Andy Abramson AOL is giving away phone numbers with AIM Phone Line for free and that’s a great way for people to start creating what I have tabbed Shadow Numbers. Now you can give someone your number and never have to worry that if you want to break of talking with them that your real number ever … Read more
I’m on the last day of a continual road trip that started before VON Europe. Tomorrow would be day 14 of non-stop away from home efforts. The interesting news obviously is the stock pricing of Vonage and their officially going public. Likely lost in all the hoopla around Vonage is the amended complaint by Streamcast … Read more
Tom Keating has the 411 on the upcoming Skype Developer’s Conference which I’m planning on attending in Las Vegas starting June 9. The three day event should be a blast. I’m already hearing from some other bloggers that they plan on coming too, so stay tuned as we’ll likely try to organize some kind of … Read more
I’m rather excited about the Google Talk announcement with Nokia and the Internet Tablet. I just bought two tablets, one for me, one for my fiance. The idea of a network appliance and portable VoIP has me very intrigued. I’m more excited though about Gizmo Project coming out on the platform. That means anytime I’m … Read more
Back in January at CES I pointed out to the lovely and witty Lisa Hempel, CEO of Spark PR-the agency that handles Skype, that the press release around the announcement of the Netgear Skype wireless handset had one big hole. It wouldn’t work in places that are Boingo or The Cloud like (both are Skype … Read more
When I lecture to university students about how to get media coverage I often tell them that reporters don’t find stories, stories find reporters, that is unless you’re trained like I was, as an investigative reporter with sources. But sometimes the story just falls into, um, my lap…top…. that is. Today at VON I was … Read more
Cablevision is being very trecherous, but this post by Om started me thinking. If Comcast, who has more cable subs and a larger geographic area in Verizon’s backyard along the east coast came in and offered the same thing, watch the heads in New Jersey just twist. This also plays more out more trecherously as … Read more
What’s so cool about these new WiFi phones is they work on the 802.11G standard.
In reflecting on the AOL release of AIM Phone Line with some friends in the biz we pretty much came up with some thoughts as AOL is no stranger to deriving value from someone else’s phoneline so here they go, doing it all over again. What, you don’t know? – Were able to get $24.90 … Read more
As expected Skype will be a large part of the eBay Developer’s Conference in Las Vegas this June. Anyone want to bet Niklas Zennstrom won’t be there….Actually I’m hearing reports while I’m in Sweden that the tall one on the Skype team may be working to be able to come to the USA sooner than … Read more
