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Thoughts On Ribbit

Hat tip to Stuart Henshall for his link to pal and client Thomas Howe’s critical first look analysis on Ribbit. Both Stuart and Thomas are constantly pulling things together with voice and collaboration, so their viewpoints should matter. I for one like the idea of more development tools being put out there and welcome the … Read more

Skype’s New Codecs Showing How Better They Can Be

Skype dumped GIPS about a year ago, and as previously reported here on VoIPWatch, their audio seemed to be improving since the switch. Now that I’ve been working from Europe for three weeks, while I’ve been working out of hotels I’ve been making extensive use of all types of mobile and laptop software for communications … Read more

MaxRoam Audio Is Impressive

I’ve been alternating between my Telefonica and MaxRoam SIMs when making and taking phone calls while here in Spain. I have to admit, Pat and Sean have pulled together a very impressive IP network, with amazing audio quality that is hands down better than the local carrier network here in Madrid. The handset shows that … Read more

Vonage Puts Another Lawsuit to Bed

The settlement between AT&T and Vonage has been put to rest according to a news account. The suit, like the Verizon and Sprint lawsuits had to do with patent infringement by the VoIP company which didn’t go well in Vonage’s favor.

AT&T CallVantage Getting A Makeover?

As if the logo change wasn’t enough a rumor has it AT&T is preparing something to replace their best in class consumer VoIP product CallVantage. No one knows if its better or not, but I’m inclined to think it will be in the direction of ……… This comes on top of the rumor that AT&T … Read more

Purpose Built Devices Are Coming To The Forefront

At the recent Telco 2.0 Executive Brainstorm in London this past October, Intel’s representative gave a very well put together presentation that left me feeling that we’re heading not towards “convergence” but instead “divergence” and that as a result we’re going to be seeing more purpose built devices that do one thing great, with some … Read more

Am I Becoming Anti Social?

One of the best Personal networking types I know, James Body of client Truphone pinged me yesterday on Skype about a reading something on pal and client Alec Saunders’ personal blog about getting an email about Spock, a network I am deeming as Anti-Social and did so the first time I received an invite. Alec … Read more