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VON Blur For All Of Us

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The most significant event of the year for the VoIP industry is Fall VON. The reasons are very plain if you understand business. It’s called budget time. Every fall budgets for the following year tend either to be assembled or approved. For those with approved budgets VON provides buyers and sellers to close on deals … Read more

Pass The Pipe Russell

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I’m sure after reading Russell’s latest pipe-dream that the NTOP fans (i.e. Shareholders) are standing there hopeful, just like many of the Katrina victims hoping for that one big miracle. The shareholders must be hoping that the God at NTOP and IDT really make a sale outside the family possible. NOT. With everyone looking to … Read more

AOL’s Standalone VoIP

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I didn’t get excited about the AOL story in LightReading because to me it was old news. Back in March at VON when I briefed with AOL under embargo (I tend to respect those things) I knew their roadmap fairly well. While the timing was a month or so longer than I expected I’m more … Read more

But Will It Do VoIP

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At four megs the bandwidth is certainly there. But what about the latency issues. Clearly this is the uber-telecommuter’s toy, letting you work anywhere you can see the sky. My guess is Tom Keating wants one too 🙂

EvDO on the Rails

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I’m on the Acela train to NYC from Philadelphia. It’s a poor version of the TGV (i.e. more noise, rougher ride, harder seats) but the state of the art when it comes to rail transportation here in the USA. I’m also on the Verizon Broadband Access network with EvDO and staying connected. Speed on both … Read more

Skype The Internet’s Intercom In Print

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I’ve been calling Skype My Internet Intercom for months and no one else seemed to pick up on it. This story’s headline nailed that. As a matter of fact in the share.skype.com interview I was quoted saying that by Janus. Oh well, I guess great minds think along the same lines, huh?