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Skype continues to improve their PocketPC version. An evaluation version is now out. MSMobiles has the details. The key here is VoiceMail. I just hope this version will work with BlueTooth headsets.

Seems my comment to Chris Rhodes about my impending wedding makes for good copy. Pals (and fellow Blog Panel members @ Fall Von) Jeff Pulver and Om Malik made mention of it yesterday. That’s what the Blogosphere and LinkLove is all about. Thanks Guys!

Hat Tip to PhoneGnome inventor David Beckemeyer on this story on CMPnetAsia that has one of Forrester’s analysts talking about VoIP not really being all that it could be.

An IDC report indicates that the VoIP business segment will grow and that features are a key driver. This has to be good for companies like CallTower, Covad, XO a few of the better business VoIP providers in the hosted IP-PBX market.

A great article about other Voice on the Net usage was in today’s Wall Street Journal. Chris Rhodes did a sensational job with the story and I was thrilled to see my romance with Helene seems to be newsworthy. In the story there were some great examples of other uses of Voice on the Internet … Read more

A Coors Field home-run club member writes “i found the google talk developer page interesting, http://www.google.com/talk/developer.html. They talk of not only SIPPhone but also Eartlink VLing… I guess they figure if they can get IM traffic going through their servers then they can make it searchable and serve ads. Also interesting that is is only … Read more

A rumor out of KenRadio.com’s Ken Rutkowski has Intel buying RIM.

Give Michael Robertson credit, he knows how to make news. With one of the best networks of people in the developer community he has used that market intel to time the release of GizmoProject 1.0 to that of GoogleTalk. Gizmo’s parent SIPphone has also agreed to expand their network by linking with the newly launched … Read more

I woke up this morning to some very good news. It seems the Blogger Panel has gone Prime Time at VON, or at least as close to it as possible in a trade show and conference setting. We’re also being promoted to the level of General Session or in conference terms a Plenary Session. As … Read more

It’s starting to happen more. The Balkanization of the Messaging Platforms. Today Skype announced their open platform approach. Google, with GoogleTalk is also setting to seek a standard via XMPP, something that lets various platforms work together already. Then you have SIP which is the Voice standard. So instead of everyone being on one standard … Read more