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Level3 Should Wine Less And Worry More

My spies tell me that a ranking Level3 exec was wondering to a colleague today why I ripped them over Salmon Creek Wine back at the VON event at the Harvard Club during the Fall VON and why I never blogged about their gift of a bottle of Silver Oak, a highly popular Cabernet from … Read more

Vonage and Uniden Cordless VoIP

An all in one cordless phone, router and telephone adapter from Uniden has been added to Vonage offerings. If anything these ongoing releases of VoIP products shows that Vonage, and other VoIP players, are an attractive target for the  consumer electronics manufacturers in a bigger way each year. This market will only be getting bigger … Read more

Vonage and Uniden Cordless VoIP

An all in one cordless phone, router and telephone adapter from Uniden has been added to Vonage offerings. If anything these ongoing releases of VoIP products shows that Vonage, and other VoIP players, are an attractive target for the  consumer electronics manufacturers in a bigger way each year. This market will only be getting bigger … Read more

CES Comes To Life Tuesday, January 3 2006

My crystal ball tells me there will be a host of announcements from the usual suspects this week during CES in Las Vegas as VoIP goes even more mainstream this year. Of course Bill Gates will make some new Microsoft product announcements mostly geared around the home and VISTA. Linksys will expand beyond the regular … Read more

Why Smart Apps Are Needed

We’re in an age of always being on. By that I mean, always connected. While cell phones have on and off switches, I don’t know how often people turn off the phone versus just not answering it when it rings. We are also living in a time where tecnologies like Find Me/Follow me exist, but … Read more

Skypho and SoftPhones

This looks like a trademark infringement case ready to happen. That aside, this also appears to be a SIP based phone service that uses the CounterPath X-Lite softphone. 2006 will be the year of the SoftPhone. Yahoo’s new Messenger-especially the enhanced new Mac version that is being built from the ground up, the PhoneGnome SoftGnome, … Read more

Joi’s Disconnected

Joi Ito suffered through a long trip where he was disconnected, despite being on a flight and in an airport that were both supposed to provide WiFi. I don’t see how his Macintosh was the issue at Frankfurt’s airport. I was able to log on there but did have issues with VoIP. With the Boeing … Read more