Vonage Sued Over Lack Of Clarity In 911 Info
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Texas sues Vonage for lack of 911 call
deficiency disclosure
Texas sues Vonage for lack of 911 call
deficiency disclosure
03/23/2005 02:29 AMZDNet Mar 23 2005 6:21AM GMT
Texas sues Internet phone company Vonage
over lack of 911 access
Texas sues Internet phone company Vonage
over lack of 911 access
03/22/2005 05:11 PMNational Post Mar 22 2005 9:40PM GMT
Vonage: Dial 311 for city info
Vonage: Dial 311 for city info
08/18/2004 06:40 PMSubscribers of the company's Net phone service can get information on
park locations, public transit, and so on.
Comcast Sued For Handing Over Subscriber
Info To The RIAA
Comcast Sued For Handing Over Subscriber
Info To The RIAA
04/14/2005 06:23 PMAfter quite a long battle, the courts finally decided that ISPs
didn't
have to just hand over subscriber info whenever the RIAA came
calling. The RIAA needed to first file a lawsuit and a subpoena --
going through the official legal process to get someone's info.
However, what happens when an ISP
does just hand over a name?
That question is now being raised, as a
woman has sued Comcast for disclosing her private
information to the recording industry, claiming they violated her
privacy. No lawsuit was filed by the RIAA. Comcast just gave her
info over to them -- and the RIAA then passed it on to some sort of
collections agency. What's strange here is that, while Verizon was
clearly willing to fight to protect the privacy of its subscribers, it
appears Comcast had no problem rolling right over when the RIAA came
calling.
Comcast Sued For Giving Customer Info to
RIAA
Comcast Sued For Giving Customer Info to
RIAA
04/15/2005 06:16 PMTexas Vonage suit: here's what Vonage is
'guilty' of
Texas Vonage suit: here's what Vonage is
'guilty' of
03/23/2005 02:29 AMZDNet Mar 23 2005 6:18AM GMT
Broadband Surf Report: Vonage and more
Vonage
Broadband Surf Report: Vonage and more
Vonage
03/30/2005 04:55 PMBlog: Our daily look at telecom news around the Web:
Vonage
defends manually activated 911 calling--eWeek
...
Insecurity through Clarity
Insecurity through Clarity
06/25/2004 12:33 AMWorld Wide Wardrive finds most access points unprotected: The fourth
week-long international wardrive found 288,000 access points in their
survey, more than 50 percent of which had no security enabled. Since
these were passive scans, it's impossible to tell whether those access
points were inside or outside corporate firewalls, and thus not open
portals, but it's likely that the overwhelming majority were just
plain open. Nearly 30 percent had the default SSID or network name
set....
Moral Clarity
Moral Clarity
06/30/2004 09:15 AM
The Moral Values Party With thousands of
Republicans set to invade the city this summer, high-priced escorts
and strippers are preparing for one grand old party.
Agencies are flying in extra call girls from around the globe to meet
the expected demand during the Aug. 30-Sept. 2 gathering at Madison
Square Garden.
"We have girls from London, Seattle, California, all coming in
for that week," said a madam at a Manhattan escort service.
"It's the week everyone wants to work."
"It's going to be big," agreed one operator at a midtown
escort service.
Now that's what I call moral clarity!!
" clarity of these images"
" clarity of these images"
07/04/2004 08:44 AMPolitical clarity...
Political clarity...
10/31/2003 07:16 AMFor many recent Labour voters the last couple of years have been a
bit of a troubling time - with some of the actions of the government
(particularly with regard to the War in Iraq) seeming to be violently
and almost universally at odds with the views of the electorate. As a
result, I think it's far to say that their popularity has waned. But
while people have become vaguely disillusioned with Labour, the other
political parties haven't really seemed to be particularly inspiring
any kind of reaction at all. In a way it's a bit of a surprise -
whether you like the policies or not, it's difficult to deny that the
Conservative policy raft has been more interesting than it has been
for a long time. But that doesn't seem to have made much of a
difference either way. On the whole - with the exception of occasional
terrifying statements by Oliver Letwin, the only things they do
that get any press or interest from the public have been their
bi-weekly attempts to commit televised hari-kiri.
There's a whole range of reasons why they might not have made
sufficient political hay recently. Obviously there's the increase in
general political disillusionment. Certainly the current government
hasn't done an awful lot to stem that particular tide. Also, no one
realistically thinks that the Conservative party can quite hold
themselves together long enough to put any of their shiny new (if
occasionally barking) policies into practice? Their regular
apocalyptic tailspins have made them the "Kenny" of Westminter's
"South Park".
