Andy Abramson AT&T is taking the hits now, to be better for the long haul. This is how I read today’s announcement about reducing earnings. The reason for the announcement has to do with the concept of guidance, which is what public companies either do as practice to tell investors what’s going on, or choose not to … Read more
Jeff Pulver revealed that Xten knows when you use its software to make VoIP calls. While I don’t know how much of a privacy issue this raises, since the phone company knows each time you make a call currently, I am wondering what security issues that raises, based on the data being transmitted. For example, … Read more
More viewpoints about the adoption, or slow progress VoIP will have in Canada is coming to light, this time from the National Post of Canada. While the stats have been beaten to death here and elsewhere, there is no faulting the reporter who clearly identified what VoIPWatch has been saying for a long time. Marketing … Read more
This is the kind of announcement I like. Where technology goes where it hasn’t before, publicly oor at least with any notoriety. Teton Wireless has taken VoIP and worked it in to their MMDS wireless delivery network, giving the residents of a part of the USA which has been infrastructure challenged.
Someone wants to be a VoIP retailer. Good idea, but they will likely sell more over the web. Having a retail presence if done right, will go a long way to educate. I wonder how the manufacturers, who have never had a retail experience will react. This is great for Cisco via Linksys, D-Link and … Read more
Ted Shelton over at ipInferno which is one of the better blogs to follow, for like GigaOm, the approach is journalism first with informed and insightful opinion. Being that my agency represents Popular Telephony for their SuperComm efforts, offering others the oppotunity to tell the story. Ted, like Om Malik yesterday has proivided a very … Read more
As we reported yesterday on KenRadio’s World Technology Roundup, Yahoo has added the ability to terminate calls into Instant Messenger, but with a twist, here in the USA. Just like what they did with British Telecom (BT) they are doing that with carriers, rather than creating their own phone company using private labeled services from … Read more
QWEST, which has over the past three years been digging into the VoIP space, evaluating suppliers and building an all IP based network announced yesterday they have deployed OneFlex for the business market. Given they are both a Regional Bell Carrier and a Nationwide long distance supplier on the telco side, and global carrier on … Read more
Uber-tech blogger Om Malik on GigaOm has found a major crack in Skype, after talking with of Popular Telephony’s Dmitry Goroshevsky. And the crack is no hack, it’s a part of the software making Skype a more than mega security risk for networks large and small. That’s why Popular Telephony has a serverless peer-to-peer technology … Read more
We’ve been saying, well I’ve been saying for months here that QoS, services and applications are what matters in VoIP. So, I’m not surprised to be hearing those words come out of people’s mouths at SuperComm and in the traditional press. So, while two of the true giants, Cisco and IBM echo those sentiments, the … Read more
