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Dean’s zeroing in on what is happening with dual mode handsets.

It’s about selling through. Skype is banking on their distribution partner BrightPoint to make that happen. My advice to companies is to hire a killer sales manager with retail relationships and work direct with the retailers on shelf promotions, advertising and pricing strategy. My second comment is don’t trust the distributor. Beyond Skype they also … Read more

Rich has a good story about the current and near term efforts of Covad, but he missed one area where they are moving big into. WIMAX. WIMAX will let Covad bypass the incumbent telcos completely to deliver high speed Internet to the premise, and wireless end up being a lot less to install than wired … Read more

Get you free VoIP Handset Here… Note that I have not seen it or tried it.

If you’re wondering why I’m blogging less, I’ve been fighting a cold that it seems many of us who went to Las Vegas for CEE seemed to catch. It’s a nasty one and sometimes all I want to do is sleep. Blogging will resume at full tilt when I’m better.

For less than $3,000 you can put Skype blocking software inside your network.

Mobile Me? I wonder what Apple is up to? Without speculating to wildly, it could be in the 3G/WiFi space which would be a natural. Why not begin to sell embedded CDMA/UMTS or other portable high speed right inside or as a PCMCIA add on to Macs.

Sun Rocket takes it on the chin in a few different directions. While I understand their marketing model, their continues to be some skepticism in the market about them. I also hear they are recruiting for a new CEO.

It’s nice to see I’m not the only one feeling the way I do about Vonage and to some extent, Skype. Bryan Richards, in a very critical story over at VoIP Magazine takes Vonage to task and lays the smack down on Skype to boot.

Erik Lagerway, who is a friend guest posted on Om Malik’s blog about the whole idea of silos. Friend and client David Beckemeyer, creator of PhoneGnome has developed a platform and “thing” as he calls it in PhoneGnome that provides exactly what both Om and Erik are speaking/writing about. What’s amazing is the traditional press … Read more