Mr. Blog on Gizmo

I’m trying out Gizmo and have found a problem. Some calls just don’t terminate properly, if at all. Mr. Blog spots a few other issues. Erik has some additional comments.

Live 8 Thoughts

For those who don’t know, I was one of the guys who got involved in streaming media back in the 90’s. I’m constantly amazed at how in some ways other than there being more pipe (i.e. better, faster bandwidth to the home) and better compression technology, not much has really changed. That was until today. … Read more

Ultimate Disruptor Unleashes A New Gizmo

Michael Robertson is the ultimate disruptor. First he brought out MP3.com, then Lindows. Each caused controversy. Now he’s rolling out Gizmo, a softphone based telephone service with realistic pricing, In and Out features, interoperability to SIP networks and using the SIP standard. While the service, client and web site are all just in BETA, and … Read more

Cable Companies Keep Gaining Users

Funny this post came up yesterday. I was having a discussion yesterday with a veteran dot.com executive about where the winners will be. I said cable and a few of the incumbents would be the winners in VoIP. Seems others are sensing the same thing. Sure companies like AOL and YAHOO will make a stand, … Read more

Slate Reviews VoIP

A writer over at Slate has done an exhaustive series of testing. Why am I not surprised that the best of the bunch was what I use primarily as my VoIP provider, CallVantage. While I agree with assessment of Packet8 and Vonage, I have had an entirely different experience with BroadVoice, which has been nothing … Read more

Linksys and PBX’s ??

Tom keeps the world thinking Linksys will do an IP=PBX play in the future… What would happen if they imbedded something like Peerio or Asterisk on the boards of their wireless VoIP products…