Voxilla has a wonderfully well timed story about the VoIP ready Nokia ESeries mobile phones and how to make them work with Asterisk.

Today’s New York Times has a lengthy story on VoIP only SIP and Skype phones. One comment I have about many of these phones. The set up is not as easy as it should be. The author points this out, but from my experience, the entire process across the board needs to be made simpler. … Read more

With Astricon happening this week the news about Fonality is making the rounds. Tom Keating has a very good recap of the news and what it means to new and old users.

VAPPS has rolled out a pay for use model with Skype today, picking up on the initial trial. In many ways this delivers on the promise that Ben and his team made back in the summer months during the Skype developers conference in Las Vegas. By having a pay model, that uses Skype credits, third … Read more

DECT, which stands for Digitally Enhanced Cordless Technology, has been around in Europe for a few years, but now is emerging in the USA. Today GE announced a series of new Skype phones based on DECT.

First it was weather, and now it’s traffic reports. Vonage has buckled up with a trafic reporting service to help keep people from being snarled in traffic jams. While Vonage stock is stuck at a red light in the sevens these days, one has to question the need for this service that is only reachable … Read more

Yesterday, SKype formally released version 2.0 of their Mac client.

The New York Times’ Ken Belson has the scoop on T-Mobile @ Home. Long rumored, the service marks the first real entry in the USA of a Fixed Mobile Convergence Play by one of the leading mobile operators. In my view this is an important step and well timed, as T-Mobile gets out of the … Read more

Om has a lengthy post about video conferencing and the Cisco foray into their billion dollar baby, TelePresence. Many of the news accounts of the Cisco announcement are clearly “future maybes” and given the pricing I have to just help to clarify them. $79,000. $299,000. Okay, Cisco isn’t planning on selling every start up some … Read more

A story out of Australia regarding some statements by two Gartner analysts and Cisco’s John Chambers seems to point in the right direction for some 2.0 type companies, including some my agency represents. In reading the Computerworld article this morning I couldn’t help but feel overjoyed for the implied endorsement of client SightSpeed when the … Read more