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Client TalkPlus is featured in a Mike Hogan penned article in Entrepreneur Magazine. It’s a very good read and provides a summary of the recently launched TalkPlus number.

Pal Mark Sullivan, long a fixture on the IT and VoIP scene at LightReading.com has seen the light. He’s left the CMP online scoop sheet and turned in his trade publication reporter hat for something bigger and more worldly. Starting soon Mark will be on the job at PCWorld covering VoIP and a few other … Read more

Longtime readers, of this blog, who actually visit the blog site, will notice something’s missing. It’s the wonderful Sitofono button that serves such a useful purpose, making it easy for others to reach me. So everyone knows, I really love my Sitofono button, and more specifically the overall concept of click to call. But recently … Read more

JaJah has a new CEO. He’s Trevor Healy and comes with an impressive resume, a string of successes and a skill set perfect for growing the business. My guess is JaJah will raise another round real soon and build for either an exit or if the war chest is large enough, start buying up like … Read more

Truphone users, which I’m one of on my Nokia E61, will be happy to know that yesterday the UK based company expanded their free calling program to the USA. This means that Truphone users here in the fifty states can make calls to forty countries for FREE. At the same time, JaJah announced they crossed … Read more

Mike Snyder, the CEO of Vonage thinks the doomsday media predicting the demise of Vonage may be wrong, and they put out a press release saying that yesterday. In PR parlance this is called “Crisis Management” but sound crisis management doesn’t begin when the problem hits. It is practiced every day by being in regular … Read more

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.