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In all the hoopla and hysteria over SightSpeed being on MTV, it seemed Om knew the place to be. New York City. He celebrated his birthday today (well, yesterday if you’re there). Happy Birthday, Mr. Om.

It looks like Google is gearing up to make some moves in VoIP. Today they announced their opening up GTalk to everyone.

Other respected bloggers, notably PhoneBoy and Ken Camp have taken an exception to what Grand Central does, hanging their objections on the idea of it being an additional phone number, not providing commentary on it’s merits and new features like call record and telemarketing spam filtering. Maybe because I’ve had Webley for years, which was … Read more

In a non-scientific test Luca and PhoneBoy set out to see which video conferencing software is better, iChat or SightSpeed. It seems seeing is the best test, and once again, client SightSpeed won.

I really think Luca has raised some very interesting questons about minute stealers JaJah and RebTel. Though I’m more impressed with Rebtel’s business plan than what I know about JaJah, I’m not sure either can’t be squashed by the likes of Vodafone, Telstra or AT&T if they want to do the sqaushing. Thes ecompanies are … Read more

A war of words is heating up the Internet accelerated by Tom Keating, fueled by VoIP Supply’s Garrett Smith over a post by a new employee at Voxilla (note a VoIP Supply competitor) who wrote something on his blog about VON this year, even though it does not reflect the official position of Voxilla according … Read more

If the Chancellor at San Jose State wants to save money and still block Skype, he won’t need the CTO much longer. Sophos now has enterprise software that will block Skype and a host of other file sharing and P2P tools, as well as VoIP. Given how the CTO has already put the university under … Read more

I tend to agree with Luca on the need for more light, plug in and widget type technology.

The VoIPGirl shares her experience of canceling her Vonage account. I did the same thing and they charged me to cancel. But I was able to keep my number that I had ported over to them from SBC. I did it by parking it at Junction Networks before I cancelled the account. A bit of … Read more

Voxilla has rolled out a new service called “Make It Work.” For $30 they will get things working, or your money back. Seems like a capital idea!