One of the more respected analyst firms, Gartner, invited client iotum to their recent Gartner Symposium. At the event, Gartner Group ran their first ever Cool Vendor Shorts program and included iotum, led by Alec Saunders. He has a recap. Now, here’s the cool part. They were chosen. Selected. Invited. They didn’t pay to be … Read more
Over the past few days the blogosphere has been buzzing with news about client GrandCentral and their new GrandCentral Mobile. TechCrunch’s Mike Arrington first broke the news following an impromptu lunch with GrandCentral CEO Craig Walker, followed by GigaOm and WebWare. Other bloggers have weighed in too with comments and accolades including Pat from Roam4Free, … Read more
Om has a post and poll up since Wednesday on the subject of Mobile VoIP that focuses on which Mobile Skype client will win the battle. So far Fring is in the lead, but the race is close. Beyond MobileSkype though you also have some competition in other places from two pure SIP players, Truphone … Read more
No one should be surprised by the comments from Qualcomm’s Len Lauer about WiMax. This is a repeat of the company’s perspective on WiFi back in the late 90’s and early 2000s’.
You can check out CrunchGears review of Fring, a service that conceptually I like, but have issues with the audio quality for business grade communications. I remember the early days of Vonage having similar issues, and a client on a call telling me to call back on a “real” phone. That’s something we don’t ever … Read more
The first quarter numbers are out from France Telecom and one of the most revealing statistics is the number of VoIP users that have added service. The number of “Voice over IP” services customers totalled 2.624 million at 31 March 2007, compared with 1.207 million a year ago. The growth was particularly strong in the … Read more
For those of you in the mobile industry at any kind of senior level, you will know the name of my good friend and local San Diego telecom marketing guru, Jeff Belk. For many years Jeff has been a fixture at Qualcomm, and while he’s still there, he’s actually on the move with his family … Read more
Hats off to Rich Tehrani and the team at TMC for landing a big fish to talk to the developers at next months conference in Santa Clara. They got the big Kahuna Paul Amery from Skype who is honchoing the Skype Developer’s Program. With only a month to go before the big eBay shindig in … Read more
I had a sense of DejaVU and did some sleuthing with the help of a friend after receiving a note from RebTel which directed me to a post on their blog about the Nokia N95 modifications being made by Vodafone and Orange that was previously reported here on VoIPWatch a few weeks back. That’s when … Read more
Jim has become a rabid fan of the Nokia Internet Tablet called the N800, and so have I. Jim can’t wait for the Skype client to come out for it, something I hear from Skype’s PR agency is coming, but with no firm release date. Now in fairness, Nokia is my agency’s client, but before … Read more
