Paul Kapustka ponders just how Real Microsoft’s new Live Video offering is. He laments that the test video of two Microsoftees at the San Jose Convention Center isn’t a real test. Compare that to client SightSpeed whose President Scott Lomond demonstrated the same thing but with someone in Chicago at the same VON as part … Read more
David Beckemeyer, client and friend, showed me the latest big idea he has with PhoneGnome and Stuart beat me to the blog. Using his Nokia N70 David has created an XML application that grabs his PhoneGnome phone directory that works with their version of Click2Call and lets you make a call from your cell phone … Read more
eBay executives have hit the road to sell the dream to Wall Street. This is how you shore up belief in the company, by telling analysts on what is called the sell side that eBay knows what they are doing and has a handle on things. Skype Journal editor, Phil Wolff has some excellent commentary.
CompUSA has gone direct and wants to offer small businesses VoIP via a partnership with BandWidth.com, one of Level3’s biggest resellers. What does this mean? Well basically VONAGE and AT&T spent oodles of dollars in what is called bounties and slotting allowances, MAP funds and more to build the category and make people aware that … Read more
This year’s VON was the biggest and best ever in many ways. VON never looked better. The smoothness in which it operated is a credit to Jason, Scott and the team that puts it on. The hallways and show floor was full of bodies and the exhibitors all have clearly moved from pipe and drape … Read more
When the biggest unpaid cheerleader Skype ever had, Stuart Henshall, gets down on Skype, you have to take at least a moment and wonder what’s up so give his post a read. In Skype’s defense Henry Gomez, the major domo in the USA was traveling and had to pass on a VON keynote opportunity. Skype … Read more
Keynote Systems, which last year released their first VoIP quality study wants to give users and providers both a monitoring and reporting mechanism that measures the customer experience.
Om thinks that Earthlink needs to get more aggressive. I think they need to get smarter. All indications are that they are suffering from bloat and growth but that their middle management is not really in sync with the CEO’s vision. They have too many parallel product offerings and don’t get their story out really … Read more
The idea of a WiFi phone is nothing new. Already I’ve been using one from Zyxel when I go on the road that’s connected to a Broadvoice SIP address. It really makes things easy, and gives me a real phone to use in hotels. We’re also seeing the proliferation of phones that are Skype compatible. … Read more
Consumer electronics giant SONY is adding VoIP, GPS and other tricks to the Play Station Portable according to MacWorld. This is significant because it means that in the consumer world of young adults VoIP and location based offerings start to take hold very early.
