Usually when a company get’s it’s pricing nailed down, trading will begin in a very short time. Being that Vonage announced their IPO per share price range today, I would expect to see the stock on the market soon, if conventional IPO tactics are followed. Vonage can be again the catalyst for the VoIP industry, … Read more
Donavan Jones has been named President of CounterPath, my favorite softclient developer. Jones will have to battle a lot of in house development that is occuring at the big players like Google, Yahoo, AOL and elsewhere to keep the XTEN guts at the forefront of softphone integration.
Via a licensing agreement with Skype, Polycom has come up with an integrated PDA size speakerphone that includes Skype calling functionality, according to the press announcement. Convenient call function buttons — With deep integration to the Skype application, the Polycom Communicator features conveni buttons enabling users to easily launch Skype on their computer and … Read more
IMS is what underlies Fixed Mobile Convergence, otherwise known as where Mobile Meets VoIP. Ken Camp is digging into the subject and his summary is a good primary, with some kudos to pal Martin Geddes. This ties in nicely as I’m moderating the “VoIP In a Wireless World” panel at MuniWireless.org’s June conference in Santa … Read more
Jim Courtney has a detailed and totally relevant post about the value proposition PhoneGnome and iotum are bringing to the Voice 2.0 world.
Around all the hoopla last week on other matters, I almost overlooked that pal Paul Kapustka has joined the PulverMedia team. In my book he brings real media experience to the rapidly growing Pulver group of ventures. It’s a great hire for Jeff and the gang.
A most defining moment occured today at the resort Helene (my fiance) and I are staying at for the wedding of a personal friend of 30 years. At breakfast we had our laptops at the communal table where many of the “parents” friends were seated, many reading copies of the New York Times and International … Read more
Bruce Stewart of O’Reilly’s Emerging Telephony site has a killer review of something I’m really excited about. Given both companies are clients I’d rather let your read Bruce’s well written and totally right on the money piece about something that makes so much sense it just had to happen. In fairness Aswath Rao also thought … Read more
Based on some G2 I’ve been able to discover from some well healed off-shore type players in telcom who have played in the telco game for many years and made a bundle off of selling things to SBC I was able to ferret out a bit about the Yahoo/AT&T VoIP marriage and what it may … Read more
Earlier this week Yahoo and AT&T extended the previous SBC/Yahoo on ramp deal to include VoIP. In many ways this was expected, but my instincts tell me that it’s more of a tip of an iceberg play and that Cingular’s involvement with a growing need for a Fixed Mobile Convergence play is likely the next … Read more
