Skype Alternatives

Looking for something other than Skype? If you check out this post by NetKraker from India you will see that it is an exact lift of the post that real blogger Nuno Bastai from 21Talks.com wrote back in March.It’s well written and features one of my agency’s clients, SightSpeed. 21Talks.com is a great source of … Read more

VoIP Peering On The Grow

I’m a big believer in the need for peering in the VoIP world so when a green circle member tipped me off to the relationship between Stealth Communications and Infonxx I had to link to it. This is good news in my view as it means that more calls that start as VoIP can remain … Read more

Retro Phones Are Back

The saying “what’s old is new again” clearly applies here with these retro style phone handsets from Hulger now working with VoIP. Talk about a physical mashup. These very cool designs are trendy and hip and if they sound as good as they look, they could usher in a whole new Shagadelic era for VoIP.

Data Cards Coming of Age

The San Francisco Chronicle’s Ryan Kim has a nice recap of the expanding use of Wireless Data cards by companies here in California. While the cards, either EvDO (Sprint and Verizon) or UMTS/EDGE from Cingular are useful on downloads, the upload speeds, and the potential restriction of what you can use them for remain the … Read more

We The People….

Jeff Pulver and all the rest are taking a stand on freedom. Freedom from opression. Freedom from tyranical rulers. Freedom from despots. And the freedom to choose. Back in 1984 Judge Greene broke up the Bell system and in just 22 years his landmark ruling has basically been overturned, not by a higher court, but … Read more

More Rough Sailing For Vonage

It looks like being a lawyer for Vonage means you used to work for a firm that represented Microsoft as yet two more law suits over the falling IPO continue to mount. This one though could have ramifications in many directions, especially if you were deemed an insider and have to now prove you were … Read more

NY Times on Bells Feeling The Pressure

With only three Bell companies left, AT&T, Verizon and Qwest, you think with all their experience, expertise and distribution they would figure out how to win the VoIP battle against the renegade upstarts like Vonage, Packet 8 and Skype or fight the good fight against their version of the federation, the cable companies. Today’s New … Read more

Ken Camp On Unified Communications

Ken Camp has written one of the most powerful and compelling posts on the subject of Microsoft’s Unified Communications efforts and in doing so has clearly made iotum an even more significant player in the game. What’s more I’m both professionally and personally gratified by the comments by Ken and others that say so many … Read more