Andy Abramson A most defining moment occured today at the resort Helene (my fiance) and I are staying at for the wedding of a personal friend of 30 years. At breakfast we had our laptops at the communal table where many of the “parents” friends were seated, many reading copies of the New York Times and International … Read more
Bruce Stewart of O’Reilly’s Emerging Telephony site has a killer review of something I’m really excited about. Given both companies are clients I’d rather let your read Bruce’s well written and totally right on the money piece about something that makes so much sense it just had to happen. In fairness Aswath Rao also thought … Read more
Based on some G2 I’ve been able to discover from some well healed off-shore type players in telcom who have played in the telco game for many years and made a bundle off of selling things to SBC I was able to ferret out a bit about the Yahoo/AT&T VoIP marriage and what it may … Read more
Earlier this week Yahoo and AT&T extended the previous SBC/Yahoo on ramp deal to include VoIP. In many ways this was expected, but my instincts tell me that it’s more of a tip of an iceberg play and that Cingular’s involvement with a growing need for a Fixed Mobile Convergence play is likely the next … Read more
Vonage is seeking a $2.6 billion dollar valuation in it’s IPO filing according to Reuters. Vonage Holdings Corp. may offer up to 31.25 million shares priced at between $16 and $18 a share in an initial public offering, according to a regulatory filing that started to surface on Friday. Citigroup, Deutsche Bank Securities and UBS … Read more
CompUSA now has a deal to be the retail outlet for Packet8’s small biz offering.
In what is a poential Check-Mate move over Skype and one with much deeper implications, Vonage has made a move in the UK to introduce WiFi based phone services with the Cloud. If they can successfully make this happen in the USA via the non Google, Non Earthlink WiFi cloud like communities in Cerritos, Las … Read more
Intel is adding a VoIP board to it’s motherboard along with drivers for CounterPath and Skype. While one would be tempted to think that this has to do with today, it has more to do with their long term WiMax strategy.
A few months ago I mentioned that to compete with the likes of Yahoo Skype/eBay would have to go out and cut deals with leading content suppliers. They have started to today with a deal cut with EMI that is similar in scope, but much deeper and broader than their Warner Brothers deal a few … Read more
According to my inside sources at Yahoo there is no truth to the rumor that they are in the process of working with Boingo on a combined messenger. At least not yet. I’m also hearing great news from elsewhere that the Yahoo Messenger with Phone for the Mac, something that has been long expected, and … Read more
