Here’s something which I have never seen before and which makes a lot of sense. By combining VoIP and IM the device helps to define the concept of presence. Hopefully, I’ll be able to check one out soon and provide the details. Imagine getting a call on your cellphone that originates over MSN or Yahoo … Read more
An FBR buy side analyst questions just how major VoIP will be for the cable industry, in this column on TheStreet.com The key to all this is churn. Cable operators have forever been fighting the battle with the satellite companies (Dish Network and Direct TV) here in the USA to retain customers. With Cable Telephony … Read more
Vonage recieved real nice exposure in US News and World Reports this week and writer Mary Kathleen Flynn really got the story right. What’s good about this story is that Flynn got it. She went past the fact that it is about price, and explained the features, and provided breezy, easy to understand analysis of … Read more
As a journalist, (I even have my degree in Journalism from Temple University), I hate seeing stories like the one today in the Akron Beacon-Journal. It reminds me of the line my first mentor, the Wily Old Veteran, Sy Roseman, sarcastically told me when I was 16 and learning the craft of media relations from … Read more
It looks like Utah is looking closely at VoIP. While on the surface a harmless exploration, given Michael Powell’s feelings that VoIP should be unregulated, to see states get involved only will make it harder for the new telcos to emerge easily. What we could end up with, if the states each enact their own … Read more
Ted Rogers is the king of cable in Canada. He’s Rupert Murdoch and John Malone all rolled into one, only a tad more controlled. He’s planning to get the cable company into VoIP but has learned from the past. In this Toronto Star article one fact comes through. They know they own the customer already. … Read more
I’m not surprised that AOL has decided to dance in the telephony space, again. If you recall years back as they were growing in subscribers they offered a telephone service to subscribers at cheaper than cheap rates by reselling AT&T and handled the billing. Now they are going into Canada with a VoIP service that … Read more
This almost slipped by. It’s a way to enable PC-to-PC based conference calls over the net using one of the most popular contact management programs around, ACT!. Given it’s large user base, the folks at Voice Now have created a plug in that enables ACT to be the front end for voice conference calls. This … Read more
If Match.com or Love@AOL ever had a partner made in heaven for them, it has to be this web site. Imagine with bundled VoIP service, now a potential suitor can at least get an answer, even if it’s not the yes they’re looking for. The service, which is about to be bundled by some of … Read more
Turf battles between the DEA, FBI, CIA, NSA, the old BATF, Customs, Coast Guard and local law enforcement have been around for years. It’s the old, whose got a bigger pair of B&^*S, but now on the surface, an even bigger battle is brewing. It’s between the FCC and both the FBI and the DEA … Read more
