If the Vonage customers keep bailing then the stock will keep tumbling. If they give the service away to keep customers, the stock will fall due to lost revenue. They can’t win for losing. This is a catch 22 situation that needs to be corrected. Knee jerk reactions are not hw to accomplish this. Smart, … Read more

Henry Sinnreich, one of the movers and shakers in the technology side of SIP and VoIP is heading over to Adobe. Adobe bought Macromedia last year, which has Breeze, a voice and video conferenencing tool. My instincts tell me that is where to start looking for what Henry is going to do, but to also … Read more

Skype has released the final version of release 2.5, but Mac folks like me are still behind, living in the one point something world.

Internet Telephony’s Tom Keating has to get the award for having the Eagle’s eye, spotting the Sun Rocket logo on photos of a new series of DECT phones that work either with VoIP or PSTN from client ATS (American Telecom). The DECT standard means no interference in the home or office with WiFi and more … Read more

Preston Gralla over at CMP’s TechSearch thinks Skype is a multi-billion dollar loser for eBay calling into question how much payback Skype will generate for the online auction giant.

Over the past few days I’ve received a bunch of emails from readers wondering what’s up with Yahoo Voice in light of the moves by eBay and Skype. Some question if Yahoo will be abandoning Voice due to the advertising relationship with eBay now and eBay’s deployment of Skype Me in eBay listings. Not. Others … Read more

I wonder how this will affect the likes of hosted VoIP players like Call Tower and Fonality now that the US Patent Office has issued a patent to 8 x 8 (i.e. Packet 8’s parent company). Hosted VoIP services are really also what Vonage and the rest of the players offer if you think about … Read more

Russell has a series of analytical posts on what the Skype Me addition means and doesn’t mean to eBay and the competition.

They move a large portion of their 800 number customer service calls over to Skype on free basis or even Skype In. More importantly, for the sellers the addition of Skype Me becomes a savings for them according to a Bleacher Bum I know. The savings is generated by eliminating higher cost inbound toll free … Read more

As I wrote on Monday, eBay has added Skype Me access to their listings for merchants.