As a journalist, (I even have my degree in Journalism from Temple University), I hate seeing stories like the one today in the Akron Beacon-Journal. It reminds me of the line my first mentor, the Wily Old Veteran, Sy Roseman, sarcastically told me when I was 16 and learning the craft of media relations from … Read more
It looks like Utah is looking closely at VoIP. While on the surface a harmless exploration, given Michael Powell’s feelings that VoIP should be unregulated, to see states get involved only will make it harder for the new telcos to emerge easily. What we could end up with, if the states each enact their own … Read more
Ted Rogers is the king of cable in Canada. He’s Rupert Murdoch and John Malone all rolled into one, only a tad more controlled. He’s planning to get the cable company into VoIP but has learned from the past. In this Toronto Star article one fact comes through. They know they own the customer already. … Read more
I’m not surprised that AOL has decided to dance in the telephony space, again. If you recall years back as they were growing in subscribers they offered a telephone service to subscribers at cheaper than cheap rates by reselling AT&T and handled the billing. Now they are going into Canada with a VoIP service that … Read more
This almost slipped by. It’s a way to enable PC-to-PC based conference calls over the net using one of the most popular contact management programs around, ACT!. Given it’s large user base, the folks at Voice Now have created a plug in that enables ACT to be the front end for voice conference calls. This … Read more
If Match.com or Love@AOL ever had a partner made in heaven for them, it has to be this web site. Imagine with bundled VoIP service, now a potential suitor can at least get an answer, even if it’s not the yes they’re looking for. The service, which is about to be bundled by some of … Read more
Turf battles between the DEA, FBI, CIA, NSA, the old BATF, Customs, Coast Guard and local law enforcement have been around for years. It’s the old, whose got a bigger pair of B&^*S, but now on the surface, an even bigger battle is brewing. It’s between the FCC and both the FBI and the DEA … Read more
One has to read between the lines and see who is being quoted to really seperate the wheat from the chaff. As more stories pour out about VoIP it is important to realize that the analysts at companies like Yankee Group and IDC are paid by the telcos and the next gen carriers, though not … Read more
In the era of the dot.com explosion, announcements like this were commonplace for start-up companies as a way of touting their value. More established and traditional players didn’t make announcements like these, citing the disclosure regulations, or claiming they were non-material to their earnings. Well it looks like in the VoIP era, all that is … Read more
Jeff Pulver reports in his blog that interconnects between users of Free World Dial Up and both Vonage and Packet 8 are just about to happen. This means with the tap of a few buttons on a PC or PDA users of the free service, who want to reach their friends using the pay VoIP … Read more
