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FCC Sees A Need For Speed

So what is broadband? It seems the FCC is asking itself that very question. This post on GigaOm and the hat tipped eWeek story is all about that. Basically what most people have at home, 256k up and somewhere between 1 meg and 3 megs down pales in comparison to what is being built out … Read more

Is Vonage Making A Sprint for The Finish?

LightReading postulates that Sprint could be the likely suitor in a race to take over the legally challenged Vonage. To me it makes sense and here’s why. WiMax. Sprint/Nextel has an enormous effort planned around 4G communications. Their competitors like Clearwire, Comcast, Covad each already have a VoIP oriented play on the books and in … Read more

Vonage Being Stuck

Thomas Howe, who is at the Web 2.0 Conference, finds it hard to believe that Vonage is stuck and plays off of a theme that may be designed to cause pity and sympathy by questioning why they don’t have a workaround. For that type of answer we need a better explanation of what Vonage has … Read more

VoIP Is Hard????

Alec thinks VoIP is hard and goes into detail recognizing companies that have made it simple. This gets into the whole concept of user interface and to that point let me refer you to Alan Cooper and his seminal book on the subject of how to make thing better. Basically we still suffer as Cooper … Read more