Andy Abramson The UK version of ZD Net is rife with commentary about the lack of any forward movement by Skype since the non-event arrival of the very silent, Josh Silverman. In the case of the ZDNet story, my guess is now that Silverman has had a few months under his belt that Skype will shortly come … Read more
With Telco 2.0 looming this week in London this story is rather timely. WireOne, a video conferencing service provider has been acquired by British Telecom. Long regarded as one of the more forward thinking and inventive telecom companies, BT is making the move to augment their video related comms offerings at a time where everyone … Read more
TechCrunch is reporting an outage with former client GrandCentral. I have sent emails to founders Craig Walker and Vincent Paquet to try to get some kind of status update. Update–at 1156 AM PDT the service is back up and running.
As many of you may know, for the past six months or so I’ve been spending many days and nights on the road. Hotels and serviced apartments, flights that take anywhere from an hour to overnight are a staple in my life, and so is broadband access. But of late, I’ve noticed a few things … Read more
Much to many people’s surprise this morning some of the always reliable T-Mobile Hotspots in Manhattan stopped working. It seems T-Mobile has a massive outage affecting the Big Apple this morning, and according to Hotspot support there isn’t any estimated repair time known yet. The outage this morning that currently affects all T-Mobile Hotspot users … Read more
I hear that Fonality is doing an overhaul of Trixbox. It’s all geared for solution providers. The news is supposed to be out soon, but with some travel planned I figured I’d point it out now. Fonality is clearly in a spot where the VoIP world is watching. With offerings also pouring out of company’s … Read more
It’s a very good time to be in VoIP if you’re looking for work. This report shows that VoIP will become a bigger sector for employment this year.
In an attempt to stem the tide of defections to VoIP players like Vonage, AT&T’s CallVantage, Earthlink’s TruVoice, Broadvoice as well as to the cable MSO’s, Sprint fixed line spinoff Embarq has announced the release of the eGo phone, a new device with 2.0 features like visual voice mail, on screen directory (sounds like the … Read more
Jajah is making noise that they will be in the call through business and will offer Mobile VoIP come this summer, in addition to their call back service. This is a space and handset platform that will get very crowded quickly. Point of fact is that client Truphone demonstrated the potential to accomplish this feat … Read more
With a hattip to Fierce Wireless, now led by executive editor Doug Mohney, one has to recognize just how much of an impact IP communications is having on the legacy, fixed line phone business. It’s starting to show. This report, out of the UK, paints a very rosy picture for VoIP and Wireless, as well … Read more
