Who Will Rescue Skype

In a post that could turn into a battle of the blog titans, Om “The Bombay Bomber” weighs in against “Knight of Newcastle” Martin Geddes in differing views of Skype versus SIP. But as the Skype world gets bigger at some point some telcos better start to take them seriously. While Martin’s points sort of … Read more

The Eyes and Ears of VON

Jeff Pulver continues to innovate and by allowing the bloggers open access to the conferences at VON Canada this week the news that was coming out of the event actually reached those that matter. By the time the magazines come out next week or next month, it will be OLD news, as my PR mentor … Read more

XTEN Should Be Saying Yahoo-Updated

I have been asked by readers and investment community executives over recent weeks about both Packet 8 and Xten. While I have opinions about both, I started to do some digging for what makes the two publicly traded companies different. When I found this post on ZDNet some things started to appear clearer. Obviously this … Read more

VoIP and Wireless Merging?

AdvancedIPPipeline, ran an Associated Press news story on VoIP and Wireless. While much of the story is old news to readers of the blogs, it does seem to indicate that VoWiFi is on the rise.

Alec @ VoN Canada

It seems the bloggers are really the only ones keeping tabs on what’s happening at VoN Canada. After only really hearing about Skype and Zennstrom’s speech I queried Jon Arnold. He pointed me to Alec’s new site and also to Mark Evans who I just “plane forgot” to check out due to an extended air … Read more

Vonage Sounds The Alarm

Vonage yesterday announced a deal with Alarm.com to deliver alarm monitoring using VoIP. This is a significant step as it breaks one of the strangleholds the Baby Bells had with some customers who have home alarm systems that are remotely monitored.

XO Joins Business VoIP Wars

Over the last few months we’ve seen Covad push their GoBeam business Virtual IP/PBX service, then most recently SpeakEasy came out with their version. Now XO rolls out their service using infrastructure from Sonus and Broadsoft. Also in the business VoIP space are Verizon and AT&T. So it has me wondering where the little guys … Read more

Now This Makes Sense

Tom has solved the Mobile Mystery around Skype. While I can bet that Skype will have a mobile application, the current efforts are really portable. Still, I give Tom kudos for digging in and taking some facts and bringing it all together.

Skype Adds A Real Softie as Microsoft Muddles Along

As Om points out, there are some issues at Microsoft. It’s funny. I’m blogging this from Sea-Tac airport. Microsoft reminds me of IBM in the 80s. Lots of market share, tons of intellectual property and a very large workforce. Microsoft needs to refocus and stop being a very good me too company. They need to … Read more