Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> VoIPowering Your Office: Trixbox, the Complete PBX-in-a-Box
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | It's been awhile since we had a look at Trixbox, which used to
> | be Asterisk@Home, and which was really a business-grade PBX,
> | not a hobbyist's toy as the name implied.
> `----
>
> http://www.voipplanet.com/backgrounders/article.php/3681236
>
> Vodafone says VoIP is 'expensive' and 'unsafe'
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | Vodafone is telling customers that VoIP services are insecure -
> | even as Sky News is reporting that VoIP calls threaten our war
> | on terror because such calls can't be intercepted.
Vodaphonecrapola Corporation had made one of the largest
financial losses in history (about 20 billion pounds).
So, Who thinks its a good idea to deal with Vodaphonecrapola Corp?
They are a dangerously stupid organisation that also use
asstroturfers and went one step further - phone tapped their
perceived enemies.
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/07/voip_continues/
>
> Another case of self-serving FUD. Global warming, security, stability,
> Internet risk, peer to peer...
>
>
> Related:
>
> Too late to discredit open source, advocates say
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | "It's too late," exclaimed Winston Damarillo, founder and
> | chairman of software development firm Exist Global, in an
> | interview with Computerworld Philippines. "Open source
> | is all over the place."
> |
> | [...]
> |
> | Anson Uy, president of Touch Solutions (a Red Hat Linux company),
> | earlier on broke the news to Computerworld Philippines about the
> | alleged "funded missions" by some software firms to discredit open
> | source, although he did not identify any company.
> |
> | Anson revealed among the top three actions against FOSS are being
> | done through "sponsored studies, piracy of open source developers,
> | and bold press releases."
> `----
>
> http://www.linuxworld.com
news/2007/030607-too-late-to-discredit-open.html?fsrc=rss-linux-news
> http://tinyurl.com/2bj969
>
>
> 'Puppets' Emerge as Internet's Effective, and Deceptive, Salesmen
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | Each is an example of "astroturfing," or the attempt to create the
> | appearance of a grass-roots buzz for a product or service. "Trolls" are
> | users who enter online discussion forums solely to bash users or
> | products.
> |
> | When most people hear "sock puppet," they think "Lamb Chop," the
> | stocking sidekick of the late ventriloquist Shari Lewis. For guerrilla
> | Internet marketers, however, a sock puppet is a false online persona, a
> | virtual sock meant to conceal one's identity. It usually takes the form
> | of a second account set up by an existing user under another name.
> `----
>
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/06
AR2006100601742.html?nav=rss_technology
>
>
> A Wake-Up Call to Microsoft's PR Team
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | In 1998, the Los Angeles Times reported that Microsoft, during its
> | antitrust trials, hired PR companies to flood newspapers with fake
> | letters of support, bearing ordinary individuals' names but actually
> | written by Microsoft PR staff.
> |
> | Later, during the antitrust trials, Microsoft attempted to prove
> | the inseparability of Windows and Internet Explorer by playing a
> | video for the judge. But the government?s lawyer noticed that as
> | the tape rolled on, the number of icons on the desktop kept
> | changing. Microsoft had spliced together footage from different
> | computers to make its point.
> |
> | Then in 2002, Microsoft's Web site featured a testimonial called
> | "Confessions of a Mac to PC Convert," a first-person account by
> | an attractive brunette "freelance writer" about how she had fallen
> | in love with Windows XP.
> |
> | Unfortunately, a Slashdot member discovered that the identical
> | photo was available for rent from the stock-photo libraries of
> | GettyImages.com. Sure enough: Microsoft had hired a PR firm to
> | write the testimonial. The "switcher" did not actually exist.
> `----
>
> http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/01/25
a-wake-up-call-to-microsofts-pr-team/
>
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | Long before it employed bloggers to do the job for it, Microsoft hired
> | sympathetic members of the public to make its case in online forums,
> | posing as disinterested citizens. Things got much more professional as
> | the antitrust trial unfurled. After hiring DCI in the late 1990s,
> | Microsoft created two new trade groups, the Association for Competitive
> | Technology (ACT), and the Americans for Technology Leadership (ALT),
> | and marshaled campaigns such as "Freedom to Innovate" - encouraging
> | Windows users the chance to make spontaneous gestures of support for
> | Chairman Bill.
> |
> | These weren't always too successful. A campaign in 2001 to petition 17
> | state's Attorney Generals - who had pooled resources to bring their
> | own antitrust action against Microsoft - resulted in supportive letters
> | being written by dead people.
> |
> | And the astroturf taint continues today.
> |
> | Most recently, a spoof video portraying Al Gore as a Penguin was
> | reported to have originated from a computer registered to the DCI Group,
> | although the lobby group said it did not fund or approve the video.
> `----
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/14/google_lobby/
>
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | "Some years back, Microsoft practiced a lot of dirty tricks using
> | online mavens to go into forums and create Web sites extolling the
> | virtues of Windows over OS/2. They were dubbed the Microsoft Munchkins,
> | and it was obvious who they were and what they were up to. But their
> | numbers and energy (and they way they joined forces with nonaligned
> | dummies who liked to pile on) proved too much for IBM marketers, and
> | Windows won the operating-system war through fifth-column tactics"
> `----
>
> http://worldcadaccess.typepad.com/gizmos/2005/11/2_grassroots_an.html
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