You can tell a lot by the way a company behaves in the media. Cisco, is one of those companies which knows how to sing a tune. It’s no coincidence that Cisco has two very interesting stories appear in different parts of the media today. It was planned. What’s more if you look closely at … Read more
Analyst Jon Arnold has written a killer piece this morning for TMC proclaiming that VoIP is not dead, and he’s right. The acquisition of Sylantro by Broadsoft sure proves that, but Arnold goes much deeper. In his well penned muse, the laser focused, hard charging Boston Red Sox fan points out that many are crying … Read more
In what was a classic example of a secret not being well kept, Broadsoft today finally announced the acquisition of Sylantro. Doug Mohney of Fierce VoIP has been on the story and really provided the early reporting on the story first with his report on December 18, and then with the follow-up the next day … Read more
Randall Stross of the New York Times has an excellent analysis and shows some very good reporting around the SMS industry and to what lengths the carriers will go to preserve what they have. In many ways this makes me think of Twitter and the value it would bring to a mobile operator, much the … Read more
Network World questions if the AT&T break up 25 years ago had any real impact on innovation saying that other countries didn’t force divestiture and are in the same place. I would contend that other than Russia and China, no country covers the kind of geography that the USA does, and as such comparison’s are … Read more
Ken Camp has one of his better posts in a very long time, where he muses off of Rich’s post about the impact of Siemens alleged bribery efforts. In the post Ken connected three different thoughts, but all with a central theme. In turn it got me thinking. First, I feel the Siemens debacle is … Read more
Ted Wallingford’s comment about the SMB space got me thinking. If more companies now have an in house VoIP maven, doesn’t that mean there’s more opportunities to sell VoIP related hardware, software and services? The key becomes finding those people. Since many of the job holders have been found via recruiters, that means the smart … Read more
For companies that sell their services solely based on VoIP in the middle, this move by Optus isn’t good news. In essence what Optus is doing and saying to their customers is if you’re their contractee, all calls go over the Optus network and the Optus long distance network. No dialing around. No call backs, … Read more
I spent more days on the road this past year than I care to count. New clients. New events. New places. The reason. My house was undergoing renovation, and so was my life. As a type A, Cell A performer, one who give no, and asks no quarter, my philosophy has been go to where … Read more
VoIP News’ Robert Poe picked 25 VoIP innovations he’s seen in 2008. I’m very pleased and have to agree with many of the picks, though I’m sure I could find a few more, many of which are on the business model side, versus the practical or cool. What I was pleased to see though was … Read more
