Well if you look at the results of the United Online charity auction, about $1,400 a subscriber. That puts a damper on companies asking $2,000 a sub who have been shopping themselves to some of the bigger names on the net. In Vonage terms that would price them at $1.4 billion, but this is all … Read more
It seems the SMB market will be a big play in 2006 for the VoIP industry. I’ve previously mentioned that companies like CallTower, Covad and Speakeasy are nicely poised in the space. Others have made noise as well. According to a Vonage spokesperson I spoke with recently, the long awaited Vonage SMB play seems to … Read more
I got told late this afternoon that the city of Taipei will be launching Wi-Fi in the city tomorrow, Tuesday, Dec. 20t. The little birdie told me the mayor of Taipei will be using Skype to talk the mayor of Tao Yuan – showing the power of the Skype service via the city’s new Wi-Fi … Read more
With a very detailed account of one teenage boy’s life, the New York Times today has a very extended feature on the illicit use of webcam by teens who make money selling their bodies. Over the past months I’ve mentioned on multiple occasions that the web cam market has a large percentage of “adult” conversation … Read more
Skype is expected to announce that Mandriva a publisher of the Mandriva Linux operating system, that the Mandriva 2006 Linux operating system will integrate software from Skype that add Skype capabilities. If my information is correct Mandriva Linux 2006 is the first, and only, Linux operating system to offer the Skype application.
…they would invest heavily in this phone from Nokia around the world, the way they have with the Sidekick and go all out to get the business customer on their GSM networks. The E61 will also handle SIP I’m led to believe. That would really make it a world phone for if one could get … Read more
In a move that likely is viewed as diluting to pal Jeff Pulver who has some remaining shares in Vonage, the Wall Street Journal has reported that Vonage will announce that they raised $250 million dollars as early as Monday and that it is the last raise of cash before their IPO. I’m not buying … Read more
Like Alec, I’ve had a very similar experience with the folks at SipPhone when it comes to fixing things. From Michael Robertson and Jason on down, the crew is first rate.
Pal Alec Saunders is moderating one of the panels at the VON Consumer VoIP Summit during CES in Las Vegas. It will be interesting who makes up the final panel.
Martin muses insightfully that Skype may be having a midlife crisis, as well as pointing out many of the some other underlying issues that over the past few weeks seem to coming to the surface. Maybe that’s why eBay’s Med Whitman is taking a trip next week to Estonia around the first post acquisition board … Read more
