More M&A’s Coming?

Looks like the M&A efforts will continue if Light Reading is on the money with one. But my sources say it’s more of a OEM or reseller deal. I met with the leadership of Sylantro that was at VON and found very little “new” that they would say with the company so maybe a shakeup … Read more

The Vonage DeadPool

Om has started with a polling widget what I consider the first of what will be many Vonage Deadpools with his analysis of the Vonage IPO. What’s interesting is how small a number of his informed and literate readers have any confidence in Vonage’s stock price rising north of it’s IPO price of $17.00. What’s … Read more

Dan Farber on the New SightSpeed

Dan Farber, one of the more veteran technology editors out there who hangs his hat at ZDnet has a very good write up on client SightSpeed’s new beta version of their upcoming 5.0 release. I’ve been using it today and have to say the video is out of this world. The new codec makes the … Read more

My Thoughts on The Vonage IPO

Many will look at the first day performance of the VONAGE public offering as an indictment for VoIP overall. That’s not fair, nor is it accurate. What has happened in my view is that the Emperor’s new clothes scenario has run its coure, but now everyone can see. The public offering was largely a means … Read more

FCC on Net Neutrality

Net Neutrality is way more than just about access and I’m seeing more and more the global cabal like interests of politics, economics, finance and technology converging.

CounterPath Doing Well

The company formally known as Xten is doing well according to today’s SEC filings. Congrats to Mark Bruk and his team, including poker playing buddy Clay who despite not being a blogger seems to run into me a lot at conferences.

Applause For Sonus

Sonus has gotten high marks I hear from an upcoming report crafted by Infonetics that’s all about the “Service Provider Next Generation Voice and IMS Equipment Market Forecast.” The Infonetics report named Sonus the market leader in a few categories including the worldwide trunk media gateway segment where they hold 16% of the total market … Read more

The Era of Disposable Numbers

AOL is giving away phone numbers with AIM Phone Line for free and that’s a great way for people to start creating what I have tabbed Shadow Numbers. Now you can give someone your number and never have to worry that if you want to break of talking with them that your real number ever … Read more

Blogging Slow Down Mean A Catchup

I’m on the last day of a continual road trip that started before VON Europe. Tomorrow would be day 14 of non-stop away from home efforts. The interesting news obviously is the stock pricing of Vonage and their officially going public. Likely lost in all the hoopla around Vonage is the amended complaint by Streamcast … Read more

Skype Dev Con

Tom Keating has the 411 on the upcoming Skype Developer’s Conference which I’m planning on attending in Las Vegas starting June 9. The three day event should be a blast. I’m already hearing from some other bloggers that they plan on coming too, so stay tuned as we’ll likely try to organize some kind of … Read more