PeerMe Raises Money

Another Peer 2 Peer company has hit the voice/telephone replacement market. Called PeerMe, they have raised 2.5 million or so and seem to be offering a Skype like platform. I remember back in the 90’s when there were a lot of Instant Messaging platforms out there, yet only three or four really survived: AOL’s AIM, … Read more

AT&T 911 Roadmap Continues

With the Intrado announcement yesterday AT&T remained on their roadmap to make sure that their users have E-911 in nomadic and out of market situations. What AT&T signed up for is Intrado’s V9-1-1 Mobility Service. That service provides: nomadic users, users with telephone numbers foreign to the local rate center (out-of-area), and some fixed-location users … Read more

Skype’s Blog, Blogs Me

About 18 months or so ago as an extension to my PR and Marketing Communications business and broadcasting efforts with Ken Rutkowski on KenRadio, KenRadio I began writing a daily blog called VoIPWatch , as a mechanism to both become one of the voices about the next generation of telephony that the media could reach … Read more

Skype Causing Vonage Fits

Many a start-up I know liked to use Vonage as their pipeline to their developers in far away places. But with the arrival of Skype which combines IM with Voice, they have made the switch. Here’s one more example. When I think about it, Vonage had the XTEN softphone about as early as anyone including … Read more

Yahoo Buys Konfabulator

Mac fans may finally start seeing some real output from Yahoo as they have made another acquisition in Konfabulator. While the Widgets work cross platform, this is clearly an indication that apps mean something to the search and ad giant. Basically Yahoo has to get some more smarts to go with their very savvy business … Read more