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
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
It’s all just a matter of time before AT&T and SBC are one. Today in Denver the AT&T shareholders voted yes for the merger in a landslide.
TelcoTrash which has a good viewpoint singles out pal James Enck and his coverage of Skype, while also providing some links to some other good Skype related content.
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
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…
Seems James Enck has a source telling him the Net2Phone service is layered beneath the MCI VoIP offering…My sources say it’s likely real. So what does this mean…let’s play connect the dotsies…. Net2Phone–back inside IDT IDT—>Services to MCI (USA and Europe???) IDT—> John Malone his company Liberty Media and the United Cable boys are rather … Read more
It looks like the spinout of Net2Phone from IDT is over and that the parent is taking in the child. I also think that this means that IDT is moving more and more into the VOIP space and that by this move continues the trend of consolidation and acquisition that Yahoo began with their Dialpad … Read more
I’m helping spread the word about Voxilla as they expand into Canada with a new product distribution and service effort. The rationale is straightforward. Canada is seeing VoIP adoption. Why should their citizens have to pay extra for the same products. While this won’t make Jeff Bezos lose sleep, Marcelo Rodriguez and Paul Crick are … Read more
Om has caught wind of a rumor that Teleo is being acquired by Microsoft. The buy would follow Microsoft’s strategy of buying a company with technology that compliments their core strategy. The Placeware acquisition would be a good example as does LookOutSoft which integrates into Outlook.
