Is It Web or Voice 2.0?

GrandCentral, is a client who along with client Covad, sponsored the GigaOm LaunchPad party at O’Reilly’s eTel conference. GrandCentral was the buzz of the show, captured the title in the Mozes voting and recently was written up in the highly read David Pogue NY Times column complete with video that was hilarious. Today Tim O’Reilly … Read more

Living with The SoftPhones

The last week I worked out of the office all five days. That meant I got to play with a lot of softclients and apps that I don’t normally get to try when I’m in meeting mode as I have been the last few weeks. Those meetings, with clients and team members sometimes despite how … Read more

GloPhone Hangs Up

I never got excited about GloPhone. They were one of those companies that I thought from the start was more about being a stock play than a phone company despite all their claims. Well Om busts a move and gets the story out that they’re no longer glowing at all. Seems they have come loudly, … Read more

Google Phone Sounding More Real

Dean at VoIPUser has quoted a Google executive Isabel Aguilera who is based in the Iberian peninsula and oversees Google’s activities in Spain and Portugal regarding the real activity involving the development of a Google Phone. To my knowledge this is the first public comment by anyone officially connected to Google that has made the … Read more

Does Voice Have a Place With Portals?

Does voice have a place with Web Portals or is Voice really an Internet play, not a portal play? In the movie Jerry McGuire, the character played by Cuba Gooding, Jr. tells Jerry to “Show me The Money.” I say the VoIP portals should be less worried about showing me the ads, and more concerned … Read more

You Say Goodbye and I Say Tello

Over the last few weeks I’ve heard rumblings that Tello, the highly visible Silicon Valley startup that offered great promise, was on the ropes. Unfortunately despite their dream team investor line-up, they always seemed to be one step from greatness and another step from utter damnation. Well it seems Om has broken the story wide … Read more

AT&T Revs Up For The Race

A few years ago in the Dave Dorman and Kathy Martine era AT&T had a vision of being a global communications company. To get their they began a long range sponsorship of Formula One automobile racing sponsorship. That vision has turned into reality this year with their sponsored race team receiving the benefit of all … Read more