Andy Abramson I downloaded the latest GizmoProject application and found an early holiday present. It’s the GizmoForward feature. While it doesn’t work seamlessly like Skype which first tries the Skype client before forwarding, it does provide you with a manual capability to forward calls to your Gizmo out to mostly any number. I say almost because unlike … Read more
When it comes to being Mac friendly with VoIP no one is as forward thinking as the team at GizmoProject. I came across this little known add in for Adium, the all IM utility for the MacIntosh. After you install the Adium GizmoProject add in, you get almost full GizmoProject functionality. Yesterday Om was omming … Read more
Om has turned me on to a new way to blog. It’s browser based and works with Firefox. I’ll be experimenting with Performancing for Firefox over the next few days and will see how well it works.
Mark Evans has a nice recap on how Vonage raised another 250 million this week. Give the company credit. They sure must have one heck of a road show presentation. And 1.2 million customers is nothing too shabby. Obviously they do something right. While I may question their operating style sometimes, and am skeptical about … Read more
When Packet8 won the BellSouth trial VoIP program, they weren’t the Southeastern US’ first choice. Reports I’ve heard indicate that Broadvoice had the deal pretty much sown up, until some internal changes last summer and other machinations caused BellSouth to take a look elsewhere.
If you have a Mac you’ll like the idea of what Jon’s Phone Dialer can do for you with some select VoIP carriers (CallVantage, Vonage) plus IP phones from Cisco and the Xten line of softphones. This latest revision seems a lot smoother. I’ve got it installed and will run it through its paces over … Read more
Ovum’s Julian Hewitt has an analysts’ view on Skype, their acquisition cost to eBay and what can affect the earnout. He also poses a big “if” at the end of the summary. I’d say the jury is still out.
Well if you look at the results of the United Online charity auction, about $1,400 a subscriber. That puts a damper on companies asking $2,000 a sub who have been shopping themselves to some of the bigger names on the net. In Vonage terms that would price them at $1.4 billion, but this is all … Read more
It seems the SMB market will be a big play in 2006 for the VoIP industry. I’ve previously mentioned that companies like CallTower, Covad and Speakeasy are nicely poised in the space. Others have made noise as well. According to a Vonage spokesperson I spoke with recently, the long awaited Vonage SMB play seems to … Read more
I got told late this afternoon that the city of Taipei will be launching Wi-Fi in the city tomorrow, Tuesday, Dec. 20t. The little birdie told me the mayor of Taipei will be using Skype to talk the mayor of Tao Yuan – showing the power of the Skype service via the city’s new Wi-Fi … Read more
