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Why A Cellular Carrier Did Not Buy Skype - Watching A Big Dumb Company Fail In Real Time

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billion caused me to recall an awkward meeting I had in 2005 with a particularly clueless group of cellular executives. Cool stuff for circa 2005, unless you were an idiot working for a cellular carrier. Nearly seven years later, this cellular carrier has still not incorporated IP telephony into their services.

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Interview with Steve Jillings, TeleSign

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Steve Jillings has a long track record of running successful startups in Southern California, ranging from such companies as FrontBridge Technologies (sold to Microsoft in 2005 for over $200M) and Vantage Media (acquired in 2007). Telesign provides authentication services for the largest web companies in the world.

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Interview with Curtis Staker and William Goldbach, Confident Technologies

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It has nine pictures or more on screen, and in each location there are pictures that contain pictures from your category or have different letters in different locations. When you're sitting at a computer with a known, registered IP, we know it is you and your particular category of images, and you can log in.