“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
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
Aswath Weblog: Bellster fwdOUT Revisited as usual Aswath weighs in on the Bellster, um, FWD:out issue with some keen insight…I’m glad Aswath will be on the Bloggers Panel in San Jose at VON. I wonder if I’ll have to hire some of Jerry Springer’s security folks to keep the sides from turning a friendly chat into … Read more
James Enck sell side analyst supremo when it comes to all things Telco in the EU and UK with his EuroTelcoblog gets pissy and rightfully so. I think I blogged this on Friday about Google. So while my knickers are as much in an uproar about this I have to agree with James that the old media … Read more
The New York Times > Technology > Free Speech, or Secrets From Apple? This is why I’m a card carrying member of the Society of Professional Journalists and the Online Media Association. But, given I co-host two radio broadcasts now, and write a weekly wine column it’s a little harder to say “he’s not a … Read more
I think this new blog called Real-Time will be worthy of keeping an eye out. The author writes for BCR (Business Communications Review) one of the best authorities in Enterprise IP Voice related topics and he’s also with The Burton Group. Those two factors gives him instant credibility in my book.
Of late I’ve had the blogging blahs…there is so much out there, but given the holiday season, it’s a bit slower for me and I’m a tad distracted. I’ve also had a back up system failure. The reliable Mirra box seemed to develop a bug, my system last week was hit by a Virus that … Read more
One thing I missed with the Skype Kazaa announcement was the Weblog angle. Tied in with VoIP it’s a very powerful motivation. Add in the Skype conferencing capability and you have a very interesting threat to traditional conferencing because of the file sharing aspect. This is dead on threat to the space Microsoft is hoping … Read more
I ordered the U2 Black and Red iPod the first few days it was offered. I was told it would ship on or around the 18th of November. Around that time Apple sent me an email saying that due to demand the item would not ship until early December. I say B.S. The retailers are … Read more
