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Canadians looking to save money when making calls now don’t have to look far. Lypp has rolled out a service that keeps costs down, with the promise of more to come.

Ken Camp has authored a really good story about Fixed Mobile Convergence and Mobile VoIP in VON Magazine. Give it a read…it is well worth it.

Ike Elliott explains the ramifications of Google winning the 700 megahertz spectrum auction and prognosticates about Google being a different kind of mobile operator. This is where services and technology which Google has either acquired or built starts to make sense. Using an all IP based back end, Google takes IP to the edge and … Read more

Hat tip to Rich Tehrani for his eagle eye find of what I’m going to name “The Japanese Bundle.” By offering free minutes between mobile and VoIP called numbers to customers Softbank is hoping to take away market share from the likes of NTT. It may just work.

A report on DSLReports brings to light a practice that has been long going on in the mobile industry over to VoIP.

The show open tomorrow following the Keynote by Steve Jobs. I’m looking forward to walking the floor with pal Mr. Blog. That will make it extra special.

Pal Paul Amery, who was unceremoniously made redundant in the month of December by the grinches at Skype along with a few others in the developer program, has joined the blogosphere. Paul will provide some very good insight into VoIP and VoIP software development as well as how to build an ecosystem with developers. I … Read more

London dining buddy and pal Dean Bubley has a very insightful and highly rational piece on why the embedded 3G PC’s won’t sell. I’m in his court. Instead if the carriers want to really sell data plans they should be working with Asus and others like them who are making and selling this dirt cheap … Read more

I’ve been wanting to get around to testing the new Logitech High Def webcam that came over the holidays, but since both the Mac and the Flybook already have webcams built in, I’ve not had the reason to. Alec’s post today reminds me that maybe I should try it with the Flybook when I take … Read more

Skype thinks the road to mobile VoIP is three to four years out according to a DSL/Broadband Reports story. With companies like client Truphone already showing how easy it can work on Nokia N and E Series devices, I think the non-carrier cooperative model is going to happen sooner. I also see the UMA play … Read more