Last week two stories seem to generate a lot of interest all across the blogs and in the news. The first was the rumor of a “Skype Killer” being planned by the leading telcos around the world. The second was the blockbuster move by the new WiMax consortium of players including Intel, ClearWire, Sprint plus … Read more
Swedish Mobile VoIP player Challenger Mobile feels there is a swinging of the pendulum towards mobile VoIP based on what carriers are telling them. In my book this is a coattail play based on the Skype Killer concept that was circulating last week. I’ll have more on that later as I’m working on a “thought” … Read more
Tonight I was having a telephone chat with long time pal Jeremy Pepper, who recently left the dark side of PR (he was with an agency) and joined the brighter side, which means he’s now on the client side of the business. I’ve know Jeremy since he quarterbacked some of the moves Skype made when … Read more
Counterpath’s FMC comes to Slovenia. This is not really news, because I heard about this at MWC, but nonetheless shows that FMC is still alive and growing.
Have you looked at the price of Cisco’s Personal Telepresence that was announced today? $33,900 USD per seat That’s 22 years worth of SightSpeed For Business for a ten (10) seat pack. Granted SightSpeed is my agency’s client, but let’s get real and think about value and the budget. For every $33,900 a company can … Read more
Pal Aswath Rao has made his move into the Enterprise 2.0 space and submitted EnThinnai for the LaunchPad competition. The “autonomous communications” platform has been a passion and work of love by our very intelligent pal for a few years now, and if for no reason beyond sheer friendship, I want to see this get … Read more
Ribbit, which has proven it can do what Adobe can’t accomplish despite a never ending stream of product people running the voice business there, have formally unveiled there next level of efforts, as we reported last week.
I really like this post from Rich Tehrani. Rather than add more, just read it and draw your own conclusions.
For many in the wireless and mobile world, the name Jeff Belk is rather familiar. In San Diego circles he’s the recently retired Senior VP of Strategy and before that Sr. VP of Marketing at Qualcomm. He’s also a close personal friend. Today he debuted on Unstrung and shares some insights from a real wireless … Read more
Following up on my post of the other day, it seems now IDG’s Network World is on the same track and feels there won’t be another VON this year. According to this press release it looks like a cool $1.7 million was recovered from PulverMedia by TICC when they seized the assets as a secured … Read more
