For those that don’t know David Beckemeyer, he’s the co-founder of Earthlink. Over a year ago he introduced PhoneGnome, a really evolutionary telephony product that I’ve had the good fortune to advise on, and use for some time. David is also one of the smartest technology executives at making a product consumer easy, just like … Read more
Meg Whitman has shaken up the troops at eBay, and it appears Skype will be the better for it. While the changes at the top will get the press coverage, the real keys to this are the promotion of six year eBay exeutive Henry Gomez to CMO and the lateral move of former Skype CMO … Read more
I consider Steve Howe one of the bright lights in VoIP and clearly one of the smartest execs at Earthlink, so I’m not surprised to see the moves he’s making in the Muni Wireless world. Check out Katie Fehrenbacher’s story on GigaOm where she has the scoop. Looks like Om picked a real winner who … Read more
I consider Steve Howe one of the bright lights in VoIP and clearly one of the smartest execs at Earthlink, so I’m not surprised to see the moves he’s making in the Muni Wireless world. Check out Katie Fehrenbacher’s story on GigaOm where she has the scoop. Looks like Om picked a real winner who … Read more
Today Audio Codes announced they are buying NetRake, a leading session border controller company. That follows on the heals of their closing on the purchase of San Diego based Nuera. Some months back I remarked that the era of consolidation within the VoIP world is upon us, and we’re starting to see that. Arms suppliers, … Read more
Looking for something other than Skype? If you check out this post by NetKraker from India you will see that it is an exact lift of the post that real blogger Nuno Bastai from 21Talks.com wrote back in March.It’s well written and features one of my agency’s clients, SightSpeed. 21Talks.com is a great source of … Read more
I’m a big believer in the need for peering in the VoIP world so when a green circle member tipped me off to the relationship between Stealth Communications and Infonxx I had to link to it. This is good news in my view as it means that more calls that start as VoIP can remain … Read more
Orange Mobile users roaming in the USA will begin having access to T-Mobile’s network of hotspots all across the USA at Starbucks, Hyatt Hotels and elsewhere.
The saying “what’s old is new again” clearly applies here with these retro style phone handsets from Hulger now working with VoIP. Talk about a physical mashup. These very cool designs are trendy and hip and if they sound as good as they look, they could usher in a whole new Shagadelic era for VoIP.
The San Francisco Chronicle’s Ryan Kim has a nice recap of the expanding use of Wireless Data cards by companies here in California. While the cards, either EvDO (Sprint and Verizon) or UMTS/EDGE from Cingular are useful on downloads, the upload speeds, and the potential restriction of what you can use them for remain the … Read more
