Check out this story about Canada’s Shaw Cable being sued by ZingoTel for not allowing the ZingoTel ads to run on the cable network. Interesting. As a case in point when AT&T rolled out CallVantage in the USA they made a very concerted effort to make the cable operators their friends. To me, blocking the … Read more
Seems pal Martin Geddes is all buggered out about the Yahoo Voice Messenger install process in the UK about it requiring Microsoft Internet Explorer. Ouch. I have to beleive this IE related issue is either a BT issue or a temporary problem given that “Rock Star” Jeff Bonforte of Yahoo, the product manager for Messenger, … Read more
James Enck has a post about Skype being reverse engineered. Not being a techie I can’t discern some of the points in the deck, but I do know this is a serious matter, both for Skype and for the telecom industry. His line about the biggest BotNet will likely cause worry to many..
Agency client SightSpeed was interviewed by Ken Camp and featured in the Realtime VoIP Community interview series. Ken spoke with CEO, Peter Csathy, and really captured the essence of what SightSpeed has to offer. A few hours following the interview Ken and I had Speed Call (my nickname for using SightSpeed). Here I was, sitting … Read more
The San Jose Mercury News’ Jessie Seyfer is one of my favorite telecom beat reporters. Her story today has me quoted on the new release of Yahoo Messenger with Voice. One of the quotes she used `’With this deployment, Yahoo becomes the rooster in the henhouse for the partners.” is something that everyone has to … Read more
A Fenway Park Bleacher Bum tipped me off to a new feature from Sprint that goes into the “gee, we never thunk about that Jethro” department of great thinking on Sprint’s end, and a wonderful move by the folks who work on Asterisk. Basically with Sprint’s new $5.00 a month plan to call home all … Read more
It sure looks like China is doing all they can to slow down the deployment of VoIP until 2008. To put this in plain English, China wants a fee and the right “companies” or people need to be partnered up with….
The Edmondton Journal has a story today that moved over Canada.com that describes the packet shaping and QoS enhancements that one of the cable operators in Canada (Shaw) is employing both as a revenue generator and competitive threat defence. This is exactly why I feel many of the small operators will bite the dust over … Read more
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Yahoo has advised that the previously discussed Yahoo Messenger with Voice will be finally available in the USA on Wednesday. Gosh, where I am it’s Wednesday almost, being in Philadelphia on a family matter. The service is much like Gizmo or Skype, featuring In/Out and buddy list integration, but it goes much further by blending … Read more
