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I’m a bit late on this but Thomas Anglero, over on Telecom’s Tsunami has a very good post on the impact that the i-Pass deals mean and how FMC (Fixed Mobile Convergence) is happening and who the players are.

Rich does a very good job of telling us all about the new features found in Skype 2.5. While he’s been typing away I’ve had a few in the know tech types tell me more about SkypeCast. A SkypeCast entity is a special phone number skype:+990 01110002544315 When parsing this, you ignore the skype: that … Read more

I caught up with uber-blogger Stowe Boyd at OnHollywood yesterday and he had his VON shirt on. I have offered to wear a Stowe shirt at VON…but in thinking, it should be a beret!

In what is one of the most concise and dead on analysis like blog posts I have read on the subject Mark Evans has zeroed in on the Vonage IPO filing and proved that Sundays are not only for those who want to do nothing but watch sports. The key is how little, yes little, … Read more

A new and improved Skype 2.5 is due out by late afternoon U.K. time with the big feature being a true 100 person conference calling capability with moderation features called Skypecast. Some impressive tie ins like with companies like SixApart, makers of TypePad having been lined up. This is a continuation of the evolution we … Read more

While they don’t connect to any VoIP network via WiFi (yet) I’m predicting Helio, which just came out of the closet  will do just that. Targeting the 20 somethings and college age mobile crowd, Helio offers tons of “keep in touch” like features that blow away the offerings of the regular mobile carriers. One has … Read more

I don’t want to turn this into an ad for iotum and PhoneGnome (or my agency) but the VoIP blog world is a buzz with what the power of relevance means–presence and context-meaning right place, right time a the new way to receive the calls you want, where you want, on the endpoint you choose. … Read more

Usually when a company get’s it’s pricing nailed down, trading will begin in a very short time. Being that Vonage announced their IPO per share price range today, I would expect to see the stock on the market soon, if conventional IPO tactics are followed. Vonage can be again the catalyst for the VoIP industry, … Read more

Donavan Jones has been named President of CounterPath, my favorite softclient developer. Jones will have to battle a lot of in house development that is occuring at the big players like Google, Yahoo, AOL and elsewhere to keep the XTEN guts at the forefront of softphone integration.

IMS is what underlies Fixed Mobile Convergence, otherwise known as where Mobile Meets VoIP. Ken Camp is digging into the subject and his summary is a good primary, with some kudos to pal Martin Geddes. This ties in nicely as I’m moderating the “VoIP In a Wireless World” panel at MuniWireless.org’s June conference in Santa … Read more