On Mobile VoIP

Answering the Mobile TéliPhone is a story about a mobile VoIP play coming out of Montreal. The idea is simple, VoIP + WiFi phone. I’m a big proponent of this and think that the giants like AT&T and soon to be AOL need to move in this direction too.

Forrester VoIP Survey Says

According to ZDNet: Forrester surveyed 1,132 online US households to gauge their awareness and interest in services based on VOIP technology. 43% of our respondents had heard of VoIP before taking the survey, with word of mouth as the biggest driver of awareness at 23%. But awareness did not translate into sales because a mere … Read more

New Skype for Windows In Beta

FileForum has a new Skype for Windows. This version supports Skype In. Did you get your number yet? Skype In is a rather interesting value. For 42 dollars roughly a year, you get a PSTN reachable phone number and Skype Voice mail. Thats a huge value. The only rub is you pre-pay. You can also … Read more

Skype In, Out?

Skype’s Help section can be a plethora of information. A loyal reader in the UK sent along a note about SkypeIN. While I have yet to verify that In is Out, certainly the details are emerging. Do a little noodling around Skype’s help and see what I mean. Here’s what he passed on to me: … Read more

Brekke Blogs The Bloggers @ VON

In IP Inferno: VON Panel, the Sequel, ex Wired reporter Dan Brekke provides an excellent summary of the panel I had the pleasure of moderating. I’ll add more later as I’m off to another day of VON.

Vonage Can Tap Your Calls

Vonage has joined up with Verisign to make it easier for law enforcement agencies to listen in on your calls. Oh, can you hear David Bowie singing "1984" and George Orwell saying, "see, I was right." Maybe they need to bring back the Apple Super Bowl commercial.

Thoughts on Level3

Level3 didn’t really do much at VON. Sure they offered briefings, but the most striking impression they left me with was the two clowns they had outside the main exhibition hall, one of whom was doing a very bad impression of Max Headroom. And I can judge that, you see, the original Max was played … Read more

Microsoft An VoIP

LCS…..yawn… I went to the Microsoft booth yesterday, and like so many first releases from Microsoft, the Live Communications Server was a lot of fancy perfume, sexy lipstick and a nice dress, but it was still underage and not ready to play with the boys, even though it really wants to. Nothing was groundbreaking. Nothing … Read more

Om Kicked My Butt And Got Me In Gear

Om Malik kicked my *** last Saturday over breakfast, right in front of my fiance, saying how I’ve been slacking off. And you know what, he was right. I guess the amount of time I’ve been taking in my personal life, professional life and social life has all amounted to my being less the blogger/journalist … Read more