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Little did I know that deleting older emails would bring down RIM! Just kidding. But apparently Research in Motion had a glitch of major proportions.

It seems Primus can’t keep it up. Their stock price that is. Based on their stocks performance the NASDAQ has notified them to keep it up or drop down a peg.

So Boing Boing, one of the real huge blogs on the ‘Net has an amazing post about something I don’t quite think Steve Jobs will be too happy about. It’s called DittyBot and it takes an email that you’ve sent to the BOT and triggers iTunes on a Mac to start playing the designated track … Read more

Johanne Torres has some real Insight on what’s happening with the Asian long distance traffic market ever since VoIP started gaining ground. But when it comes to money, one has to ask where’s it coming from with Skype chewing up so much of the VoIP bandwidth? But Skype is a razor thin margin business right … Read more

eWeek has an expanded story about the Yahoo – Dialpad deal, largely reconfirming my two posts earlier this week. A big winner in the deal could be Vancouver’s XTEN, makers of my favorite softphone, eyeBeam. They’ve already licensed their technology to Yahoo (and a few other significant players), something I reported on long before much … Read more

Stealth Communications is one of those off the radar companies I’m a fan of because, like Bridgeport Networks, they sit in the middle of so much that is the future, rather than the past. Today’s LightReading article about Stealth’s ASP model for delivering their Virtual Peering Fabric to VoIP service providers peers nicely under the … Read more

TimeWarner cable has been in talks with Sprint/Nextel for a while and now it looks like Comcast is getting ready to make a play in the wireless space too. Erik of XTEN has some valid insight that explains what’s happening.

If you look at the space that DialPad was in, you have to ask yourself who would be in play next? My first reaction, based on some chatter I’m hearing is that DeltaThree may be the next to get grabbed. First they are partially a damaged good, as two of their VoIP contracts are with … Read more

Seems a second company is out in the Video Skype arena, all before Skype does it themselves. Om has a report.

Tom Keating speculates that Linksys will go into the SOHO phone system space with an IP-PBX platform. If they do then one of their biggest customers, Vonage, likely won’t be too happy, as Vonage is already trialing a Cisco box to manage a hosted Virtual PBX solution…one wonders if the right hand knows what the … Read more