Another position - and one I tend to subscribe to - is that because
they've simply tried to be perceived as vaguely socially tolerant (and
had a "nice" non-threatening leader), minority groups, trade unions
and the like have stopped thinking of them as an actual danger
any more. And while that group has had their anxieties eased a bit
that doesn't mean that they (or other people in the centre-ground) are
yet convinced that they're trustworthy, representative of public
opinion or - well - totally in touch with reality... And while they're
waiting for evidence, they're quite comfortable to background
them...
Well as far as I'm concerned, the discomfort remains and the
anxiety is back. That's not to say that I think Michael Howard
has much of a chance of being Prime Minister. And it's not to say that
I think the party will be any more united under his leadership. But -
if they put him in charge of their party - they will have made certain
parts of this argument crystal clear for me again. Instead of being
able to view the Conservative party as representing an alternative -
perhaps more market / efficiency driven - approach to running the
country, appointing Michael Howard is no more or less than running up
the Conservative Skull and Crossbones again and setting sail for the
easy targets of cheap political swag.
Tom Watson has put up a post that reminds us of
the facts about Michael Howard. There's terrifying stuff in there.
I'm going to highlight a few of the ones that scare me most
personally, but please - read the full list...
"As Home Secretary, he believed that the answer to crime
was simply to lock more people up: "an increase in the number of
criminals in prison leads to a large fall in crime" (POLITICS,
MORALITY AND THE NATION STATE lecture, ST. MICHAEL CHURCH, CORNHILL,
CITY OF LONDON, 10 January 2003)"
"Howard criticised Jack
Straw's decision to detain General Pinochet and actively campaigned
for his release: "We think this has gone on far too long. We think he
should be sent back to Chile." (BBC Interview, 26 November 1998)"
"Howard opposed the introduction of the Human Rights Act."
"Howard was judged to have flouted the European Convention on
Human Rights following unlawfully delaying the release of five
long-serving IRA prisoners - the SEVENTH time he had been found to be
acting illegally in just two years as Home Secretary. (September
1995)"
"Howard voted against equal rights for homosexuals by opposing
lowering the homosexual age of consent to 16"
And if you still needed evidence that this man must not be
allowed to become Prime Minister at any cost, then how about these two
draconian, vile-worded and dangerously regressive/oppressive
policies:
"Howard was the Minister in Charge of bringing in the Poll
Tax in 1988. Even after Thatcher had gone, and after the poll tax
riots, he insisted he still believed in the policy (July 1991)"
"Howard was the Minister who brought in Clause 28 of the Local
Government Act banning the "promotion" of homosexuality (March
1988)"
Read the comments
Political clarity
Political clarity
11/02/2003 03:13 AMTom
Coates
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Is The Contact Info You Provide Someone
Public Or Private Info?
Is The Contact Info You Provide Someone
Public Or Private Info?
02/10/2004 05:32 PMI've complained in the past about the
annoyanc
e of Plaxo spam. Lately, the more I've been thinking about Plaxo,
the more it annoys me. Though I've never had anything to do with the
company, and have never responded to a single spam, they now have a
database with my contact info that others gave it. Bambi Francisco
over at CBS Marketwatch has
noticed the same thing with Spoke Software, which she
finds disconcerting. However, I'm wondering about the bigger legal
issues: is the personal info you've given to individuals for business
or personal reasons shareable? Some say that all Spoke is doing is
collecting
public information. However, if the info was given to an
individual, is there a reasonable expectation that the information is
not public at all, but for private use only? I'm not sure what the
answer is, but I wonder how long until there's a lawsuit around this
issue. Personally, like so many other things, I don't think it's
something you can get "back in the box," but these systems do reveal
to me who is freely giving away personal information about me, which
could make me less willing to do business with them in the future.
"O'Reilly Factor, May 3 (edited for
clarity)"
"O'Reilly Factor, May 3 (edited for
clarity)"
05/11/2004 03:42 AMPlantronics' new PC headset provides
clarity of speech, sound
Plantronics' new PC headset provides
clarity of speech, sound
12/05/2003 01:02 AMSunday Times South Africa Dec 5 2003 0:13AM ET
calls on him to provide some clarity in
which policies he would pursue as
President
calls on him to provide some clarity in
which policies he would pursue as
President
02/15/2004 05:11 PMRead the whole thing ..
flip-flopping
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New MEMS Testing Article Offers Clarity
Amidst Confusion
New MEMS Testing Article Offers Clarity
Amidst Confusion
03/14/2005 04:12 PMThe world of waveform-based MEMS testing can be quite a confusing one.
