Two Posts To Reflect Upon

London based Uber Analyst (I rank him alongside pal Martin Geddes as bringing sense to all the hype) Dean Bubley has two posts this week (well actually many more) that are home runs in my book. 1) His post of the Comcast packet sniffing soon to be fiasco. I say “soon to be” because you … Read more

Boingo Buys Sprint’s WiFi Business

Sprint wants you to use WiMax or EVDO, but they don’t care about WiFi. In what is a great move for Boingo, the L.A. based company has acquired eight more airports, giving them the exclusive wireless rights. Since we all know territory establishes control, and there are how many million of 802.11b/g ready PC’s this … Read more

Boingo Buys Sprint’s WiFi Business

Sprint wants you to use WiMax or EVDO, but they don’t care about WiFi. In what is a great move for Boingo, the L.A. based company has acquired eight more airports, giving them the exclusive wireless rights. Since we all know territory establishes control, and there are how many million of 802.11b/g ready PC’s this … Read more

eBay Shows Stupidity With Skype Button Decision

In what has to be a face saving move, eBay has finally allowed the deployment of the Skype me type button that was at one point at the crux of their strategy in acquiring Skype, reports Jim Courtney. Let’s first realize that for the most part eBay sellers don’t want to talk with their customers, … Read more

Yahoo Getting Hung Up By The Carriers

Of late, the usually forward and information giving Yahoo executives have been playing “mums the word” on anything and everything. They’ve gone into a professionally counseled and constructed defensive PR mode, commenting on things through their high priced handlers, making only well choreographed statements, and doing their best to provide an altered state of reality, … Read more

It’s The Apps In Voice That Matter

Network World’s Brad Reed has a very good summary of the importance of applications with Voice, that was a topic of discussion this past week. That’s something I’ve been saying for many years now here in VoIPWatch. The story focuses on the commentary by Iperia’s Dave Jodoin and client Thomas “Mr. Mashup” Howe. I found … Read more

Get To Know Dan York

Dan York got the short shaft at Mitel when the merged, but he’s improved his stature in life as Voxeo was quick to pick up one of the nicest, good guys in the VoIP space. Dan was one of the featured interviews on Jeff Pulver’s BlogTV broadcast at VON this week. This is a good … Read more

Skype On 3 Secrets Revealed

I commend Markus on his detective work, along with pal Luca. It seems that the new Skype3Phone isn’t really VoIP or even Skype, but nothing more than a bridge the call service.