EuroTelcoblog’s James Enck discovers a flaw in the Skype multi user chat system and waxes on about it. One of the aspects of Skype I see is some type of social networking feature being overlayed with it. The Pulver Communicator already has this type of feature built in but until the type of trust system … Read more
“Om, it’s not dot-VOIP yet“….so says Canadian Mark Evans in his blog today. Om thinks the dot.com/dot.bomb era is hitting VoIP, and while some startups may become casualties, there are also more established companies in the space from top to bottom who are shifting to VoIP for telephony and the related business. While there is … Read more
In ninth grade World History, our teacher, Royal Black, yup, that was his name, no jive, was the first person I recall ever using the phrase “history always repeats,” so I’m not surprised at Om’s post today about the growing pains effecting VoIP. When I got into the dot.com world outages were nothing uncommon. Heck, … Read more
BlogShares – VoIP Blog – VoIP News, Opinions If you scroll down you will see what Blogshares values blogs at in the future. I’m humbled to have the second ranked VoIP blog. Honestly, I’m laughing…hopefully all the way to the bank….. 🙂
For SBC Chief, AT&T Deal Is Essential in New Telecom Era is a Q&A in today’s Los Angeles Times. I think the swipe at Vonage and other so called instant phone companies who can buy network access below cost and then resell and the comment about customers in Hong Kong really points to how important AT&T’s … Read more
Fractals of Change: Freedom to Communicate Conference So, where is Jeff Pulver? If anyone has been pushing the rights of the user and the industry it’s Pulver. He should be on this distinguished list of experts. Kudos for Time Warner and Business 2.0 for allowing Om Malik to participate. Normally magazine publishers hold tight reins on … Read more
From Netimperative – Google prepares Skype-killer phone service and this makes total sense. Read what they have to say and think why? Yahoo is heading in the same direction, but while Yahoo has Messenger, Google doesn’t have an IM client yet. Maybe they will work with someone like Pulver or Popular Telephony. Heck, maybe they will … Read more
I’m always flattered when the press turns to me for a viewpoint, but I’m honored to be included in a story with Om. While Level3 has customers, the big question is how will they handle their enormous debt load. Even if VoIP revenues start to fly from the cable companies, which is now in question, … Read more
SAM – Skype® Answering Machine —Insecure ? I called a colleague using skype, not knowing he was in another skype session. His Skype Answering Machine picked up and I left a message. First the parties on the call with him heard me. Secondly, I heard them. Both calls were clear as a bell to the … Read more
WSJ.com – Write to The Wall Street Journal has a letter from the guru of VoIP, Jeff Pulver. It’s a great read and makes many salient points. Give it a read.
