Making a better day from the Dark Knight's lesson in IP
Blog Staunch defenders of absolute IP rights dismiss such cases as irrelevant to the greater argument, rare black holes of success where the basic physics of digital commerce break down. Meanwhile, entire sectors have been laid to dust by IP abuse: the...
[July 22, 2008, 8:00]
Defusing the IP telephony timebomb
Blog If your business hasn't yet taken the plunge to IP Telephony, then time is running out. Manufacturers are rapidly replacing their phone systems with IP-based ones, which means that spares for older systems will become harder to get and upgrades and...
[October 14, 2009, 12:03]
169.IP address issues
Blog As a cold sweat warmed up and my case of cyber dependency took hold I played and played with the settings getting an IP address assigned to me with no problem, but it would not allow me to connect the dots and complete the picture.
[January 2, 2008, 17:59]
Unified comms fails to unify IP vendors
Blog I've just attended one of the big debates of the IP'07 show: and one of the very biggest themes of the event is unified communications. Unified comms involves bringing together voice, data, video and presence functionality, so a) everything happens...
[October 16, 2007, 14:04]
The IP IP shake.
Blog Today we are down at the glorious Earls Court 2 (the answer to the question - what's worse than Earls Court 1 on a wet Tuesday morning) - to get in amongst the throng that is IP 07/IP Expo. What is the show about - good question - as far as we can...
[October 16, 2007, 12:29]
RIAA, Lead Dog for the IP Entertainment Industry
Blog Here's a URL related to the RIAA recent push into ISP-land.http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/12/riaa-v-people-turns-lawsuits-3-strikes Essentially the RIAA wants the ISPs to send an email (presumably) to their customers accusing them of file...
[January 5, 2009, 12:07]
PM's website fingered for IP infringement
Blog Ha! And so the great defenders of intellectual property fall. First it was Microsoft, with its splendidly misconceived Iconic Britain competition, and now it's 10 Downing Street itself. According to The Open Sourcerer, the Number 10 website uses an...
[August 18, 2008, 17:24]
Wholesale Carrier Services: A Great Fillip To VoIP
Blog The wholesale carrier services of VoIP is the means of providing IP telephony services to the users on a wholesale basis. This opens the opportunity for local service providers to offer Voice over IP services to people as they can now avail the...
[May 6, 2008, 10:03]
IPv6 and IPv4 - big trouble coming, and soon
Blog You'll know that most of the Internet runs on IP version 4, the first cut of the Internet Protocol to see widespread use. This has enough addresses for the entire universe; the idea was that as it got adopted, first in the backbones and then out to...
[February 20, 2008, 21:30]
Practical Implications of VoIP Reseller Program
Blog The VoIP reseller program is a single means of delivering low cost Voice over IP services by making use of the advantages of a fast Internet connection at home or at the workplace. The virtual reseller program is the means of accessing the services...
[May 2, 2008, 10:03]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog There's an increasing buzz about voice over IP: not only are previously diehard opponents like BT getting in on the act, as we reported last week, but the quality of the alternatives is getting better.
[December 19, 2003, 16:15]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Which company said that voice over IP would never be a commercial reality because the quality was too bad, it was too unreliable, the ordinary phone system would always be superior and people could never be bothered to cope with the technicalities?
[December 12, 2003, 16:20]
Canadian record industry faces $6bn copyright fine
Blog The Canadian record industry has been particularly active at pushing its agenda for more - and more implacable - laws against IP infringement. For they are now looking at a $6 billion lawsuit against them - for IP infringement.
[December 7, 2009, 14:13]
White label reseller programs: Re-brand the services and products
Blog The technology of Voice over IP has dramatically transformed the way the business entities conduct their operations across the globe. As a matter of fact, with efficient IP network and strong infrastructure, the business entities have been...
[May 12, 2008, 13:02]
Privacy Abuse by Technology
Blog The RIAA using Internet Service Providers to hunt down IP "pirates" are going to do it without search warrants. Doing a DNS lookup of the remote connected IP address reveals whether the address is a registered website.
[December 30, 2008, 8:34]
Video blog: VoIP security is a red herring
Blog Down at the IP 07 show in London's Earls Court - we have been chatting to various industry luminaries about whether the whole convergence strategy pushed by the communications vendors is all it's cracked up to be in terms of cost savings and...
[October 16, 2007, 13:52]
Your phone's watching you
Blog It does find every feasible application under the sun to run on an IP phone. I suppose any application could run on an IP-enabled endpoint, given enough processing power and a big enough display. I have to give it to Cisco.
[January 16, 2007, 16:24]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog The rather funky voice-over-IP service has found much favour with the editorial staff, mostly because it just loads, works and provides a much higher quality of voice call than you can get from the telephone.
[July 16, 2004, 17:50]
Software Jihad part 2
Blog I guess the point of my previous post (read rant if you want) was that Microsoft makes a lot of noise of "protecting" their IP but in reality they are only paying lip-service to it and the situation in China makes it extremely obvious.
[November 3, 2008, 17:29]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog The Internet Protocol (IP) and the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), together known as TCP/IP, were formally standardised in September 1981 by the publication of RFC 791 and RFC 793. If nations are languages with armies, then networks were...
[October 20, 2006, 19:20]



