Fighting A Cold Under The Weather

Coming back from Chicago yesterday I must have caught a cold on my Southwest flight back. I’d been feeling one coming on and now are feeling it full on. As such, there will be a slow down on postings for a few days while I recover.

SuperComm View

A show this big, with all the news or I should say, Announcement, it generates showed me five key takeaways to keep my eyes on for the next six months: IMS IPTV FTTx VoWiFi and VoIP WiMax Companies that are in those spaces are going to be where the news will be made for the … Read more

Skype On A Stick

VoIPStick may be the first out the door with an idea like this, but U3, a Redwood City based company is taking things a lot further, with a whole line of on USB memory stick based applications. The one with Skype is the most appealing to me simply because it means that you can leave … Read more

Why Pay More?

I recently was informed about GorillaMobile, a telco bypass (i.e. minute stealer in the telcos lexicon). While this is a good idea for those who make lots of international calls, it is only good if you don’t have what CallVantage has to offer. For international calls I regularly dial into Control by Phone, which is … Read more

Packet8 Tries To Avoid Being Licked

Packet8 has entered into a co-marketing agreement with Pitney Bowes, the company known for selling postage stamp machines to 840,000 businesses in North America to sell in their Virtual Office business class broadband phone service as well as the Packet8 VideoPhone service to 840,000 PB Direct small business customers. The move comes as Vonage is … Read more

PC World On E911

PC World has a very good recap on the state of E911 and the VoIP companies. It is concise, and sounds rather accurate from what I’ve been hearing.

Will Microsoft Play Nice With Others?

Yesterday Microsoft began their assault on the telco world with their announcement about working with AT&T. As the day progressed more news seem to bubble to the surface about their VoIP and Telecom efforts here at SuperComm. Now when you look at their move with Sun things start to make sense even more. To enter … Read more