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So only a few days after having to fork over hundreds of millions to NTP, RIM now finds that the carrier cartel is about to work against them too with some help from Microsoft.

Erik Lagerway who helped put Xten (now CounterPath) on the map, then came in and retooled EyeBall on the product and marketing front as a consultant has landed at Shift Networks, a Calgary based hosted VoIP player that recently raised some money. Erik is one of the good guys in the biz, so we wish … Read more

Jeff was on CNBC this morning at too early of a west coast time, 330 AM. If anyone has the link to the video, it would be interesting to see and hear what Jeff had to say.

Ken Camp over at RealTime VoIP has a great post about the impact of applications and disruption that looms ahead. It is a must read for those looking at changing the direction of communications as it opens the eyes and the mind.

My sources tell me that the AT&T/Bell South deal was more about the long term prospects of business sectors mobile and IMS than land line and  basic telephony services. That concept is being supported by a story in New Telephony Magazine today. The other side of the coin is the business sector. AT&T now can … Read more

Expect some news out of CeBit today about Yahoo having an adapter like device from Siemens that works with the Gigaset line of home and office phones. With the adapter your Yahoo buddy list moves off the computer and onto the telephone handset much like some of the Skype products were announced to do last … Read more

Should I blush……….Paul Kapustka was at some token Intel event today introducing something that wasn’t quite ready for prime time yet so they had to bring in the big guns. My agents will obviously be in touch. Image and Likeness without permission…UMPC’s and WiMax cards for all my blogger pals, with upgrades for life I … Read more

With RIM adding WLAN capabilities it means one more step closer for Fixed Mobile Convergence.

Irwin Lazar has issued a report on the issues as well as how to weigh the risks in using Skype in the Enterprise. While I have not read the whole report, just the summary which is like an abstract, the tone seems to echo what others have said for a while, but couches it nicely … Read more

Om must have been working overtime to crank out the piece that ran in today’s CNNMoney.com about the merger. One thing he missed. Where this leaves Packet8. Why should AT&South rent when they can use what they already own. Gee, I guess this gives further creedence that the P8 deal with BellSouth was really just … Read more