If this is an accurate account of how T-Mobile is operating in the USA, it has to go down as one of the all time DUMB moves. Imagine telling a cell phone customer that they can’t buy a new phone because they don’t have a land line. Suggestion: Buy a Skype In or Gizmo In … Read more
Years ago Microsoft and Qualcomm created a venture called Wireless Knowledge, sometime within the first year the venture sort of went sideways and the two slowly separated a lot quieter than they announced the marriage.
Now I see some of what the claims from back then of what the venture was to do making the light of day, only this time Microsoft is at it with a Qualcomm partner in Sprint, but without the kings of CDMA.
Stuart’s Skype Journal has good news for Pocket PC users. An upgraded release from Skype which fixes many bugs and adds more of the PC client features. Way to go Skype. Now since Skype Journal didn’t have the link to the download, I’m adding it here.
Jon Arnold’s Blog means Mark Evans now has some real competition in the Toronto area for blogging on VoIP. If you don’t know Jon, you should. He’s freshly thawed from the team at Frost and Sullivan.
iNeen is a new service from XTEN. Using the Eyebeam technology and SIP you can make free calls to other ineen users. In a way this is a lot like GloPhone without the hype and with Video. With this out there for free the pressure is now on Packet8 and Sightspeed to say why they are … Read more
Aswath does a parody of the famous “I have a dream” speech by Dr. Martin Luther King. It is brilliant, witty and well done, in a tasteful manner.
While not VoIP related, Today’s New York Times has a story on how blogging is impacting the world of gossip in the media. In the past, when sources mattered, scoops were the key and reporters valued relationships and sought to build new ones, as one never knew where that would lead. Today, reporters and editors … Read more
A lot of media coverage has fallen on Vonage’s complaints about Port Blocking by a couple of companies. The real credit goes to Paul Kapustka, who has been like a proverbial bloodhound on breaking and covering the story from its very start. Kapustka, editor of Advanced IP Pipeline for CMP. He’s been on the story … Read more
AT&T is keeping its game going on a global level with VoIP as they have announced a customer win in Japan. As I keep saying, AT&T’s CallVantage is NOT simply a consumer customer play and their goal is farther reaching than Vonage or Packet8 which clearly are both starting in the home market and will … Read more
EuroTelcoblog’s James Enck discovers a flaw in the Skype multi user chat system and waxes on about it. One of the aspects of Skype I see is some type of social networking feature being overlayed with it. The Pulver Communicator already has this type of feature built in but until the type of trust system … Read more
