Andy Abramson Well after a lot of lead up and advance work by the Skype PR Team, the Skype 4.0 beta is due out for testing very soon. I think it looks like the best Skype PC version since the first one…it’s got a big screen cinematic like look and feel. I’m one who uses a Windows … Read more
Here come the big tanks. Now that the cable guys have proven they can sell voice as well or better than the phone company they are turning their focus to the business market.
I was interviewed recently by Steve Tanner of California Executive on how as a small business (we now have 20 team members spread across the nation) we can use technology to be more efficient. I gave Steve all kinds of ideas including Boingo, GrandCentral, PhoneFusion, HighDef Conferencing, Iotum’s Free Conference Calling, Truphone (many of them … Read more
I hear through the grapevine that some people actually showed up in Amsterdam for VON earlier this month. Either they were living under a rock in the VoIP and Telcom world or they wanted a free trip on their company’s dime.
With AOL failing at VoIP, and with Yahoo virtually outsourcing to Jajah, with Google not doing much talk over Google Talk, it’s no surprise that Microsoft has put itself (and the market) into an interesting “let’s not do anything for now” position when it comes to VoIP. MSFT has had SIP in Windows since the … Read more
We all have ideas we know one day will happen, and in the case of Paul Kapustka, who is now authoring SideCut Reports, he had an idea about bandwidth usage tracking that would help everyone who has an ISP who one day will start to measure. Can you spell CABLE and DSL providers? Wireless broadband … Read more
Subscribers to Telefonica’s O2 service in the UK who have an iPhone will enjoy free WiFi access at over 9,000 hotpots via BT OpenZone and The Cloud. If things are in place with roaming agreements the number could be even bigger potentially, but how the roaming works is usually agreements between the origination carrier and … Read more
Subscribers to Telefonica’s O2 service in the UK who have an iPhone will enjoy free WiFi access at over 9,000 hotpots via BT OpenZone and The Cloud. If things are in place with roaming agreements the number could be even bigger potentially, but how the roaming works is usually agreements between the origination carrier and … Read more
On the surface Verizon making the claim that they are going to expand in to the rural markets with their market leading FiOS is no big deal. But it is. For years the satellite and cable guys have had the run of the tier 2 markets to deliver television and now broadband data services as … Read more
TMC pointed me to a very nice report which shows the business of VoIP will be growing in the business space.
