The weekly VOIP Users Conference calls have often mentioned the Chinese made IAX phones, including both their strengths and weaknesses. Jared Smith posted a brief but positive comment on the Asterisk Users mailing list today with respect to a new…
Ike Elliott has an often interesting blog. Today he is agreeing with Garrett Smith about how VoWifi has been dissappointing. I've echo'd this same sentiment many times previously. Ike recommends an ATA and traditional cordless phone. That combination will certainly…
Kudos to VOIP Supply's Garrett Smith for plainly explaining the truth about wifi SIP devices, and specifically why Vonage stopped offering them. You can't put it any more plainly than, "They suck." The really curious part is that VOIP Supply…
After reading Dan York's Disruptive Telephony Blog about Skype not seeing any demand for Skype interaction with SIP networks I made a point of logging just such a request via the support section of their web site. Here's what I…
It’s Sunday afternoon here in jolly (but exhausted) old England. I just caught a post by George Ou at ZDNET called “Don’t believe the low bit-rate ‘HD’ lie.” It’s right on the money about the reality of downloading HD content as proposed by Apples new iTunes service.
There’s more to HD than spatial resolution. Just as a cheap digital camera might take pictures with a lot of pixels and nonetheless turn out lousy images. Bit rate matters, even given consideration for various compression schemes.
I'm en route to Cambridge this evening for a week of work at Pixel Power's UK home office. I'm likely to be posting less frequently for the next few days. The hotel I've booked has wifi. It should be interesting…