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What Happened to Starium?

Posted by Cliff on from the where-are-they-now dept.

An anonymous reader asks: "I have been following the Starium voice encryption project for several years. They seem to have ended and their site is dead. I remember around 1998 and 1999, a lot of people were excited by what they were doing and some demo units were floating around. Eric Blossom was interviewed on Slashdot recently but he didn't mention it and all the posters asking about it were modded down. What happened to them?"

9 comments

  1. Slow down!! by tgrotvedt · · Score: 2

    Jeez, I can't get a word in here!

    --
    What makes a man want to be a mouse? (Python's Flying Circus)
  2. Didja ask 'em? by Trane+Francks · · Score: 4, Informative

    The web site shows current contact info:

    Starium LTD.
    1346 The Alameda
    Suite 7-171
    San Jose, CA
    95126

    Telephone:
    +1-831-624-3322

    Facsimile:
    +1-831-624-3373

    E Mail:
    sales@starium.com

    Did you actually try to contact the company to see if they'd be forthcoming with a tidbit of information?

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    ...a FreeDOS contributor: http://www.freedos.org/
  3. What happened to them? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I dunno. They were here a minute ago. What'd ya say to 'em?

  4. Starium? by belloc · · Score: 2


    'Nothing good ends in "-ium". Good things end with "-mania" and "-eteria".'

    -HJS

    Belloc

    --
    I got more rhymes than Jamaica got Mangoes.
  5. They're pretty much defunct by phr2 · · Score: 4, Informative

    They ran out of money like so many other dotcoms. There's some chance of a revival but I'm not holding my breath. I'll forward the url of this thread to Eric Blossom and maybe he'll post something. Meanwhile, here's a comparable product. And there's always Nautilus and PGPfone (disclosure: I'm a co-author of Nautilus).