Over a year ago Packet 8 tried the kiosk route at Valley Fair Mall in San Jose. Now Vonage is taking the almost “me too” approach, but with a national twist. My problem with the kiosk approach for VoIP services is the inconsistency of the people answering the questions from shift to shift. That was … Read more

Ken Camp is rapidly becoming a publishing powerhouse about all things in the Unified Communications front. His skills and real world experience are clearly showing, and as he matures as a writer, he’s also knowing when to put himself in, and more importantly, when to take himself out of the story. His recap of what … Read more

Simon Perry at Digital Lifestyles gets the hat tip for uncovering a new phone. It works with Google Talk. What is interesting is the approach that Simon points out about how the phone configuration is being handled. I’ve commented that many of the SIP and other VoIP phones require way too much work. This new … Read more

Maybe it’s me, but I clearly got the impression that Jeff Pulver was more excited about what happened at Telecom Israel than at his own VON Europe. I have to admit, I was. His coverage of the power shift in USA government that resulted from his being at Telecom Israel was full of passion and … Read more

I was explaining to a VC pal yesterday at lunch about the idea of locked cell phones vs. unlocked phones. Here in the USA most people buy their phone from their carrier and get a “carrier approved” phone vs. how it’s done in Europe, where you can either take what the carrier has promoted, or … Read more

The purpose of Beta software is to break it. Companies release the imperfect, likely to crash, may not work perfectly software to the world so users of all kinds can find things wrong with it. It’s not meant to do everything right, and as a matter of fact, it better not. If it did, it … Read more

Om attacks Level3, a company I thought had moved in the right direction, but instead seems to have gotten caught up in the “coat tail” of the “long tail.” Last year the company had made some pretty smart moves, gotten it’s marketing and sales act together and really moved back into the space of being … Read more

I’ve now had my Sony Mylo for about three weeks. I’ve used it for Skype and the audio remains the best I’ve found. As for the rest of the features, I don’t know (or see) enough people on GoogleTalk that I know who I don’t find on my BlackBerry’s Messenger, SightSpeed, AOL’s AIM, or Yahoo … Read more

I couldn’t be happier as for some really nice people at iotum and Grand Central yesterday as both companies, along with 13 others made the Fierce VoIP 15. The reason I’m happy is from the start of things I have been telling both Alec Saunders and Howard Thaw, iotum’s co-founders and Grand Central’s co-founders Craig … Read more

Let me pre-text this one. For years I’ve always thought that Sylantro was a company with great technology that couldn’t decide if it was an Applications Server or Softswitch company. Well maybe a new CEO will help. I just learned that tomorrow Sylantro Systems will announce the appointment of Marco Limena to president and CEO. … Read more