Does anyone really care about VoIP security? Why should they? What are the main issues? At the 2011 Real-Time Communications Conference sponsored by the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), Dan York spoke about all these questions and ga…
Dec 07
New Github for Mac 1.1 Release Nov 23rd…
I just noticed yesterday that a new version of Github for Mac was released on November 23rd. The blog post about the 1.1 release highlights the major changes as:
- The “Changes” view has been completely redesigned.
- The …
Dec 06
New version 0.1.3 of Tropo-webapi-python: Build Tropo voice/SMS/IM/Twitter apps using python
My former colleague Justin Dupree just posted a new version of the Tropo-webapi-python package to Pypi at:
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/tropo-webapi-python/
To install the package, …
Dec 05
What Is The Future of the PSTN? FCC Holding Workshops Dec 6th and 14th
What is the future of the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN)? As we transition away from traditional telecom technologies to a world based on IP communications, what are the policy, technical and economic implications? As I recently wrote over on…
Dec 05
Borders, In Bankruptcy, Aims To Sell 65,536 IPv4 Addresses at $12/Address (Featured Blog)
With IPv4 address exhaustion upon us, it appears that the going market rate for IPv4 addresses is now $12/address. Over at the Register, Kevin Murphy reports on a bankruptcy filing from Borders seeking to sell a /16 block of to healthcare software vend…
Dec 02
Unix Turns 40 – And IEEE Provides a Historical Look Back
As the Unix operating system turns 40 this year, writer Warren Toomey published an excellent historical piece in this month’s IEEE spectrum:
Dec 02
Today’s VUC Call – Philippine Phone Phreaking Funding Terrorists
For those interested in telecommunications security, today’s (Dec 2, 2011) VoIP Users Conference (VUC) call at 12 noon US Eastern will cover the recent arrests of 4 Philippine men who defrauded AT&T of close to $2 million and were employed…
Dec 02
Philippine Phone Phreakers Arrested After Funding Terrorists
One of the big news items in telecom security this past week was the arrest in Manila of 4 men accused of defrauding AT&T of almost $2 million USD and then using those funds to finance a terrorist organization. The Philippine National Police issued a statement (annoyingly you have to scroll down to the “November […]
Dec 01
Goodbye Black Bar, Hello Grey Bar – Google+ Gets a Visual Update
Logging into Google+ today I was immediately drawn to the new visual look: Quite a departure from the "black bar" that we’ve come to expect from Google+. Here’s what it looked like yesterday – and interestingly still looks like on…
Dec 01
Google+ Turns Hangouts Into a Free Conference Calling Service With Free Voice Calls in US and Canada
Fascinating move by Google today… Google+ now allows you to add voice-only phone calls into a "Hangout", allowing you to create conference calls of both video and voice participants. Announced by Googler Jarkko Oikarinen, it is available inside of "Hangout…
