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MobileMag on the Zyxel Prestige

Mobile Mag has a review of the Zyxel Prestige 2000. Overall, after using one for a few months I tend to agree with the report. My main concern has been battery life and sound quality. While better in both worlds than the original release, there still is a long way to go for these devices … Read more

P2P VoIP In the Enterprise

Client Popular Telephony scored a nice mention about Peerio in a story in Internet.com’s VoIP Planet today. As the VoIP 2.0 story starts to unfold I think you will see more of Peerio and what it is able to do, how it works and who’s lining with Popular Telephony.

Hotel Broadband

Glenn, who knows all about WiFi has an interesting post today comparing the views of the Wall Street Journal and New York Times on that subject. I’ve added my thoughts for you to hear via Slawsome. BoingBoing also has some thoughts on the matter.

The Vonage Sales Watch

Months ago I speculated to a Wall Street sell side analyst that Vonage’s ideal suitor was Bell South. Everyone told me I was nuts. Then in mid summer Rich Tehrani speculated Bell South was going to buy Vonage. People started saying he was nut. Even I began to question it. Now Om is weighing in … Read more

It’s Official-Yahoo/MSN IM Interoperate

The official announcement of the YAHOO/MSN IM interoperability moved over the wire earlier today. According to the conference call things like one single ID between both services will be all you need and yes, it will provide VoIP calls between both IM client’s users. Initially this is going to be PC to PC according to … Read more

Skype And Linksys

It seems Linksys likes to eat away at the Cisco business at every chance they can. First they bought Sipura, a move which I’ve heard has caused some internal indigestion. I’m also hearing from some of my Enterprise business contatcts that Linksys may have plans on the drawing board to release a PBX like system … Read more

Nokia Phone Does VoIP

A new Nokia mobile phone, the E60, has an embedded SIP client in it. That’s great news for companies like BridgePort Networks, as they are out promoting the idea of mobile network traffic being easily routed over an IP network that can terminate on a SIP endpoint. Phones like the E60 will likely be hot … Read more

Yahoo, MSN Talking IM Interoperability

I’m hearing through the grapevine that there is the strong possibility that as early as tomorrow Yahoo and MSN will be even closer than ever. The two have been getting rather cozy in the area of Instant Messaging. Now it seems within the next days or so the two will announce interoperability between IM clients, … Read more

AT&T Takes Another Step With E-911

I saw the USA Today story about AT&T’s new way to insure that nomadic VoIP users stay safe. Overall I have to like the idea on face because when the Vonage 911 fiascos hit I actually suggested something very similar to AT&T’s PR team when I was looking around for other viewpoints on what had … Read more