MobiVox Does It Right

I’ve been playing around with a few “minute stealing” concepts of late including Jajah who just raised a boatload of cash from Intel and a new startup out of Montreal called MobiVox. While Jajah is widely known, Mobivox is just getting known after being around for about a year under the name of VoxLib. What … Read more

More Use of SightSpeed by Viacom Networks

Peter Csathy, on his blog today, waxes on about the second Viacom network to add real time video interaction between the show and the video audience. To me this is the radio call in gone the video route, something that never worked well with just voice. From a technical standpoint, Viacom had their choice of … Read more

AT&T Playing It Safe

AT&T CallVantage customers who are not officially where the E911 service is located (i.e. those that lie) are getting served with disconnect notices. I hear the same thing is happening with some AIM PhoneLine customers as well from the AOL exec on the project. This is really about playing it safe and minimizing risk for … Read more

Trustive Grows Their Portfolio

Europeans who use WiFi are likely more aware of Trustive than many in other parts of the world. The hotspot access aggregator is similar to Boingo here in the USA, and has taken aim at the SMB/SME market going after the same customer base that iPass and GRIC have had mostly free reign with for … Read more

Sonus Keeps Winning Business

One of the companies that people fail to realize that had roots in the dot.com era is Sonus. Over time they have overcome adversity and become the go to choice for the telco more and more frequently, as they now are winning business from the top line carriers like France Telecom that was announced today. … Read more

Mig33 Raises Ten Million

One of the companies at Om Malik and Surj Patel’s Launchpad event that I liked was Mig33. It seems they have finally gotten around to announcing their funding from Accel and Redpoint. This tells me a major push is about to happen. Expect new hires, some new deals and lots of buzz around this blended … Read more

Accenture Using Social Networking Like Presence

It looks like big business IT consulting giant Accenture is taking a page out of the teenager’s lifestyle site MySpace and launching a personal presence and find me set directory for their employees that will combine the 2.0 concept of Presence with VoIP. In my view this is a perfect mashup for client iotum from … Read more