Lawsuits Aside Vonage Is Nothing Much

In what is a rapid, but fact filled post that deserves your attention, David Beckemeyer, co-founder of Earthlink, inventor of PhoneGnome and not so masked Mr. Blog has a riveting account about the trails and tribulations of why Vonage is a doomed failure regardless of the lawsuit from Verizon and another one from Sprint that’s … Read more

E911 Back In the Dirt

As if there weren’t enough issues looming around VoIP related to patents, it seems the US Senate is looking again into E911 according to a post on TechDirt. This is a volatile issue, and one that needs addressing, but rather than piecemeal out how E911 is handled for landlines, VoIP, Mobile and other devices, a … Read more

Congrats To A Virtual Friend

One of the first bloggers I started to read was Glenn Fleishman. Over the years Glenn and I have corresponded on the subject of WiFi, for which he is the majordomo of bloggers along with Esme Vos (who was featured in San Francisco Magazine this month looking oh so beautiful as ever). So with the … Read more

Playing With Video From Far Away

Ken Rutkowski and I co-host a daily show called the World Technology RoundUp on KenRadio and have for the past nine years together. Today we played with Skype Video, which while improving still doesn’t hold a candle to SightSpeed (who I will admit is a client of my agency.) We also did something very neat. … Read more

Skype On A GiveAway Craze

Earlier in the week I mentioned a Skype and CrunchGear promotion. Now it seems that Skype and Laptop Magazine are doing something similar. What does this tell me? Well for starters it means that Skype is getting around to tying in their partners like SMC and FON, bringing that to media partners for trade or … Read more

Vonage CEO Steps Out

How Jeffrey Citron can be running a public company as Interim CEO likely needs some explaining, but the big news this morning is the stepping down of CEO and Director Mike Snyder from Vonage, the legally troubled VoIP provider. As part of the announcement Vonage also announced that layoffs will be implemented to help slow … Read more

How To Make Your Nokia N95 100 Percent

It seems some of the global mobile carriers in some parts of the world just can’t let a great phone stay great. I’m referring to the Nokia N95 that has more bells and whistles than just about any mobile phone on the planet. So just like Cingular disemboweled the Nokia E61 and gave the USA … Read more

SUNY Buffalo Switches to VoIP

For a college campus like SUNY Buffalo, in western New York State the switch to VoIP will cost a mere $3 million. That puts them on same playing field as most enterprise size sales to companies. The upgrade and switch will take place over a three year period. Last to get upgraded will be the … Read more