If you’re really into developing software for the telephony market or adding the best of what’s new to your IP based phone system, the ClueCon conference here in Chicago was the place to be. Brian West has grown this ultra-geek-tech event and broadened the appeal to the point of where without VON this year the … Read more
Call this the reason Verizon has made New York City and the surrounding suburbs a key “must win” market for Fios and is starting to crank up the PR, Advertising and sales efforts. Cablevision is one of the largest cable operators in the country, but focuses only on the New York area, unlike the others … Read more
One of the semi-annual conferences I love to attend is held twice a year in London and organized by my friends at the STL Group, where Martin Geddes is found hanging his hat and providing very keen insight. Today in their newsletter I spied a posting entitled the Telco 2.0 Manifesto, a take off of … Read more
The sale of Ribbit to British Telecom, which was delayed for sometime for reasons likely having to do with internal matters, has apparently closed. 105 million is a pretty price, and I expect to see some other companies grabbed in the next few months as M&A activity is heating up. In the case of Ribbit … Read more
If you have a Nokia N800 and are living in one of the Earthlink Feather cities Nokia and Earthlink have a great deal for you. Free access. TMCnet’s Tom Keating provides some perspective and is promising to give the N800 Internet Tablet a real workout.
Is this the The Truth About e911, Vonage and SBC? If so, Om has done some very good detective work and executed a very high degree of journalistic integrity. What I like is that Om had the story and sat on it to get more facts and elicit a reply from SBC and balanced the … Read more
Aswath does a parody of the famous “I have a dream” speech by Dr. Martin Luther King. It is brilliant, witty and well done, in a tasteful manner.
A lot of media coverage has fallen on Vonage’s complaints about Port Blocking by a couple of companies. The real credit goes to Paul Kapustka, who has been like a proverbial bloodhound on breaking and covering the story from its very start. Kapustka, editor of Advanced IP Pipeline for CMP. He’s been on the story … Read more
EuroTelcoblog’s James Enck discovers a flaw in the Skype multi user chat system and waxes on about it. One of the aspects of Skype I see is some type of social networking feature being overlayed with it. The Pulver Communicator already has this type of feature built in but until the type of trust system … Read more
Rich had a few minutes to sit in on part of the Blogging Panel at VON. I appreciate the kudos and his recognition of the creative approach I took. I’ll have to come up with a gimmick for the next one, if Pulver’s folks invite me back.
