My colleague, valley legend and master of the message, Bill Ryan, calls the what we do, “groom to flip” and the New York Times has the state of the industry pegged perfectly when they wrote up the recent VAPPS acquisition of by Citrix. Nowadays companies that are venture backed are no longer IPO candidates that … Read more
Last week it was airports being added by Boingo. This week they’ve added ferries and ferry terminals in Washington State. As PhoneBoy points out, the costs have been lowered and subscribers immediately gain access to the entire Boingo network around the globe. The official announcement is here while the maven of all things WiFi, Glenn … Read more
This week is a busy week, and there’s no relief in sight. That’s a good thing as this Wednesday and Thursday in San Francisco is the Open Mobile Summit. It’s really shaping up to be something of interest to me, as the idea of Open seems to have many definitions. It’s sort of like “unlimited.”
Motorola is clearly not just thinking about cellular phones these days. They’re busily moving into a full blown WiFi VoIP handset that works with a very robust server and lots of security features.
In looking over the line up of today’s Under The Radar I’m quite happy to see the number of voice apps there. If Web 2.0 was 2007, it’s clear that in 2008 Voice has become the word of the day, and in 2009 making money is what we will start to see. Companies like Mobivox, … Read more
The folks at Google keep innovating, adding video conferencing to Gmail on both the Mac and the PC. Just as soon as I can find someone on my chat list who is also using Gmail on the Premier side of the fence, I’ll try it.
My longtime blogger buddy, who I always have said is one of the smartest engineers I know has launched his dream, enthinnai and he’s looking for feedback.
CrunchGear reports that the European Union is looking into the operations of the mobile carriers to see if they blocked VoIP over their networks. The expected end result is, “you can’t do that Mr. Carrier.” This would be excellent news for the mobile VoIP players like client Truphone or others whose service works very well … Read more
Intelepeer raised $18 million dollars on the heels of iSkoot raising 19 million. Who said there’s no money in telecom or VoIP? When I see this kind of money in series C being spent, it’s clear to me that the VC’s and others look at the early rounds as “build it” rounds. Now the market … Read more
I have to admit, I’ve known about this for a very long time as client Voxbone has been working with the ITU to establish the +883 country code. Carriers are jumping on board already including client Mobivox, Jajah, Gizmo5, Ribbit, iotum, Rebtel, Voipbuster, Voxeo, Voipuser and a host of others. More are expected to be … Read more
