News reports from around the globe point to China Telecom reportedly blocking Skype Out. Port blocking remains in my mind one of the biggest challenges all new technology providers have as the incumbents still have the ability and power to try and stop them.
LightReading and Om seem to have the scoop as best of anyone on the day plus SunRocket outage. I’m a bit skeptical about the growth and demand causing the outage as that kind of stuff was AOL circa the mid nineties and network folks seem to plan for those type of things now ten plus … Read more
I posted early yesterday on the Ebay/Skype rumor asking if eBay was buying Skype. As I thought it through more during my morning with a company I was presenting to I realized just what may have been going on. Michael Bezeley of the San Jose Mercury News caught me between meetings by phone and I … Read more
Users of VoIP via a softphone may want to stay at Hilton’s in the UK. It seems they have put broadband in every room and made the public areas wireless. One of the key reasons seems to be VoIP.
It seems AOL and now Sony want to get into the same space as XTEN, iNeen, Yahoo and Sightspeed with desktop video all before Skype does. While I think there is a place for desktop video, I don’t think videophones are a hot sector. At $35 a month the Sony offer is a bit pricey.
Google Grabs Vin Cerf. Internet News has comments and an interview.
If IP service providers and carriers ever wanted a friend to drive more content through their dumb pipe they may have found it in Skype. In what should start of a feeding frenzy between bandwidth carriers wanting to have more of the traffic that Skype will generate, today’s announcement about a Voice and Content Marketplace … Read more
Oh the possibilities dancing through my head as I read that giant eBay may be buying Skype, something their representatives are not commenting on. eBay is one very smart company. Their community based business, even though the participants do not think of itself always that way is continually growing. Culturally the two companies would seem … Read more
VoIP Magazine has a thought provoking commentary about Skype and CRM. I realize that Skype is one to one for now, but if more “service” companies adopted Skype it would sure save a lot of money in phone calls. I also wonder when someone will invent a Skype to Nextel’s DirectConnect service.
Quietly last month Broadvoice CEO David Epstein, his wife Angela who handled PR and Media for the company along with Tech Lead Nathan Stratton left Broadvoice. While Broadvoice has yet to comment on this or even make an announcement, my understanding is that Epstein has moved on for now to pursue some opportunities in the … Read more
