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A firm out of Ottawa raised 10 million dollars this month. Their plan is to provide software that makes TDM based PBX systems VoIP capable.

Well after getting Google’s Click to Call to work nicely with calling cell phones I decided to try calling either of my Gizmo Project numbers. No joy. It could not connect. Next I tried my Skype In number and same result. Update–I changed hotels and cities and it worked with Skype..Hmmm

Can you say, “wham, bam, thank you, mam?” Well if you live in one of the more faster growing cities in Nevada you sure can. Never to be second in the race to come first, but also a company which has proved they can blow it, the mother of all phone companies, MaBell’s own AT&T … Read more

Long time pal Tony Greenberg who is well versed in all issues related to the Internet and service has written a very definitive piece on the subject of net neutrality. His points about the impact on gaming are as appropriate with VoIP and Video in the near and long term. It is a must read!!

Over the weekend Google quietly launched their click to call service tied in with Google Maps. How it works is best read here. How is this useful? Well for starters, now when you’re always connected you can avoid directory assistance charges. When you think how much money is spent per year calling 411 in the … Read more

Pal Brad Garlinghouse had an internal memo about reorganization get leaked out to the Wall Street Journal. Tabbed the Peanut Butter Manifesto, Garlinghouse has basically called Yahoo one big disfunction in action. Citing duplication of effort and a evenly spread approach to doing things, the memo, which he authored for internal consumption to address the … Read more

Back when longtime eBay executive Henry Gomez began to be involved with Skype as part of the eBay transition team, at the suggestion of now departed Spark PR President Lisa Hempel, I took a meeting with the ex-telco PR person from his Nynex era, who was tasked by Meg Whitman to lead the media efforts … Read more

PhoneBoy has a pretty concise summary of client TelEvolution’s upgrade of PhoneGnome to 2.0. There’s a lot to PhoneGnome and candidly, what David and the team have done in the past year really is Phone 3.0. You have to really take a look at what it not visible to the user to appreciate what PhoneGnome … Read more

The more time I spend with friend and client at PhoneGnome, David Beckemeyer, the more we tend to agree. I’m so unimpressed with the Linksys Yahoo Messenger it’s not funny. I mean, if I turn off my PC it stops working…DUH…. Not only that, but the drain on resources on a very fast, high memory, … Read more