Even though the O’Reilly folks chucked eTel, without any real public rationale that would sooth most VoIP developers, Lee Dryburgh has picked up the slack and is seeking to pull off a real “people’s event” called eComm 2008 that continues in the spirit of eTel and goes one better for three days, March 12-14 in … Read more
Dean Bubley asks what is up with BT’s Fusion, their Fixed Mobile Convergence play. Last night in Madrid I presented on the concept of Mobile VoIP, going over who the players are/were and may well be. One company I failed to mention was BT, though thanks to some input from Dean and a cadre of … Read more
Verizon announced a list of ten hot trends that will be favored by business in 2008. Many, if not all of them, leverage IP based communications. While it is nice to talk about trends, what I’m not seeing is how Verizon plans to integrate all of this together, especially between their wireline and wireless sides … Read more
Mon 17/12/2007 15:32 17122007077
I figured its time to toast what has been a very good year, and to get ready for tonight’s Mobile Monday in Madrid…….. Do you think I’m going to have fun? You bet. Coming off of Le Web 3, this is the time to stretch out and do some serious looking forward. I’ve consulted some … Read more
Don Thorson tipped me off that Ribbit is going live on Monday after a long awaited period of “what are those guys up to.” This comes on the heels of their Developer event last week in the Bay Area. In a nutshell Ribbit is developing some proof of concept applications that leverage their API’s and … Read more
The folks at client iotum and a former VH1 producer, Fred Graver, have cooked up one ingenious concept for using the power of social media, the web and VoIP to ring in the New Year. It’s the New Year’s Eve Conference Call application which Alec Saunders unveiled last night. It’s pure genius and works on … Read more
Over the past few weeks I’ve been receiving emails from PR firms representing traditional print media which have online content and are looking to draw attention to stories that are written and published on their web sites. In my book they are taking a page out of what TV networks have done for years where … Read more
Former AP telecom editor Bruce Meyerson now is over at Business Week as Deputy Editor where he has penned a piece that talks about how the wireless operators are doing all they can to CLAIM they are opening up, when it reality they aren’t.
Credit Ike Elliott, who used to be a ranking executive at Level3, for coming up with this one about Vonage and their on-going patent woes. Ike makes some good points about why Vonage, now owning DPL’s patents, are at least in a slightly better position than they were before. I am not at all surprised … Read more
