Andy Abramson Friend, neighbor and fellow disruptor Michael “Golden Boy” Robertson was recently profiled in SoCalTech.com’s newsletter. he talks about SIP vs. Skype and his philosophy for how to build and grow a business. My money says Michael packages up SipPhone and Gizmo and sells it off.
A report from IT research house Gartner sheds light on a tough time ahead for the telcos. The key is for the goliaths to start to work like the new upstarts and move faster than battleships, while still covering the same ground.
Anyone can sue anybody, and a lawsuit does not imply guilt but I’ve been informed that in documents fled in the U.S. District Court’s CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA (Western Division – Los Angeles) CIVIL DOCKET FOR CASE #: 2:06-cv-00391-FMC-E that back on January 20th StreamCast Networks, best known for their Peer to Peer technology, called … Read more
After all the money, some estimated $60 million, that Vonage spent to get E911 compliant, someone tosses another log on the smoldering issue. I’d say that the FCC’s concept of E911 isn’t working….
Check out this story about Canada’s Shaw Cable being sued by ZingoTel for not allowing the ZingoTel ads to run on the cable network. Interesting. As a case in point when AT&T rolled out CallVantage in the USA they made a very concerted effort to make the cable operators their friends. To me, blocking the … Read more
Seems pal Martin Geddes is all buggered out about the Yahoo Voice Messenger install process in the UK about it requiring Microsoft Internet Explorer. Ouch. I have to beleive this IE related issue is either a BT issue or a temporary problem given that “Rock Star” Jeff Bonforte of Yahoo, the product manager for Messenger, … Read more
James Enck has a post about Skype being reverse engineered. Not being a techie I can’t discern some of the points in the deck, but I do know this is a serious matter, both for Skype and for the telecom industry. His line about the biggest BotNet will likely cause worry to many..
Agency client SightSpeed was interviewed by Ken Camp and featured in the Realtime VoIP Community interview series. Ken spoke with CEO, Peter Csathy, and really captured the essence of what SightSpeed has to offer. A few hours following the interview Ken and I had Speed Call (my nickname for using SightSpeed). Here I was, sitting … Read more
The San Jose Mercury News’ Jessie Seyfer is one of my favorite telecom beat reporters. Her story today has me quoted on the new release of Yahoo Messenger with Voice. One of the quotes she used `’With this deployment, Yahoo becomes the rooster in the henhouse for the partners.” is something that everyone has to … Read more
A Fenway Park Bleacher Bum tipped me off to a new feature from Sprint that goes into the “gee, we never thunk about that Jethro” department of great thinking on Sprint’s end, and a wonderful move by the folks who work on Asterisk. Basically with Sprint’s new $5.00 a month plan to call home all … Read more
