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Russell Shaw

Archive: March, 2008

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Russell Shaw's blog describes the emerging world of converged content, plus the Internet and mobile carriers, devices and services that sell and distribute this content to enterprises and consumers.

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Russell Shaw, rest in peace

By David Grober | March 16, 2008, 8:07am PDT

Editor’s note: Russell Shaw passed away on March 14. For more information, see Between the Lines. His family requested that we post this notice so people know that all scheduled meetings are...
Sorry, Gizmodo, VoIP over iPhone isn't going to be "huge"

By Russell Shaw | March 7, 2008, 3:26am PST

Gizmodo’s Brian Lam (no, not the C-SPAN guy, that’d be Brian Lamb) notes a snippet from Apple’s SDK-coming-out-part press conference in which one Mr. Jobs noted that any...
Over WiFi at DIA, free speech is DOA

By Russell Shaw | March 7, 2008, 3:07am PST

SI model Jessica Gomes, if you must know. Our own Maggie Reardon expands on a Denver Post story that notes the Denver International Airport has chosen to block Wi-Fi access to such sites as...
Exclusive: iPhone DevCamp's Raven on iPhone SDK and what it means

By Russell Shaw | March 6, 2008, 4:19pm PST

Just a few minutes ago, I had a most enlightening email conversation with someone who knows as much about the new iPhone SDK, and its effects/potential, as anyone who doesn’t work at Apple....
Is proprietary iPhone video player on the way?

By Russell Shaw | March 5, 2008, 6:14am PST

In remarks to analysts yesterday, Apple CEO Steve Jobs clarified why the iPhone does not support Flash. Jobs said a key reason is that Adobe’s Flash Player is optimally built for laptops....
Truphone cuts international rates with new Tru Zone offering

By Russell Shaw | March 4, 2008, 12:09pm PST

Today, Wi-Fi centered mobile Internet service provider Truphone announced a pretty significant per-minute calling cost reduction on calls from the U.S. to 40 countries. Marketed as Tru Zone, these...
Score one for the little guy: FCC entirely backs consumer in Sprint slamming case

By Russell Shaw | March 4, 2008, 11:21am PST

The meme that this FCC is highly partial to the interests of large broadband service providers and telcos has often been hammered home on these screens. While I am certainly not ready to...
Fonality boosts presence detection in new PBXtra4.0

By Russell Shaw | March 4, 2008, 10:32am PST

Got a guided tour the other day of business phone system solutions provider Fonality’s new PBXtra 4.0 phone system. Announced this morning, the new rev offers enhanced presence detection...
Uh-oh: Oprah's streamed New Earth Event runs short on bandwidth

By Russell Shaw | March 4, 2008, 8:33am PST

Last night’s inaugural, Skype co-sponsored webcast of Oprah Winfrey’s Oprah.com New Earth Event scored 500,000 simultaneous log-ins. That would be all well and good, but the gathering...
Reader: AT&T tells me Time Warner Cable is blocking his VoIP

By Russell Shaw | March 3, 2008, 12:34pm PST

A reader and information technology professional in the New York area sent me an email this morning that raises the possibility that his high-speed Internet service provider Time Warner Cable may...
Apple co-founder Woz: sometimes I use a Moto Razr instead of an iPhone

By Russell Shaw | March 3, 2008, 11:30am PST

In Sydney, Australia for a keynote speech at the Broadband and Beyond Conference this morning, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak appeared to lament the fact that the iPhone doesn’t have 3G...
Sexism at the Apple Store? Woman claims "Genius" totally ignored her while pitching her husband

By Russell Shaw | March 3, 2008, 6:18am PST

Seems as though when Consumerist reader Arjela and her husband entered an Apple store in Bellevue, Wash. to shop for a MacBook Air last week, she felt as though the Apple Store...