Mercury News On Skype
Read the last line. Classic. Much of the rest of the story is already known or expressed here and elsewhere, like GigaOm by Om Malik.
Andy Abramson
Vonage WiFi Fone and a Treo Report
Engadget has a report about the new Vonage WiFi phone and a report the next generation of the Treo Handspring, the 610, will be a WiFi ready phone for Vonage. This circles back to the Vonage relationship with Texas Instruments and other chip manufacturers announced earlier.
New VideoPhone On the Way
I’ll be playing around with the Packet8 VideoPhone next week, as I’ve had a house guest from Rome and she’s much more fun to spend time with than VideoPhones, but it looks like Packet8 has some competition according to a post on Engadget.
More PR Depositioning In VoIP
CNET’s Ben Charney, who I consider a very good writer, must be getting lots of information from SBC and Verizon’s PR team for his story about AT&T’s pull out takes a very interesting slant, and attempts to derail AT&T’s CallVantage. He asserts that bundling is the future, and that’s SBC’s big push these days. One … Read more
Skype Claims 400,000 Simultaneous Users
A report in the Rocky Mountain News claims Skype has 400,000 simultaneous users. Given they also claim 8 million downloads, that’s a five percent usage factor and likely means somewhere between 1 and 2 million of the people who downloaded the free P2P telephony service are really using it. That’s a SWAG on my part. … Read more
Skype Announces Four SkypeOut Partners
Skype announced four new partners today for SkypeOut and confirmed what Andy Abramson’s VoIPWatch said weeks back, that Level3 would be one of the carriers working with them. Well, let’s compare Old School Verizon to New School Skype. DeltaThree or Level3 and three more strong partners. Hmmmm…who was smarter. I’d say Skype wins….so do Teleglobe, … Read more
Verizon Using Delta Three
Word has leaked out via Boardwatch that Verizon chose DeltaThree to do the integration and network related work for their VoIP service, which they are calling VoiceWing. I guess they came up with that name, by looking down the hall to the wing of their office. Either that, or they were thinking the company was … Read more
PC World Staff Quotes VoIPWatch’s Andy Abramson
It seems everyone looks to the Andy Man, for insight these days on the subject of VoIP. This time it’s PC World that linked back to this blog and had me comment, by phone, on yesterday’s Verizon announcement. The quote, which was as kind as I dared to be towards Verizon, was mild. In thinking … Read more
Port Blocking Scanning On the Rise
My co-host on the KenRadio World Technology RoundUp, Ken Rutkowski called tonight to tell me he’s having problems with his AT&T CallVantage box, and that lately his wireless router has been having a problem. I’ve noticed the same thing, and while he’s on Comcast and I’m on Cox, I’ve also heard of issues with Adelphia. … Read more
MetroActive on VoIP
A very witty and somewhat easy read story about VoIP is in the Metro paper in Silicon Valley. And you gotta love the signature line too….read on.