Tim Smith has been named Interim President of Vonage. Vonage has also made some other changes that should signal more work on the technical side, either that or some more hands to deal with the patent infringement claims.
MacWorld follow up on my post of yesterday with more details about the VoIP-less Yahoo Messenger.
Vonage V-Phone…Yawn… Now if this did Fixed Mobile Convergence then Vonage would be onto something.
Is Cingular about to get ready to let VoIP run free over their data networks? That’s the word out of the Yankee Group’s Wireless Conference tonight. But they want to find a way to make it work right and of course find a way to make money off of it in some way. This of … Read more
Apple is expected to add VoIP functionality to their next OS for the Mac, according to Apple Insider.
According to one of my sources inside Yahoo the rebuilt from the ground up Mac version of Yahoo Messenger will be out possibly as early as today. But if you’re waiting for Voice and Phone like what exists for the PC, keep waiting. Yahoo, under Jeff Bonforte has taken alot of time to rebuild a … Read more
eBay’s CEO emphasized some numbers yesterday and the stock fell. During a speech at Stanford Meg Whitman indicated that Skype now has over 100 million registered users, while eBay has two hundred million, according to MarketWatch, which covered Whitman’s speech. What it appears she didn’t say is how many eBay users are Skype users, and … Read more
On the subject of Alec Saunders and Unified Communications, we’ve been keeping this under our hats for about a week, but the timing could not be better. While Microsoft is promising a solution in 2007, iotum is busily working with partners to offer the kind of experience Steve Ballmer is dreaming about. Note: iotum is … Read more
Alec says Microsoft is going to need some help to execute on their vision with their new Unified Communications strategy. I say this is a golden time for the real Voice 2.0 companies to rise and shine. If you’re one of the companies squarely in the gunsights of Microsoft, now is the time to evolve, … Read more
Congrats to Counterpath for their supplying British Telecom (BT) with a Softphone for its BT Total Broadband customers. SightSpeed has been providing video to UK cable/broadband player TeleWest for some time for their BlueYonder service.
