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Ed. - To warm us up for the forthcoming Telco 2.0 Exec Brainstorms on new business models (next week in London and 9-10 Dec in Orlando, Florida), Telco 2.0 is blogging from eComm this week. This is probably the best event series on strategic technology developments, and we’re delighted to partner with it. Below are some highlights so far. NB: Google Wave users can follow the conference backchannel by searching “tag:eComm with:public”; presentations will be posted to the individual session waves in due course. eComm is, of course, a good listening post for monitoring the progress of Voice 2.0. The news is that once you get out here to the cutting edge, it’s already taken as given that voice is an application and that value will be created in future by integrating it with other processes, applications, and services. So Voxeo demonstrated their new Tropo.com cloud telephony platform; this provides an API for scripting-language developers to use in creating applic

Ed. - To warm us up for the forthcoming Telco 2.0 Exec Brainstorms on new business models (next week in London and 9-10 Dec in Orlando, Florida), Telco 2.0 is blogging from eComm this week. This is probably the best event series on strategic technology developments, and we’re delighted to partner with it. Below are some highlights so far. NB: Google Wave users can follow the conference backchannel by searching “tag:eComm with:public”; presentations will be posted to the individual session waves in due course. Benoit Felten introduced a presentation typically rich in chewy data on an economic model of FTTH deployment he and his Yankee Group colleagues have prepared. The take-home message is that their sensitivity analysis shows that the primary drivers of return on investment in FTTH deployments are: The take-up rate Cost per home passed Open access By comparison, initiatives intended to drive up ARPU had a negligible impact on the business case for fibre. Euros spe

Dodgy Linux distribution taken downOn Wednesday, a brief rash of Twitter posts suggested that the search behemoth had released a preview version of its forthcoming Chrome OS. An official-looking page offered the opportunity to download the public beta as a VMWare appliance, but it turns out that the download was a fake. The site, hosted on Google's web-hosting service, has since been shut down.

Android 2.0 to offer turn by turn directionsIf you're an Android user, Google is hoping to help you get where you're going.

Ed. - To warm us up for the forthcoming Telco 2.0 Exec Brainstorms on new business models (next week in London and 9-10 Dec in Orlando, Florida), Telco 2.0 is blogging from eComm this week. This is probably the best event series on strategic technology developments, and we’re delighted to partner with it. Below are some highlights so far. NB: Google Wave users can follow the conference backchannel by searching “tag:eComm with:public”; presentations will be posted to the individual session waves in due course. Spectrum and LTE: promise and reality Telco 2.0 ally Brough Turner argues that the scarcity of radio spectrum is an illusion brought on by telcos and the limits of current receiver technology. He described experiments in measuring the actual utilisation rate of the US CMRS (Cellular mobile Radio Systems) bands; the highest utilisation rate they were able to observe was only 13%, during a US political party convention. Surely, then, there’s plenty of room

Google Voice is now blocking calls to less than 100 numbers it believes are adult chat lines or free conference call services looking to exploit traffic-pumping schemes, Google told the Federal Communications Commission. The question remains whether this will satisfy the FCC and quell the grousing from Google's new telecom nemesis AT T, which in September accused the Google Voice service of blocking calls to certain rural areas and asked the FCC to look into whether Google was violating network neutrality rules. - Google Voice is now blocking calls to less than 100 numbers it believes are adult chat lines or free conference call services looking to exploit traffic-pumping schemes, Google told the Federal Communications Commission in a letter Oct. 28. Google Voice is the search engine company's free phone ...

The more that competitors and others go after Google, the better the indicators that the tech titan is doing something right.

GOOGLE has won its highest-profile US customer in its battle with Microsoft to provide e-mail and other internet services to businesses.