Jeff is in London and ran into a port blocking experience, something I have also experienced in New Jersey last year. My feeling is if your paying xx pounds a day for High Speed Internet, you should have high speed Internet, not just access to the Web or Email. For my trips to Europe the … Read more
According to a report out of Taiwan, it would seem that Yahoo is possibly expanding their efforts there in VoIP.
Pal Martin Geddes has a very relevant rant about the issues with Skype and even BT Communicator when it comes to QoS (Quality of Service). I recently posed a question to Level3 about the issues associated with Skype here in the USA, and still await my answers from their engineering team.
MSNBC has a story out of Denver about E911 being ready, highlighting local companies in the Denver area including Qwest, NGT and Intrado. Intrado is making a lot of noise around AT&T being a customer. What they are doing is only supplying the Nomadic users with those services as a substitute for AT&T’s own in-house … Read more
Cell phone giant Samsung is introducing a VoIP service later this week in South Korea.
Ovum’s Future View Daily continues to perpetuate the myth that Google may buy Skype. As much as it would make sense, I think Google’s leadership team is smarter and more focused than to buy the alternative messaging and telephony startup. 1.Google already has as many daily visits as Skype has had downloads. 2. Googles reach … Read more
I know the XTEN and Skype clients work very well on Pocket PC’s. This little baby from H-P may be a really sexy addition to the phone carrying set who don’t care about that stuff as it doesn’t have WiFi (moan grumble, complain). That means I won’t be jumping to get one. Om has the … Read more
Richard Stastny found a new Vonage billboard when bravely riding the London Tube recently. It looks more like Hiroshima than A New Day dawning to me.
Now they have two weeks to put out bad news discussed as good. To fudge on the edges of reality or to just do something outrightly stupid. The Eagle-Eye Enck-ster is off to Barcelona for a well deserved two week holiday. While his brothers in blog will all keep an eye peeled for some Eurocentric … Read more
Jeff and his team keep rolling out improvements to the Pulver Communicator. Now they have put out a call for some beta testers. As someone who tested it early on, and provided some feedback, I’d gladly do it again, but only when the come out with the Mac version, which Burton Group’s Irwin Lazar points … Read more
