The PBX Blog

07/16/2013

Bezos' Law

Computing Over Time When we think about advances in computing power, most people think of Moore’s Law, Kryder’s Law, or Nielsen’s law, which are about the pace of technical development. Moore’s law is the most well known, and talks about the … Continue…

05/20/2013

How Twilio Might Raise their 50M Series D Round

It’s Clobbering Time!! Twilio is a marketing juggernaut and probably the best developer evangelism organization in the valley (maybe the world). They have amazing documentation, a lot of great engineering talent and a business model that can scale. They…

05/13/2013

Carrier Subsidies and Fuzzy Math

Fuzzy Math Ol’ G Dubya is out of the Whitehouse but we’ve still got a lot of fuzzy arithmetic to sort through. T-Mobile is the latest guilty party, what with their advertising reaching the level of “deception”. I’ve got nothing … Continue reading →

05/09/2013

Finding the Prettiest Girl at the Dance

The State of the Art in Unified Communications is becoming boring. Telling the difference between vendors is becoming an exercise in the minute details of RFP processes. It wasn’t always this way, and here my friend Dave Michels of TalkingPointz has ……

05/08/2013

How Wiretapping in the US helps Oppressive Regimes Monitor Web Traffic

Technology This is a technical discussion of how US policies enable Oppressive Regimes to monitor their citizens web traffic. I’m not going to discuss the legality of these methods or their ethical place in society. I’m only talking about the … Continue…

05/06/2013

What is Proximal Networking and why should I care?

Proximal Networking The Problem Seems like there’s a new networking idea in town, and it’s got some very interesting properties. When thinking of wireless networking, today we all communicate via access point nodes either on Wifi Access points or through…

04/15/2013

Sprint, Softbank and Dish: The Love Triangle from Hell

The Love Triangle from Hell It was bound to happen. Sprint, the 3rd place American Network operator, has been looking for suitors for some time and with a price tag north of $20 Billion, it’s a big acquisition target. Softbank, … Continue reading →

03/19/2013

How Swatting Works Brian Krebs, an investigative journalist working for the Washington post, has the dubious distinction of being one of the first journalists to be “Swatted”. For those of you not up on the hacker nomenclature, “Swatting” is the practice…

03/04/2013

A Tale of Two Startups We are citizens of a global village. Some of us are more tied to one particular area, but we are all members of a growing global society. The connections that bind us seem to grow … Continue reading →

02/06/2013

Disclaimer: At the time of this article’s publication, Joshua works at 2600hz in a marketing capacity. The thoughts and opinions expressed in this piece are his own and not reflective of 2600hz opinions. Bugs Bunny and the Oracle of … Continue reading →

01/25/2013

Well. Last week I wrote about how Facebook blocked Voxer’s access to their API. Today Facebook clarified that their reason for doing this was because it replicated core Facebook functionality. This feature is the VoIP calling that Facebook added about ……

01/19/2013

3rd Party API’s and Your Business Facebook, Twitter and many other massive corporations have treasure troves of data just waiting to be harnessed. As an app developer, you can use this data to build an empire, just like Twitter (which … Continue reading →