Is Asylum Telecom the Nextel of VoIP for Motorola? With the news today about an investment in Asylum by Motrola’s VC arm, it appears that the Chicago suburb telecom supplier isn’t sitting idle just wanting to make VoIP gateways for Vonage and AOL. With this investment in a company that is heading down the road … Read more
Russell Shaw took some time to look into the complaints about Vonage and then likely other VoIP carriers.
Aswath responds to Richard Stastny’s requiem for SIP. Perhaps he should have said, “news of SIP’s death is bit premature.” SIP has a long future ahead, the Bellheads will modify their views on networking and services, and SKYPE will remain something of a force along with many other new and misunderstood technologies that are starting … Read more
Om says Verizon should walk and likely spur a proxy fight. I say he’s right. Start with the fact that Verizon now owns a huge chunk of MCI via the Carlos Slim sale, and then add in that MCI will have to cough up 250 Million smackers for breaking up the deal they agreed to … Read more
A European Blogger I’ve started to read was misquoted and has clarified his statements about Skype and their Valuation. Rodrigo A. SEPULVEDA SCHULZ writes some interesting material, and while it’s not all VoIP, it’s very heartfelt and thought through.
AOL’s new phone service, that everyone seems to forget is called CallWays got touted along with the forthcoming Comcast Digital Voice service in a bay area online publication.
In a very detailed account of what potential security issues are out there for VoIP users and suppliers, the Associated Press, which seems to be on a VoIP kick of late, outlines a series of potential issues from a security perspective. Jeff Pulver get’s quoted too.
I saw the Motorola Ojo during CES and compared to the Packet8 Videophone it was an advancement in home and office video phone technology. The call quality was far better than P8 and it had a sharp design, and the marketing muscle of Motorola. That said, I kept going back to the primary line of … Read more
Tom Evslin has another interesting post about the way to create a new network. I like his comment about ICQ. According to folks in Israel who know the founders, they had to settle for 400 million from AOL. They were running out of cash on their side and had no way to keep the servers … Read more
Did Cisco make a blunder when they bought leading SIP developers Dynamicsoft? That’s the indication if you read between the lines beneath Austrian ENUM pundit Richard Stastny writes in his post he may be onto to something. A few weeks back I said that companies should not be religious about their technology. The same goes … Read more
