I’m a few days late on this one, but Tom Keating gets the props for breaking the story on Fonality buying Trixbox. In a nutshell trixbox is “Asterisk based trixbox enables even the novice user to quickly set up a voice over IP phone system. trixbox can be configured to handle a single phone line … Read more
Ted Wallingford has written a wonderfully titled book for O’Reilly, all about VoIP Hacks. Given the timing of the book, and the subject matter, there should be a lot of fun things found out. You can order it direct from O’Reilly.
Om has a post yesterday and another one today about The Venice Project and FON. What is very interesting here is how Skype founders were able to develop Venice while they were full time at Skype, but not have the intellectual property part of the Skype sale to eBay. This makes no sense, as most … Read more
Mark Evans has taken the “Jeff Pulver challenge” and gotten involved in a startup. This is a great move for Mark. Congratulations.
As a sign of things to come, it appears that T-Mobile is changing their tune in a good way about allowing VoIP on the data networks. The catch is that the users need to be on premium accounts.
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Carl Weinschenk has a great post on IT Business Edge about the coming day of Interoperability with VoIP. I for one could not agree more. But to have true interoperability, we need to have SIP talk to SKYPE and Skype talk to SIP, not just have gateways, addresses, nodes and such that is beyond the … Read more
Jeff Pulver has made some very valid points about the blogosphere being a bit less enthusiastic about companies like RebTel (which I like) and Jajah where I just aired my views below. I completely agree with Jeff that lots of very smart people are behind some of these ventures, but my concern is not about … Read more
Ted, Alec and others are analyzing JaJah, and in turn the other “minute stealer” and data services enablers. I think this is all good, as the civil discussion about a new technology is certainly always warranted, and sorely needed. What everyone seems to have missed is that JaJah and Plaxo share a common backer, in … Read more
A lot of talk continues to swirl on the subject of Fixed Mobile Convergence this week, and with the Telecom 2.0 conference this coming week in London, I expect more viewpoints to be forthcoming. Dean Bubley, one of the more experienced and outspoken analysts on the subject explains why the enterprise market may not be … Read more
