Jazinga Review: Asking Your Opinion
In a few days our friends over at Small Net Builder will finish polishing the stone that is my Jazinga review and post it online. I've been thinking about live support for the review in some fashion. That is, I…
Jazinga Review Submitted, Coming Up For Air
I've been crushed the past week trying to get my Jazinga review down on paper. With a final review by my wife it was off to the publisher late last night. I can finally come up for air. There's such…
Nokia N97 or Blackberry Bold?
I was seriously thinking about trading up my almost 2 year old Blackberry 8100 for a Bold, but today's announcement of the N97 from Nokia has me reconsidering. This little beast is just gorgeous! I had pretty much decided that a…
VoIP Spear: New VoIP QoS Monitoring Service
Earlier this week I found a newly launched VoIP QoS monitoring service called VoIP Spear. It works by sending a ping to the end-point in question at a certain interval, then analyzing the timing of the resulting responses. The service is free for monitoring a single end-point so I setup an account and pointed it at my office IP address.
Polycom Firmware Matrix
I'll be upgrading a small herd of IP phones over the holiday break, which had me looking for new Polycom firmware. There once was a time when Polycom directed all end-users to obtain firmware from a reseller. These days the…
GIPS Comments On My Soft Phone Rant
Global IP Solutions, the people behind the codec package that helped bring Skype to prominence, has recently launched a blog. Amongst their first entries they decided to weigh in with a response to my recent rant about soft phones. I…