Daniel Berninger explains why the patent mess that Vonage is caught up in exists in a very much dead on the money post. In many ways the current patent enforcement actions remind me of the way states went after trading card companies using lottery laws. No harm was being done the way things were, but … Read more
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Ted Wallingford and I seem to agree more times than not and I’m thrilled to see what he wrote as it is so true. The consumer market vs. nerds, early adopter and the “I gotta have it (insert heavy breathing) now crowd is not the market. The market is the mass market and until people … Read more
No surprise here that the iPhone from Apple that will be sold in the USA by Cingular will offer a “walled garden” approach to content and Internet access. Pal Michael Robertson has been whispering that tale since January to his friends. I’ve heard the same from others. Translation…no VoIP. No iChat.
So here’s the story out of the Red Herring saying the sky is falling on VoIP and VoIP companies. I don’t think so. 1) Verizon could license the technology. $58 million dollars is less than 10 million a year. Vonage’s spend is less than that per week on Marketing. 2) Other companies likely have technology … Read more
I am constantly amazed that just because an FCC rule is passed that people think that marketing efforts will be curtailed based on some rules to prohibit information sharing between partners. Anyone with even the most rudimentary knowledge of direct marketing knows that consumer profiling can be done with cross tabbing multiple data sources from … Read more
If you care at all about Cisco then make sure you read the series of posts by analyst/blogger and pal Jon Arnold from the Las Vegas Cisco Partner Summit. But Jon. With all the wonderful visuals Las Vegas has to offer…can you take some more “attractive” photos with the Nokia N93… 🙂
When I was in London recently I saw the SSID for this river side WiFi cloud. It is a very ambitious project, but it’s not a mesh network, which is why it will work very well with Voice and Video. They’re using Bel Air access points just like Cheetah Wireless is doing in Las Vegas.
Everyone is counting Vonage out, and I’m not exactly not doing that, but while I think that they are not that far from dead, I do believe the current company as it sits is in huge trouble, which is stating the obvious. 2.2 million customers at an average of 20 dollars a month is 40 … Read more
I’m continually amazed that in advertising companies get away with calling anything “unlimited” when really the reality of the offer is that there is a bottom or a top. Mr. Blog draws attention to this with the EvDO plan from Verizon that Wired News has clarified what it is. Basically, you get to surf the … Read more
