If Skype Paparazzi is who we are, I’m honored to be lumped in with two of the best pure journalists I know. Mark Evans, and Om Malik. These two are real reporters. They report and talk to sources everyday. I just call it as I see it, rely on instinct, 32 years of work experience … Read more
Mark Evans, without a doubt the Great White North’s top telecom journalist comments today on Om’s comments about my comments regarding Skype’s current employee defections and departures. He also found time to comment on client iotum too seeing their core value proposition to carriers so clearly! P.S.Note to Om. I’m not/wasn’t on vacation. I actually … Read more
If you’ve been seeing all the spam in your inbox and you use Skype there’s a good chance this Trojan horse virus has infected someone you know.
Time Warner Telecom, which was spun out a few years back from TimeWarner/AOL may be in cahoots with Google. TWT does have a very good network. They want only enterprise customers and the have the build out to be able to supply Google with some aspects of what they want, likely filling in gaps beyond … Read more
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One of the supposed strengths of Skype and other P2P platforms is their encryption, making it harder for prying ears to listen in. Slashdot begs the question today, via a News.com account, if pending efforts by the FBI under CALEA will basically do away with the idea of software like that, and more importantly what … Read more
Within one hour today, during conversations with three different people, in different parts of the world I heard the following Skype stories: 1. That the programmers in Estonia saw nothing to very little in the way of stock options. 2. That two days before the sale to eBay employees were told by Nicklas that the … Read more
In what has to be a boon to Level3, AT&T and all the SIP based providers, CableLabs has issued a request for information about VoIP peering. This is along lead matter but clearly signals the market that the cable guys are making some serious moves into VoIP and looking to get further from the traditional … Read more
This is one of the best retail deals Skype could have ever made. Radio Shack sales people are passionate about everything they sell. They know their inventory and are uber geeks in a nice, consumer friendly way. Now if they could figure a way to make every Radio Shack a Boingo hotspot they would really … Read more
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