But thanks to a new report from Tegam, Inc., it no longer has to be.
[PRWEB Feb 25, 2005]
Clarity Technologies CVC Software
Technology List of Patents Grows
Clarity Technologies CVC Software
Technology List of Patents Grows
06/24/2004 09:33 AMContactCenterWorld.com Jun 24 2004 2:09PM GMT
Newcastle Under Lyme Borough Council
website praised for clarity &
accessibility
Newcastle Under Lyme Borough Council
website praised for clarity &
accessibility
08/11/2004 02:57 AMPublicTechnology.net Aug 11 2004 7:07AM GMT
Clarity Technologies' Award Winning CVC
Software is Selected for Motorola's M900
Car Phone
Clarity Technologies' Award Winning CVC
Software is Selected for Motorola's M900
Car Phone
04/28/2004 07:22 AMBelga Direct Press Releases Apr 28 2004 11:38AM GMT
Why Vonage is Just a Fad
Why Vonage is Just a Fad
05/20/2004 08:33 PMZDNet May 21 2004 0:40AM GMT
Vonage
Vonage
07/28/2004 03:08 PMStart-up finds talk is cheap with Vonage: I've heard a lot about
Vonage and seen their ads, but I
was never able to pin down exactly what they did. Turns it its
commercial Skype with
hardware.
Its service is simple. Vonage sends customers an Internet phone
box, which looks like a small cable TV box. The box plugs into most
high-speed Internet connections. Almost any telephone plugs into the
box.
The phone works like any other phone, but Vonage is routing the
calls over the Web. (If the person on the other end of the line is not
a Vonage user, the call will hop onto a regular phone line for the
very last leg of its journey.)
This is the future.
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Vonage softphone
Vonage softphone
12/19/2003 04:58 PMHave been trying out the Vonage softphone with some success. My Laptop
(IBM T40), like most, has built in speakers...
Vonage: Strike One
Vonage: Strike One
08/06/2004 03:25 PMI was scheduled for a phone call with a VIP today, and when he got on
the line (my office Vonage phone), it was unusable, multi-second
delays on each voice round-trip. Damnably, I didn’t have my
cellphone with me, so we had to reschedule. I called up Vonage, had
to punch through two levels of slow menu (could be worse I suppose) to
get to the tech support queue where I waited for five minutes
listening to vasty echoing silence to talk to someone who put me on
the tech support queue (“I thought this was tech support?” “No,
I’m a general-purpose service representative.”) Which picked up
after only a minute or two, and he made a vague attempt to blame my
ISP and said he’d sent a couple of downloads to the phone that
should address the problem. So, if it’s a known problem with a
known fix, why don’t I already have it? I don’t have to do this
kind of thing for either my land-lines or mobile. All in all, I’ve
been fairly happy with Vonage so far, but much more of this could sour
the relationship quickly.
NY Wants To Regulate Vonage
NY Wants To Regulate Vonage
05/20/2004 01:09 AMAdd New York to the list of greedy states along with California,
Florida and Minnesota that want to get as much money out of VoIP
providers as possible by declaring them phone companies. New York has
become the latest state
to
declare Vonage a phone company that they can now regulate. This
is a backwards step that is likely to slow down the acceptance of
VoIP. While it may mean that the NY state government can suck a few
extra taxes out of people, it will mean slower adoption, which means
slower economic growth. Even worse, they're doing this while the FCC
has made it clear that they're still reviewing this issue and had told
states to leave VoIP providers alone while they come up with a
position at the federal level. This is merely a short-term grab at
extra tax revenue.
New: Vonage SoftPhone for Mac OS X
New: Vonage SoftPhone for Mac OS X
06/28/2004 09:54 AMVonage released a Mac OS X version of its SoftPhone software for use
with its Voice Over IP telephone service.
Vonage goes wireless
Vonage goes wireless
12/18/2003 11:57 AMGetting the scoop once again, Om Malik reveals that Vonage is working
on software that would let you use their broadband Voice over IP
telephone...
Vonage reviewed
Vonage reviewed
03/13/2003 10:24 AMRaffi Krikorian's review of Vonage's Voice-over-IP phone-service is a
great, info-civilian-oriented overview of the best way to secede from
your phone company.
The Edison, New Jersey based company gives you one Cisco ATA186 and a
phone number in an area code of your choosing (I had a little piece of
northern New Jersey in my living room). You have a choice of two
different levels of service to go along with this box: for
$25.99/month you get unlimited local/regional calling (where
local/regional is defined by the area code you choose for your phone
number) and 500 minutes of free US long distance, and for $39.99/month
you get unlimited long distance. And you also get international rates
that rivals most common calling cards. The only problem is that the
service only delivers one ATA186, and that specific model is required
to use the service -- no other SIP compatible devices are supported
yet. If you want to use more than one phone with the box, you will
either have to rig up a network of telephone splitters and wires; or
you can do what some have done and hack your house to plug the Cisco
box into your house's in wall telephone network.
