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APRIL FOOLS DAY Edition

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Historically on April Fools Day Press Releases and News Accounts Fly Around the news world. It has become a time honored tradition. The following four stories are written in that nature. They are meant to be could you imagine that and are total works of fiction…..

I actually was going to also use a Vonage IPO related post but have deleted it. They have filed and the market will decide if it’s a good stock or not.  Perhaps one could be:

Vonage Buys Qwest. Experts Call It A Merger of Equals!

Another could be

Level 3 Buys A Winery in Napa Valley

Yet another could be

Andy Abramson to Stop Blogging

You see, all these are written in a style that makes you go hmmm…..and for that I say "GOTCHA!"

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Skype Mobile To Launch At CTIA

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April Fools Day Story # 3 I’ve heard that Skype will unveil a new mobile phone service. Using T-Mobile as the underlying carrier and Level3, the new SkypeMo service will feature seamless handoff between WiFi and mobile networks. In Europe the service will be provided by VodaFone. The new service, will become available in the … Read more

Whose Buying CallVantage?

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April Fool’s Story # 2 AOL, which last year introduced Total Talk, could do the move of the year taking CallVantage away from AT&T. What a great move that would be! AOL is progressive while the current leadership at AT&T is not as keen on Consumer VoIP as the old team. Then again other suitors … Read more

O’Reilly To Buy TMC and PulverMedia

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April Fools Story #1

According to reports out of the Bay Area long time uber geek publisher Tim O’Reilly has decided to acquire both TMC’s Publishing and Conference/Trade Show Division as well as merge with PulverMedia.

Long time Pulver executive Scott Kargman will be named CEO of the combined entity. As part of the combined entity Jeff Pulver will serve as chief visionary while O’Reilly assumes the chairmanship.

TMC publisher Rich Tehrani and CTO Tom Keating will remain involved in the trade show and online product testing/review efforts focusing on new companies and new offers.

April Fools!

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Zennstrom Not At VON Canada

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It seems Mr. Z won’t be coming to VON and that’s a shame. Zennstrom’s impact on VoIP is significant and noteworthy. He has been one of the real agents of change and the audience in Toronto would have benefitted from his views and insight. From what I have seen and been hearing VON Canada will … Read more

Skype Goes TransGender

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Okay, if Skype is from Venus and SIP is from Mars, how do you get it to go transgender? Uplink is the answer as it makes and takes all that SIP has to give and gives it right back.

More Talq on Talqer

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Om missed that I beat him to the post (again) but he went deeper about what the implications are around Google non-partner that works with GTalk, Talqer. This week seems to be the I want to be the Phone on Your PC week, with Lycos and partners, Talqer, Earthlink all jumping into the fray. Next … Read more

Are We Becoming The BrainTrust or The Cabal?

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Ken Camp has a brilliant idea and it looks like it’s gaining steam. A regular podcast recorded in the BoF (birds of a feather) mold featuring the more articulate and outspoken VoIP bloggers. I’ve already said I’m in…so have most and more will be added.