Andy Abramson Months ago I speculated to a Wall Street sell side analyst that Vonage’s ideal suitor was Bell South. Everyone told me I was nuts. Then in mid summer Rich Tehrani speculated Bell South was going to buy Vonage. People started saying he was nut. Even I began to question it. Now Om is weighing in … Read more
Jeff Pulver is wondering why now for the Yahoo/MSN IM interoperability.
The official announcement of the YAHOO/MSN IM interoperability moved over the wire earlier today. According to the conference call things like one single ID between both services will be all you need and yes, it will provide VoIP calls between both IM client’s users. Initially this is going to be PC to PC according to … Read more
It seems Linksys likes to eat away at the Cisco business at every chance they can. First they bought Sipura, a move which I’ve heard has caused some internal indigestion. I’m also hearing from some of my Enterprise business contatcts that Linksys may have plans on the drawing board to release a PBX like system … Read more
A new Nokia mobile phone, the E60, has an embedded SIP client in it. That’s great news for companies like BridgePort Networks, as they are out promoting the idea of mobile network traffic being easily routed over an IP network that can terminate on a SIP endpoint. Phones like the E60 will likely be hot … Read more
I’m hearing through the grapevine that there is the strong possibility that as early as tomorrow Yahoo and MSN will be even closer than ever. The two have been getting rather cozy in the area of Instant Messaging. Now it seems within the next days or so the two will announce interoperability between IM clients, … Read more
I saw the USA Today story about AT&T’s new way to insure that nomadic VoIP users stay safe. Overall I have to like the idea on face because when the Vonage 911 fiascos hit I actually suggested something very similar to AT&T’s PR team when I was looking around for other viewpoints on what had … Read more
I have had an Ojo, Motorola’s Video Phone here at the house waiting to be hooked up. The problem had been that in order to use it, one needs both a phone line and a broadband connection versus the Packet8 video VoIP phone that needs only the latter. First problem. My house’s phone jacks and … Read more
I have some very specific thoughts on the recent public spat between Level3 and Cogent. Much of what I think and know was said on the Friday KenRadio World Technology Roundup. Basically I’ll outline them here and then update with links later. 1. Cogent took a page out of the Crisis Management 101 playbook in … Read more
New Beta program for Instant Messenger with enhanced Voice and Video. Supporting SIP, XMPP, AOL, MSN, Yahoo & GoogleTalk! In an effort to build the world’s best IM client Eyeball Networks is reaching out to technically savvy end-users. Those of you who are sick to death of Instant Messenger products which are not interoperable and … Read more
