It’s great to see two friends (and clients) finish first. While I’m a few days late to the congratulatory circle, I have to say, it feels great to know that two very close friends, Thomas (Professor Mashup) Howe and Shai Berger (Fonolo) have captured very impressive crowns this past week in different competitions. First was … Read more
Rich Tehrani refers to a post earlier that I made about the possibility of Google buying Skype and suggests a few others. While Google has the bucks to make the buy, as does Cisco and Oracle, I don’t see the latter two jumping in. They like to be enterprise friendly, and Skype is perceived as … Read more
Silicon Alley Insider suspects that Skype might be for sale. I’m not so sure. Back when the recruiters were out headhunting for a new CEO they were looking externally, then pulled back and told a series of potential candidates that Skype’s parent company, eBay, was going to explore strategic options. One of those could have … Read more
One of my essential tools on the road in the UK is the SkypePhone via 3. It lets me reach people quickly and keeps me in the cabs not on the tube. The money I save on International and Skype calls goes to the cabbies 🙂 I was happy to see that Threee have extended … Read more
For the record, when Michael Robertson came to me with his views about Skype I suggested he post a guest editorial. He went one step further and wrote a full letter to Skype and sent me a copy with permission to post here on VoIPwatch. He’s not a client of my agency, nor are he … Read more
Asus jumped the gun and the blogosphere is chattering about the new Asus VideoPhone based on Skype. PocketLint and others have the details.
Information Week’s Serdar Yegulalp is calling client ifByPhone the “Single Coolest Thing Done With Open Source at the Web 2.0 show.” This is one more example of “phone mashups” garnering attention. Phone mashups are applications. And applications are where the money is.
Client Boingo received high praise from the folks at ZDNET today. In a post about trying out the service, Dennis Howlett, tabs Boingo as “a traveler’s lifesaver” saying that it is “an easy way to avoid all those ludicrous $X per day charges that hotels and airport operators try to gouge out of you when … Read more
For the record, I’ve known and been friends with Michael Robertson, the founder of SipPhone/GizmoProject since his days with MP3.com. He clearly is a visionary, a pioneer and someone who is never afraid to say what’s on his mind. He is not a client nor is there anything vested on my part other than as … Read more
This is a very good read as the article weaves through the plusses and minuses of virtual conferencing including video and web based. What I like about the article is that the author has brought a sense of reality into the equation by suggesting that some meetings still need to be done “in person” not … Read more
