North America to Embrace Voice over WiFi

According to eMarketer the North American Market is going to be the biggest Voice over WiFi market in the world. This has to be great news for my pal Steve Howe at Earthlink who is closing in on unveiling their new WiFi phone shortly, as well other WISP (Wireless Internet Service Providers) like Boingo. For … Read more

Grand Central and Gizmo In Sync

Matt Miller, Paul Kapustka, Alec Saunders, Garrett Smith and Ken Camp are all providing incredible analysis on the interoperability between GrandCentral and GizmoProject. Last night Craig Walker, CEO of GrandCentral was my first call to try it out. A few minutes earlier, Dameon (PhoneBoy) and I had just completed a Gizmo to Gizmo call on … Read more

Grand Central and Gizmo In Sync

Matt Miller, Paul Kapustka, Alec Saunders, Garrett Smith and Ken Camp are all providing incredible analysis on the interoperability between GrandCentral and GizmoProject. Last night Craig Walker, CEO of GrandCentral was my first call to try it out. A few minutes earlier, Dameon (PhoneBoy) and I had just completed a Gizmo to Gizmo call on … Read more

Jim Courtney on Being Always On (or Off)

Skype Journal’s Jim Courtney has a very insightful thought piece on the state of being always on and what the always connected folks can do about it. Jim is being daring, trying out new applications like FRING, TruPhone, iotum’s TalkNow and others on his devices. In doing so he’s breaking the same ground that other … Read more

Is Vonage Desperate?

Om Malik at GigaOm.com thinks so. Check out why he thinks the “Hail Mary” play around WiFi is nothing much and really more confusing to the market.

Skype Math

Skype Journal has some facts about Skype posted today. Basically the stats reveal that at maximum slightly under 2 percent of the downloads reflect users online versus downloads, but the downloads reflect almost a 3x download of Skype per user. Nowhere in the math are the corrections for those of us who have multiple devices … Read more

AT&T Picks Up The Videos

A few months back CNET/ZDNet put me up on stage and I produced a series at their very revealing white board. Now it seems the folks at AT&T who sponsored the series liked it so much they have promoted it via email and on their AT&T Network Exchange web site which is geared for the … Read more

eTel LaunchPad To Feature New VoIP Ideas

Om Malik of GigaOm and Surj Patel of O’Reilly’s Emerging Telephony event spent the last few months looking for what’s new in VoIP and have lined up seven companies to tell their story in seven minutes in front of the eTel faithful. –GrandCentral Communications –Jive Software –Cellcrypt –Peerant –mySay –Flat Planet Phone Co. –Mig33 The … Read more