SONY: More Video Over IP Service Come On Line

If any company knows how to productize and market new technology, it’s got to be SONY. Today they announced a new VoIP based Video service not to dissimilar to what I wrote about yesterday which YAK is deploying. Developed by GlowPoint, SonyIVE is featuring free, unlimited video and voice service for consumers worldwide. Call 2006 … Read more

Yankee Group Survey On Consumer VoIP

Yankee Group released the results of their study on Consumer VoIP today calling the VoIP market “immature” and with low consumer awareness and laying blame at the cable industry for adding to the consumer confusion about viable VoIP offers. In a related move Yankee Group was sold to a private equity group and now has … Read more

Yak For Free Now Live

Pal Dave Hurwitz, who shares a passion for lacrosse recently communicated with me about the launch today of Yak For Free and told me that “YakForFree has the potential to reach millions of people worldwide, establishing yak as a premier global VoIP provider,” said David Hurwitz, Chief Operating Officer and President of yak’s VoIP Initiatives. … Read more

VoIP Security Podcast Launched

Dan York, an exec with Mitel and Jonathan Zar have launched BlueBox both a blog and a podcast all about VoIP security. Dan has been an avid reader of this blog almost from the beginning and has regulalry shared thoughts with me privately. I’m really happy to see how the VoIP community is growing up … Read more

iotum Wants Beta Testers

When companies have a hot idea and it starts to become reality you know things are warming up when the call for Beta testers is made. Client iotum has made that cry. Beta Testers Wanted It’s an important day at iotum. In fact, on a scale of importance from 1 to 10, today is an … Read more

Rich Tehrani on iotum’s Relevance Engine

TMC’s Publisher Rich Tehrani recently caught up with Alec Saunders, CEO and Co-Founder of client iotum to learn more about the Relevance Engine. Here’s his very glowing account of what Alec and Dr. Howard Thaw are up to and the implications. Here’s a post about just who those guys are.

Vonage Leads the Pack (Online Ad Spending)

Vonage continues to spend like drunken sailors on liberty after months out on the water. As they spend millions, their cost of customer acquisition increases. I used to think the cost including bounties, rebates to retailers, MAP funds, slotting allowances and just about all the other laid in costs were in the range of 600-700 … Read more