You know a company is hot when the tax, audit and consulting companies come knocking even before you’ve been VC funded. That seems to be the case with client iotum, who was selected by PWC (Price Waterhouse Coopers) to participate in a VC Export event in Boston that featured a series of Canadian startups. iotum … Read more
Never to let an emerging market be overlooked, Cisco has entered the Fixed Mobile Convergence Market.
For $20.00 a month in San Francisco you will get a megabit of wireless access from EarthLink and Google. For free you get 300 kilobite. That means this to me. First EvDO and UMTS for those who never leave the city is unnecessary. For a third of the price you can get coverage that is … Read more
It seems another telco wants to block VoIP or is making noise like they will. This time it’s in Shanghai.
eMarketer has some numbers on where VoIP is and where it is going.
Bully for Ken Camp. He’s joined the same camp (pun intended) as me on the subject of SPIT (spam over Internet Telephony). Ever since I saw the first press release i ever read on the subject I have felt it was a dubious matter, only being flogged by the software comapnies (so far I can … Read more
Talqer is trying their best to stay ahead of Google, even if Google doesn’t share every detail to folks in the press. Talqer is doing their part to be better than Google Talk.
Skype will be easier to use and less tethered with the roll out of Motorola Talk & Tunes Wireless Internet Calling Kit. It works via Bluetooth or a USB adapter to do the translation over to BlueTooth. No word though if it works on a Mac.
The Mac Observer has Apple entering into the VoIP arena with the iPhone. It would be very smart for Apple to jump into VoIP. If any company can take the concept of Fixed Mobile Convergence and tie it to Mobile VoIP on a consumer level, it’s Apple.
Virgin Mobile and NTL have agreed to merge. This is on the heels of NTL snapping up TeleWest Cable and Broadband a few weeks back. This brings Fixed Mobile closer to reality in the UK.
