Image by jdlasica via Flickr The GigaOm crew have come up with their to 50 cloud innovators. The list, that was published this morning gives a nice overview of who the players are. Since I grew up in sports, the line "you can't tell the players without a scorecard" is rather apropos here, because almost … Read more
Image by brycej via Flickr He's been swamped making Calliflower a rock solid flat rate conferencing platform. And his blogging suffered. And now…HE's BACK. The he is Alec Saunders who for a while was spending more time running his business and a lot less time blogging. Well, he's back. And that's a good thing. Alec … Read more
Over at About.com Nadeem, who covers VoIP ponders the point that with Microsoft buying Skype we may see a Blackberry client from Skype. Well given the tight-fisted way RIM doles out access to the stack that lets you access WiFi, and the fact that some patents are in place around that, not to mention the … Read more
Image via Wikipedia My pal in London, Dean Bubley, is so insightful. Between he and Martin Geddes, when I'm over in London, the two are the master class leaders in delivering insight, perspective and opinion, or what I tend to call IPO in the realm of socialized media (i.e. using a blog, or other online … Read more
Image via CrunchBase Google left GoogleVoice off the list of presentations from Google I/O last week and Skype Journal's Phil Wolff is all upset and cranky. In a short terse post today the all things IP and Skype pundit and friend goes off on a semi rant asking: "Where’s the platform, folks? Will Skype’s platform … Read more
Image via CrunchBase For years those of us who have recognized that bits are bits and voice can be carried over data pipes (i.e. VOIP) have always simply looked at any data connection as a pipe. Give me unfettered access over the Internet and I'll give you a better way to communicate was the basic … Read more
Telecom Law Monitor, from regulatory law firm Kelley Drye tells us that the FCC is telling VoIP and Broadband service providers to report outages or pay the fines. Basically this means that service providers are more and more being told to play on a level playing field with no distinction between legacy and next generation. … Read more
For years roaming on WiFi was Boingo and everybody else. And with everybody else the back office issues were immense. And for mobile operators who have a back office solution for mobile voice and data roaming there already were solutions that made things like authentication and settlement easy. Well not so for WiFi. That's why … Read more
Image via CrunchBase So give props to pal Om Malik for breaking the story. Skype is going to Microsoft. It's a big win for a lot of people, most of all the original founders and it's a fit. As I wrote over the weekend there was little chance Google would really buy Skype. Too many … Read more
Om reports on the steady stream of rumors that Skype is likely to be bought by now either Facebook, Google or Microsoft. Here's why I think the company may be bought.. 1. Facebook-they need a realtime comms platform to put themselves inside. Skype's new Web OS effortes being led by Jonathan Rosenberg and Jason Fischl … Read more
