Andy Abramson After a lot of effort I was finally able to get my new Verizon 6600 to work on WiFi. I tried a Skype call over WiFi and the quality sucked. It may have been the Starbucks I was at, or it may be something else. I plan on more testing, but the ordeal to make … Read more
Irwin Lazar’s “Real-Time Communications Blog has some predictions.I agree with Irwin that consolidation will occur, and that the idea of hosted PBX will grow. Give it a read.
SIPthat.com: Xten SIP Softphone for Linux is a nice step. Now this will work on the Linspire PC’s, like the new $499 laptop.
IP Inferno: Vonage’s New Retail Deal writes about the potential Vonage has to sell VoIP at retail and some of the issues. I agree with Dan. A recent visit to some of the stores selling VoIP (Staples, Best Buy, CompUSA) from the various carriers shows a total lack of understanding about the service and each carriers … Read more
I mentioned VoIP at CES earlier, but I forget to mention why it will be such a big deal. In a nutshell, Pulver.com. Jeff and his team have been in the VoIP arena putting on conferences longer than anyone. Now that VoIP is going mainstream with more “consumer” products than ever before, his groups participation … Read more
Telephony and Music: More than just an “On-Hold” Relationship according to my favorite Telecom blogger, Jeff Pulver. The reason I say telecom, is while his focus is clearly VoIP and Pulver Communications related efforts, Jeff does have the best perspective on Telecom from years of doing what he has done. His points about the blending of … Read more
The Jeff Pulver Blog: Municipal and State Governments to VoIP Industry: “Deploy VoIP … but Give Us All your Money” — Zen Koan or Catch 22? Jeff waxes on about the proposed efforts by governments at all levels to tax VoIP, comparing the tax rates to Sin Taxes, but only greater. My gut says that … Read more
Unbound Spiral has a whole series of how toos, what may be and possible implications around Skypecasting, Skype Voice Recording and the blending in with PodCasting. This series of posts by Stuart is one of the most comprehensive on the subject and worth going through his blog to make sense of what is really going on.
Microsoft attempting VoIP land grab? That seems to me to be the thrust of this blind line that got tossed into the ether this morning. Everyone should know by now that Microsoft has SIP embedded in Windows XP since day one. They have sent their “visiting professors” to VoIP shows as far back as the … Read more
E-Commerce News: Commentary: The Day the Old Telephony Died is a story that intrigues me and while this story talks about how they can manage VoIP by treating each call as an “event” the broad reaching claims they make sound rather loft. Still, I think there may be something here.
