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« Previous EntriesWill what makes Skype great be its downfall?
Tuesday, September 26th, 2006Last week or over the weekend I remember seeing something about San Jose State banning Skype on campus. Paul's post today jogged my memory and got me thinking as well.
I when I read the university's reasoning behind why they don't want Skype on campus:
Skype's End-User License Agreement (EULA) requires the user to grant use of [...]
Monday morning Vonage update
Monday, August 21st, 2006The e-mail promised on Friday hadn't arrived yet so I just gave Vonage a call. I am a little further ahead than I was on Friday (podcast, too). It turns out that about $100 of the charge is for the Vonage adapter. Fine I'm happy to send it back. Was I told this? Nope. Should [...]
Later Vonage … back to Telus
Friday, August 18th, 2006Update: Okay this is complete bull sh*t … Vonage is charging almost $150 to disconnect from their service. Can you freakin' believe that garbage? Is this how Vonage is padding their revenues charging people to remove the service?!? I'm sorry, but this is not just bad service and stupid but bordering on a mugging. "Gee, [...]
Skypes sneaks us v2.6
Thursday, August 10th, 2006Skimming through my feeds last night I caught this from Skype Journal … Stealth release of Skype 2.6. Well I just had to get it! Okay it might be a wee unstable, but I haven't had any problems yet (knock on fibre board). New features? There are supposed to be some audio improvements and bug [...]
Sony mylo … this is cool and I want one!
Wednesday, August 9th, 2006I caught on Mobilecrunch this morning the item about the new Sony mylo. This looks like one cool, cool device. Wifi, MP3 player, video, pictures and … Skype, GTalk, Yahoo IM, and Opera! Billed as an entertainment device, I could certainly use this for work. Yeah Sony says all play no work, but really this [...]
GoogleTalk upgrades … I'm still waiting
Friday, July 28th, 2006Supposedly GoggleTalk has been upgraded (Om, Tom Keating, Techcrunch), but according to the GoogleTalk blog, the new features (voicemail, file transfer, showing the song you are listening to) will be slowly rolled out to US English users over time. Sigh. I even tried to re-download and install the app from Google. No joy. I guess [...]
On IM detante
Tuesday, July 18th, 2006Maybe because I was swamped with other things last week I didn't get a chance to blog much and I didn't really cover any of the news of the week.
Well I got a heads up earlier in the week from a PR person about the Yahoo-MSN interoperability beta. Because I couldn't remember my Yahoo password [...]
Skype hacked?
Friday, July 14th, 2006It's all over the Blogosphere this morning that Skype's protocals have been hacked. The buzz is that soon (like at the end of the month) there will be a non-Skype client that will let you connect to Skype users, but won't have the super-node problem.
Similarly I got an e-mail yesterday that Yahoo and MSN have [...]
Skype the Vonage killer? Will free SkypeOut tank a Vonage IPO?
Friday, May 19th, 2006Wow did Skype drop a bombshell this week. SkypeOut calls to the US and Canada are free for the rest of the year! W00t! Major savings on my phone bill! This means that I can call anyone in the US or Canada for free! From my desk! Oh, wait, I have to be tethered to [...]
Made the local paper … on the blog revolution, Qumana, and working at home
Friday, May 12th, 2006Here is the full text of the article about me that appeared in the local paper. I've added links to relevant sites.
Attack of the Blog: Islander on home page of Internet crazeSalt Spring-based Tris Hussey rides tech-sector success wave
By SEAN MCINTYREDriftwood ReporterWhen 36-year-old software designer Tris Hussey first encountered the world of blogging back in [...]
It's all about connecting … the IM generation
Friday, May 12th, 2006I absolutely could not, would not (not even in a tree or a plane or a box) live without IM. Not only is it my connector to friends, but it's also a huge asset and connector for work. Heck Qumana couldn't be nearly as effective without IM (we Skype a lot I'm testing the 2.5 [...]
Live Messenger 8 hardware will be ready when LM8 is …
Saturday, January 21st, 2006Clearly Microsoft is seeing the success that Skype has enjoyed and the relative slowness of getting hardware out, especially inexpensive hardware, to integrate VoIP into your day-to-day life.
From the Live Messenger blog (via Liveside) here are some high-level details of an upcoming phone that you can use for both your standard land-line and Live Messenger [...]
MSN Messenger 8 Beta … now I have invites
Friday, January 13th, 2006Update: MSN 8 is now in public beta … no invites needed.
I've been trying MSN 8 (aka Live Messenger) for about a week now and it seems that you have to use it for a while before you get invites (good plan actually).
So as an update from my last post, I have 9 invites right [...]
The IMs take sides … Skype left out in the cold? Oops.
Wednesday, December 21st, 2005Hot topic today? Hmm, Google and AOL? Yeah, that's pretty juicy. Me, I'm looking at the looming IM wars. So, where do we stand? Okay the threat of Skype and Google got MSN and Yahoo pretty nervous, so they decided to become interoperable. Nice. Now Google buys 5% of AOL, and now Google Talk and [...]
Skype needs to be blocked to expand into the Enterprise
Wednesday, December 21st, 2005Here's irony for you. Skype, I think you, as a software company, have to step up to the plate and allow companies to easily block andcontrol your app for it to become accepted in the enterprise. Just readthis bit I found on the effort required to block Skype:
But at least for the corporate environment, there [...]