The Skype’s The Limit

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

Will WiMax + VoIP Kill The Cricket?

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

Here Comes Cisco!

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

If Om’s Right about Rural Broadband

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