Author Archives: shidan
Shidan’s Quora Answers
What are the best phone systems for a small office? Shidan Gouran, Founded a CLEC and then a VoIP technology company. Your provider is half the equation, but having a solid, easy to use on-premise system that auto-configures your phones( …
Shidan’s Quora Answers
What are the best phone systems for a small office? Shidan Gouran, Founded a CLEC and then a VoIP technology company. Your provider is half the equation, but having a solid, easy to use on-premise system that auto-configures your phones( …
Interesting News Stories of the Week
Just a list of some of the tech news and papers that caught my eye this week: Delivery of Multiple siRNAs Using Lipid-Coated PLGA Nanoparticles for Treatment of Prostate Cancer Soft-lithography for medicine. It’s always great seeing nanotechnology in medicine. …
VoIP Drupal with Tropo How-to Part 1: Configuring
As promised from my post, Exploring Telco Clouds with VoIP Drupal, Tropo & Twilio, this is the first part of a how-to and hello-world for VoIP Drupal with Tropo as the backend service. The first step is to install Drupal …
Tech Predictions for 2012
This is a quick list, in no particular order, of predictions I have for IT related technology headlines in 2012: 1. A startup will nail indoor geolocation and the z-index problem. 2. There will be a host of innovations in …
Exploring Telco Clouds With VoIP Drupal, Tropo & Twilio
Every telecom related software and product that I have been involved with the last four years (and boy does time fly fast) has been on the device side and long gone are the days when I lived and breathed server …
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-12-11
Whoever picked the new background music at @RT_COM needs to see a psychiatrist. #
Shidan’s Quora Answers
Why do we often use GSM compression standards in VOIP rather than MP3 standards? Shidan Gouran, Founded a CLEC and then a VoIP technology company. Just to add to Tsahi's answer which is totally correct, codecs like MP3, AAC and …
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Are there any Android devices that offer hardware encryption for data protection? Shidan Gouran, Founded a company which are core developers of … The only solution that I'm aware of is that of Whisper Systems. It's only available on the …
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How many business people actually know all of the following well: Python, SQL, R, Excel, Hadoop? Shidan Gouran I think you have made a mistake and the ad was for a developer of a product/service used by business analysts. It …
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-11-28
Quora is one of my favorite new online toys but they really need to get rid of down-voting, doesn't do them any good. # @MikeDancy I'm not sure, you mean quinoa maybe? This is the type of question you should …
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What’s the best tool/platform for building a community (members) website that can be monetized (ie. with ads)? Shidan Gouran Drupal and WordPress are the most flexible CMS systems out there and have tons of hooks to change their behavior virtually …
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What are some best practices for mobile web development to reduce bandwidth usage? Shidan Gouran All the points in Bruce Alderson's answer to Web Development: What are some best practices for mobile web development to reduce bandwidth usage? are good. …
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How likely is it that Amazon will wrest control of Android away from Google, as Microsoft did to IBM with the PC? Shidan Gouran, Founded a company which are core developers of … I would have to disagree with Horace, …
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Does anyone use the GSMA OneAPI? Shidan Gouran, Founded a CLEC and then a VoIP technology company. I think Voxeo implements (among many other interfaces) some of the OneAPI interfaces, I don't remember which brand they use but you can …