Many will look at the first day performance of the VONAGE public offering as an indictment for VoIP overall. That’s not fair, nor is it accurate. What has happened in my view is that the Emperor’s new clothes scenario has run its coure, but now everyone can see. The public offering was largely a means … Read more
Net Neutrality is way more than just about access and I’m seeing more and more the global cabal like interests of politics, economics, finance and technology converging.
The company formally known as Xten is doing well according to today’s SEC filings. Congrats to Mark Bruk and his team, including poker playing buddy Clay who despite not being a blogger seems to run into me a lot at conferences.
Sonus has gotten high marks I hear from an upcoming report crafted by Infonetics that’s all about the “Service Provider Next Generation Voice and IMS Equipment Market Forecast.” The Infonetics report named Sonus the market leader in a few categories including the worldwide trunk media gateway segment where they hold 16% of the total market … Read more
AOL is giving away phone numbers with AIM Phone Line for free and that’s a great way for people to start creating what I have tabbed Shadow Numbers. Now you can give someone your number and never have to worry that if you want to break of talking with them that your real number ever … Read more
I’m on the last day of a continual road trip that started before VON Europe. Tomorrow would be day 14 of non-stop away from home efforts. The interesting news obviously is the stock pricing of Vonage and their officially going public. Likely lost in all the hoopla around Vonage is the amended complaint by Streamcast … Read more
Tom Keating has the 411 on the upcoming Skype Developer’s Conference which I’m planning on attending in Las Vegas starting June 9. The three day event should be a blast. I’m already hearing from some other bloggers that they plan on coming too, so stay tuned as we’ll likely try to organize some kind of … Read more
I’m rather excited about the Google Talk announcement with Nokia and the Internet Tablet. I just bought two tablets, one for me, one for my fiance. The idea of a network appliance and portable VoIP has me very intrigued. I’m more excited though about Gizmo Project coming out on the platform. That means anytime I’m … Read more
Back in January at CES I pointed out to the lovely and witty Lisa Hempel, CEO of Spark PR-the agency that handles Skype, that the press release around the announcement of the Netgear Skype wireless handset had one big hole. It wouldn’t work in places that are Boingo or The Cloud like (both are Skype … Read more
When I lecture to university students about how to get media coverage I often tell them that reporters don’t find stories, stories find reporters, that is unless you’re trained like I was, as an investigative reporter with sources. But sometimes the story just falls into, um, my lap…top…. that is. Today at VON I was … Read more
