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The blog Skype Journal  reported that Skype attorneys sent a cease and desist letter to Skype reporting blog, Skype-watch.com    Jan Geirnaert had been reporting on and analyzing Skype using the URLs’ Skype-Watch and Skype-Gadgets.  The reports were favorable to Skype and Geirnaert apparently participated in Skype panels and conferences for several years as reported by [...]

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On April 17, 2007, the Wall Street Journal’s editorial team weighed in against proposals by Cyren Call, led by Nextel founder Morgan O’Brien, and by Frontline Wireless, led by Reed Hunt former FCC Commissioner, relating to the FCC’s up coming rulemaking decision about what to do with the upper 700MHz spectrum that will remain after [...]

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This is a great quote about “communication” posted by Robert Cannon in Cybertelecom“It is one if the greater ironies of computer history that the vision of the hippies had to be married to the technology funded and fostered by the Pentagon, before the world of integrated information and communication became possible.” Stephen Segaller, NERDS2.0

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Om Malik has a great post today about prior art for the VoIP patents.   There is also a good Wiki site scratchpad summarizing the claims.   One of the papers identified by Om was published on January 13, 1997, describes the process of using a gateway server to translate a VoIP call into a number to be used to [...]

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Every day we run to win.    Today in Boston Kenyan Robert Cheruiyot won the Boston Marathon with a time of 2:14.   If you take a look at this photo you can see the Robert Cheruiyot with the #1 in orange shirt at mile 23 in on Beacon Street in Brookline  with 1:58 into the race by [...]

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The Court in Verizon v Vonage (see the Feb, 12, 2007 Order) found one of three Verizon patents to be infringed was U.S. Patent No.  6,282,574.  Verizon Patent No. 6,282,574, filed on February 24, 2000, provides in Claim 26:
“A method comprising:  
+receiving a name translation request at a server coupled to a public packet data network;
+translating a name included [...]

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The surprising Verizon v Vonage patent order already seems like old news. 
Most VoIP pundits and VoIP businesses are sitting on the sidelines like England and France did before World War II hoping and smiling and not believing that an aggressor was on the offensive and would soon occupy and destroy most of Europe.   (”Peace for [...]

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We have entered the time of the VoIP patent wars.  Verizon Services Corp. v. Vonage Holdings Corp., No. 1:06-CV-00682 (E.D. Va.) (See, Verizon v Vonage Feb 12, 2007 Order) delivered the first tenative, but not final, results.   The positive about this case, according to comments made by Bingham McCutchen telecom patent attorney Ed Pennington  at VON [...]

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