I remember a conversation years back when i was told that one of the sons of Rupert Murdoch was charged with the role of looking into the future of all things digital. So unlike Cringe, I’m not at all surprised to see Murdoch looking into buying Skype. As a matter of fact I think his … Read more
The New York Times has a wonderful piece that explains how VoIP is sorta cheap and sorta not. In reading it, the story got me thinking about all the reasons why David Beckemeyer (aka Mr. Blog) invented PhoneGnome for people who already have a regular phone line and broadband. The value proposition PhoneGnome brings speaks … Read more
Mark Evans takes a half full/half empty approach on Packet8’s first quarter earnings news.
In what could have been perceived as a bigger blow to Level3, AT&T has won Comcast’s Digital Voice business, in addition to all else they already have. SPRINT ALSO GOT SOME OF THE DEAL. When one looks back at my comments when AT&T launched a friendly relationship for CallVantage with the cable companies about a … Read more
Michael Robertson is the master of hype. No one can do it better, and he’s so, so, good at it. Now he’s trying to spin why a smaller client, Gizmo, is better than Skype because the file size is less. Now we all know that in some cases Size Matters, but what I think really … Read more
I think one of the biggest challenges to videophone’s remains the lack of interoperability between them and their software. I mean, here you have Jeff with his new toy. I have a Packet 8 videophone, software from XTEN, Sightspeed, Yahoo, the last three of which are SIP standard all the way down the line, and … Read more
8×8, the parent company of Packet8 released their first quarter financial report today showing an increase in subscribers to 73,000 and overall revenue, a reduction in their quarterly operating loss over the prior quarter, but a widening in their losses compared to the same period last year. At 73,000 subscribers this gives them roughly one … Read more
Verizon is working with Columbia University to gather research on both secure messaging and presence based packet switching technology. The research is being conducted under the direction of the renowned VoIP expert, Professor Henning Schulzrinne. The two projects — funded by Verizon Laboratories — will be in areas related to the overall development of packet-switched … Read more
Skype has lowered their outbound calling rates today to more countries. They have added 20, lowered the price to .017 Euros or about 2 cents a minute. They also admit that 1.8 million of their users have paid for Skype Out. That makes them a very significant VoIP player, possibly second to Yahoo BB in … Read more
Another Peer 2 Peer company has hit the voice/telephone replacement market. Called PeerMe, they have raised 2.5 million or so and seem to be offering a Skype like platform. I remember back in the 90’s when there were a lot of Instant Messaging platforms out there, yet only three or four really survived: AOL’s AIM, … Read more
