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Patent Payouts come to VoIP

March 9th, 2007 Mitch Brisebois No comments

The US courts awarded Verizon $58 million in damages against Vonage. The judge ruled that Vonage was infringing on three patents that mainly deal with connecting an internet based phone call to the public network. oops. This may have interesting consequences for the VoIP industry as we know it. Source: www.washingtonpost.com [tags]technology,special-reports,Verizon[/tags]

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YouTube’s TestTube Labs Introduces Audio Swap

March 9th, 2007 Jobe Roberts No comments
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From YouTube's testTube labs comes audio swap for your YouTube videos. This feature works great and is fun to use. You upload a video to YouTube with or without an audio track and then you pop over to the audio swap where you can choose from a selection of songs to pop into your video. ...

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Flash Mobs Gaining Popularity

March 8th, 2007 Jobe Roberts 2 comments

You may have read recently about Flash Mobs hitting the Rideau Center in Ottawa. Thanks to Facebook these groups are able to organize quickly. We're planning on organizing our own virtual flash mob here at SM. Led by Baxter, we will be converging in Second Life in our beagle outfits looking to battle it out with ...

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SXSW: Top web sites finalists

March 7th, 2007 Mitch Brisebois No comments
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The finalists for top cool web sites have been announced at the South by Southwest festival in Austin... check them out![tags]SXSW, cool-sites[/tags]

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QA Love: Drops, Coke, Melting points and Australian bugs

March 7th, 2007 Mitch Brisebois 1 comment
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Quality Assurance for software is a good thing. It's amazing how sophisticated the tools have become. Back when we used to "do" phones, QA also involved physical tests. Those were a blast to watch at Nortel's special "torture lab" in Kanata. The standard test was dropping the phones (at least 5 feet.) There was a ...

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Baxter the Blogging Beagle: Deep thoughts

March 6th, 2007 Baxter 1 comment
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It's lonely being a blogging dog! Here's my top 10+1 thoughts.... 1. In the blogosphere no one knows you're a beagle. 2. Google Analytics gives me tics. 3. I upgraded to BonePress 2.12 4. I'm the tail that wags the blog. 5. I'll blog-roll-over for bacon! 6. I'm just a blogolo... 7. Forget 9 lives, I'm on 9 Rules! 8. There's Google ...

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Voskresenskoye: Where in the world is SensoryMetrics?

March 5th, 2007 Mitch Brisebois 1 comment
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Passing thought... Do you ever look at your web stats and notice strange geographical trends?? Well, this week we seem to be really hot in Voskresenskoye, Russia. Welcome SensoryVoskies! The web is a wonder.

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Blogger berates bungling blower

March 5th, 2007 Mitch Brisebois No comments
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SensoryMetrics friend Rich Loen dropped us a note announcing his latest blog - Review Ottawa . His motivation was the absolutely horrible service he was getting from his snow removal contractor. It didn't take long for a throng of like-minded Tony bashers to find the site. As Rich points out, The ...

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My USPTO: Patent office goes wiki-crazy with third party review scheme

March 5th, 2007 Mitch Brisebois No comments
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In its 2007 strategic review , The US patent office states that it can not examine patent applications in a timely fashion. It also states that the quality of the examinations has suffered because of the workload. With partner IBM (the world's most prolific inventor) it will implement a wikipedia-style system that allows ...

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