I was tipped off by Colorado blogger and VoIP Sales Star Keith Bare that Packet8 had gone retail with CompUSA. The move follows Vonage’s move in the same direction a few months back. I’ve evaluated Packet8 and find nothing wrong with what they offer. Their service rides on Level3’s backbone and they offer a great … Read more
I half thought about blogging the recent E-Commerce News item about Skype and what one of their VC’s had to say but decided to wait for those more schooled in the VC world to comment. Malik’s stint as an investment banker and VC makes him the perfect commentator on this story. Now I’m only waiting … Read more
The Philippines, one of the heaviest users of SMS my be one step closer to legally receiving VoIP. Certainly, the broadband online crowd would be looking forward to VoIP as right now only congressionally approved carriers can offer voice services there.
A report making the rounds in California’s state capitol suggests that Governator Arnold switch to open source and VoIP. In an era where being a good corporate citizen is such an important thing, I don’t get why such outspoken leaders like John Chambers of Cisco, Scott McNealy of Sun, Dr. Irwin Jacobs of Qualcomm, Carly … Read more
My friend and fellow blog star Om Malik and I usually agree on most points, or at the very least have similar viewpoints on things, so while I fully agree in concept with what he wrote today about the issues surrounding VoIP, I think he’s being premature in saying we’re ending the honeymoon phase of … Read more
Om Malik’s GigaOm, my favorite blog to read for candid and witty insight that deeply views IT, Telecom and the impact on both society and finances looks at Vonage and says…. I published my thoughts on his comments board, but at the end of the day, Vonage needs to solve this problem.
According to Brooke Schulz, VP, Corporate Communications at Vonage here’s what happened today: “A facility went down that serviced a few areas: Boston, Milwaukee, Greensboro and Pittsburgh. I was told by our engineers it was affecting inbound calls to those areas only. Our website was failed over to another carrier as well. People were getting … Read more
Modular By Design a web site that has been devoted to music downloads has moved into the VoIP space.
Business Week has a detailed story about Skype. Largely a rehash of what is already known and written about here and on GigaOm.
VoiceGlo is seeking to be the world’s largest PBX. Today they announced new features to GloPhone, the web based application that lets people make calls. While this is ultimately a stock play for the major investors, you have to give credit to the GloPhone folks for trying to get traction and build a major proof … Read more
