When you read the story out of the UK that has Skype saying “No 999” you’ll at first want to be outraged. But then Skype has insisted from day one that they are not a phone service. This is consistent with what they have said here in the USA. But, the if you apply the … Read more
I expect that the move by Verizon Wireless to allow people to go month to month without a contract and bring their own devices to their network will cause a similar reaction with other mobile operators here in the USA. This also means the market for higher-end, more feature rich phones will finally come to … Read more
John Carroll at ZDNet takes a developer’s perspective and explains why SIP Is it. Tom Keating highlights the patriotism of SightSpeed and the Pros vs. Joes activities they are supporting. Dan York takes a both sides of the street approach to the public discussion between Skype and GizmoProject about SIP and Skype and being more … Read more
Some may call this trolling, but I have to air these thoughts out: 1. T-Mobile or Three will create a true VOIP play complete with a softclient for the PC. Bets are it will be either Counterpath’s eyeBeam or SipPhone’s Gizmo Project client as they are both multi-platform, but I give Gizmo the edge as … Read more
It’s great to see two friends (and clients) finish first. While I’m a few days late to the congratulatory circle, I have to say, it feels great to know that two very close friends, Thomas (Professor Mashup) Howe and Shai Berger (Fonolo) have captured very impressive crowns this past week in different competitions. First was … Read more
Rich Tehrani refers to a post earlier that I made about the possibility of Google buying Skype and suggests a few others. While Google has the bucks to make the buy, as does Cisco and Oracle, I don’t see the latter two jumping in. They like to be enterprise friendly, and Skype is perceived as … Read more
Silicon Alley Insider suspects that Skype might be for sale. I’m not so sure. Back when the recruiters were out headhunting for a new CEO they were looking externally, then pulled back and told a series of potential candidates that Skype’s parent company, eBay, was going to explore strategic options. One of those could have … Read more
One of my essential tools on the road in the UK is the SkypePhone via 3. It lets me reach people quickly and keeps me in the cabs not on the tube. The money I save on International and Skype calls goes to the cabbies 🙂 I was happy to see that Threee have extended … Read more
For the record, when Michael Robertson came to me with his views about Skype I suggested he post a guest editorial. He went one step further and wrote a full letter to Skype and sent me a copy with permission to post here on VoIPwatch. He’s not a client of my agency, nor are he … Read more
Asus jumped the gun and the blogosphere is chattering about the new Asus VideoPhone based on Skype. PocketLint and others have the details.
