Andy Abramson Every time I suggest that Sprint is a possible buyer of Vonage I get laughed at. Well, now Business Week postulates that same idea. Besides customers, the only thing Vonage has is marketing know-how that got them to where they are. That marketing know how is largely based on “SPEND THE MONEY” but there’s no … Read more
Covad announced today they are buying NextWeb giving them an instant entree into three markets, San Francisco, Las Vegas and Los Angeles. Om had everyone beat on this one with some of the details on Sunday. Over the past year Covad has reengineered their acquisition of GoBeam so it works. Now with this acquisition and … Read more
In a late breaking bulletin, SprintNextel has announced a patent infringement suit against Vonage and TheGlobe for VoiceGlo. Sprint alleges that the two entities willfully infringed seven patents relating to voice over packet technology developed by Sprint Nextel. Vonage and TheGlobe have yet to respond. This announcement comes right ahead of VoiceGlo saying they have … Read more
Jeff and his FWD team have been hard at work revamping FWD. I’m expecting great things from this effort as I’m hearing some smart companies are beginning to line up with Jeff and his crew. When you think about it, many of the so called innovations in Skype were pre-dated by FWD (then called Free … Read more
I’ll be blogging less the next few days. Alec Saunders of iotum is coming to visit and give me the low down on their new application and chart a course for future growth around their killer app. I of course plan on sharing my wine collection and show Alec a few of San Diego’s better … Read more
MPlat has taken Skype and put it on a USB Memory Stick type of drive. The concept is close to what i2Telecom has done with their VoiceStick.
Nokia is exploring all kinds of Voice options it would appear. This one moves them beyond GSM and CDMA into a whole new world.
Alec Saunders has some cool aggregation going on here with this post. He’s pulled together some very good thoughts on the future of the Web and VoIP.
Consider this speculation. I recently heard that Comcast may have dreams beyond cable. While none of that is a real secret, I think that some moves that have happened of late could be the harbinger of things to come. First they hired AOL’s Advanced Services VP Jim Tobin. Clearly Tobin didn’t leave AOL to run … Read more
It’s great to see Ted Shelton back blogging full time (or at least until he lands his next full time gig). Over the summer he parted ways with ORB (their loss but his gain I bet). He’s one of the bright lights out there and knows how to play the game. Give him a read … Read more
