of the women claimed to Skype; 42% of the men. 21% said they would pay for a monthly subscription for video calls.
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Niklas Zennstrom spoke to Stanford students

Monday, March 21st, 2011

WSJ blogs his talk about choosing what to build (be novel), where to start (Europe).
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Privacy International asks Skype to fix three security problems

Monday, March 21st, 2011

Privacy International (PI) blogged three concerns about Skype security last week. Let?s see how they rate on our fear-meter. 1. Risk: Impersonation. Skype lets you present yourself using any name. You could present yourself as someone else or have your identity confused with another user.  My take: I?m going to rate this [...]
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Will Skype comply with India government surveillance request?

Monday, March 21st, 2011

31 March is the deadline for RIM to give realtime surveillance of Blackberry users to Indian intelligence and law enforcement officials. Nokia started testing its compliance. Will Skype build a back door for India?s cops, spies, and soldiers?
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You Tether, You Pay! AT&T To Tethering Smartphone Users. MyWi Is Not YourWi!

Monday, March 21st, 2011

You Tether, You Pay http://snapvoip.blogspot.com/
Looks like AT&T wants smartphone users to pay up for tethering. Tethering came to AT&T network with iOS 4.3 and has a specials data plan for such users. But many users have used third party apps like MyWi.
If you thought you are exempt because you are on the grandfathered unlimited plan, [...]

T-Mobile Ads, Now We Are Crappy Too, Just Like AT&T!

Monday, March 21st, 2011

http://snapvoip.blogspot.com/
Remember those T-Mobile Ads, depicting AT&T and Other networks are being crappy? Well I guess now they will have to say, following the trend we have decided to become crappy too! Too bad T-Mobile was one carrier I was considering to replace my AT&T Unlimited plan, which has apparently will become limited if you are [...]

$39 Billion AT&T, T-Mobile Deal, iPhone Gets Fastest Network And T-Mobile Users Get iPhones!

Sunday, March 20th, 2011

$39 Billion AT&T, T-Mobile Deal http://snapvoip.blogspot.com/
With the following press release, AT&T is on the way to acquire T-Mobile USA and many including deal makers stand to gain.
AT&T and T_mobile share the same type of networks like GSM. UMTS/HSPA and the integration on two companies will technologically seem to be sound.
?This transaction represents a major [...]

Skype Withdraws Application For VOIP Calls Over Verizon Network

Sunday, March 20th, 2011

© Jon OvingtonThe Motorola Xoom tablet for Verizon network is the latest contestant in the tablet wars. For users who travel frequently the ability to place VOIP calls on these devices is one of the primary reasons for purchase. So it is surprising that Skype is suddenly no longer available on this device. An error [...]

iPad2 One Weeks Later? How Do You Like It??

Saturday, March 19th, 2011

iPad2 One Weeks Later http://snapvoip.blogspot.com/
I do not have an iPad2 so one of the votes above are mine (Don’t have a iPad 2) But one of my colleagues does and he is happy about it overall. Except he is pissed off about not having location services or GPS on his WiFi only version.So his verdict [...]

SIP Network Operators Conference ( SIPNOC ) Preliminary List Of Registered Attendees And Participants Announced.

Friday, March 18th, 2011

SIPNOC 2011http://snapvoip.blogspot.com/
SIPNOC seem to be going places with ever expanding attention from CEOs, CTOs, network architects and engineers from carriers on five continents as well as government, research organizations and industry bigwigs. The first of its kind conference will be a good source of information for everyone involved in SIP Network operations or any communications…
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