Andy Abramson As I roll out Working Anywhere, I figured the best way to start informing you on how to work anywhere and feel like you’re home should start with making travel less stressful in this era of always connected, always on, and always reachable. I just got off the Jet Blue red eye from San Diego … Read more
IP-PBX maker Mitel has filed their S-1 for a $150 million dollar flotation.
I meant to blog this yesterday but just got too busy. Over in the UK, T-Mobile is unleashing a new faster data service using HSPDA and selling it with a flat rate tarrif. But there’s a catch. They don’t want you using VoIP or Instant Messaging. At least not yet. My money is on them … Read more
Much to a lot of people’s surprise, but not mine, AOL’s Voice Services team went with Broadwing to power their upcoming new AIM Phoneline product. This couldn’t have gone down well with Level3 which powers AOL’s TotalTalk platform and was their deal to lose. One of the knocks I regularly hear about Level3, despite their … Read more
Pal and client with iotum, Alec Saunders is picking up on the same FMC vibe that others of us in the VoIP world are feeling too. Ken Camp’s insightful disection of what is causing the excitement is right on the money and as Alec is pointing out, the cable world is a big part of … Read more
Last week I was with client SightSpeed at the Always On Hollywood conference. Give my longtime pal and now SightSpeed CEO Peter Csathy some credit for haveing the cajones to try a live demo, and succeeding at a conference. The bandwidth at the Roosevelt Hotel was sketchy at best, and even with a dedicated feed … Read more
I am looking into Mino, a way around high priced international cell phone calls if you have a data plan like Cingular’s Media Net, but Oliver Starr’s comments about RockeTalk on MobileCrunch have me beaming. I’m now on the RockeTalk advisory board and have to admit that in all my years of new product evaluation … Read more
Microsoft Live Messenger, the next generation of MSN Messenger is using Verizon to power their LiveCall service and Logitech’s syncronized audio and video service. This appears to me to be more of a me too product, trying to keep up with the Skypes and Yahoos when it comes to VoIP while the new AIM Phoneline … Read more
Dan Berninger has an excellent post on the subject of Net Neutrality over on GigaOm.
The Korea Times reports that Skype may be breaking the law in selling an unregistered phone service in South Korea.
