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Verizon and BT Announce Cross-Network Video Calling & Telepresnce - Verizon and BT announced a deal enabling each of their respective customers initiate high-quality video conferences and telepresence sessions. I spoke with representatives from BT and Verizon to learn more about their collaboration. Marc Hambley, Sr. Product Manager at BT explained, "We are connecting our respective telepresence exchanges together - that will allow BT clients to have meetings with Verizon clients, either hosted on BT service or ...

Why Apple's A5 Processor is Big (Siri) + Why Doesn't Siri Support Dictating Emails? - According to CNet, Apple's A5 processor includes noise-reduction circuitry licensed from a start-up called Audience. Audience's technology enhances speech and works well even when you hold the phone are arm's length ('far-field speech'). This explains the mysteriously larger A5 processor on the iPhone 4S and why the previous gen iPhone 4 didn't get the Siri via a simple iOS software upgrade.The iPhone 4S has just a few advantages over the iPhone ...

Forget Super Wi-Fi! Go with Super Wi-Fi! Wait. What? - Everyone is hyping the new Super Wi-Fi standard which uses lower-frequency white spaces between television channel frequencies. These lower frequencies enable the signal to travel further (miles) and penetrate walls better than the higher frequencies previously used (hundreds of feet). Well, forget about Super Wi-Fi!I met with Thomas Ngeow from Altai Technologies at ITEXPO, a Hong Kong-based company and he explained they coined Super Wi-Fi for on...

Billionaire Gives Secrets to Startup Success - Sir Terry Matthews is a Welsh/Canadian high tech entrepreneur, and Wales's first billionaire. He has directly started 89 companies with an amazing 83 out of 89 success rate. It's an even more astounding fact when you consider that according to TMC's Peter Bernstein, 90% of startups fail. Terry has sold many of these companies for millions and even hundreds of millions of dollars. Terry Matthews keynoted the StartupCamp at ITEXPO in Miami and he w...

TMC Showcases the Top 40 "Newsmakers" at ITEXPO - There is a lot of news (product launches, new versions) being made at TMC's ITEXPO, some of which I've already covered (Digium, Xorcom) ITEXPO has a record number of exhibitors that have unveiled new products and services at ITEXPO in Miami. There have been many competing shows over the years, most notably VON, which suffered an untimely demise. ITEXPO and VON were the two best shows focused on VoIP and IP communications. ITEXPO has continued t...

Rich Tehrani With ITEXPO Facts + Super Wi-Fi, M2M, StartupCamp & VC Funding - Rich Tehrani gave some interesting ITEXPO facts during his keynote introductions. He also covered Super Wi-Fi, M2M, Facebook IPO causing new millionaires to fund new companies and StartupCamp, which in the past has had actually VCs in the audience write checks to startups after they gave their pitch / demo during StartupCamp. Watch the video: Tags: facebook, funding, ipo, ...

New Digium IP Phones Up Close - I got to see the new Digium IP Phones up close - sort of. I ran into Digium's Steve Sokol in their ITEXPO booth and proceeded to ask Steve about these new IP phones. I asked him if they were developed internally (yes) or white-labeled, where they were being built (China), and a few other questions. I was about to ask him to see a demo when a Digium employee interrupted and asked Steve to give a demo to two attendees standing a few feet away. Ste...

Ingate SIP Trunking Session at ITEXPO is Packed! - Ingate, makers of SIP-capable enterprise firewalls, has done it again! Every show they have one of if not *the* largest conference room and they continually pack it in - often standing room only in the back. I stopped in to check it out. This short video followed by a cool interactive panoramic says it all:...

The Crowd Gathers to Enter ITEXPO Exhibit Floor - Good crowd entering the show floor as it opens.   Tags: exhibits, itexpo, tradeshow Related tags: Follow me: Facebook Profile FriendFeed Profile ...

Sprint's Michael A. Rouleau Kicks off ITEXPO Keynotes - The keynotes have started with Michael Rouleau telling the story of a company that has invented a flying car. It can travel 65mph on the ground and I think he said 115mph or 150mph in the air with a range of 450 miles. Hit traffic on I-95? Fly over it! He went onto explain all the issues this great idea has - $200,000 price tag, certified for both flight and ground, need for pilot's license, etc. Now he's discussing M2M examples. He said customer...

Digium Gamechanger! Launches D40, D50, & D70 IP Phones - Today, at ITEXPO, the premiere communications event, Digium launched a line of IP phones that work in conjunction with their Asterisk and Switchvox solutions. This truly could be a gamechanger, since Asterisk is a popular IP-PBX solution that popular 3rd party phone vendors such as Aastra, snom, and Polycom offer products for. This move by Digium and the impact on these phone vendors could be quite interesting. This reminds me of 2008 when Aastra...

