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I was planning on posting a note about Oregan Networks but Om beat me to it. I like this idea a lot as it lets the lean back set (TV watchers) take advantage of a lean forward technology (SKYPE)

Last night client iotum won the CATA Alliance award. Unlike many other awards that can be applied for or purchased through an entry, the CATA award for Innovation has their own selection criteria and an independent committee. Jon Arnold has the scoop in his blog post.

PC Magazine has a report from a security company that focuses for the enterprise market which lists Skype as one of the 15 most vulnerable pieces of software if users don’t do regular updates and patches. To many of us, this is old news but underscores the issue with Skype and other software that can … Read more

Skype has struck a deal with Packard Bell, a maker of low end computers for the mass market, which places a Skype button in the keyboard. As more and more hardware deals like this are struck it will make it easier for more new users to experiment with Skype in my view.

For the balance of the month you can get Skype Out International calling 30 countries around the world for free> if you’re a USA based Skype user. In my view this Skype is acting more and more like a real phone company, using promotions such as this, which is clearly sampling. In many ways this … Read more

Pal and client, Dr. Howard Thaw, who co-founded iotum with Alec Saunders has a really cool Blackberry (or I should say RedBerry). Check out Mathew Ingram’s story which really is all about personalization.

If you’re Vonage’s new CEO, you have to wonder what you got yourself into as Vonage is rapidly becoming like Microsoft, a company embroiled in lawsuit after lawsuit, and while Microsoft’s legal woes, much of which is behind them and were largely based on their approach to competition, Vonage as a company is being as … Read more

Vodafone, which is reportedly getting ready to sell their stake in Verizon Wireless here in the USA, continues to roll out a low cost per minute platform called Home Zone that is designed for people who make mostly local calls. It’s looked at by some as a way to keep people mobile, without losing them … Read more

Meg Whitman is in the middle of some kind of spin control I suspect. You see, these types of stories don’t just surface for no reason. During eBay’s DevCon Microsoft was hardly in attendence with any real weighty executives and some reports at the event indicated that the week before the event there may have … Read more

Check out Aoife McEvoy’s review of AIM PhoneLine vs. Skype Beta 2.5. Some of the challenges that AOL’s phone team faced were likely similar in many ways to similar hurdles that the Yahoo voice team’s is finding in bringing voice into an IM world. The IM clients weren’t architected for voice so voice has to … Read more