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Bonne Chance Mon Ami, Loic

I remember when the crap around LesWeb3 hit last year. I was in Paris with my fiance Helene, and we were having coffee at the Columbus Coffee House with VPOD.tv founder Rodrigo Sepulveda Schulz and he explained all the commotion around Loic (who was also invited to join us for breakfast.) After hearing the facts … Read more

Is Yahoo Going After Jajah?

I keep hearing rumors that Yahoo’s crew is hard at work at delivering a Jajah killer service based on a lot of the architecture that was acquired in the purchase of Dialpad. Given how slow Yahoo has been at updating Messenger on the Mac, and how little really has been added beyond more integration on … Read more

The Vonage Workaround 2Little2Late

Vonage is making news and noise about the patent workaround. In my view it is really 2Little2Late. I espouse that simply because Vonage’s troubles are far greater than patent woes. First, the last quarter their chrun was up, and new activations down. At the same time the cable MSO’s continue to report record signups for … Read more

Sony Uses Jajah To Clone XBox Gamer VoIP

One of the little known secrets for years was that Microsoft was one of Level3’s VoIP customers. I remember talking back in 2005 to Level3 execs (many now departed) about MSFT being a VoIP customer. They were amazed as all MSFT did was run voice over their data network for XBOX Live, without telling Level3. … Read more

Avaya Developer Day

If you have a hankering to develop voice apps for the enterprise market next week’s TMC VoIP Developer event in Santa Clara, CA you can score a free admission to Avaya’s Developer Program. While this won’t get you into the rest of the conference, it will be a worthwhile starting point.

Calling Mom?

It seems everyone wants to take a page out of the AT&T old school playbook and wants to remind their customers and users to “call mom,” something that SkypeJournal is pointing out.

Gaboogie Launches

It looks like Erik Lagerway and his team have something hot with the launch of Gaboogie. I was briefed early on, and am anxiously awaiting some free time to play with the service. Problem is, of late, I’ve been on a ton of conference calls and the last thing I need right now is to … Read more

Shared Copy Makes Working Anywhere Easy

Pal James Seng has a new application that while still having some rough edges is something that virtual workers will love. Called Shared Copy, the multi-user Web based commenting tool has a place in the world of 2.0 applications that don’t require much more than a browser. Stuart has some comments.

SightSpeed in Financial Times

SightSpeed was featured yesterday in Paul Taylor’s Financial Times Tech column. While many in the USA based ‘Net and Tech industry look only at the Wall Street Journal and their tech team here in the USA as Holy Grail, Taylor can easily be perceived the same way in the globally read Financial Times. His “why … Read more

SightSpeed in Financial Times

SightSpeed was featured yesterday in Paul Taylor’s Financial Times Tech column. While many in the USA based ‘Net and Tech industry look only at the Wall Street Journal and their tech team here in the USA as Holy Grail, Taylor can easily be perceived the same way in the globally read Financial Times. His “why … Read more