Richard Stastny found a new Vonage billboard when bravely riding the London Tube recently. It looks more like Hiroshima than A New Day dawning to me.

Now they have two weeks to put out bad news discussed as good. To fudge on the edges of reality or to just do something outrightly stupid. The Eagle-Eye Enck-ster is off to Barcelona for a well deserved two week holiday. While his brothers in blog will all keep an eye peeled for some Eurocentric … Read more

Jeff and his team keep rolling out improvements to the Pulver Communicator. Now they have put out a call for some beta testers. As someone who tested it early on, and provided some feedback, I’d gladly do it again, but only when the come out with the Mac version, which Burton Group’s Irwin Lazar points … Read more

Client David Beckemeyer’s simple solution to telephony, PhoneGnome is gaining traction. This past week Bryan Richards at VoIP Magazine posted a nice note revealing the VoIP developer opportunities surrounding PhoneGnome. Bryan has done a wonderful job revamping VoIP Magazine. His writing is first rate and it’s not just rewrites of press releases. Today Orange County … Read more

Intel is certainly making its presence felt in the WiMax space. Now they plan to support 100 different cities. Clearly Qualcomm and they are on a collision course. The “Digital Communities” effort is also a stab to get into bed with the cities and thus become alternatives to the local telcos.

According to a well placed source in the EvDO community in San Diego, the Bay Area will finally see real EvDO beyond the test group. My spies tell me that the start date for Broadband Access by Verizon is likely August 29th or so, assuming the Verizon folks like all the results. It seems getting … Read more

You know you’re getting older when friends from the past are no longer with us. On August 8th I celebrated, joyfully, my 46th. Today, on my Fiancee’s birthday, I received news of the passing of an old friend on my birthday, Bob Koch of Koch’s Deli. It has probably been two or so years since … Read more

ZD Net reports large growth in VoIP in the last year.

Looks like a bunch of connected technocrats, visionaries, bloggers and podcasters are mixing it up. Om takes a stand, telling like it is/was. Others, seem to back-peddle out hoping to get an invite, or just try to be polite. At least Russell B is standing his ground. Read Om’s post (if you care).

As I said yesterday, and to all who have written and IM’d me. There is nothing New with Yahoo VoIP that wasn’t already announced, according to a Yahoo person very close to the scene. My view, someone took an old story, or an old quote and blended it into a new story. As my mentor … Read more