Rebtel Raises A Mint

Business2.0 has a scoop, likely taking a page out of the book of Om of going with a story when they have it, not waiting around for an embargo. This one is about RebTel raising 20 million bucks from VCs Index Ventures and Benchmark Capital. Jeff Pulver has been high on RebTel for a while, … Read more

Om Busts Another One, Keating Add More

Adobe has been not so quietly making the rounds about how they are taking Breeze, which they acquired from Macromedia, and beefing it up. I rememeber hearing something about it over dinner in an Indian joint a few weeks back with Om when one of the Adobe fellows told us something was up. I guessed … Read more

How Not To Make A Video Call

PhoneBoy has drawn a lot of attention to the SightSpeed Guy, Peter Zottolo’s Tip Of The Month about How Not To Make A Video Call. It is must see IPTV! P.S. VoIP Gurl gets the props though..so, is it PhoneBoy or the SightSpeed Guy who will steal her heart! My vote is for SightSpeed Guy…he’s … Read more

It’s Alarming

Garrett (The Blog Ranker) Smith has an interesting post on Alarm.com and SunRocket. What’s interesting is he also mentions a company I’m quite fond of, NextAlarm. In the sake of transparency, NextAlarm has been talking to me about becoming an agency client, so it’s always rewarding to know going in that others I respect recognize … Read more

AT&T Announces SoftPhone To Customers

AT&T is letting subscribers know about their new softphone, from CounterPath, that works with CallVantage. Here is the message I received today from AT&T to my CallVantage Voice Mail. To me this is using the medium. The voice mail ends up in people’s email. It is about voice. I can hear it. Nice move Chris … Read more

Microsoft Jumps Onto their own Video SoapBox

With all the hype and hoopla last week at VON about Video, Microsoft chose to sit back (some would say pull out) of the noise that got made in Boston and instead came out this week to stand on their own SoapBox. With SoapBox Microsoft is going after the same space as YouTube and Time … Read more