Link
Discuss
Vonage Goes Portable
Vonage Goes Portable
12/18/2003 03:38 PMOm Malik breaks the news that Vonage will soon have laptop and
PDA-based software client for its service: It's not news that Vonage
has tens of thousands of subscribers, nor that they offer a
high-quality, full-featured hardware-based broadband voice-over-IP
service that allows you to map multiple incoming real phone numbers to
your virtual line. It also not news that you can get high-quality
software VoIP clients; I'm personally enamored of Xten's suite, which
work with Windows, Mac OS X, LindowsOS, and Linux. They're beautiful
and come in free and paid flavors, including a multi-line conference
version. The Xten clients can interface with any standard SIP (Session
Initiation Protocol) server, and many of the VoIP providers who offer
long-distance over the Internet use standard SIP gateways. But getting
from Xten outbound to the VoIP provider is a pain: I had to have the
CEO of Xten provide me the details for a couple of VoIP services;
those details aren't on the VoIP long-distance service sites. Then
there's the question of inbound service. Even though you can use Xten
as the default client with Addaline.com, it's unclear whether you can
receive inbound calls via their service. Most of the VoIP in software
is focused on making calls to the PSTN and receiving calls from other
folks using services like Free World Dial-up, which provides you with
a free non-PSTN VoIP number and SIP gateway. Om's scoop is certainly
that Vonage is going to package the software and PSTN offering into a
no-configuration package that will be as easy to use as their hardware
service. Vonage's hardware solution is pretty simple: open the box,
plug it in, wait a minute. You're done. Voice mail calls can be
alerted via email, and other features can be enabled through the Web
site's dashboard for your account. Because Vonage works over
broadband, a Pocket PC or a laptop equipped with their soft client in
turn connected to a Wi-Fi hotspot or access point means free phone
service everywhere -- it's another incentive to lower cell phone plans
(for roaming purposes) and increase the number of hot spot locations.
I'm a recent Vonage convert. I use my cell phone as my office and
roaming line, and although I'd switched to a $130/month plan from
Cingular because of their rollover minutes, I had $250 and $450 bills
in September and October during particularly intense work periods.
Yes, that's...
Vonage, 2nd try for IP telephony
Vonage, 2nd try for IP telephony
12/17/2004 06:36 PMLast summer I switched to lingo.com, an IP phone service that
proved to be cheap but
unreliable. Starting last week Lingo failed altogether and
their tech support folks (available only by phone, which is kind of
irksome) failed to call back, so I ordered Vonage, which is the same
$25/month but does not include Western Europe in its unlimited calling
region and has higher international rates.
Here's how Vonage has worked...
- Vonage sends you a brand-new Linksys broadband router with
included IP phone jacks and three Ethernet jacks; if you were relying
on your old router for 802.11b or to use as an 8-port hub you may have
to buy some new networking gear
- the customer service Web site is very slow and about 25% of the
time page requests produce an error page with a "try again later"
instruction
- tech support is available through a form on their Web site; this
form asks for your name, phone number, account number, etc., even
though you've already logged in and it should have all of his info as
part of your account profile
- tech support via phone results in a "we're experiencing an
unsually high volume of calls; try again later"; customer service
(billing, etc.) can be reached after a 15-minute wait in queue
- they say that they never received my FAXed letter of authorization
to transfer my old number from Lingo and want it refaxed
- when set to simultaneously ring my cell phone Vonage does ring the
cell but I can't hear callers (they can hear me though)
They say that it will take two months for them to transfer the
phone number from Lingo, so I'll have to pay $25/month to Lingo for
forwarding until that happens.
[Update: I believe that I unfairly maligned Vonage in regards
to not being able to hear callers on calls simultaneously rung to my
cell phone. It turns out that it is my PalmOne Treo flaking out
on the very day that I installed Vonage! This makes Treo #10
that has failed, I think. It lasted about two months, just like
the others. Anyone have a suggestion for a GSM phone that will
do a calendar and contacts sync with Microsoft Outlook?]
[Dec 3 Update: When voicemail is pending, the Vonage system
fails to change the dial tone. A second try to reach technical
support (at 1:30 pm Eastern time) resulted in the same "we're too busy
to talk to anyone" recording. The voice quality of calls is
somewhat low, with some constant static.]
