Cable Industry Has Fat In The Price

Cable Data News yesterday posted a story about how the cable industry is and could react to the pressures of “free” telephone service. I think we continue to see a classification of phone services into three or four categories currently: 1. PSTN – You get this from a local phone company 2. PSTN Replacement – … Read more

Skype’s Simplicity Starts At The Download

Because companies like Yahoo, AOL and MSN are so interested in page views the download process of IM clients is organized to support that philosophy. Martin has done a splendid job (I’ve come to expect that from him) in showing why Skype’s adoption and use has been so high. They made it simple. From day … Read more

Audio Blogging

I’m becoming very enamoured with my Mac (thanks Om and Ken) and am going to do more AudioBlogging as time permits. Please let me know what you think.

Richard on VON

Austrian ENUM sage and telecom expert Richard Statsny has a rather insightful post about VON. While I don’t agree with every point (especially about IMS) I do think he’s hit the mark. The point about the FCC is very much right on. While Jeff has commented that the FCC seemed to avoid the conference intentionally, … Read more

Taps For Advanced IP Pipeline

I got a call yesterday from Paul Kapustka, one of the classier guys in the journalism biz. He was giving me a heads up about the decision by CMP to shutter Advanced IP Pipeline. My view is that with the purchase of Light Reading CMP likely felt there was too much duplication. Like Jeff, I’m … Read more

Om’s Birthday Post

Just in case you missed it, or couldn’t decipher the code, Om, in his typical cryptic, inside jokester, self-effacing style, told everyone it was his 39th birthday today. Gee, and they said he’d be lucky to get past 38 given his hard partying past in the bowels of NYC and London as a Tablatronic partier. … Read more

Om On Skype 1.4

Bloatware! He also digs into the research which Skype used a third party to conduct. I remember taking part in their online survey back in August or early September, as one of the early adopters who also was using the beta client. My reaction to the new version. Slightly better sound, but the importing of … Read more