FIR #705 – 5/27/13 – For Immediate Release

Another keynote coming; more book reviews coming; Stephen Waddington elected CIPR 2014 president; Eric Schwartzman launches new business; Quick News: Mercedes-Benz to put QR codes on cars, World Nutella Day sparks Facebook controversy, the consequences…

Great news! .TV and .CC Now Signed With DNSSEC

Great news out of Verisign today – they have signed the .TV and .CC domains with DNSSEC! Per ICANN’s TLD DNSSEC report, this means that we’re now at 107 TLDs out of 317 with DS anchors in the root zone.  Great to see! So now… if you have a domain in the .TV or .CC Read more…

Who Has Helped the Internet? May 31 Deadline for Nominations for 2013 Jonathan Postel Service Award (Featured Blog)

Do you know of a person or organization who has made a great contribution to the Internet community? If so, have you considered nominating that person or organization for the 2013 Jonathan B. Postel Service Award? The nomination deadline of May 31 is f…

Who Has Helped The Internet? May 31 Deadline For Nominations for 2013 Jonathan Postel Service Award (Featured Blog)

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Further Thoughts on the Google Voice / Google+ Hangouts Integration

My post this week about Google Voice ringing into Google+ Hangouts generated a good bit of commentary, not only on the original post but also out on Hacker News, Reddit, Google+ and other areas. Given the range of responses, I…

TDYR #010 – Further Thoughts On Google Voice And Google+ Hangouts

After my recent post about the integration of Google Voice and Google+ Hangouts, I received a good bit of feedback. In this episode I talk about some of that feedback and further thoughts about this integration.

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Did Google REALLY Kill Off All XMPP/Jabber Support In Google+ Hangouts? It Still Seems To Partially Work

Did Google really kill off all of their support for XMPP (Jabber) in Google+ Hangouts? Or is it still there in a reduced form? Will they be bringing back more support? What is really going on here? In my excitement…

TDYR #009 – Google Aims To Disrupt Telecom By Unifying Google Voice And Google+ Hangouts

This past week Google made several changes that are part of their ongoing disruption of telecommunication. First, they announced at Google I/O that they were unifying their various real-time communications services (Google Voice, GoogleTalk, Google Me…

You Can Now Call Into Google+ From Regular Phones – Google Connects Google Voice To Hangouts

Want to hear the sound of Google further disrupting the world of telecom? If you have a Google Voice number and also use Google+ (as I do) with the Hangouts feature enabled, you’ll soon be hearing this new sound if…

Video: My Discussion of DNSSEC and DANE with VoIP / SIP on The VUC

What role could DNSSEC potentially play to help better secure voice-over-IP (VoIP)? How could the DANE protocol help provide a stronger level of security to SSL/TLS certificates used in VoIP? What VoIP software out there right now works with DNSSEC?…