I heard a rumor last night that Skype’s CEO Niklas Zennstrom has been showing off a Symbian based version that will work on Series 60 phones….. I hope to learn more at Skype DevCon next weekend in Las Vegas.

Ted’s got a conspiracy theory going, and I think he’s right. Check out his concerns about a so called grass roots campaign about Net Netrality that is anything but. I’ve actually advised clients to steer clear of the issue for now because I beleive the facts and powers behind the who issue are not as … Read more

I’ve been a fan of Carl Ford’s work with Pulver.com for many years. His interoperability and bake off events at VON’s gone by were some of the most exciting aspects of community building in the VoIP world ever conducted. He’s also hot on the trail of some points I’ve raised before about apps and features … Read more

There seems to be a growing sentiment among some of the larger mobile carriers to block Skype and other VoIP services from being used on the Data card networks like EvDO from Verizon and T-Mobile in the U.K. My guess is the MVNO’s in the USA will go counter to this strategy as a way … Read more

Jon Arnold has one of the most insightful pieces in the blogs about the upcoming Telio IPO in Norway. Telio is one of the companies really approaching Fixed Mobile Convergence seems to poised to be able to expand their efforts in Scandanavia and elsewhere. This is cleary a different kind of IPO from a different … Read more

The Oakland Tribune’s Editor Barbara Grady profiled client SightSpeed in the East Bay paper yesterday, picking up on the company’s move into voice in a bigger way. As CEO and pal Peter Csathy says, SightSpeed is video first and based on the trials I’ve had with the new beta version on the MacBook 13″ nothing … Read more

I just hung out with Brian McConnell, the creator of RadioHandi. It rocks. The community and communication capabilities here are amazing and the team there has done all of it on a shoestring. What I like is how it can disrupt Akamai and others like Raindance who serve up a lot of the audio conference … Read more

As if Skype didn’t have enough legal messes on their hands with the Streamcast suit now they have publicly traded IDT’s Net2Phone suing them also. One has to wonder just how much due diligence was done by eBay before the acqusition?

Earlier in the week I reported that another Skype security hole was found. Now it seems leading industry analyst Gartner has spoken out agains the Skype one more time calling the P2P communications tool a “growing security threat.”

If Skype keeps giving things away that can’t help them ever reach earnout. And that can’t be pleasing the boys in London very much. Today they announced a deal with Vapps to provide free conference calling for up to 500 participants. According to some Silicon Valley sources Meg Whitman and Niklas Zennstrom seem to be … Read more