Yesterday BlackBerry held a series of events announcing their new “Passport” smartphone as well as an application called “BlackBerry Blend” that lets you use your computer or tablet (including iOS and Android tablets) in conjunction with the Passport phone. There was a good bit of media coverage, almost all focusing on the Passport phone itself. One Read more…
Sep 23
Talko Looks Very Cool, But Needed A Firewall Change To Work
The big telecom story today certainly seems to the be launch of Ray Ozzie’s new "Talko" application for iOS. Tons of attention in the tech media, and many of my friends on social media have been trying it out. There’s…
Sep 22
FIR #774 – 9/22/14 – For Immediate Release
Quick News: US consumers don’t want to be brands’ friends, how media used social media during Scottish independence referendum, Radisson’s boost from severing Vikings sponsorship, business inconsistency in speaking up; Ragan promo; News That Fits; the …
Sep 19
Three Years At The Internet Society
Today marks three truly amazing years at the Internet Society. It was September 19, 2011, when I visited the main office in Reston, Virginia, and began this wonderful journey. I wrote back then about why I was taking this job…
Sep 19
Watch Live TODAY (Sept 19) – CITI State of Telecom 2014
What is the future of telecommunications and the Internet? As more entertainment moves to being over the Internet, what are the implications for the media and for the technology? Today, September 19, 2014, there is an interesting set of presentations…
Sep 19
Video: Geoff Huston – what if everyone did DNSSEC? (APNIC 38)
What if everyone enabled DNSSEC? What would happen to your network? Should you be scared? The good folks at APNIC are out with a video from Geoff Huston answering these questions: If you want to get started with DNSSEC so that your domain name can be secure from being impersonated, please visit our Start Here page to find Read more…
Sep 18
BGPmon: Using BGP Data To Fight Spam
Can we use BGP data to find email spammers? And could securing BGP provide a mechanism to help reduce spam? In a fascinating article on BGPmon’s site, Andree Toonk explores how they found that “IP squatting” is used by spammers. Essentially the attack seems to work like this: The spammers identify a block of IP Read more…
Sep 15
FIR #773 – 9/15/14 – For Immediate Release
FIR’s Andrea Vascellari joins Edelman; Quick News: Measurement Week in the UK, PR agency bribes journalist, CIPR’s nine recommendations for flexible working in PR, what it’s like for a reporter to read and reply to every PR email for a week; Ragan prom…
Sep 12
Email Hijacking – New Research Shows Why We Need DNSSEC Now!
Want a great example of why we need DNSSEC now? Consider this new research from the CERT/CC team at Carnegie Mellon University that finds that someone is hijacking email messages to relay them through another email server. The messages are being delivered, but it’s unknown whether they are being modified before delivery or simply logged and monitored. Read more…
Sep 12
How Do We Define ‘SIP’ for Telecom In 2014? (Featured Blog)
“What is a minimum set of specifications that a vendor must implement to be able to say that it is SIP-compliant?” A friend asked me that question and my response was: “It depends.” and even more unfortunately:
“I don’t know.” It turns out to be a chal…
