Bruce Stewart

Biography

Bruce Stewart received a degree in Computer Science from Sonoma State University, but started working in telecommunications while still an undergraduate. After working on several large PBX installations, Bruce went on to manage the Telecom departments for two universities. Now focused on editorial endeavors, Bruce is a freelance technology writer and editor and an active parent of two young boys. When he's not writing or building Lego projects, Bruce is the editor of O'Reilly's Emerging Telephony and MacDevCenter.com sites.

Articles

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An Interview with Toby Segaran
Publish Date: Nov. 14, 2007Toby Segaran is the author of Programming Collective Intelligence. We recently spoke to him about his new book and why these kind of machine learning techniques are so important in the Web 2.0 era. O'Reilly Happenings at Macworld SF 2007
Publish Date: Dec. 11, 2006Macworld SF 2007 is shaping up to be a busy show for O'Reilly Media. We have great specials, lots of books, a full speaker lineup, and a menu of activities. Here's a comprehensive overview. An Interview with the Creator of FreeSWITCH
Publish Date: Jul. 25, 2006We talk with Anthony Minessale--the developer behind the FreeSWITCH open source telephony project--about the status of FreeSWITCH, how it compares to Asterisk, and Minessale's future plans. ETel Keynotes: An Interview with Norman Lewis
Publish Date: Dec. 16, 2005We recently talked to Norman Lewis, the director of research for France Telecom's Home office and a keynote speaker at our upcoming Emerging Telephony conference, about the state of the VoIP industry and the role of telcos in the future. Beyond Hacking the Xbox
Publish Date: Dec. 10, 2003Bruce Stewart interviews Andrew "bunnie" Huang, a featured speaker at O'Reilly's upcoming Emerging Technology Conference. In this interview, Andrew discusses flaws with the DMCA, the current states of reverse engineering and Moore's Law, what he's hacking now, and what he'll be speaking about at ETech. Information Architecture Meets Usability
Publish Date: May. 13, 2003An interview with information architect Lou Rosenfeld and web usability expert Steve Krug about the common pitfalls of their respective disciplines. Gosling on Bioinformatics
Publish Date: Feb. 5, 2003James Gosling is a VP and Fellow at Sun Microsystems, and a keynote speaker at this week's O'Reilly Bioinformatics Technology Conference. We talk with James about how Java is being used in bioinformatics, the BioJava project, and the challenges facing bioinformaticists. An Interview with Jim Kent
Publish Date: Dec. 11, 2002Open-data hero Jim Kent, who was instrumental in keeping the human genome data in the public domain, talks about the future of bioinformatics. Kent will accept the annual Bioinormatics.Org award in a plenary session at the upcoming O'Reilly Bioinformatics Technology Conference. Speaking About VoIP
Publish Date: Aug. 6, 2002The authors of Practical VoIP Using VOCAL discuss why VoIP is on the verge of taking off, and how their book and VOCAL are helping the community to grow and build VoIP applications. Making the Python Cookbook
Publish Date: Aug. 1, 2002The editors of the Python Cookbook describe the community effort involved in creating this recipe book. An Interview with Guido van Rossum
Publish Date: Jun. 4, 2002Python's founder talks about the future of the language and the benefits of open source development. Guido will be speaking at O'Reilly's upcoming Open Source Convention. Opening the Portal Into Your Television
Publish Date: May. 10, 2002An interview with Carl Malamud on Electronic Program Guides and the NetTopBox project, which hopes to aid in building a distributed, open media guide. Carl will present a session on NetTopBox at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention. Keeping Genome Data Open
Publish Date: Apr. 5, 2002Jim Kent was instrumental in keeping the human genome data in the public domain. Kent will be a keynote speaker at O'Reilly's Open Source Convention, and we recently talked to him about the importance of open data. Lincoln Stein's Keynote: Building a Bioinformatics Nation
Publish Date: Jan. 30, 2002Addressing bioinformatics data providers, Lincoln Stein describes the benefits of moving towards a formal Web services model. Ewan Birney's Keynote: A Case for Open Source Bioinformatics
Publish Date: Jan. 29, 2002Ewan Birney delivered a rousing keynote on Open Source Bioinformatics, describing the emerging discipline and telling why bioinformatics software should be open source.

