After a wedding tonight with my fiance, I’m off mid morning on Monday for the Internet Telephony VoIP 2.0 conference. I’m excited as not only will it be a great warm up for VON in two weeks but I’ll get to catch up with some friend sooner than March. I’m moderating a Service Provider Panel … Read more
BeyondVC: Highlights from a recent VC panel With so many new and early stage VoIP companies securing VC money, I thought this post from Ed Sim @ BeyondVC was rather interesting on how VC’s look at companies these days. A second post he made about the selling by startups in the business development process is equally … Read more
I’m starting to get excited about next week’s Internet Telephony show in Miami. Other than the cross country flight, I think this week’s show will be a very good warm up for the March VON. Why? Because many companies will be making announcements, but I fully expect the big bombs to be dropped in March … Read more
Unbound Spiral: Peter “Skype” Cochrane is a wonderful read about alternative telephony…Good find Stuart !
Telepocalypse by Martin Geddes: Skype segments Martin is talking Balkanization of mobile phone traffic. I see the MVNO called Skype Wireless coming. It doesn’t need to be run by SKYPE. All it needs to do is carry their branding. Heck, Earthlink already does it so why can’t SKYPE, YAHOO, MSN, AOL…cable companies, etc….and you wonder why … Read more
Unbound Spiral: Skype The Mobile Operators Friend? Another good assessment from Stuart about Skype. All Skype is doing is having their software embedded so a Skype call can end up on a cell phone’s handset and vice versa can be made. I don’t think it’s overly complicated and is much like the ability to have Instant … Read more
Unbound Spiral: Teleo Tallyho Stuart reviews Teleo. From what I can see it’s just one more SIP based softphone company with lots of Apple ease of use to it. Stuart says he wants to dump Vonage. I’m in the other court. My Vonage and also my Webley/Communikate softphones have save my bacon more times than I … Read more
Telepocalypse by Martin Geddes: BT Miscommunicator go Martin…. These things happen when you’re heading to the beach and still want to stay connected……
Skype is joining up with Motorola. What I find so interesting is not that this is happening, but that Motorola by announcing this clearly is saying to the carriers, we’re not your puppets, we’re not your slaves. So many companies in the handset world have kow-towed to the carriers. My Audiovox 6600 Windows Mobile originally … Read more
EuroTelcoblog takes a spin on the Lucent XTEN collaboration, while linking Skype in the Motorola camp. I see the need for open source, open switchboard and open standards connectivity. Unless we work towards true interoperability we are facing a Balkanization of telephony and communications. That’s the issue we now have with Instant Messaging. We don’t need … Read more
