The VoIP Security Blog labels Yahoo’s Messenger VoIM, not real VoIP. So I guess Skype was that too before they added Skype In and Skype Out. Come on..VoIP is anything that carries Voice over the Internet. It doesn’t have to be SIP or Skype. It can be h.323, MEGACO or what ever flavor someone cooks … Read more
When I first started co-hosting the KenRadio World Technology Roundup back in the fall of 1998 with Ken Rutkowski, on what was then called TTALK.com, one of our most loyal listeners was Ken Cotton. An ‘uber geek’, Ken was already extolling the virtues of VoIP long before most others. I remember at some event in … Read more
Darn great post Jeff.
Om points to Earthling, a new clog (corporate blog–something I know a bit about as my agency recently began a project for Nokia, with similar goals, but with a different approach.) This is a page out of the Microsoft book, Earthlink style, of Robert Scoble’s approach for Microsoft. Do you realize, that behind Gates and … Read more
There are some rumors circulating that Steve Ballmer is about to step aside at Microsoft as its day to day operations head to make room for another president. Ken and I reported on this on KenRadio’s World Technology Roundup earlier today. Bill Clinton. Here’s what I know. Sources near Microsoft headquarters report that over the … Read more
This is a funny one. Back in the summer I suggested to 8×8 Chairman Bryan Martin that they work with then XTen, now CounterPath to get their soft client out. I’m happy to see that despite his claims back then that they would do things in house that they have chosen to work with the … Read more
Skype has officially released their Mac OS 1.4 version. The best features are how it pauses iTunes when a call is made or comes in and of course Skype Forward management. Skype also has finalized version 2.0 for the PC platform.
As a member of the press who has come to CES for many years, one of the benefits that helps us all file our stories is the availability of Internet access. This year, with CES at it’s all time largest in number of exhibitors and and crowd, not to mention with more than 6,000 registered … Read more
Linksys’ Sipura team has developed a very cool IP-PBX that will support 4-16 stations per box. I got to see it a few weeks back, but protected the embargo, waiting for the press release to move. Linksys developed this new PBX based on the smarts from Sipura who came over in the 2005 acquisition. Like … Read more
Continuing the “no loyalty” trend within the VoIP sector, distributor Brightpoint, the company behind the Skype store and driver of Vonage and vTech products sales just added 8×8 as a supplier. What this means is Brightpoint learns the ropes from one, opens up accounts for two, and then brings in more. While on the surface … Read more