Blog

ETel 2008 Cancelled

October 12 2007

I'm sorry to report that the 2008 O'Reilly Emerging Telephony conference has been cancelled. From the conference web site: Due to changed circumstances since ETel 2008 was announced, we have decided not to move forward with the conference this year.... read more

Digium Buys Switchvox

September 27 2007

An interesting move by Digium today as they've announced the acquisition of Switchvox, a provider of SMB IP PBX systems. Digium has an informative FAQ up on its site about the deal. This move gives Digium a turnkey SMB system,... read more

Propel Launches Personal Bandwidth Manager

September 27 2007

Propel, the company behind the most widely used Internet accelerator by ISPs has just announced an interesting new product for consumers who want to manage their own bandwidth usage. The Propel Personal Bandwidth Manager (PBM) could be especially relevant for... read more

Truphone DEMOs Voip on iPhone

September 26 2007

Truphone participated in this year's prestigious DEMO conference and the highlight of their presentation was showing off the running of their voip service on Apple's iPhone. Andy Abramson has all of the details, as well as a video of the... read more

The End Of The Language Barrier

September 11 2007

O'Reilly author and ETel regular Brian McConnell has just published a thought provoking essay, The End Of The Language Barrier. Brian is the the leader of the Worldwide Lexicon project, which we've highlighted here before. He predicts that the language... read more

MacVoices Interviews Tatiana Apandi on O'Reilly's "Women in Technology" Series

September 11 2007

O’Reilly Editor Tatiana Apandi talks to Chuck Joiner of MacVoices about the Women in Technology series on the O’Reilly Network, how it came to be, and what she wants to accomplish by giving a voice to a wide variety of women in the technology industry. Tatiana shares some of her… read more

Kajeet: A MVNO for Tweens

September 10 2007

The MVNO market is a tough one, and most companies who have tried to make it work have flamed out. Amp'd was the most recent MVNO to go belly-up, after burning through $360 million. There's a relatively new entrant in... read more

NAS for the Masses

September 10 2007

I receive (and ignore) a lot of press releases and new product announcements, but this one caught my eye and looks pretty interesting. MicroNet has just released a low-end NAS storage solution that can put terrabytes of storage into your home network for a surprisingly affordable price — their 1TB… read more

Nokia E70 vs. iPhone

August 29 2007

While it takes Nokia's marketing department to task, this rather off-color comparison of the E70 to the iPhone from maddox's The Best Page in the Universe has to be causing some smiles back in Finland. I'm having trouble finding a... read more

IBM to Buy WebDialogs

August 23 2007

Dan York broke the news from VoiceCon that IBM has just announced its acquisition of WebDialogs, maker of the popular Unyte web conferencing and collaboration software that works in conjunction with Skype (and other platforms). I think that’s great news for WebDialogs and the Skype ecosystem, and a smart move… read more

iPhone 1.0.2 Update Available, Boosts WiFi?

August 23 2007

The second iPhone update was released earlier this week, officially released for undescribed “bug fixes”. There have been reports that the 1.0.2 update improves scrolling in Safari and that it may even boost the phone’s WiFi reception. The update reportedly uses a validation process to wipe out hacked versions which… read more

ETel 2008 Call for Participation Now Open

August 21 2007

The Call for Participation for our next Emerging Telephony conference is now open. This is my favorite conference of the year, and not just because I work for O’Reilly. ETel has become a showcase for the most interesting and innovative things happening in telecommunications. We welcome plenary submissions for our… read more

Skype Outage Caused by Windows Updates?

August 20 2007

The latest news from Skype about their recent major outage is pointing the finger towards the autmatic Windows Update feature. Well, to be fair, they are actually blaming a “a previously unseen software bug within the network resource allocation algorithm which prevented the self-healing function from working quickly.” But the… read more

How's .Mac Looking Now?

August 08 2007

We’ve done a lot of grousing about Apple’s .Mac service here over the past couple of years, so I was happy to hear yesterday that it’s getting a long-deserved update. The new .Mac service now includes a fairly slick web photo gallery, which integrates nicely with the iTunes and the… read more

OSCON Video of Simon Peyton Jones' Haskell Tutorial

August 02 2007

Simon Peyton Jones, author of the "Beautiful Concurrency" chapter, presented this well received Haskell tutorial at OSCON. Update: This tutorial is split up into two videos, the second part is here. (Thanks, Brian!)... read more