If you’re Vonage’s new CEO, you have to wonder what you got yourself into as Vonage is rapidly becoming like Microsoft, a company embroiled in lawsuit after lawsuit, and while Microsoft’s legal woes, much of which is behind them and were largely based on their approach to competition, Vonage as a company is being as … Read more
Vodafone, which is reportedly getting ready to sell their stake in Verizon Wireless here in the USA, continues to roll out a low cost per minute platform called Home Zone that is designed for people who make mostly local calls. It’s looked at by some as a way to keep people mobile, without losing them … Read more
Meg Whitman is in the middle of some kind of spin control I suspect. You see, these types of stories don’t just surface for no reason. During eBay’s DevCon Microsoft was hardly in attendence with any real weighty executives and some reports at the event indicated that the week before the event there may have … Read more
Check out Aoife McEvoy’s review of AIM PhoneLine vs. Skype Beta 2.5. Some of the challenges that AOL’s phone team faced were likely similar in many ways to similar hurdles that the Yahoo voice team’s is finding in bringing voice into an IM world. The IM clients weren’t architected for voice so voice has to … Read more
Leslie Walker of the Washington Post, in a syndicated story, summarizes the eBay/Skype DevCon and eBay Live event of a week ago summarizing that eBay will continue to grow but that the Skype purchase price may have been too high.
Oh baby, did FMC just become a hot market segment…Nokia and Siemens are hooking up.
Om refers to Vonage’s numbers not adding up and delves into their latest marketing push to get subscribers to add a second line by eliminating sign up costs and waiving cancellation fees. I have to wonder if like Skype casting aside dollars in the short term with calls in the USA being free, if we … Read more
Om wants to know who will be Bill Gates 2.0 at Microsoft. So go vote.
Ken Camp wanders out on a very short limb and predicts that some enterprising worker will get tossed for using Skype in the Enterprise. I bet he’s right. There’s a lot of fear among the security teams in general about VoIP, even within companies that sell VoIP service. I have it on good authority that … Read more
James Enck on his new Chaotica Blog has a very good summary of his TEN panel held in London. The key thing is to realize that public company spokespeople have a hard time making forward looking statements, so it’s essential that you read between the lines. Give Janes Kudos for his panel. Yahoo, Skype, Google … Read more
