Andy Abramson Ovum’s Future View Daily continues to perpetuate the myth that Google may buy Skype. As much as it would make sense, I think Google’s leadership team is smarter and more focused than to buy the alternative messaging and telephony startup. 1.Google already has as many daily visits as Skype has had downloads. 2. Googles reach … Read more
I know the XTEN and Skype clients work very well on Pocket PC’s. This little baby from H-P may be a really sexy addition to the phone carrying set who don’t care about that stuff as it doesn’t have WiFi (moan grumble, complain). That means I won’t be jumping to get one. Om has the … Read more
Richard Stastny found a new Vonage billboard when bravely riding the London Tube recently. It looks more like Hiroshima than A New Day dawning to me.
Now they have two weeks to put out bad news discussed as good. To fudge on the edges of reality or to just do something outrightly stupid. The Eagle-Eye Enck-ster is off to Barcelona for a well deserved two week holiday. While his brothers in blog will all keep an eye peeled for some Eurocentric … Read more
Jeff and his team keep rolling out improvements to the Pulver Communicator. Now they have put out a call for some beta testers. As someone who tested it early on, and provided some feedback, I’d gladly do it again, but only when the come out with the Mac version, which Burton Group’s Irwin Lazar points … Read more
Client David Beckemeyer’s simple solution to telephony, PhoneGnome is gaining traction. This past week Bryan Richards at VoIP Magazine posted a nice note revealing the VoIP developer opportunities surrounding PhoneGnome. Bryan has done a wonderful job revamping VoIP Magazine. His writing is first rate and it’s not just rewrites of press releases. Today Orange County … Read more
Intel is certainly making its presence felt in the WiMax space. Now they plan to support 100 different cities. Clearly Qualcomm and they are on a collision course. The “Digital Communities” effort is also a stab to get into bed with the cities and thus become alternatives to the local telcos.
According to a well placed source in the EvDO community in San Diego, the Bay Area will finally see real EvDO beyond the test group. My spies tell me that the start date for Broadband Access by Verizon is likely August 29th or so, assuming the Verizon folks like all the results. It seems getting … Read more
You know you’re getting older when friends from the past are no longer with us. On August 8th I celebrated, joyfully, my 46th. Today, on my Fiancee’s birthday, I received news of the passing of an old friend on my birthday, Bob Koch of Koch’s Deli. It has probably been two or so years since … Read more
ZD Net reports large growth in VoIP in the last year.
