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CTIA starts today. Think VON Blur on steroids. I’m at CTIA to find what’s hot in mobile these days. Stay tuned.

Now this is a the kind of thing that gets my heart racing and wishing we had something like this here in the good old USA. Using a PCMCIA or Express34 card you can roam between all kinds of wireless networks regardless of flavor via one operator. So how would we do it here? Easy … Read more

The Verizon battle with Vonage over patents in many ways reminds me of the tortoise and the hare. Sure that an old fable for children, but when one looks at Verizon one can only see the slower moving, hard shell the company puts out. But this is more like a cartoon, or soap opera. Consider … Read more

My instincts tell me that there is more to the Verizon/Vonage battle. I’ll have some thoughts later in the day.

The USA Federal Court system has ruled that the fifty states do not have a say about regulating VoIP.

Congrats to pal Steve Howe Earthlink’s number one in voice. He just got promoted to Senior VP for Voice….

It looks like the big carries and some upstarts are starting to work closer together. Today Lavalife and Level3 announced they are working together as did GrandCentral with GlobalCrossing. Client VoEX announced their SuperPops today and SuperRegistry yesterday that was covered by Khali Henderson of Xchange Magazine. Digium pushed out their final beta of AsteriskNow … Read more

Niklas Zennstrom, Skype founder was there to kick of the day and we got to talk later in the evening face to face. The night ended with my having dinner at 9 PM by laptop at the Grill on the the Alley. In between, my second day at VON was packed with meetings with clients … Read more

You know you’re a geek when?

Jim Courtney who is presently present at Cebit in Germany took the time to author a very nice piece on the subject de jour..Presence.