TelSym’s Code Gets Licensed

TelSym, which has is best described as dead company walking shut down their operation and was the second Intel Venture Fund company in the Seattle area to do just that (Cometa was the first), is out licensing their VoIP client technology.

If You Can’t Beat Them, Join Them

A few weeks back the CEO of Verizon criticized SBC’s move to lower DSL prices. Now it seems that Verizon is following suit. My guess is that Verizon realized that if they don’t lower prices they never will find a way to get VoIP into more houses, and with the MCI network technology soon to … Read more

Skype Going Retail? Is Vonage Nervous?

Om breaks the news about Skype hitting the retail market via distributor Brightpoint and feels that Vonage needs to look over their shoulder. Let’s face it, Skype to Skype quality is far better than Vonage to anything. I’ve now tried Vonage in two different houses, and on two different carriers (Cox and Comcast) and in … Read more

More Stick Phones Coming

Hat Tip to Engadget for their link to this story. The idea of a stick phone means havoc to the cell companies in places where Internet kiosks are saturated. Now every PC terminal that’s connected to the Internet becomes a phone. That said, bandwidth at those places will have to be enhanced as you can … Read more

Sprint EvDO Gets Rolling

As a customer of Sprint’s slower 1xRTT service almost since it’s inception I’m patiently watching the current effort to advance services into the EvDO realm since Skype worked so well on 1xRTT when I was on the tarmac at Newark International about a year ago. That’s why I was intrigued with this post about their … Read more

Laugh Of The Day–From Martin

Just click here. Okay, if you don’t want to click it’s about MSN vs. Skype. Now click here please. Maybe this explains why Yahoo may want Skype, but maybe they should sell to Microsoft instead.

Pulver on Traveler Rights

Jeff is in Israel this week for an event he spearheaded to recognize the role Israel has played with VoIP. He also seemed to find time to come up with the Travelers Technology Rights list. I’m in full agreement with him. I recently had an experience in a hotel I had stayed in before where … Read more

From the Where Have You Gone Department

Seems the man who drove US West into merger with Qwest, Sal Trujillo, is going down under to run Telstra. How about he buys Qwest. Telstra has been looking to get into the USA market and Qwest actually has some technology in place in the VoIP world, even though they haven’t done much with it. … Read more

Jilted Lovers in IT?

Over two months ago Cisco’s John Chambers pronounced his love for Nortel saying he was waiting at the altar. Now two highly regarded ex-Cisco types have left Nortel after a falling out with the top dog, Bill Owens. Smart thinkers believe that Nortel may have found another suitor from Asia or Europe who want a … Read more