Vonage arrives
Vonage arrives
03/06/2004 01:59 AMMy Vonage phone arrive yesterday afternoon. I followed the simple
instructions for plugging it into my cable modem and now I'm making
calls to anywhere in the US or Canada - 500 minutes/month for $15. So
far, the sonic quality has been as good as a "real" phone. Yep, them
Voice over IP bits can hold their own. And the plain ol' telephone
company, the one with the network that's too smart for it's own good,
ought to be worried....
Vonage-Click2Call-0.10
Vonage-Click2Call-0.10
09/21/2004 07:05 PMVonage Now Available in Canada
Vonage Now Available in Canada
04/12/2004 03:37 PMTechfocus Apr 12 2004 8:10PM GMT
Vonage goes to Canada
Vonage goes to Canada
04/13/2004 04:52 AMBell tolls for telcos
Vonage hangs up on some callers
Vonage hangs up on some callers
08/12/2004 02:40 PMVoIP company suffers "delays," the second glitch in two weeks. Those
affected are told to reboot their adaptors.
Vonage Goes VoWiFi -- How Big Is The
Market?
Vonage Goes VoWiFi -- How Big Is The
Market?
01/04/2005 06:57 AMVonage is about to pick up quite a bit of press coverage for their
unveiling of "plans" to offer a WiFi phone that
will work with their service. It wasn't a secret that they were
working on such a plan, and it sounds like this isn't so much a launch
as it is a confirmation that they plan to launch it at some point
(giving them an extra chance at getting some publicity). The phone,
expected to cost about $100, will let subscribers use their Vonage
VoIP accounts from WiFi hotspots, but there are a bunch of questions.
While this does appear to be one of the first widely marketed attempts
at consumer VoWiFi, it's still not clear there's really that much
demand for this type of solution. Most people savvy enough to want
one of these will already have a mobile phone. While it's true that
VoIP won't eat up minutes the way cellular plans do, most cellular
plans offer such large buckets of minutes and free long distance,
making them effectively flat-rate as well. Even if the calls are
international, things like
VoIP
bridges offer a reasonable solution for a mobile phone user who
wants to make cheap international calls. Furthermore, it requires
people to carry
yet another device -- and, in this case, one
that probably has a fairly short battery life, considering the rate at
which WiFi consumes power. It's also unclear how the phone manages to
log onto fee-based or subscription-based WiFi hotspots, without which
the phones usefulness could be diminished even further. Also, it's
doubtful that these phones can handle handoff between different access
points without dropping a call, which forces you to be somewhat
stationary when using the phones. The whole thing is a bit
reminiscent of the old
Rabbit
Phones in the UK. Yes, there are some people who will find it
useful, but it's likely to be a fairly small number. I could see it
being useful for some people who just want to use it in their homes,
but don't want to go through the trouble of wiring a phone up to an
adapter that's across the home. Also, it
would be easier than
bringing along the adapter for someone who travels frequently to
places with WiFi. However, it would seem that if anything along the
lines of a VoWiFi solution would make sense, it would be much more
likely to be something merged with a mobile phone so you would just
carry around a single device. That means either having the carriers
offer it (and that's not likely any time soon -- or with much
enthusiasm if they ever get around to it, as they have no desire to
eat away at their own minute plans) or letting people install a
softphone on a smartphone that has WiFi.
Vonage to take VoIP on the road
Vonage to take VoIP on the road
01/04/2005 05:51 PMZDNet Jan 4 2005 7:13PM GMT
Vonage Offers Wi-Fi Phone
Vonage Offers Wi-Fi Phone
01/04/2005 12:45 AM Engadget slips the news that Vonage ships its F-1000 Wi-Fi handset:
The handset will work over hotspot networks allowing Vonage customers
to use their service while roaming. Boingo and Vonage had a deal in
place to test out VoIP over Wi-Fi hotspots, but it's unclear here in
the late evening how that ties together. Also, Vonage's site doesn't
yet list the announcement, so we don't know if they've partnered with
various networks to ease authentication. Authentication, or providing
credentials that let you use a given hotspot network--whether a paid
login or a WPA encryption key or handling 802.1X, even--is the biggest
stopping block in allowing VoIP over hotspot to work. A technology
like EAP-SIM, which would use a GSM SIM module to authenticate, might
be one method of logging in. But it requires every hotspot or hotspot
network that wants to allow this sort of connection to build the
back-end to handle it....
States gang up on Vonage
States gang up on Vonage
04/11/2005 05:46 PMZDNet Apr 11 2005 9:50PM GMT
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