Spam Soap - The MSP-Friendly Cloud-based Messaging Service Provider - At ITEXPO, I met with Eric Pinto, sales engineer from Spam Soap, a cloud-based messaging service provider. Founded in 2002, back in the early cloud days, Spam Soap pioneered the use of the MX record email filtering model. Today, Spam Soap has thousands of customers worldwide using a range of cloud-based messaging services, including, anti-virus filtering, anti-spam filtering, preserving business continuity, protecting confidential information,...

Asterisk 1-2-3 so Packed They Moved to Bigger Room! - I heard the Asterisk 1-2-3 session, the first one of the day was standing room only will people waiting outside the door trying to get in. I went to check it out when I saw people filing out. What gives? I captured video and heard someone say that they were moving to a bigger room. I then headed to the new room and captured some photos. QT_WriteOBJECT('http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/tom-keating/images/2012/01/31/IMG_1855.MOV', '590','443', '', '...

Zultys MX Release 7.0 Unified Communications Release Adds Android Support - At ITEXPO in Miami, Zultys today announced their latest UC software offering mobility features for Android, call center enhancements, and third-party CRM integrations. The latest major firmware release for the MX platform, MX Release 7.0 Unified Communications Software is a secure, all-in-one SIP-based IP phone system that is highly scalable and highly customizable. This version also includes enhancements to SIP security.  Zultys introduced ...

Gadget Lovers! LaGuardia Airport Adds Electric Outlets to Waiting Gate Seats - Gadget lovers rejoice! LaGuardia Airport has added electric outlets to roughly every other seat in the seats by all the gates. The electric outlets sport a glowing blue light that draws gadget lovers like moth to a flame. It was so annoying when I previously came to LaGuardia airport and had to struggle to find an outlet to plugin. Now your iPad, iPhone, Android, iPod touch, and any other gadget won't be drained surfing the Web, checking email, e...

Russian Mission Group Warns Of Crackdown On Evangelicals - As protesters demanding more freedom and fair elections prepared to demonstrate in freezing temperatures in Moscow last Saturday, a major Russian mission group warned of more difficulties for evangelical Christians and other religious minorities in Russia and other former Soviet Union nations....

Senior scientologist charged with perverting justice - One of the Church of Scientology's senior international figures, Jan Eastgate, has been charged for a second time with perverting the course of justice. Eastgate is the international president of the Citizens Commission on Human Rights -- a hate group found by the Church of Scientology engaged in a hate campaign against psychiatry and psychiatrists....

Chinese government attacks ?evil cult? dance group performance in Seattle - The Consul General of the People's Republic of China in San Francisco has written an official letter addressed to members of the city council of Seattle, Washington, dismissing a performance of a Falun Gong-related dance group and asking him not to attend, nor to congratulate the group. Naturally nobody takes him seriously....

Police arrest 9 suspected Jerusalem cult members - Police arrested nine people Monday suspected of being members of a Jerusalem cult. In August, 2011, the cult's three central defendants were indicted in the Jerusalem District Court on Wednesday, in a case of what police and social workers have called the worst abuse of its kind they have seen in decades....

Eddie Long apologizes for Torah ceremony in which he was crowned ?King? - Megachurch pastor Eddie Long has apologized to the Anti-Defamation League over an incident in which he was wrapped in a Torah scroll and crowned "king." The stunt was the idea of visiting speaker 'Rabbi' Ralph Messer....

Missionary Couple Slain in Mexico; Peace Pact in Puebla - A married couple who had served for 28 years as Baptist missionaries in Mexico were murdered on last week Tueday at their home near Monterrey in El Cercado, Santiago, Nuevo Leon. The area has suffered heavily from attacks by drug cartels in recent weeks, including the murder of the mayor of El Cercado, leading to the tentative conclusion that the crime was committed by people serving narcotics traffickers....

Polygamous sect leaders make tax payments; avoid evictions - Leaders of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, the polygamous sect led by Warren Jeffs, have paid Arizona county treasurers about $930,000 in back taxes. In making the partial payment they avoided possible evictions of sect members....

Japanese security agency inspects AUM cult splinter group?s facilities - The Public Security Intelligence Agency in Japan on Friday inspected several properties of Hikari no Wa -- a splinter group of the notorious Aum Shinrikyo cult. Security officials believe the group is still under the influence of cult founder Shoko Asahara, who is on death row for a series of AUM crimes....

Unique construction project under way at FLDS ranch - An unusual building is under construction on the FLDS compound in Eldorado, Texas. Speculations regarding its purpose range from a place to house a statue of FLDS leader Warren Jeffs to a new temple....

Polygamist prophet Warren Jeffs controlling sect from behind bars - Six months after he was jailed for life plus 20 years for his so-called 'spiritual marriages' to two teenage girls it's clear Jeffs continues to pull the strings, call the shots and rule with an iron fist in the twin border towns of Hildale, Utah and Colorado City, Arizona. Mike Watkiss reports....