My One, Two Video Punch

Thanks to Scott Wharton (ex Broadsoft) and his band of merry people (Jen and Dan get super high marks) over at Vidtel and my good friend at Counterpath (and former client at Bridgeport Networks Todd Carothers) my wife and I have been having morning video calls of late. We both have the new Vidtel Video … Read more

Skype is Trying Hard To Behave

This report makes me think Skype wants to do for AT&T what they have done for 3 in the UK (via iSkoot). The approach is simple. They want to be part of the real mobile community, not the part that encourages jailbreaking of iPhones.

Skype To Have an IPO In 2010–Maybe

Hot on the heels of the rumor of a potential resale to its founders, Skype’s parent eBay has announced the intention to spin the company off as a public offering in 2010. Clearly a lot is going on inside the palace of eBay and internally at Skype. The management team is the kind of team … Read more

EU Taking on The GSM Cartel In Europe

It looks like the EU is gearing up to battle the GSM carrier cartel across the continent with a broad sweeping ban on the blocking of VoIP over 3G. This would be huge news for companies like Skype and Truphone, and given the rumors of Skype being for sale, change the groundrules, as eBay would … Read more

Pocket Meeting

ReadWriteWeb has the goods on a new, lightweight, screen sharing web presentation platform called PocketMeeting that looks very reasonable and sounds very good. While the concept seems very logical, the question of business survivability has to be considered vs. WebEx. The dot.com industry is littered with web conferencing companies that are no longer around. What’s … Read more

Pocket Meeting

ReadWriteWeb has the goods on a new, lightweight, screen sharing web presentation platform called PocketMeeting that looks very reasonable and sounds very good. While the concept seems very logical, the question of business survivability has to be considered vs. WebEx. The dot.com industry is littered with web conferencing companies that are no longer around. What’s … Read more