Schoenberg interview this week, enhancements to FIR Google+ Community page, BBC trials trainee communicators’ programme, journalists taking refuge in branded content, new Forrester predictions, site plagiarizes and files DMCA takedown notice, Ragan pro…
Feb 06
WebRTC Passes Huge Milestone In Rewiring The Web – Video Calls Between Chrome and Firefox
This week the WebRTC/RTCWEB initiative passed a HUGE milestone in adding a real-time communications layer to the Web with achieving interoperability between Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. Google and Mozilla celebrated with a pair of blog posts: Hello Firefox, this…
Feb 04
Oracle Buys Acme Packet For $2 Billion To Gain SIP Session Border Controllers (SBCs) And More
Fascinating news today out of Oracle that they have purchased Acme Packet in a transaction estimated to be around $2 billion US. For those of you not really tracking the VoIP security space, Acme Packet is probably the world’s largest…
Feb 04
FIR #689 – 2/4/13 – For Immediate Release
FIR app issue resolved; Schoenberg interview on hold; Quick News:companies failing to accommodate shift to mobile, IBM security tool can flag disgruntled employees, YouTube introducing paid subscriptions, Swedish bloggers commot to 50,000 posts in 100 …
Jan 28
Next SIPit Test Event Feb 18-22 – Deadline of Feb 4 For Registration
Are you a vendor of SIP-based products and services? Do you have software or hardware (or cloud-based products) that use SIP? If so, are you planning to attend the next SIPit test event planned for February 18-22, 2013, in Raleigh,…
Jan 28
FIR #688 – 1/28/13 – For Immediate Release
Welcome new listeners, Francis Ingham interview is up, Allan Schoenberg interview is coming; today is data Protection day; Quick News: introducing Vine, social branding is key to reputation, Pope urges evangelism via Twitter, Pew says libraries still h…
Jan 25
New Internet-Draft: Balanced IPv6 Security for Residential CPE
What should the appropriate IPv6 security policy be for residential customers? How can they get the benefits of IPv6 while still ensuring that their home networks are secure? These are the questions pursued in a new Internet-Draft available today: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-v6ops-vyncke-balanced-ipv6-security The abstract and introduction explain quite well how this applies to “customer premise equipment (CPE)”: Read more…
Jan 25
Last Day To Submit Speaking Proposals for SIPNOC2013
Got a great idea for a talk to give to an excellent gathering of SIP/VoIP network operators? Have a new way of handling security? Have a case study you’d like to present for how you solved an operational issue? The…
Jan 24
TED Video: Shawn Achor on the happy secret to better work
I enjoyed this presentation very much… and it’s interesting to think about the processes he describes toward the end that relate to "rewiring our brains" to focus on the positive and to move us toward more happiness:
Jan 24
One Image To Show The Incredible Importance Of Sharing Web Pages Versus PDFs
So you have that report, infographic or other document as a PDF, right? And now you want to get that massively shared out in social media, right? So that everyone can see your document and learn from it? Do you……
