Friendster Hooks Up To The Glo
Popular social networking cum dating site Friendster has become the first of the Social Networking hubs to add a VoIP play to their offering by joining in with VoiceGlo’s GloPhone.
Popular social networking cum dating site Friendster has become the first of the Social Networking hubs to add a VoIP play to their offering by joining in with VoiceGlo’s GloPhone.
Last week I pointed out how the hurricanes in Florida were not good for the phone companies argument about VoIP not working when there was a disaster. Now this story comes out adding more weight to the story I blogged from the Wall Street Journal.
The stories about VoIP being a growing business never stops. This time the focus is where the big bucks are. The business market.
Here’s more comment on the concerns about VoIP Security via Light Reading. This is all just positioning by some of the companies mentioned, leading up to this week Internet Telephony conference and the VON in two weeks.
According to Vonage spokesperson Mitchell “Mad Dog” Slepian Vonage is more concerned about QWEST and Verizon than others. I think Vonage needs to watch out for AT&T and a few others. Possibly Webley, who has a killer SIP based product about to roll out. I’ve been using it off an on on the last few … Read more
Ellen Muraskin is one smart cookie, in her analysis of the SipPhone suit versus Vonage. But remember, there is no one better at baiting the media than Michael Robertson. He is surely the master of it. What Michael is doing is forcing Vonage to react to what he’s doing. In turn he’s leveraging their success … Read more
The Dallas Morning News ran a story on the Vonage and AT&T price cuts. While some think the prices can’t get lower, I think the will. Possibly down to free for the connectivity on a monthly basis, and then add ons or bundles/buckets based on services.
In a story that was originally in the Boulder Camera, fellow blogger over at VoIPNuke and I both make the story about Internet Telephony.
Tom Keating, software and hardware God over at Internet Telephony Magazine jumped over his own exclusive about Peerio and Popular Telephony by breaking his story first in his blog. This shows that the blogosphere is really starting to impact journalism and how traditional and web publishers work the medium. The story is thorough and revealing … Read more
Sometime back I posted a ARPU of $4800 for each Vonage subscriber in extended valuation. But with their drop in price that equates to roughly 17%, that means their value per sub is now under $4000.00. Ouch. I think they should thank AT&T for not dropping the price of CallVantage before Vonage closed their last … Read more