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Skype is trying the “sampling” route, which is a marketing tactic I tend to agree with. Mark Evans has the news. Om finds issues with Skype Out though. So do I.

Just after my post below, I came across this post from East Asian blogger/reporter and pal Jeremy Wagstaff about Skype In the Classroom. Now only if Apple had really kept going with their Apple In the Classroom program as great guns as they had in the early days. Then it would have been iChat instead … Read more

When I think about the cottage community of hardware, software and other related things popping up based on Skype, I think of the world around eBay which has sprung up and how large that has become. Skype is basically in the same mindset, and, when I read posts like this on SkypeJournal about items like … Read more

Fast Fingers Tom Keating beat me to the posting about Packet 8 outages and their notice to users that was received today. What surprises me is that their firmware updates seem to cause outages, yet in the year I’ve had my CallVantage and two years or more that I’ve had Vonage as well as all … Read more

A report out of Sydney has Vonage opening an operation down under. Hat tip to Russell Shaw.

Mr. Blog has some very valid points and we need to take heed. Between he and Jeff the future ideas are safe and secure.

It’s turning into a holy war as the loyalists square off with the not so ready to believe. Erik’s point about SIP is very well taken. Like him, I think standards based technology will win out. Skype, while an overnight success story only has to integrate SIP into itself and the telco world would change … Read more

The independent directors who are part of the Net2Phone board have said, the current IDT offer is not enough. Now they want to bring in outside evaluators to tell them what the Intellectual Property is worth. This may turn into one of the soap operas of the summer and fall. And I thought first run … Read more

Access to VoIP is in 95% of the USA’s zipcodes according to an FCC announcement. This then means that VoIP is available in 95 percent of the USA. How the VoIP providers approach the one person in timbuktu versus the masses in the more densly high speed user communities is called marketing. What I don’t … Read more

I missed this one that both Om and Stewart found. Call it the Holiday Weekend Non Blog Focus and thirty guests at a party here at the house I was getting ready for. It also continues to validate my back of the napkin math about how much Vonage is spending to gain a customer, and … Read more