Microsoft accomplished something today they haven’t done for a while (at least in my memory) – they dominated the main page of Techmeme and had a great amount of the tech media talking about them. The news, of course, is…
Sep 03
TDYR #033 – Microsoft Buys Nokia: Is Anyone Really Surprised?
See: http://www.disruptivetelephony.com/2013/09/microsoft-buys-nokia-was-there-really-another-choice.html
Sep 03
Video Interview: Matt Larson on the Future of DNS and DNSSEC
What needs to be done to get DNSSEC further deployed? What is the future of DNSSEC and DNS in general? At IETF 87 in Berlin we had a chance to sit down with Matt Larson, formerly of Verisign and now Chief Architect at Dyn. Matt shared his thoughts with us: We appreciated Matt’s time and Read more…
Sep 02
FIR #719 – 9/2/13 – For Immediate Release
Craig Jolley interview this week; Neville to moderate Scoble-Israel CIPR appearance; Quick News: News from WordPress, Twitter and Facebook; social media brand banter, multiple Twitter profiles common with brands, Google preps Hangouts for the enterpris…
Aug 30
STIR Working Group Officially Formed to Work on Secure Caller ID For VoIP (Featured Blog)
Interested in working on an open standard for “secure Caller ID” for voice-over-IP (VoIP)? If so, the new “Secure Telephone Identity Revisited (STIR)” working group was just officially chartered within the IETF and the mailing list is open for all to s…
Aug 30
Third Time’s A Charm, Right? (For A Half-Marathon)
This Sunday I’ll be spending the middle of my 3-day Labor Day weekend running the Covered Bridges Half-Marathon in nearby Swanzey, NH. This will be my third run of the race and this year I have a very simple objective: Make it through mile 12 and still have energy! Both of the last two years I’ve done pretty well up until mile 12. In fact, last year I was running with a friend and we had a very constant 10-minute/mile pace all the way up through mile 10 and maybe even into mile 11. And then we got to the…
Aug 30
TDYR #032 – Kevin Spacey’s Powerful Speech On The Future Of TV, Film And Video
What is the future of TV? Of film? Of online video? Kevin Spacey recently gave a powerful speech on the future of TV, video and film at the Edinburgh International Television Festival. In this episode I speak about my thoughts on his commentary. Yo…
Aug 30
2 Asterisk Security Vulnerabilities Could Lead To Remote Crashes
The great folks on Digium’s security team published two security advisories this week that could lead to remote crashes of an Asterisk server. The first, AST-2013-004, Remote Crash From Late Arriving SIP ACK With SDP, has this description: A remotely exploitable crash vulnerability exists in the SIP channel driver if an ACK with SDP is […]
Aug 30
50% Off All O’Reilly Ebooks Through Sept 10, 2013
The good folks at O’Reilly let me know that you can now get 50% off the purchase of “Migrating Applications to IPv6” (and all other O’Reilly ebooks) through September 10, 2013, simply by using the discount code “B2S3″ when you are checking out. The sale page has more information: I would definitely encourage you to […]
