I woke up this morning to some very good news. It seems the Blogger Panel has gone Prime Time at VON, or at least as close to it as possible in a trade show and conference setting. We’re also being promoted to the level of General Session or in conference terms a Plenary Session. As … Read more

It’s starting to happen more. The Balkanization of the Messaging Platforms. Today Skype announced their open platform approach. Google, with GoogleTalk is also setting to seek a standard via XMPP, something that lets various platforms work together already. Then you have SIP which is the Voice standard. So instead of everyone being on one standard … Read more

GoogleTalk came out yesterday. They seem to be on an interoperability kick in my opinion, further supporting the rumor of and open standards federation.

Watch the fur fly around this one. For companies not in alignment with either it means the Cisco arsenal is in their way. For Cisco and Intel to be working together it means the silicon layer and the hardware products become one.

Apparently CallVantage had an outage yesterday. Since I was traveling I didn’t know until a chat with Yak’s Dave Hurwitz. He told me my number was giving some kind of not available message. I tried CallVantage’s web site, had no luck so I dialed my number and heard what he heard. But the service was … Read more

I received a request for help from a reporter who is looking for interesting stories involving the use of Voice, as part of their Internet experience. The reporter would like to find people who are using voice with other Internet applications, like gaming, dating, IM and more. He’s asked me to act as mailman so … Read more

Reports are that Google, a recent entrant into the messaging and voice arena is going launch a “federation” that will enable the messaging and voice players to be interoperable with one another. Expect to see the likes of the SIP crowd in it. My guess is that SipPhone will be one of the first to … Read more

For as long as I’ve been writing about VoIP I’ve been saying that it’s the apps that matter. It seems one of the more veteran VCs in Silicon Valley is on that page also. The app she’s referring to in the Business 2.0 story by Michael Copeland isreally a VoiceXML type of application that shouldn’t … Read more

Telcotrash has an account of how more South American cable operators are moving into VoIP using Cedar Point Communications switches. South America is a growing market which explains why Jeff Pulver’s crew are organizing a VON even in Mexico City next year.

News hawk Paul Kapustka, one of the embedded discussants at the VON Blogger Panel I have the good fortune to moderate breaks the news about Vonage customers being charged more money by a cable company to access the VoIP service. Given the change in stance with the FCC under Chairman Martin this may be a … Read more