Skype In, Out?

Skype’s Help section can be a plethora of information. A loyal reader in the UK sent along a note about SkypeIN. While I have yet to verify that In is Out, certainly the details are emerging. Do a little noodling around Skype’s help and see what I mean. Here’s what he passed on to me: … Read more

Vonage Can Tap Your Calls

Vonage has joined up with Verisign to make it easier for law enforcement agencies to listen in on your calls. Oh, can you hear David Bowie singing "1984" and George Orwell saying, "see, I was right." Maybe they need to bring back the Apple Super Bowl commercial.

Thoughts on Level3

Level3 didn’t really do much at VON. Sure they offered briefings, but the most striking impression they left me with was the two clowns they had outside the main exhibition hall, one of whom was doing a very bad impression of Max Headroom. And I can judge that, you see, the original Max was played … Read more

Om Kicked My Butt And Got Me In Gear

Om Malik kicked my *** last Saturday over breakfast, right in front of my fiance, saying how I’ve been slacking off. And you know what, he was right. I guess the amount of time I’ve been taking in my personal life, professional life and social life has all amounted to my being less the blogger/journalist … Read more

James Seng’s View on VON

One of the members of the Blogger Army at VON, who also was on my panel, was James Seng, who brings a very Asian perspective to VoIP and Telco related matters. His coverage of VON is quite extensive. While I’ve been organizing media and analysts briefings (some 20+ in all) for my client over three … Read more

VONAGE Heading Public?

There’s a lot of speculation if Vonage will go public. One things for certain, in many ways they are acting like a public company already. Based on what I saw in their briefings with analysts and press they are conducting themselves that way. That said, Vonage needs to come clean and stop dancing around on … Read more

AT&T Stays The Course

I had a chance to walk through some of the new features that AT&T will be wrapping around it’s award winning CallVantage service. The most exciting is e-Com that let’s you manage how you take and direct calls. While other soon to be released offerings from other company’s seem similar, and possibly more elegant, e-COM … Read more

AOL On The Right Track With VoIP

I had a chance to sit with Jim Tobin, the AOL Executive who is leading their voice efforts into telephony. While a great deal of what we discussed is in the trial stage, I have to say I’m impressed enough to be happy that I still have my AOL account and look forward to actually … Read more