VoIP

James has a very interesting perspective on the role VoIP will play in Europe for AOL and seems to give them some good advice on how to market it to the various pockets of users.

Why go to VON? The people. Jeff Pulver has been able to breathe life back into the conference industry, which is no easy feat. So while the Red Sox winning the ALCS has taken the town over, the people who have come to VON have made this a great event for me. Bloggers. Clients. Former … Read more

Just read it This is better than I could have done given my time was all taken with meetings. I am so happy Martin captured the essensce of what is going on, being said and how VoN looks.

Hiawatha Bray, technology pundit for the Boston Globe is working on a story about Jeff Pulver and the growth of VoIP. I wish Hiawatha would have asked me for the skinny on Jeff. My sidekick on the World Technology RoundUp Ken Rutkowski used to host an online radio show with Jeff called Voices On the … Read more

Back in what was the Spring or Early Summer I posted that Speakeasy was going with the Level 3 solution over Covad’s Go Beam based platform. Seems I was early, but right on given today’s announcement.

I could spend all day at VoN and get nothing done while at the same time get so much accomplished. It’s the kind of show where one meeting leads into another, some unexpected and others necessary. I spent the morning with Wall Street Journal Asia Contributing Editor Jeremy Wagstaff walking the floor of VoN. A … Read more

The folks at Pulver.com have released the public version of the Pulver Communicator. Based on my trials of the beta this is a rather useful and easy to use product. The blending of Free World Dial Up with Instant Messaging across platforms is very valuable.

Jonathan found a red hot item that is really blue, but called black. It seems RIM is adding VoIP their next generation of Blackberry PDAs…..YES !

VON is hot. Red Hot. Hats off to Jeff Pulver and his team for putting together a jam packed five days of VoIP. There is possibly more than one person can absorb. The panels are excellent, the show floor well laid out, and all the right companies are there. VON is back to where Jeff … Read more

How clueless are the folks at Verizon’s VoiceWing…? First their PR person calls me to set up a briefing and leaves a phone number. Guess what? No voice mail. So I went by the VON booth tonight and neither of the two VoIP people were around, and neither was the PR person. If they’re trying … Read more