Earlier in the week I mentioned a Skype and CrunchGear promotion. Now it seems that Skype and Laptop Magazine are doing something similar. What does this tell me? Well for starters it means that Skype is getting around to tying in their partners like SMC and FON, bringing that to media partners for trade or … Read more
How Jeffrey Citron can be running a public company as Interim CEO likely needs some explaining, but the big news this morning is the stepping down of CEO and Director Mike Snyder from Vonage, the legally troubled VoIP provider. As part of the announcement Vonage also announced that layoffs will be implemented to help slow … Read more
It seems some of the global mobile carriers in some parts of the world just can’t let a great phone stay great. I’m referring to the Nokia N95 that has more bells and whistles than just about any mobile phone on the planet. So just like Cingular disemboweled the Nokia E61 and gave the USA … Read more
For a college campus like SUNY Buffalo, in western New York State the switch to VoIP will cost a mere $3 million. That puts them on same playing field as most enterprise size sales to companies. The upgrade and switch will take place over a three year period. Last to get upgraded will be the … Read more
I feel like I lost a friend. Like someone died…only no one did, except a blog. I’ve been a reader of James Enck EuroTelcoblog from almost the start of his blogging days, and was, I think, one of the early VoIP bloggers who started to link to him. He was someone who I could run … Read more
Client Craig Walker at GrandCentral, a service I use everyday, has made a noble gesture of sorts, thanking Vonage for being the fire starter for VoIP. In many ways he’s right. Vonage served as the category breaker. Unfortunately they are not managing their success the right way, and never really have. I also tend to … Read more
Hat tip to pal Tom Keating who led me to a site devoted towards the Open Source PBX community. TMC has been actively creating a series of these types of groups. In many ways they remind me of the old days of Compuserve which in my mind had the very best forum structure out there. … Read more
Jeff Pulver is on vacation but still blogging. He’s put out a call for companies to be part of something that he seems to be developing, the IP Communications Class of 2007. Between this and the TMC VoIP Developers show, and the Google World Developer Day this looks like a year for lots of new. … Read more
Mike at TechDirt has a very good post on the dunderhead approach to innovation at the global telcos. I call it “roadblocking” based on what he’s written and I also go one step farther to say he’s right. Rather than follow in the inventive forward thinking spirit of the inventor of the phone, Alexander Graham … Read more
It looks like the range of mobile handsets and devices that JaJah works on has grown to include more of the Smartphones according to Gizmodo.
