Some carriers and application server executives think portals may hold the key to VoIP, according to a Forbes article that appeared today. Portals generate eyeballs, and in many ways can be used to drive qualified traffic that generates new accounts. But, if the carriers are betting on MSN and Yahoo to drive the new users, … Read more
San Diego based VIPER networks has announced they have approved a Wi-Fi based handheld phone for use on their network. Here’s the rub with Wi-Fi handhelds. When you’re in a public hotspot that is free, access to the network won’t be an issue. But when you use a hotspot where you pay, like a Starbucks … Read more
With all the hype about SKYPE, here’s a home grown company from the USA’s Mid-West, FastMobile, may have hit on a highly useful, easily deployed and most welcome service months or years before interoperable carrier neutral P2T (push to talk) will really arrive on the scene. Just starting to get notoriety for their “Phone to … Read more
This is an example of a company trying to get business. I find it humourous as the premise is to dispell a report that the company secured a deal, when all they are doing is chasing the business.
Well this is my kind of story, one that blends lifestyle with technology, and it’s all based on wireless. When you add in VoIP’s ability to work from any full blown IP connection, the workforce doesn’t have to be in an office to stay connected.
It looks like even retailers are getting into the VoIP game, as CompUSA has added a test program with Viper Networks for their vPhone. This is a logical extension for CompUSA. They already sell PC’s and Cell Phones, plus home phones. Now to sell a service, even if it doesn’t carry their brand will expose … Read more
I’ve been playing around the last week with Skype, the free P2P VoIP service from the people who brought KaZaA to the Internet. While it is not nearly as good in sound quality as Vonage or iConnectHere has proven to be, it is Free. As a result, I tend to look at Skype at this … Read more
We’re starting to see more stories about WiMax, a wider area wireless data network that is beginning to to take hold. Does this mean that wireless voice carriers (i.e. cellular companies) are going to have to rethink their strategies? With VoIP being SIP enabled, the prospect of VoIP over WiMax means a PDA can be … Read more
Cisco loves to play Monopoly. So while the Justice Department a few years back was going after Microsoft, I regularly said on the KenRadio World Technology RoundUp that the company Janet Reno and her team should have been studying and investigating was Cisco. The more I see, the more I read, and the more I … Read more
Uber blogger and Business 2.0 correspondent Om Malik has drawn attention to the next wave of rural broadband in his blog today. I tend to agree with him, as rural America represents a huge underserverd market. Add together Fixed Broadband like was done on the island of Maui by Maui Sky Fiber with Voice over … Read more
