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…
Idea For a New Online Service
This morning I awoke thinking about new little uses for my Asterisk system in a SIP URI world. It occurred to me when I lived in Toronto that there was a radio station that had a sponsored "joke of the…