Om Malik has made a lot of outstanding points in this post about Skype in a slightly critical manner. The last few days I’ve been spending a lot of time talking to past, current and very closely aligned Skype people. The assembly and assimilation of facts isn’t pretty. First a well seasoned investment banker, from … Read more
Om blogs insightfully about the takeover of 2Wire, a significant move that seems to be led by the AT&T/SBC crowd and Alcatel. My guess is ex Probe research analyst lead Hilary Mine was a part of this play. She’s always had good insight about the way Carlos Slim, SBC and now that she’s at Alcatel … Read more
Once again I find myself being ranked as one of Jeff Pulver’s top VoIP bloggers. I guess it’s time to blush, for as much as I end up in the limelight I’m really more at home having clients and friends take the bows. I’ve been encouraging many to blog or to expand their blogging efforts. … Read more
Obviously Rich has too much time on his hand 🙂
I have the Eyeball softclient installed on one of my PC’s and I’m impressed with what I see so far. Now all I need is the EyeBall account from pal Erik Lagerway who has done a great job at building what looks like an all in one Swiss Army Knife IM, Presence and SIP based … Read more
Skype has released a new beta version for the Mac that adds some of the features of the newly minted Windows XP 2.0 version. Beside the new bells and whistles related to moods and some additional sound effects, the latest version for the Mac provides management capability of Skype Forward. It also adds a nifty … Read more
Without any special help by yours truly who co-hosted the San Diego TeleCom Council’s, um, CommNexus’, GadgetFest last night, client TelEvolution’s CEO David Beckemeyer walked away with GadgetFest Award For Best New Gadget for PhoneGnome in the multi-media non mobile phone category, while Motorola won in the Mobile Phone sector. The voting, which was done … Read more
Yesterday I received a call from Packet 8’s PR person Joan Citelli and Chariman Bryan Martin, who were a tad upset about my post based on reader input of Tuesday and my follow on commentary that was more akin to the idea of being busted and sent to the principal’s office. The second posting came … Read more
The Wall Street Journal jumps the embargo due to the way their computer system puts stories to bed. But Walt’s, review is rather deep, and in typical style very detailed. I’ll have more in the morning after I’ve digested the release and spoken to some Skype people.
Vonage and VoicePulse are thumbing their noses at the FCC in complete defiance of the order. To date Vonage has not met a reasonable level of compliance and continues to sell service even where it can’t provision E911. VoicePulse has lightly engaged in double-speak by saying it plans on complying, but it hasn’t yet and … Read more
