AT&T Playing It Safe

AT&T CallVantage customers who are not officially where the E911 service is located (i.e. those that lie) are getting served with disconnect notices. I hear the same thing is happening with some AIM PhoneLine customers as well from the AOL exec on the project. This is really about playing it safe and minimizing risk for … Read more

Trustive Grows Their Portfolio

Europeans who use WiFi are likely more aware of Trustive than many in other parts of the world. The hotspot access aggregator is similar to Boingo here in the USA, and has taken aim at the SMB/SME market going after the same customer base that iPass and GRIC have had mostly free reign with for … Read more

Sonus Keeps Winning Business

One of the companies that people fail to realize that had roots in the dot.com era is Sonus. Over time they have overcome adversity and become the go to choice for the telco more and more frequently, as they now are winning business from the top line carriers like France Telecom that was announced today. … Read more

Mig33 Raises Ten Million

One of the companies at Om Malik and Surj Patel’s Launchpad event that I liked was Mig33. It seems they have finally gotten around to announcing their funding from Accel and Redpoint. This tells me a major push is about to happen. Expect new hires, some new deals and lots of buzz around this blended … Read more

Accenture Using Social Networking Like Presence

It looks like big business IT consulting giant Accenture is taking a page out of the teenager’s lifestyle site MySpace and launching a personal presence and find me set directory for their employees that will combine the 2.0 concept of Presence with VoIP. In my view this is a perfect mashup for client iotum from … Read more

Pew Study: Which User Are You

The Pew Study on Internet Life looks at different categories of Internet users. Based on the study, I’m an OmniVore, as are most of my Blogger pals who cover VoIP. Check out Russell Shaw’s summary on ZDNet as to how it applies to VoIP. This would be meaningful to many a VoIP company at targeting … Read more

Fonality Broadens Distribution

One of the hotter companies on the market is Fonality. They’re bringing Asterisk based VoIP to the small office market very quickly. Now they’ve hooked up with PCMall, one of the larger direct marketers on the web.