Wednesday, February 09, 2005

MasterCard offers SMS to detect credit card fraud. If you've ever had a credit card purchase mysteriously rejected only to discover later that the bank thought you were a fraudulent user, you may appreciate an effort by MasterCard International to use SMS (short message service) to streamline the process of clearing up card-usage questions. [InfoWorld: Top News] 8:31:39 AM

Report: City-run Wi-Fi plans could have 'grave flaws'. City-run wireless broadband networks, which appear to be gaining popularity in a number of major metropolitan areas, haven't been fully studied and are being touoted with dubious claims about their benefits, according to the New Millennium Research Council. [Computerworld News] 8:30:09 AM

VoIP News Round-Up. Blue Wireless & Data buys Globalcom, Yak to trade on the Nasdaq, Cbeyond launches small business VoIP in Colorado Springs, Skype now available for Macs, McLeod picks BroadSoft for VoIP powering, Viseon files more patents on VoIP video phone. [Article ID: 1222-5150] By Pike and Fischer. [VoIP Monitor] 2:43:56 AM

VoIP Projects: Do you have this?. In order for a VoIP Hardware or Software firm to assist you in launching a VoIP business model, you need to be prepared with the right information. Some quick questions that are necessary are: 1. What is the cost of... [PBX] 2:37:10 AM

To start a business like Vonage you need DIDs?. DIDs are a necessity in Canada and the US, globally for that matter, to launch a VoIP business. The DID is the local number that is routed to your VoIP handset or phone via a pbx or gateway. For example... [PBX] 2:36:42 AM

Packetbox IP-PBX. I received an email telling me about another IP-PBX from a company based out of Belgium. Packetbox is a turn-key software and hardware solution based on a customized Linux operating system.. It's called Packetbox, a preinstalled appliance that contains anti-spam, anti-virus... [VoIP Blog - VoIP News, Gadgets] 2:25:39 AM

VoIP Spam?. Interesting Cnet article which talks about an alliance being formed by VoIP service providers called "VoIP Security Alliance" which aims to prevent VoIP spam, SPIT (spam over Internet telephony) or whatever you want to call it.What's interesting is this quote,... [VoIP Blog - VoIP News, Gadgets] 2:24:37 AM

Video Search Types. Internet News writes: "There are three models for indexing and discovering relevant video content: metadata, which Yahoo uses; text generated during the closed captioning process, which Yahoo and Google use; and transcription-on-the-fly, carried out by Blinkx with technology from enterprise search player Autonomy." [E M E R G I C . o r g] 2:22:38 AM

Verisign's Plans. Forbes writes: [Verisign CEO] Sclavos is betting much of VeriSign's future on the growth in wireless. As wireless service providers rush to add services to their networks, and as people increasingly use cell phones and other wireless devices to communicate and transact business, VeriSign intends to provide the software that will make it all secure. VeriSign's aim has always been to provide the infrastructure services needed so that companies can communicate and handle electronic commerce over the Internet as well as voice networks. But in the 1990s, its focus was to enable secure interactions between Web sites and consumers, secure e-mail and secure extranets. Now, Sclavos' strategy is to bridge these voice and data services that enable business transactions--a move that will likely benefit the company's Telecom Infrastructure Group, which handles wireless and wireline signaling, database services as well as clearing and billing. [E M E R G I C . o r g] 2:21:53 AM

Critics turn up the heat on U.K.'s ID card plan. Plans by British Prime Minster Tony Blair's government to create a system of ID cards with biometric identifiers linked to a national database are running into sharp opposition. [Computerworld News] 2:20:58 AM

VoIP security group goes on the defensive. Circle the wagons [The Register] Finally the industry is catching up to what AgileCO has known and being doing for sometime now. AgileCO Liberty SAML Identity Management and Single Sign On capabilities is what VoIP needs. However AgileCO eTRUS functionality goes beyond that, since it can be use to guard the national border or serve the needs of HIPAA Security 2005  Act. 2:18:18 AM          Google It!

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IP Videoconferencing. Xten is now working with BC.net to deliver IP Videoconferencing via eyeBeam without the aid of a conference server. "Desktop videoconferencing can change the way we work. By enabling face-to-face communication over the Internet, we can cut travel time and increase contact with academics and researchers across the province and around the world,”said Hrybyk. We are confident, that this type of technology will help our members to become more productive and effective.” BCNET (www.bc.net) is a non-profit society supporting and promoting advanced networks for the province’s research and education communities. The organization serves BC’s academic, research and development institutions, government bodies, community organizations and industry groups. BCNET is the province’s foremost leader in advanced network technology. BCNET is supported by the provincial and federal governments as well as by its regional member institutions. [SIPthat.com] 2:11:47 AM

VoIP & WiFi. Hmm, you have to wonder if these stand alone VoWLAN phones will grow the legs required before 3G hits. If we are getting 200-400 Kbps on a mobile phone, PDA and alike who will want to cart around yet another device to get the same service? I have toted my fair share of devices around and I can safely say, unless it's small enough and does it all, I ain’t interested. Give me a Dual mode Pocket PC / GSM device with a SIP softphone anyday. [SIPthat.com] 2:10:49 AM

P2P Bellster by Pulver, IAX Clearing House?. It looks like Jeff has sprung another one on the Phone industry. By linking Asterisk servers he has created what looks to me to be a IAX clearing house. Not sure where the P2P is here apart from the servers being linked by Bellster. "The Bellster challenge for 2005 is to find out whether or not there are still people in the world who would let total strangers place noncommercial phone calls for free in exchange for the ability to do the same thing themselves," Pulver said in an e-mail. This sounds a little reminiscent of the MicroTelco concept introduced by many including Quicknet and others several years ago. At any rate it's always good to see disruptive technology put to good use :) more... [SIPthat.com] 2:10:24 AM