Who says you have to be at the venue to participate in a conference. Not me. That makes IPDemocracy’s Cynthia Brumfield’s comment taste all the better. For the second time at VON SightSpeed came to the rescue via my laptop. I had to pinch hit for SightSpeed’s CEO Peter Csathy in a session during Video … Read more
I’ve been in Boston for VON. The blur started Monday as I hosted a panel on video on the net vs the big set then another about iPhone Hacks on Wednesday. I caught up with the folks from Level3 learned about their deal with Jangl where people can now use Level3’s SMS platform for making … Read more
If you saw this story over at Tony Perkins’ Always-On site about video conferencing, you’ll note a familiar ring to it as it almost mirrors in sentiment and direction what I wrote back on Sunday October 14th when I was in Madrid on the subject of Video Conferencing. This author’s post is an endorsement of … Read more
Gary Kim writes up the scheduled shuttering of voice services by dial up Internet Service Provider Netzero. I’ve heard from friends in the industry for some time how the service’s customer base was being shopped around for almost six months or so, without any real takers. First the asking price was too high for many, … Read more
Many a customer of the top VoIP companies here in the USA have always expressed frustration when it comes to Local Number Portability. While it has existed for mobile phone numbers, it really hasn’t been an “official” part of the VoIP world’s regulatory environment. Now it is. What does this mean? Well for starters in … Read more
It looks like Facebook has really graduated. Now there will be a native application for the Blackberry, something no well dressed MBA would be without. Basically this puts a sub network within a sub network running over multiple carriers. It’s ingenious. My guess is that with the MSFT investment we’ll be seeing a Windows Mobile … Read more
The Times of London has a story today about the new Skype enabled phone that the carrier named 3 will be rolling out reportedly this week. Basically, there will be a Skype button that brings up your Skype buddies who are online and you can call them. Ok. But you can’t use Skype Out. Strike … Read more
Tom Keating reports on AIM Call Out which looks and acts very much like Jajah to me. Some well placed sources lead me to believe it may be a private label version.
With Skype on 3 getting lots of play, pal Jim Courtney has an extensive piece on Skype and Mobile. It is seriously worth a read.
The New York Times in so many words, along with the Associated Press have basically, in so many words labeled Comcast liars, around the Bit Torrent issue. Let’s not go that far. Let’s call them experts in managing the truth. That kind of crisis management may have worked when Comcast was growing, but now in … Read more
