A few days ago, USA Today ran a story that describes how more and more universities, and companies, as well as local governments are cutting the cord, ditching the land line and going mobile. The trend is nothing unexpected, as cellular calling rates, bundle plans, rollover minutes and newer handsets every few years outweigh outmoded … Read more
Om call 2008 the year of Mediocrity. Ted points to for whom the Bell tolls. Let’s start with the source of money closest to the hearts of the start ups. The VCs. Over the past 60 days I’m hearing the following “the VC’s don’t really have the money in the funds they represent. They have … Read more
Many of the pundits are all basically saying the same thing about VoIP. Some are calling it dead. Others are saying it’s changing. I’m saying that things like VoIP, SIP, etc. are terms for what has become the foundation level building blocks for the 21st century communication. Some call the notion of a discussion a … Read more
With applications like Palringo, Truphone, Nimbuzz, Fring all available in the iPhone/iPod App Store seeing that the sales of iPod Touch devices being so strong, makes my heart a flutter. I too bought two of these in the last few weeks, one for myself and one as a gift for my wife. I see the … Read more
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
