Mr. Blog takes a stance on the Skype pricing plan and goes nose to nose with Russell Shaw in a post a few days back. He’s right but one reason I would never consider Skype as a replacement for MY phone service is that it doesn’t show Caller ID and that’s an essential part of … Read more
Last night I had a dinner meeting with long time friend and uber blogger Bob Cox. Bob is best known as being the blogger who outed New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd for misquoting President George Bush and standing his ground against the Grey Lady and winning during his run with The National Debate a … Read more
Last night I had a dinner meeting with long time friend and uber blogger Bob Cox. Bob is best known as being the blogger who outed New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd for misquoting President George Bush and standing his ground against the Grey Lady and winning during his run with The National Debate a … Read more
Luca and his team at Abbeynet have signed a deal to make Click to Call more available, we have exclusively learned. According to the news release: myBlueZebra, a start-up company based in New York and founded by Andrea Tessitore and David Freyer selected the technology developed by Abbeynet to complement it’s innovative web based click-to-call … Read more
Luca’s tale of needing to have a hospitalized relative see a grandson is heartwarming. While he doesn’t go into a verbose detail, he pretty much sums up the future of mobile video. On a personal note, Nokia is an agency client. It’s very heartwarming to see the imagination that people are putting into using new … Read more
Lately I’ve noticed a series of calls coming in to my GrandCentral number from off shore. The people call at odd hours or worse when I’m sleeping. Since I rarely turn off my cell phones or soft clients where agency client GrandCentral is routing calls to I am thrilled at the ease of one click … Read more
Alec Saunders is continuing his theme on how presence is redefined. His insight, based on experience at building out iotum (an agency client) is not from some armchair quarterback, but from being involved on a day to day basis of how to solve communications problems using relevance as the core. What Alec is bringing to … Read more
It seems the folks in Baltimore want to tax Vonage. The same thing happened a few years back in California so I don’t see this as a battle that won’t stop happening, especially as more and more of city’s tax bases erode with new technology. For example, the tax revenue generated from coin boxes/pay phones … Read more
I’m not at all surprised to see this. Bankruptcy is something that occurs in all industries. It has happened to one VoIP company and will happen to others in VoIP, WiFi, WiMax and more. The economics of business apply to technology all the same. History always repeats. The key is to run your business right, … Read more
It seems that in other parts of the world, where IP communications basically is creating new markets and driving economic growth that Video Communications is growing. While we often think of the video market for the Internet as IPTV like, it’s very interesting to note that the emerging markets like India are focusing on video … Read more
