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
EXTREMETECH reports that Vonage upgraded their web site the last two days and downgraded their features on an unplanned basis. Maybe that’s why Jeff Citron didn’t get the message from Bell South?
Given the price for cellular Vodafone plans on charging, who cares. Well, I do. Port blocking of any type always gets me concerned.
Pal Steve Kennedy in London has the scoop on Vonage trying to get BT to offer naked DSL.
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.
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
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
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.
Skype Journal points to a Financial Times story where Skype’s founder gave an estimate of 10 million users of Skype being in the corporate market. This speaks very well for the work of Popular Telephony with PeerioBiz.
GizmoProject, something I like, and appreciate while it’s still in Beta, has added some features. The selective announcements and music are great ideas and provide some differentiation from Skype. I won’t be surprised if Yahoo adds some of these before Skype gets around to it. Om has some comments about the Mac aspects of Gizmo. … Read more
