Erik raises the question why Microsoft bought Teleo. My guess is there is something in the patents that Teleo has filed that was attractive enough to make them feel they have a reason to own it beyond deploying it as a front end to MSN Messenger. Teleo had originally made claims that they were a … Read more

Jon Arnold, former Frost and Sullivan Telco guru, now out on his own, gives PhoneGnome a glowing review.

Two months ago or so Om predicted that Teleo would be bought by Microsoft. Well that day has arrived. The announcement, which is meaningless in the long run, indicates that the Teleo technology will be part of MSN Messenger. I think that’s just some of MSFT’s stock in trade of throwing the competition off in … Read more

How they go about getting sold and when is all that matters.

I’m seeing not much in the way of news. Vonage? Skype? Google? All that happened last week. Next week, after Labor Day and all I expect things will heat up.

As I said a few weeks back my sources were right on the money with the launch date for EvDO in NorCal. I think the Om one has to admit the Andy-man was dead on with this one.

If Google is doing what Skype is doing and turning your PC into a server is that opening you up to being hacked? More important, if your PC is a server doesn’t that make many of us in violation of our TOS (term of service) agreements with the cable providers? Hat tip to Tom Keating … Read more

Pal Tom Keating @ TMC has the lowdown on the new, soon to be released Cisco Videophone. Tom’s point about all video phone’s needing to be interoperable is key. I guess though it will take Google to create a Video Federation too before that happens.

Either GIPS could lose one of their biggest customers if Intel sways Skype away. Then again this could just be Skype being like Dell or HP that love to play Intel versus AMD.

Level3 has been spending a lot of time the last 18 months working on understanding the desires of the consumer market. As a result they’ve been busy feeding their customers like Packet8, AOL and probably Skype with all kinds of market research. At the fall Internet Telephony show Level3’s Cynthia Carpenter, VP of Consumer Voice … Read more