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
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
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
Since VoIP is already here and the acronym taken for voice, while Video is arriving we need a new VoIP since calling Video over IP VoIP would only add confusion. As such I’m going to call it CIP—for camera over IP….oh, that’s taken too, sort of.
Om Malik has a very insightful, laser honed vision of what the Skype and PeerioBiz integration means.
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 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.
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
IP Pipeline Paul Kapustka is at SuperComm and heading out to the yard. But on his way he happened to find a few announcements of note. So while he’s heading over to the ballpark, I’ll be visiting the closest I can get to Willi’s Wine Bar in Chicago, Avec.
Even with the E-911 issues aside, Skype is not slowing down, as a handful of companies are planning on rolling out Skype enabled handsets later this year. While I don’t expect these phones to show up at T-Mobile or Cingular stores, I do expect the independent channel of online and store front retail in the … Read more
