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Latest blog posts from Brough Turner

The Mobile Web: Limited But Getting Better
pI had an interesting discussion with Katrin Verclas of a href="http://mobileactive.org/about" target="_blank" title="About MobileActive.org"MobileActive.org/a as an event last month covering a range of topics including the prospects for mobile web access in emerging markets.  As a result, she... Read more...
Published a day ago

MMS has missed its window
pMultimedia Message Service (MMS) is the mobile industry's successor to SMS.  MMS goes beyond texting to support pictures and graphics, voice messages and video clips sent as messages.  Unfortunately MMS was a technology design not a service design.  It can support a variety of services but... Read more...
Published a week ago

Skype - SIP integration, officially, at last
pStefan Oberg ― a href="http://www.skype.com/" target="_blank"Skype/a's VP amp; GM for Telecom ― gave the keynote at AstriCon this morning and announced official support by Skype for interoperation with a href="http://www.asterisk.org/" target="_blank"Asterisk open source PBXs/a.  This is... Read more...
Published 2 weeks ago

eComm 2009
pThe a href="http://ecommconf.com/" target="_blank"eComm 2009 website/a is live.bra href="http://blogs.nmscommunications.com/.a/6a00d8341c398553ef010534d1d93e970c-pi" style="display: inline;"img alt="EComm 2009 logo" border="0" class="at-xid-6a00d8341c398553ef010534d1d93e970c "... Read more...
Published 2 weeks ago

Attending AstriCon in Phoenix
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Published 2 weeks ago

Off to LA for IT Expo and Communications Developer Conference
pI'll be at a href="http://www.tmcnet.com/voip/conference/west-08/w08-registration.aspx"Internet Telephony Expo West/a in Los Angeles beginning late morning tomorrow.  I have a few meetings scheduled tomorrow afternoon and two presentations later in the show.  NMS also has a booth on the show... Read more...
Published 4 weeks ago

African telecom: corruption mostly limited to publicly run operators
pThe latest issue (#421) of a href="http://www.balancingact-africa.com/news/current1.html" target="_blank" title="current issue"Balancing Act News Update/a has an interesting story based on the prosecution (in the US) of former sales agents for ITXC found guilty of bribery in arranging VoIP... Read more...
Published a month ago

Human nature can't endure the current rate of change - from 1883!
pI had an interesting discussion over dinner last night with a mother whose daughter is in college.  She was relating how her daughter follows the news, gets her opinions, etc.  Of course her daughter was blogging and using social networks to keep multiple lines of communications open at... Read more...
Published a month ago

Skype - MySpace integration falls short
pIn a a href="http://skypejournal.com/2008/08/brough-turner-what-skype-means-to-me.html" target="_blank" title="What Skype means to me"recent article/a over at Skype Journal, I lamented the fact that Skype had not built it's subscriber base as rapidly as I'd hoped or as rapidly as QQ in China or... Read more...
Published a month ago

Why the Danes text while the US talks
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Published a month ago

Gold bits and brown bits ― When you need QoS, two classes will do it!
pQuality of Service is a contentious subject.  Every now and again, I look at a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality_of_service" target="_blank" title="Quality of Service"Wikipedia's QoS page/a.  (a href="http://blogs.nmss.com/communications/2006/12/why_theres_no_i.html" target="_blank"... Read more...
Published a month ago

WiMAX will be successful, as a fringe technology
pA recent Infonetics a href="http://www.infonetics.com/pr/2008/mo08.wmc.nr.asp" target="_blank" title=" "press release/a says “WiMAX has gained such momentum across so many regions that it is no longer sensible to suggest that WiMAX growth will be flattened by the emergence of LTE in the... Read more...
Published 2 months ago