If it isn’t obvious by now, the line of Linksys VoIP products are popping up everywhere from three main carriers, AT&T’s CallVantage, Verizon VoiceWing and Vonage. Here’s a list, supplied by Linksys, of which products are available out of the box for the carriers. Phone Adapter with 2 Phone Ports PAP2 … Read more
Digital pioneer Dave Winer
Lawrence Lessig
MTV star Adam Curry at Bloggercon
Mac maven Sam Levin
Today S&P cut the rating of Level3 basically pushing them into junk bond status. That has to have some industry watchers wondering how safe a bet Level3 really is.
Om Malik, has an interesting post about becoming your own phone company if you are a large corporation based upon a Baseline magazine account about Heinz, the ketchup people. This is exactly the space that companies coming onto the scene are playing, especially Cisco, which a few years ago announced integration alliance with the traditional … Read more
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….
