I’ve held off on this post because I wanted a good night’s sleep to recharge and so I can think more clearly and away from the hoopla that made this year’s VON great. But to give you background everything I’m about to say comes from over 30 years of experience in marketing. All kinds of … Read more
Is TelTel the Largest SIP Community? That’s the question which is keeping Tom Keating awake at night. The rather unheard of company, with users in China made the same claim to me and explained how they did it during a meeting I had with them earlier last month. The key…viral marketing. The founders, who have some … Read more
Once again the Google VoIP story is making the rounds. I’m not at all surprised, but I do question how a lunch turns into a business. It has been known by insiders that Google employees have been buying unlocked SIPURA boxes. It’s possible they were doing this to try out VoIP, explore Asterisk, or just … Read more
Light Reading has one VoIP executive calling Vonage “parasitic.” In the same story they draw attention to XTEN possibly working with CallVantage…..hmmmm. Speaking of XTEN, their Eyebeam client was used to beam back an IETF two way telecom video chat with folks who were in Minneapolis for the IETF meetings while VON was going on. … Read more
According to ZDNet: Forrester surveyed 1,132 online US households to gauge their awareness and interest in services based on VOIP technology. 43% of our respondents had heard of VoIP before taking the survey, with word of mouth as the biggest driver of awareness at 23%. But awareness did not translate into sales because a mere … Read more
FileForum has a new Skype for Windows. This version supports Skype In. Did you get your number yet? Skype In is a rather interesting value. For 42 dollars roughly a year, you get a PSTN reachable phone number and Skype Voice mail. Thats a huge value. The only rub is you pre-pay. You can also … Read more
In IP Inferno: VON Panel, the Sequel, ex Wired reporter Dan Brekke provides an excellent summary of the panel I had the pleasure of moderating. I’ll add more later as I’m off to another day of VON.
LCS…..yawn… I went to the Microsoft booth yesterday, and like so many first releases from Microsoft, the Live Communications Server was a lot of fancy perfume, sexy lipstick and a nice dress, but it was still underage and not ready to play with the boys, even though it really wants to. Nothing was groundbreaking. Nothing … Read more
Cox announces VoIP plans to deliver IP based voice.
I drove up to my hotel here in San Jose and out in front of the hotel was Broadvoice with a van. I loved the red circle with a line through the center logo…It was the Bell. Basically Broadvoice is saying you don’t need a Bell System phone any more….nice ambush marketing….
