Monthly Archives: July 2012
There’s A Lesson In The Olympics For Our Kids
Tuesday, July 31st, 2012 at 2:37 PM EST
By: Jeb I’m a big fan of the Olympics for a number of reasons. Up until this year my biggest reason is that it brings nations together to play side by side whereas the rest of the time they’d prefer to fire missiles at each other, embargo trade or snub each other if there are [...]
Live Coverage of the Olympics?
Sunday, July 29th, 2012 at 5:39 PM EST
By: Ari A lot has been and still is been written about NBCs practice of tape delaying all the major events from the London Olympics, as they have also done in past Olympics. All one needs to do is follow #NBC on Twitter to read the comments coming from superstars like Dirk Nowitzki to venture [...]
VoIP & Broadband: Another Olympic Spectacle
Thursday, July 26th, 2012 at 7:02 AM EST
Most people interested in the London Olympics are tuning in to their favorite sports. A few are focusing on various political issues surrounding the games. Then there are the self-admitted Nerds like me. I’m puzzling over the seemingly contradictory signals coming out of London about the use of wireless broadband connectivity, and thus broadband applications [...]
Phone.com at HackNY Demo Fest at NYU this Friday
Monday, July 23rd, 2012 at 9:52 AM EST
Phone.com is proud to be sponsoring this years hackNY Demo Fest taking place Friday July 27th on NYU’s campus. DemoFest provides a venue for fellows to present their projects in a “startup pitch” environment. HackNY fellows represent the best and brightest students from around the country and Phone.com is thrilled to support this educational program. [...]
UK SMEs Cite VoIP Savings
Tuesday, July 17th, 2012 at 2:58 PM EST
This just in from across the pond (that’s the Atlantic Ocean, in case anyone didn’t know): VoIP saves businesses money. That’s hardly news to most VoIP users, but quantifying just how much businesses are saving can be challenging. U.K. VoIP provider Telappliant, whose target market of small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs) is highly [...]
FCC Moves To Protect VoIP From Hurricane Outages
Wednesday, July 11th, 2012 at 10:23 AM EST
With the hurricane season now upon us – as I write this there have already been four named storms – the FCC has gone live with the expansion, to include VoIP and broadband services, of an information reporting system designed to help track and restore outages to communications services. While the most likely situation is [...]