Leslie Walker of the Washington Post, in a syndicated story, summarizes the eBay/Skype DevCon and eBay Live event of a week ago summarizing that eBay will continue to grow but that the Skype purchase price may have been too high.
Oh baby, did FMC just become a hot market segment…Nokia and Siemens are hooking up.
Om refers to Vonage’s numbers not adding up and delves into their latest marketing push to get subscribers to add a second line by eliminating sign up costs and waiving cancellation fees. I have to wonder if like Skype casting aside dollars in the short term with calls in the USA being free, if we … Read more
Om wants to know who will be Bill Gates 2.0 at Microsoft. So go vote.
Ken Camp wanders out on a very short limb and predicts that some enterprising worker will get tossed for using Skype in the Enterprise. I bet he’s right. There’s a lot of fear among the security teams in general about VoIP, even within companies that sell VoIP service. I have it on good authority that … Read more
James Enck on his new Chaotica Blog has a very good summary of his TEN panel held in London. The key thing is to realize that public company spokespeople have a hard time making forward looking statements, so it’s essential that you read between the lines. Give Janes Kudos for his panel. Yahoo, Skype, Google … Read more
If the Vonage customers keep bailing then the stock will keep tumbling. If they give the service away to keep customers, the stock will fall due to lost revenue. They can’t win for losing. This is a catch 22 situation that needs to be corrected. Knee jerk reactions are not hw to accomplish this. Smart, … Read more
Henry Sinnreich, one of the movers and shakers in the technology side of SIP and VoIP is heading over to Adobe. Adobe bought Macromedia last year, which has Breeze, a voice and video conferenencing tool. My instincts tell me that is where to start looking for what Henry is going to do, but to also … Read more
Skype has released the final version of release 2.5, but Mac folks like me are still behind, living in the one point something world.
Internet Telephony’s Tom Keating has to get the award for having the Eagle’s eye, spotting the Sun Rocket logo on photos of a new series of DECT phones that work either with VoIP or PSTN from client ATS (American Telecom). The DECT standard means no interference in the home or office with WiFi and more … Read more
