What’s all the broohaha about 911. Call 911 from you cellphone in California and you want the local police, and you have to go through the Highway patrol emergency operator, which can take many minutes, not seconds. I think the FUD about 911 is overhyped and the alternative routes to reach the emergency operator are … Read more
Computerworld has an article on the changing telecom business focusing on Skype. When you add in companies like Popular Telephony who were profiled in Business 2.0 by Om Malik, you begin to see a new concept coming alive. It’s not disintermediation of the telephony. I call it reintermediation. Here’s why. These companies are not seeking … Read more
I can’t see the Sun. There’s no Apple in my eye. Guess neither have a VoIP play. Yahoo is all over the place with a few ranking executives. Macromedia is here too walking the floor. But AOL who is going to roll out a dial up VoIP product via Level3 is nowhere to be heard….
A straightforward and easy to understand review of Skype was posted over the weekend on MacTeens. Skype just works. That’s what makes it so elegant to use.
I keep seeing the XTEN folks as true market leaders. when it comes to SIP I also see their evolving strategy of a SoftVideo client as the way to go, and the death sentence for Packet 8. Why? Ubiquity. Currently Packet 8 lacks the ability for someone without their videophone to video with those that … Read more
In what is clearly a move to correct their error prone moves of the past with data and mobility, Cingular is about to roll out WiFi enabled switch over type of service for their cellular customer, marrying it up with their Freedom Link WiFi. If you look at the concept one has to wonder why … Read more
A San Jose company has developed and released a Personal Phone Gateway (PPG) and software that enables automatic routing of Skype to Skype calls to a designated PSTN number, serving as a call forwarding agent for the call recipient with a specified phone number. Geekzone posted it first. But there is more to this PPG … Read more
A somewhat retrospective, somewhat forward reading story on VoIP in the enterprise.
A new report about the Last Mile Providers of VoIP is out. I’d love to see a copy if anyone gets one. The summary mentions AT&T so I presume it’s regarding CallVantage.
