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It’s called CommuniKate and has been around for 7 years.

In what will go down as another “Microsoft doesn’t play well with friends” their IPTV moves may be about to unravel. Mark Evans has a short post that seems to ratify some early comments I made to Microsoft when I took a briefing with them back in June. At that time the blame was being … Read more

The next wave of VoIP will be offerings that make things simple and rely on VoIP to be the medium. Clients like PhoneGnome, Peerio are in this space. Aswath speaks of another one, and in his mild manner, seems to point that there’s more. I tend to agree and have been on the “it’s the … Read more

The old adage, everything is for sale, you just have to offer the right price. If Skype went for $3 billion it would be a 150 times return on investment. Some VC’s would be very happy.

The recent FCC actions means CALEA will become a front and center issue for VoIP carriers.

Over the next few days I’ll be blogging less. My birthday weekend started last night and ends Tuesday morning. We went through 24 bottles of wine last night between 10 very close friends. It was a great start to a great weekend.

Jeff highlights our upcoming Blogger Panel in Boston this September. It is shaping up to be one really great panel.

The first USA cordless DECT phone will be in stores soon as a USA based distributor, BrightHand. The phone works with Skype and a PSTN line, but connects to the net via a PC’s USB port. Seems to me better ideas are out there that blend VoIP and PSTN.

Once again my choice in the San Diego house, AT&T’s CallVantage finished first in a test by a major consumer technology magazine, PC World as they named it the Best Buy. While I’ve had issues with Vonage in the Sacramento homestead with latency and call quality, I can’t say any of those issues have popped … Read more

Check out Erik’s discussion about SIP2P with Cullen Jennings, one of Cisco’s luminaries. Voxilla’s Carolyn Schuck has more today.