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It is with the most profound sadness that I have to report the the untimely passing of Russell Shaw, a blogger, journalist and friend.

Russell passed away suddenly in his hotel room in San Jose Thursday night or early Friday morning. According to his girlfriend whom I spoke with after being advised of Russell’s unexpected death by CNET Editor in Chief, Dan Farber just moments ago.

Russell was best known for his BlackBerry blog that he was often the most proud of and his work with ZD Net where he blogged on all things Telecom.

According to Ellen, Russell had been suffering a very bad cold for a few days and been traveling across the USA. She spoke to him the night before and they were discussing how he could return back to Portland. He was found by the hotel housekeeper when he didn’t answer his door after check out time on Friday, having traveled to Silcon Valley to attend eComm.

I know all of us in the VoIP world will miss his style, wit and friendly manner.

Rest In Peace, Russell, from all of us.

Update: Dan Farber, Editor in Chief of CNET, and Russell’s former editor at ZD-Net adds his thoughts.

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p-news.comBroadband service provider Danawa Resources has deployed the Stratus ENTICE E-Rev telecommuications platform in order to increase their operations in the residential, enterprise and …

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p-news.comWIth a unified communications and collaboration, you can streamline business processes, accelerate decision-making, enhance the customer experience and improve your organization’s …

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p-news.comMIPS Technologies, Inc.’s synthesizable MIPS32 24KEc processor core is powering Ralink’s RT3052 and RT3050 802.11n Single Chip Access Point/router SoCs. The core allows the devices …

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p-news.comOptimus Telecomunicacoes of Portugal will be using BroadSoft, Inc.’s BroadWorks(R) VoIP application platform for a new residential VoIP service that will combine mobile services with …

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p-news.comLooking to save money on calling? Ring Plus has the ticket. The VoIP provider now offers free ad-supported calls. Yes, I did say free.
Just think, you could pay only for internet service …

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p-news.comTelwise Corporation is going to provide VoIP service for mobiclear, which will be used for calling customers who use their PIV security.
“mobiclear’s PIV technology requires an …

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For several months, I have had AT&T’s  Internet Max service which gives me 10MB speed in the house.
Frankly, I don’t see a huge difference. 
I am going back to the Elite service …

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p-news.comEveryday now, we are hearing stories of people and businesses losing to the faltering economy. That’s driving those same people and businesses to grasp for anything that can help …

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According to a survey by NDS, consumers worldwide rank the digital video recorder (DVR) as the second most essential household technology item they can’t live without, beaten only by the mobile
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p-news.comVerizon Business has released a new managed unified communications and collaboration solution via Cisco Unified Communications Manager 6.1. The managed platform allows workers to integrate …

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p-news.comNexHorizon Communications is going to use Blankhom’s turnkey digital cable solution and plans to use the company as its exclusive provider for future systems.
According to the companies: …

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At first glance, the just announced i.TV free programming guide for the
iPhone would be a really handy tool for checking out the latest programming on AT&T’s U-verse.

On small problem. …

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I’m getting calls and emails from friends asking me if it’s really true.  Finally, the White House makes it official.

Yes, George W. Bush visited the Olmos Soda Fountain yesterday.  …

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p-news.comNeuStar, Inc. has successfully trialed its SIP-IX VoIP Interconnection Exchange service. The company used four competitive local exchange providers for the trial.
“We’re glad to …

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p-news.comBroadlight is using the CEVA-Voice over Packet platform in their BL2348 GPON Residential Gateway System on Chip Solution. That’s a mouthful.
“BroadLight has a long history of developing …

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This is not a joke.
   
President George W. Bush stopped today to what serves as my editorial offices for this blog.
Read the story from the San Antonio "Express News" here.
My Robot …

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Feeling the credit crunch?

No problem.
Why not tap into the millions of residential customers and create a special class of stock that could invest, say, $10 per month and buy into the new …

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p-news.comNortel is using Certicom’s security technology to improve cryptographic performance and simply application creation for its UC platform for U.S. Federal Government agencies.
According …

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p-news.comThere is a new service available from Chicago Business VoIP that is intended for companies with less than 10 employees. The service uses existing internet lines to transmit voice and …

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p-news.comHere’s a freaky one.
THe Taliban is using Skype to avoid detection. ComputerWeekly says that the easy to obtain communication method is hard for authorities to track or detect.
Here’s …