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Pal Erik Lagerway (SipThat) informs us that the soft-launch of the Lypp and WebEx collaboration suite is out for the masses.

Everyone knows that I don’t just write about technology. I live it each and every day. Sometimes my wife Helene remarks that I’m always emailing someone, IMing with someone, or talking “on the computer.” The story that ran on VoIP News highlights both my clients and the software I use to “stay connected” the signature … Read more

Om Malik posts and postulates about what’s the latest at PulverMedia. He pulled SEC filings that give an indication of what is going on that led to the body blow that the VoIP nerve center has suffered. At the same time TMC’s Rich Tehrani is reporting growth of staff and writers.

Somehow a lot of folks seem to remain hopeful that Level3 will make it. I’ve been one of them, but over the last few months with all the changes, I’m beginning to have my doubts. So are pals Steve Smith and Ike Elliot.

Callwave is one of those companies which has a lot going, and doesn’t get the respect it deserves. According to a news release yesterday, March 27, on their Investor Relations site, the Santa Barbara company has plans to showcase a new service called Fuze during CTIA next week. FUZE integrates in an intuitive interface powerful … Read more

According to London based Infonetics Research the sale of data cards are growing around the world. This is great for companies like iPass. Now all they need is a 3G consumer play to go past the millions of enterprise customers who use their service for global WiFi roaming. GSM would be my preferred play, but … Read more

It looks like it won’t be long before VOIP, Skype and SightSpeed all can be used in more places. As HSUPA comes to be, with a more stable, and albeit, faster upload path, voice and video over a 3G connection will begin to emerge. Already 3G users like me are running Truphone or Gizmo over … Read more

Last weekend I was upgrading my Windows XP and Vista laptops and installed Gizmo 5. One of the features I wanted to try out was the consolidated IM feature that easily aggregates all your buddy lists from the usual suspects more conveniently than the prior versions. Gizmo 5 also has some video capabilities too. Unfortunately, … Read more

In an attempt to appease the FCC, Comcast is working around the bandwidth hogs with a solution, on the surface. What this is really about is Comcast becoming its own CDN of sorts, and eliminating the need for total reliance on the companies who are the giants. By working with Bit Torrent to share files, … Read more

I’m both humbled and elated at the two posts from people I consider peers and colleagues, as well as friends that popped up yesterday. First was Lee Dryburgh’s heartfelt commentary on the efforts of my team at Comunicano and my own contribution to eComm. To put matters into perspective, I offered to help because it … Read more