Plantronics To Work With Viper

First it was Skype, now it’s San Diego’s Viper Networks. Take a gander. Viper has a good story, the question is, who is using the service and how good is it? I like the idea that they want to be the player in the WiFi VoIP market. Their strategy is though rather unclear, other than … Read more

Palm OS To Get Skype, Treo Users Left Out in The Cold

Skype is on a roll with rumours and announcements, with the latest being an account they will have a client for the Palm OS. So while that’s good for Tungsten users, Treo users as far as I know still don’t have Wi-Fi card usage ability. And the Treo is the best and most Swiss Army … Read more

Skype Woes…I Call It Teething

I think Skype is teething. PC World reports some issues with the new Skype 1.0 for the Pocket PC. Given my trial of the .98 beta worked well I think the bugs in the new version will be worked out.

Cox To Go VoIP

Cox Cable, one of the countries largest cable operators will be adding true VoIP real soon according to a report in America’s Network today. My guess is Cox will upgrade markets that have had their digital telelphony service longest, or go into markets where they don’t have any telephony services. Why? It’s called amortization of … Read more

Hong Kong Telcos Battle Back at PCCW

In what is rapidly becoming a soap opera between start up and PCCW a retort to PCCW’s FUD is now out. City Telecom is the leading protagonist here, and they along with Hong Kong Broadband have made great inroads with VoIP via ADSL and Fibre to the home/office. It seems PCCW is kind of worried. … Read more

VoIP On The Move

ABI Research tells us what we already know and gives support to the way the UK’s Ofcom is working towards making VoIP easier and more understood. What I do agree with is the fact that VoIP is out of the garage and into the executive suite. It’s there and with lots of reliability, yet I … Read more

Ken Skype’s Me

Ken Rutkowski, who I co-host the World Technology Round Up on KenRadio is in Amsterdam for a content on the net conference. He called me using Skype Out. The call quality was rather good. Then we went Skype to Skype. The quality was better and I was on a mic, not the Clarisys handset I … Read more

Om On Skype

Om has a post that asks a question. Keith provides some ammo. I provide an answer. Teamwork in the blog world. Here’s what I had to say over on Voipdaily.com, Om’s VoIP site: According to Kelly Larabee, Skype’s publicist, she told me on Thursday that out of the 20 some million downloads, that 10 million … Read more

Numbering Systems Are A Changing

Mr. Blog has a nice post that Telepocalypse found. Months back Michael Robertson of SipPhone was trying to venture into this arena and I suspect alternative numbering systems will be coming forth rather soon. The market is too ripe for a numbering plan that takes advantage of SIP and IPV6 while not making old phone … Read more

VoIP Nuke On IBM and VoIP

The ultra VoIPster Keith Bare of VoIPNuke has a post about IBM and their moving of the voice over to VoIP. His sources indicate that Level3 will be the winner here, yet at the same time IBM is helping QWEST engineer their VoIP platform using Sonus and Sylantro equipment. If you recall a few years … Read more