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.
In ninth grade World History, our teacher, Royal Black, yup, that was his name, no jive, was the first person I recall ever using the phrase “history always repeats,” so I’m not surprised at Om’s post today about the growing pains effecting VoIP. When I got into the dot.com world outages were nothing uncommon. Heck, … Read more
A Close Look at P2P VoIP Session by Tom Keating is not self praise by him, as he did a super job at getting five different viewpoints into one room and really had them say what they felt. My client, Dmitry Goroshevksy from Popular Telephony did very well, as did Gary from Global IP Sound. There … Read more
For SBC Chief, AT&T Deal Is Essential in New Telecom Era is a Q&A in today’s Los Angeles Times. I think the swipe at Vonage and other so called instant phone companies who can buy network access below cost and then resell and the comment about customers in Hong Kong really points to how important AT&T’s … Read more
