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Just click here. Okay, if you don’t want to click it’s about MSN vs. Skype. Now click here please. Maybe this explains why Yahoo may want Skype, but maybe they should sell to Microsoft instead.

Jeff is in Israel this week for an event he spearheaded to recognize the role Israel has played with VoIP. He also seemed to find time to come up with the Travelers Technology Rights list. I’m in full agreement with him. I recently had an experience in a hotel I had stayed in before where … Read more

Seems the man who drove US West into merger with Qwest, Sal Trujillo, is going down under to run Telstra. How about he buys Qwest. Telstra has been looking to get into the USA market and Qwest actually has some technology in place in the VoIP world, even though they haven’t done much with it. … Read more

Over two months ago Cisco’s John Chambers pronounced his love for Nortel saying he was waiting at the altar. Now two highly regarded ex-Cisco types have left Nortel after a falling out with the top dog, Bill Owens. Smart thinkers believe that Nortel may have found another suitor from Asia or Europe who want a … Read more

Maybe it’s the Blogosphere effect, I’m not sure, but lately I’m finding that the customization of My Yahoo is no longer delivering the news to me as fast or as early as other tools out there including RSS feeds that show up in my personalized Bloglines. That, and also Google news, Google Alerts, PubSub and … Read more

That Skype will add SIP? Well if the Yahoo rumors are true, then it will happen by default. Yahoo’s new Messenger 7.0 already has some of XTEN’s technology inside.

..should be Martin Geddes. Let’s face it. He’s got imagination. Understands telecom and clearly sees the future.

Corporate users of Lotus Notes or Microsoft Exchange may want to get excited about this new plug-in that lets them control their VoIP services including making calls. According to the press release e-phone® enables enterprises to increase productivity by using familiar equipment and technologies to deliver telephone traffic over existing data networks. Being a software … Read more

James has some added analysis to what Om already broke as far as the potential of a Yahoo Skype deal.

The Seattle Times today breaks a story about hometown telecom/wireless company T-Mobile and their growth in the hot spot business. For the first time ever, the company has broken ranks and actually discussed numbers. The two important numbers are 450,000 active paying customers, and one million sessions per month. I’m going to go out on … Read more