The Reason To Switch To VoIP (Or At Least Adopt It)

As more and more articles appear about why people switch to VoIP I get excited. Here’s an industry publication in the trucking sector pointing out a company’s rationale for switching to VoIP. I suspect someone will make it real easy to make the jump and eliminate all the perceived and real hurdles, and those reasons … Read more

Boingo: Did The Check Bounce?

Seems Boingo has a problem in the UK. They can’t activate new users who live there. That’s got to be a problem in light of their Skype deal of earlier this week. James got the story out. My guess is it has to do with the carrier in the UK preferring to have the subscriber … Read more

Skype Should Share the Wealth

Martin has an interesting idea for skype. SHARE the wealth. Since I have always looked at Skype as an arbitrage play, both on minutes and on cash hoarding of unused minutes, I don’t see this happening too soon. Not until the First National Bank of Skype is set up, ala eBay and PayPal.

Infonetics Declares VON Show Best In Class

Much like the Motor Trend “Car of the Year” award, this is more for industry bragging rights, so congrats to Jeff, Carl, Scott, Jonathan, Jason and the whole PulverMedia crew for winning the award and besting Supercomm. I have to agree. Everything at VON events makes it an easy recommendation for me. From a very … Read more

Disruption Ready To Happen

With a high quality audio codec and a softphone all of a sudden voice at no cost (i.e. Skype, Yahoo Messenger) becomes a very interesting proposition. Imagine the idea of this Junxion Box with Skype or Yahoo Messenger as the way to talk back to the mother ship. With unlimited data for 80 dollars a … Read more

GIPS Not As Hot As They Are Trying To Appear?

Erik has a very keen insiders view of the software market given his founding activity with XTEN and his relationships are very solid. Given all that he knows, Erik is in an ideal position to make the comment he has about the reality of what may be GIPS business model and the looming competition.