eBay’s CEO emphasized some numbers yesterday and the stock fell. During a speech at Stanford Meg Whitman indicated that Skype now has over 100 million registered users, while eBay has two hundred million, according to MarketWatch, which covered Whitman’s speech. What it appears she didn’t say is how many eBay users are Skype users, and … Read more
On the subject of Alec Saunders and Unified Communications, we’ve been keeping this under our hats for about a week, but the timing could not be better. While Microsoft is promising a solution in 2007, iotum is busily working with partners to offer the kind of experience Steve Ballmer is dreaming about. Note: iotum is … Read more
Alec says Microsoft is going to need some help to execute on their vision with their new Unified Communications strategy. I say this is a golden time for the real Voice 2.0 companies to rise and shine. If you’re one of the companies squarely in the gunsights of Microsoft, now is the time to evolve, … Read more
Congrats to Counterpath for their supplying British Telecom (BT) with a Softphone for its BT Total Broadband customers. SightSpeed has been providing video to UK cable/broadband player TeleWest for some time for their BlueYonder service.
Of all the hotel chains I stay in around the world, the most consistently inconsistent is Starwood Properties. Last fall at the W in Seattle we noted some problems, only to have some lame exec type out of New York try to explain what little she knew as to what the problem might be…now I’m … Read more
I just took a quick looksee at VoIPLoop tonight and found their coverage of the Microsoft Unified Communications efforts rather useful, but when I saw the Cisco Telepresence piece I really felt the team over there is on the ball.
According to In-Stat the next few years will see the rise of the new converged WiFi handsets that operate in dual mode. For real growth to matter it will be up the the mobile carriers, SIP based VoIP providers and hotspot operators to be willing to really work together. In my mind Earthlink, Google and … Read more
Tom has a very, very spot on and insightful post about the Microsoft Office Communicator platform and what it means. I’m not at all surprised about the connectivity to the public IM networks like AOL’s AIM, Yahoo and others but I don’t see Skype or Gizmo amongst them. But the one thing that I don’t … Read more
Speaking of Irwin Lazar, give him major props for his definitive recap of what’s happening with presence and real time communications in the recent issue of Business Communications Review. He made a PDF of his article and you can find it here. For companies like Tello, iotum and Orative it provides a wonderful road map … Read more
Siemens is a company in the middle of an entire reorganization. Burton Group rising star Irwin Lazar adds some insight and provides a link to what’s going on inside the company.
