My friend, sometimes colleague and most of all, all around nice guy Bill Ryan, who helped Shel Israel and I with iotum, in their prep for their Demo God winning performance is the master of making short phrases matter. He coined the concept of “Speed To Cool” when asked how do you win the attention … Read more
Christine Herron is one of the blog panel participants. First I added Christine to the panel because of what she’s not. She isn’t a VOIP blogger. She isn’t looking at VOIP the way we have covered it in the past, and oh yes, she’s not a guy. As a guy I’m tired of the boys … Read more
Test market programs are supposed to be just that. A test. Usually they are done in secret, but of course nothing is a secret with the ‘net. Take this example. I’ve heard similar reports of the same kind of stuff from eBay occuring in Asia too. This is more about creating a self fulfilling prophecy … Read more
Skype is going after the small business market. So too are Avaya, with their Nimcat platform and client Popular Telephony with their Peerio platform via a connectivity deal with Level3. That’s great for them, but the market segment better start thinking about IT management on an outsource basis too. Things like security, bandwidth needs and … Read more
Richard blogs with a very Eurocentric view about the USA, and his stance is rather correct.
More than a month after the event, being a DEMO God winner is keeping client iotum front and center in the minds of the press. They will be one of hot new apps featured at VON this week along with another client, SightSpeed. The participation of SightSpeed at THE Voice on the Net (VON) conference … Read more
Mr. Blog, a recent unpublicized addition to the upcoming VON Blogger Panel this coming Friday. His views on looking back at history are right on when it comes to Net Neutrality. What I think is funny is most of the people making decisions or suggestions about the Internet weren’t even online when the Net was … Read more
Lots of very insightful coverage of VoIP in the current issue of Mercator Capital’s monthly newsletter for March. Personally I’m thrilled to see two agency clients, iotum and Popular Telephony receive the kind of flowery praise from the Mercator Capital team that also did some very good analysis in each story.
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
