Jon Arnold has one of the most insightful pieces in the blogs about the upcoming Telio IPO in Norway. Telio is one of the companies really approaching Fixed Mobile Convergence seems to poised to be able to expand their efforts in Scandanavia and elsewhere. This is cleary a different kind of IPO from a different … Read more
The Oakland Tribune’s Editor Barbara Grady profiled client SightSpeed in the East Bay paper yesterday, picking up on the company’s move into voice in a bigger way. As CEO and pal Peter Csathy says, SightSpeed is video first and based on the trials I’ve had with the new beta version on the MacBook 13″ nothing … Read more
I just hung out with Brian McConnell, the creator of RadioHandi. It rocks. The community and communication capabilities here are amazing and the team there has done all of it on a shoestring. What I like is how it can disrupt Akamai and others like Raindance who serve up a lot of the audio conference … Read more
As if Skype didn’t have enough legal messes on their hands with the Streamcast suit now they have publicly traded IDT’s Net2Phone suing them also. One has to wonder just how much due diligence was done by eBay before the acqusition?
Earlier in the week I reported that another Skype security hole was found. Now it seems leading industry analyst Gartner has spoken out agains the Skype one more time calling the P2P communications tool a “growing security threat.”
If Skype keeps giving things away that can’t help them ever reach earnout. And that can’t be pleasing the boys in London very much. Today they announced a deal with Vapps to provide free conference calling for up to 500 participants. According to some Silicon Valley sources Meg Whitman and Niklas Zennstrom seem to be … Read more
Vonage stock is spinning and their buyers who thought they might just skip out on paying are in for a rude awakening.
One Wall Street analyst thinks so in today’s New York Times.
I’m losing track of the number of reports of similar bug issues with Skype. At this this point the issues are reminding me more of Internet Explorer and other Microsoft type of issues. Gee. Maybe Microsoft should buy eBay !!
PCWorld Canada has a summary on Vonage in Canada and VoIP and deems it worthy.
