Jeff and I are on the same page.

Realizing that the cable and DSL providers really aren’t their friends, Vonage have begun making inroads in alternative IP network delivery, striking a deal with Towerstream. This is very necessary move for Vonage and may really be the first deal that they have made over the past year that demonstrates forward thinking, clear cut vision … Read more

Boingo + Skype + New WiFi Phone = Disruption Also known as “Cell carriers have a headache” syndrome.

Intel wants to let you know that making that phone call form you laptop at 37,000 feet is okay with them. I wonder what the flight attendants have to say!

Cable companies keep rolling out phone services. Cox seems to be on a roll. One important point. All their markets aren’t VoIP.

I just read about iSkoot on Mobile Pipeline. It sounds like a callback service using SKYPE triggered by an SMS message to me.

TelTel, which claims to be one of the largest SIP based networks has added another layer to their offerings. The new offering is designed to be a SIP network offering Voice, multimedia and audio/video content delivery as well as commerce.

My intuition tells me that United Online, the parent company of NetZero, is about to gear up their marketing efforts, and also that Chairman/CEO Mark Goldston is layering the organization to look better to Wall Street. The company, which currently specializes in dial-up Internet access and has some other Internet related properties has made noise … Read more

When a crisis hits large companies usually pull out the crisis manual. Many, written by PR pros with dozens of years of experience at spin control, vetted by attorneys and endorsed by very senior management approve of them, without realizing that the Internet has changed things. In Cisco’s case they did many things wrong. First, … Read more

Helene and I (for those of you who don’t know-my fiance who’s a doctor by day, girl geek by night, whom I met when I saw her using a Tablet PC in the lobby of the W in San Francisco late last year) took a quick weekend getaway to Santa Barbara to see our friend … Read more