There’s a big difference between Open and Opening Up and letting some thing on the network. That’s pretty much how I see all the posturing by the likes of Verizon Wireless and AT&T. Om reports that not much is really new, despite the announcements this past week by AT&T (note I referred to much of … Read more
Anne Zelenka at Web Worker Daily has a very concise summary of the functions and features of GTALK and explains how to get more out of it. While I use Google Talk alot, I tend to diminish its value on the Mac because of the lack of a voice client there, and instead tend to … Read more
Dean Bubley, with whom I shared an amazing meal at Eyre Brothers in London with on Thursday, only before an even more sublime and decadent dinner at the Fat Duck with Lord Prais, the original founder of Chumbo, feels the N95 is the best mobile phone for Fixed Mobile Convergence use. I guess that’s what … Read more
Jim Courtney has a good recap on how the SPIN folks are now taking the Skype Developer Program layoff in London and in a classy way gave outgoing Director Paul Amery an opportunity to say good-bye. I’ve already been putting the word out about Paul’s abilities and availability and getting lots of “I’ll see who … Read more
I came across this company’s web site purely by accident as a result of random surfing. As someone who has been using VisualWare’s VoIP Speed Test regularly, I know the value in checking out how good my connectivity will be. This service provider oriented technology appears to go one or two steps farther in giving … Read more
Cisco wins a big partner in BT for their telepresence video conferencing solution.
I looked at Gizmodo’s post about the new Jajah interface on the iPhone and yawned. It is so me too, me also. A few months back at VON Jeff Black of TalkPlus showed their iPhone client. At Demo Truphone demonstrated their idea of a real VoIP client as a proof of concept of what could … Read more
Thomas Howe Company COO Patrick Murphy posted a note about their recent participation in the Voice Peering Forum held this week in New York City. This was one of the events I was hoping to attend this year, and had been invited to, but business here in London with Truphone and Nokia prevented my being … Read more
Google’s acquisition of client Grand Central a few months ago was well timed because it showed foresight and an understanding of where the voice applications world is heading. Now it seems that the cable MSO’s, which have really been providing what I labeled Voice 1.5 where you are sold 1.0 service-what you already have from … Read more
The Verizon request for forbearance was pending yesterday before the FCC when Robert Poe penned this piece. A few hours later Verizon found out what it was like to be told NO….
