Skype To Have an IPO In 2010–Maybe

Hot on the heels of the rumor of a potential resale to its founders, Skype’s parent eBay has announced the intention to spin the company off as a public offering in 2010. Clearly a lot is going on inside the palace of eBay and internally at Skype. The management team is the kind of team … Read more

Secure Mobile VoIP Now Available

A UK company, CellCrypt is now offering secure mobile VoIP calling. For years people have always worried if their cell phone calls can be monitored. Those inside the industry know it was always possible. This solution sounds like another step in the right direction to protect your communications, as long as the algorithm includes the … Read more

Qik and MaxRoam Partner on Global Roaming

QIK and Cubic Telecom, led by pal Pat Phelan, have taken the first step towards helping traveling mobile users save money on more than calls, by launching a mobile roaming platform, called QikRoam, that includes discounted global data roaming. First, as one of the founders of Cubic Telecom shared with me a few months back … Read more

EU Taking on The GSM Cartel In Europe

It looks like the EU is gearing up to battle the GSM carrier cartel across the continent with a broad sweeping ban on the blocking of VoIP over 3G. This would be huge news for companies like Skype and Truphone, and given the rumors of Skype being for sale, change the groundrules, as eBay would … Read more

Pocket Meeting

ReadWriteWeb has the goods on a new, lightweight, screen sharing web presentation platform called PocketMeeting that looks very reasonable and sounds very good. While the concept seems very logical, the question of business survivability has to be considered vs. WebEx. The dot.com industry is littered with web conferencing companies that are no longer around. What’s … Read more

Pocket Meeting

ReadWriteWeb has the goods on a new, lightweight, screen sharing web presentation platform called PocketMeeting that looks very reasonable and sounds very good. While the concept seems very logical, the question of business survivability has to be considered vs. WebEx. The dot.com industry is littered with web conferencing companies that are no longer around. What’s … Read more

App Store Mania What May Be Next

GigaOm’s Om Malik has a post today about the overwhelming success of the Apple App Store and how it has fostered a look a like “me too, me also” approach by many of the other handset developers like RIM, Nokia, Android who have use the app store model as a way of working with developers. … Read more

The Perils of These Times

Alec Saunders hired an independent developer for iotum to develop a version of Calliflower for the iPhone. Now due to a variety of factors iotum and the developer are at odds As a supplier of services to iotum since before their DEMO God winning debut, we have taken the different approach, choosing to trust the … Read more