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Red Herring on E-911

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The Red Herring yesterday provided an overview on the upcoming E-911 efforts from the FCC. I’m going to reserve judgement and not overly speculate, but I think the FCC is clearly making changing from the days of Powell.

A Dissenting Opinion

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With the FCC here in the USA expected to issue some guidelines about E911 today, I spotted this story on Canada.com that seems to take a dissenting opinion about the CRTC’s direction about VoIP in Canada. It is extremely old line carrier centric and presents a viewpoint that is more about describing what was wrong … Read more

An Eye on Irish VoIP

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I’m guilty of being sometimes to USA centric, and with VON Europe coming out I found this story about the attitudes about VoIP in Ireland from a carriers perspective.

Yahoo is upgrading Yahoo Messenger,

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Yahoo is upgrading Yahoo Messenger, by making a move into VoIP and expanding their feature set, making for a more robust and more simplified offering for people who do a lot of things with one another online.

Sort of.

Rather than go out and offer full telephone like capabilities and thus encroach into the territory of their two important partners in the DSL biz here in the USA (SBC and Verizon) Yahoo is taking an approach of let’s be the most feature rich online Voice Messenger tool that conforms with accepted standards that can more easily integrate with other already existing service providers by using SIP at the core of the application, without going the way of Skype Out or Skype In.

Basically Yahoo wants to deliver the most robust online only messenger product and hopes to leapfrog AOL’s AIM and MSN’s Messenger offerings. They plan on doing that by integrating a really neat photo sharing component, adding voice mail and blogging tools as well as simplifying some things in an almost Disney or Apple like way.

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Wireless Broadband From the Sky

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Tom Keating, back from his Disney adventures has a post about an interesting Satellite delivered broadband service. If it works, I wonder what the cost will be. Like Tom, I’d enjoy trying it out. Looking over the provider’s web site, it seems their technology is battle tested. I just wonder how much R&D went into … Read more

Congrats To FastMobile

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Over a year or more I started telling readers here about FastMobile. Well it seems they have raised 12 million in VC funding. My question is if they can battle with Sonim and also Microsoft which is about to embed a person to person voice chat feature into Windows mobile 2005.

Out of The Blog and Into The Pod

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It’s hard to believe that 31 years ago, yes back in 1974, I did my very first radio news accounts for WFIL, WIBG and WIP radio, providing sports reports about the Philadelphia Wings when I was only 14. Back then those recordings were called beepers because the “beep” had to be played when you were being recorded by law, all due to wiretap regulations. Little did I know that it would take 31 years for my return to real “AM” radio. Well technology has changed, but in many ways, the song remains the same. I still do reports remotely, now using Skype, or VoIP phones, fed into the mixing boards, but the business of broadcasting has clearly changed.

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Big Euro VON Next Week

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I chatted by phone yesterday with Jeff Pulver and was elated for him after hearing just how global his VON Conference has become. While the FCC here in the USA fiddles around, the rest of the world is waking up to VoIP. When you think that many of the countries are going from almost no … Read more