FON and BT Talking About Sharing Access

Last week at DEMO Whisher was presented and many a comparison to FON was made. This week FON trumps Whisher with news that they are in talks to be working with BT. FON offers a very inexpensive solution to the carrier as a way to authenticate onto a network without the network operator having to … Read more

Where’s The Beef?

A few days ago while I was at DEMO pal David Beckemeyer pinged me about his post that asked where are the Voice 2.0 Developers. I’ll ask the question another way. Where is the innovation in Voice? It sure isn’t with the carriers, even the so called next generation ones. Last summer AOL launched AIM … Read more

Nokia and Skype

Stuart raises some interesting points, but I don’t think Nokia did anything to crush Skype’s mobile plans. More than likely it was Skype themselves. This all means good things for GizmoProject and TruPhone. You may also want to take a gander at his post about Fring, a software I’ve been aware of for a while … Read more

Stuart Roars Back and Skype Is His Target

Stuart has always been one of my favorite barometers about Skype and if they are on the right, or wrong track. In his post this past week he nails the problems with their new pricing plans right on the head. What’s more, this is not new thinking. Jeremy Wagstaff of the Wall Street Journal and … Read more

Great News From the Pulver Camp

As many long time readers of VoIPWatch know, I got engaged back in 2005 and am deep in planning for the 2007 Summer Wedding. Well just last week I learned that my very dear friend and wine loving pal Scott Kargman, the number two guy for many years inside Pulver.com has managed to pull off … Read more

Demo Observation

I’m at the DEMO conference and one point that has to be made about all the news coverage, and there is plenty is that there is difference between a demo and a demo of a live product. A lot of companies here are on a dream path. They have an idea. They get a web … Read more

Instant Journalism: Take Two

A few weeks ago I wrote a piece that caused a firestorm about Instant Journalism. Seems my vision wasn’t wrong and what’s more, it seems the Mainstream Media is adopting the same philosophy.

DEMO-Support.com

So your computer breaks. What do you do. How do you keep them working. Well a company by the name of Support.com has a remote “fix” your Windows machine. Of course they don’t have a Mac fix, but Mac’s don’t usually need third party intervention too often.

DEMO-EyeJot

EyeJot, a company run by pal David Geller out of Seattle. Geller’s other company is WhatCounts and EyeJot has some nice features wrapped around the Macromedia Flash based video message recording, ability to work with social networks. EyeJot messages that people receive can be viewed inside the browser, loaded onto video iPods for playback later, … Read more

Demo-HoneyPitch

HoneyPitch is web based application that makes developing and collaborating on presentations and sharing documents that are designed for one thing. Getting business. But it goes past collaboration by providing prospects a way to interact, see video messages and most importantly review and approve agreements. HoneyPitch makes it easy for nomadic teams to work together, … Read more