Another Country Heard From-Austria

Blogging is an international happening. VON and VoIP is international too. At our first blogger panel we had James Seng from Singapore on the panel. So this time around in San Jose I wanted a different perspective on the panel, one from someone deeply vested in the IETF, eNUM and not from North America. So … Read more

VON In Print

PulverMedia has brought the concept of a show daily back to VON. Paul Kapustka, blogger, editor and journalist is going to lead the efforts. They are going to call it a print blog so my guess is the content will be replicated online and the stories can be commented on.

Attention, Please

My friend, sometimes colleague and most of all, all around nice guy Bill Ryan, who helped Shel Israel and I with iotum, in their prep for their Demo God winning performance is the master of making short phrases matter. He coined the concept of “Speed To Cool” when asked how do you win the attention … Read more

Where The Girls Aren’t….

Christine Herron is one of the blog panel participants. First I added Christine to the panel because of what she’s not. She isn’t a VOIP blogger. She isn’t looking at VOIP the way we have covered it in the past, and oh yes, she’s not a guy. As a guy I’m tired of the boys … Read more

Psst…Nothing’s A Secret on The Net..

Test market programs are supposed to be just that. A test. Usually they are done in secret, but of course nothing is a secret with the ‘net. Take this example. I’ve heard similar reports of the same kind of stuff from eBay occuring in Asia too. This is more about creating a self fulfilling prophecy … Read more

Olga @ Business Week on Skype In the Busines World

Skype is going after the small business market. So too are Avaya, with their Nimcat platform and client Popular Telephony with their Peerio platform via a connectivity deal with Level3. That’s great for them, but the market segment better start thinking about IT management on an outsource basis too. Things like security, bandwidth needs and … Read more

The Halo of Demo Still Shines

More than a month after the event, being a DEMO God winner is keeping client iotum front and center in the minds of the press. They will be one of hot new apps featured at VON this week along with another client, SightSpeed. The participation of SightSpeed at THE Voice on the Net (VON) conference … Read more

Mister Blog on Net Neutrality

Mr. Blog, a recent unpublicized addition to the upcoming VON Blogger Panel this coming Friday. His views on looking back at history are right on when it comes to Net Neutrality. What I think is funny is most of the people making decisions or suggestions about the Internet weren’t even online when the Net was … Read more