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I know of a device which blows the Sony Mylo away, but I’m sworn to secrecy. Here’s an account of the Mylo that ran toady in the Columbus Dispatch. At $350 dollars, this is clearly for the Born Rich set.

I’ve been privy to this news for a few weeks, and kept it under wraps. Amazon selected the Pingtel open source solution to power their corporate phone system. Rich’s viewpoints are very much on target regarding the importance of this move as it represents an endorsement of both Open Source Telephony and Pingtel’s technology.

I’ve been having a blast using my UT Starcom F3000, despite some set up pains caused by the very non-consumer interface that requires a lot of knowledge. It is working great with SIP credentials supplied by Broadvoice, though I’d like to get it to work with both PhoneGnome and SIPPhone/Gizmo. Today’s St. Paul Pioneer Press … Read more

I met the TruPhone folks at VON Europe in March and was impressed then with what I saw. It seems others are too.

Yesterday Om found a story via WiFiNetNews (now pulled) that talked about Google canceling its Click2Call efforts. Om pursued the story in true reportorial fashion, and reached out to Google PR for comment. Today he received that return phone call and immediately amplified the story with a new post, and closed off comments to the … Read more

Dameon has raised a very good point about the lack of Mac in the IM world, which is one reason why iChat has done so well with Mac users. Besides being interoperable with AOL’s AIM and Jabber it just works. That said, SightSpeed has seen dramatic uptake under Peter Csathy, who embraced the idea of … Read more

Om has an early warning on Google Click to Call being cancelled. My guess is Microsoft’s patent around Teleo may hold some keys to this decision. Michael Arrington postulates that the Google Blog site was hacked and the post now removed.

When a client calls me and asks to change words in a press release, adjust the time of a briefing or do something that is in their best interest we do everything to make them happy, unless it is something requiring divine intervention (or if the other party just can’t change). So for the past … Read more

Give props to the AP’s Bruce Meyerson for his coverage of T-Mobile and the VoWiFi plans. I’ve been asking T-Mobile either face to face or by email about this, as well as posing the question to their representatives at CTIA as this story was something I’ve been aware of since February and actually began bringing … Read more

Dan York has taken his bluebox podcast and made it available by phone. Now that’s neat.