To our friends in London

Leonardo Faoro – The VoIP Weblog I would personally like to take a moment to voice solidarity with and concern for our friends in London, which was attacked by terrorists this morning. I know this blog has an international audience, so those of you reading from the United Kingdom are in my thoughts this evening. As an American, I deplore the awful, murderous deed perpetrated on Londoners, and sincerely hope for the best for all those injured and for comfort to the families of the dead.

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To our friends in London

Opera-Bit Torrent: A Deal with the Devil?

Mark Evans http://evans.blogware.com/ Not sure what to make of a deal that will see Opera launch a technical preview that integrates BitTorrent to support faster downloads. Of course, Opera says these would only be legal downloads such as “Linux software and computer game demos” rather than all those songs and movies that have driven the entertainment industry crazy. Opera said it twigged onto the benefits of Bit Torrent after the release of Opera 8 knocked out its servers due to high demand.

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11M VOIP Users Can’t Be Wrong

Mark Evans http://evans.blogware.com/ Point Topic, which does research on broadband services, estimates more than 11 million people were using a retail VOIP service for at least some of their telephone calls at the end of March – compared with more five million in mid-2004. The largest market is Japan (7.2 million users) where Yahoo Softbank provides free VOIP service as part of a broadband bundle, while U.S.

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The Importance of Pipes

Google (s goog) is “just scratching the surface” with Google Voice, Bradley Horowitz, VP of Product Management, said today on eWeek.com , and will move aggressively next year to further blur the line between telephony and the Internet. Which means network operators will have to find ways to leverage their networks and provide competing apps and services or be relegated to simply pushing other companies’ offerings through their pipes. Google is gearing up to do battle with Cisco (s csco) and Microsoft (s msft) in the unified communications market

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