http://telecommonthly.com The Latest News in the Telecom Industry Fri, 31 Jul 2009 21:55:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en What if you paid billions of dollars for a company, only to find out that you didn't own the license for the product?  That's just what Skype has learned, and as they warned in a recent SEC filing, it could result in the shutdown of Skype services.  How does one pay a kings ... http://telecommonthly.com/2009/07/skype-a-heavy-dose-of-crazy-news/ Just as we were about to post a story on the renewed browser wars, news broke that Google is going after not only Microsoft's share of the browser market but the Operating System market as well!   A few quick changes, some phone calls and research and we are back on ... http://telecommonthly.com/2009/07/browser-battles-os-war/ Telecom Monthly July Newsletter Welcome to what is shaping up to be a wacky Summer. iPhone and Pre are positioning themselves as the ultimate smart phone and Android would just like to be mentioned at all. But who has the most at stake: Apple? Sprint? Palm? AT&T? It leaked out that ... http://telecommonthly.com/2009/07/telecom-monthly-newsletter/ Apple CEO Steve Jobs is back at work after a 6 month medical leave of absence.  During that time, he apparently had a liver transplant.  There has been a great deal of speculation that Job, who has been treated for pancreatic cancer, may have suffered some form of relapse with ... http://telecommonthly.com/2009/06/apple-jobs-transplant/ Don't underestimate the power of young people to shape our future communications.  A few years ago, who would have imagined that texts and tweets would become more popular than phone calls for a huge segment of the population?  Nor would we have guessed that Facebook would infringe on the space previously ... http://telecommonthly.com/2009/06/microsoft-xbox-uc/ If you are as big an iPhone geek as I am, you woke up early this morning to see if the new 3.0 software update was ready to be downloaded.  It wasn't, but became available for download around 10 am pacific time.  Early reaction to the new software is glowing.  ... http://telecommonthly.com/2009/06/apple-rocks-att-sucks/ There is only so much doom and gloom a guy can take.  Thank  the telecom gods it's Summer and there are enough diversions to keep our minds off the economy.  Actually, signs are finally pointing to a bottoming out of the depression and that signals better times ahead . . ... http://telecommonthly.com/2009/06/telecom-sex-and-bankruptcy/ For years, the IT EXPO has been the essential trade show for cutting edge IP telecommunications, and is the longest running trade show in its category.  It is the show where many important partnerships are struck and where you go to find solutions to modern telephony problems.  However, until now, ... http://telecommonthly.com/2009/06/channel-cvx/ An inventive new web search service has just become available to the public which just might give Google search a run for the money some day.  WolframAlpha is a sort of automated mashup of Yahoo Answers and Google Search.  Type in your question and Wolfram returns a detailed answer instead of ... http://telecommonthly.com/2009/05/wolfram-alpha-search/ Thanks in part to consumers looking to lower expenses in the current recession, cellphone only households have surpassed landline only households for the first time ever.  The report conducted by the Centers for Disease Control surveyed 12,597 households on their available means of communication in the second half of 2008.  The ... http://telecommonthly.com/2009/05/landlines-going-the-way-of-the-dodo/