Someone wants to be a VoIP retailer. Good idea, but they will likely sell more over the web. Having a retail presence if done right, will go a long way to educate. I wonder how the manufacturers, who have never had a retail experience will react. This is great for Cisco via Linksys, D-Link and … Read more
Ted Shelton over at ipInferno which is one of the better blogs to follow, for like GigaOm, the approach is journalism first with informed and insightful opinion. Being that my agency represents Popular Telephony for their SuperComm efforts, offering others the oppotunity to tell the story. Ted, like Om Malik yesterday has proivided a very … Read more
As we reported yesterday on KenRadio’s World Technology Roundup, Yahoo has added the ability to terminate calls into Instant Messenger, but with a twist, here in the USA. Just like what they did with British Telecom (BT) they are doing that with carriers, rather than creating their own phone company using private labeled services from … Read more
QWEST, which has over the past three years been digging into the VoIP space, evaluating suppliers and building an all IP based network announced yesterday they have deployed OneFlex for the business market. Given they are both a Regional Bell Carrier and a Nationwide long distance supplier on the telco side, and global carrier on … Read more
Uber-tech blogger Om Malik on GigaOm has found a major crack in Skype, after talking with of Popular Telephony’s Dmitry Goroshevsky. And the crack is no hack, it’s a part of the software making Skype a more than mega security risk for networks large and small. That’s why Popular Telephony has a serverless peer-to-peer technology … Read more
We’ve been saying, well I’ve been saying for months here that QoS, services and applications are what matters in VoIP. So, I’m not surprised to be hearing those words come out of people’s mouths at SuperComm and in the traditional press. So, while two of the true giants, Cisco and IBM echo those sentiments, the … Read more
Om Malik at GigaOm breaks the story about Cablevision creating a one price bundle of VoIPm cable and high speed Internet all for $90.00. Compared to what I’m paying here in San Diego with Cox, plus Vonage or Call Vantage that is a 50 percent savings and worth serious consideratiion if Cablevision is your cable … Read more
Skype has released a beta of their Linux version as of today according to reports. While this is a boon to those who prefer to not be on Windows, this certainly broadens the reach of Skype and goes deeper into the early adopter techie world. With Skype on a Lindows/Linspire PC who needs SipPhone once … Read more
Peerio’s parent company, Popular Telephony has updated their web site with what is clearly the first in a series of announcements they will be making at Supercomm 2004 this week. What is clear is that Peerio is not simply a softphone application, and that Peerio is a technology that can be embedded into devices and … Read more
Bell Canada, in what is an obvious pre-emptive strike to deter consumers from switching to newcomers to the telephony services game, can you spell VoIP Vonage or Primus, has taken a major step to keep customers talking over their lines. Today they announced the lowering of the price to $5 dollars for 1000 minutes a … Read more
