Ken Camp over at RealTime VoIP has a great post about the impact of applications and disruption that looms ahead. It is a must read for those looking at changing the direction of communications as it opens the eyes and the mind.
My sources tell me that the AT&T/Bell South deal was more about the long term prospects of business sectors mobile and IMS than land line and basic telephony services. That concept is being supported by a story in New Telephony Magazine today. The other side of the coin is the business sector. AT&T now can … Read more
Expect some news out of CeBit today about Yahoo having an adapter like device from Siemens that works with the Gigaset line of home and office phones. With the adapter your Yahoo buddy list moves off the computer and onto the telephone handset much like some of the Skype products were announced to do last … Read more
Should I blush……….Paul Kapustka was at some token Intel event today introducing something that wasn’t quite ready for prime time yet so they had to bring in the big guns. My agents will obviously be in touch. Image and Likeness without permission…UMPC’s and WiMax cards for all my blogger pals, with upgrades for life I … Read more
With RIM adding WLAN capabilities it means one more step closer for Fixed Mobile Convergence.
Irwin Lazar has issued a report on the issues as well as how to weigh the risks in using Skype in the Enterprise. While I have not read the whole report, just the summary which is like an abstract, the tone seems to echo what others have said for a while, but couches it nicely … Read more
Om must have been working overtime to crank out the piece that ran in today’s CNNMoney.com about the merger. One thing he missed. Where this leaves Packet8. Why should AT&South rent when they can use what they already own. Gee, I guess this gives further creedence that the P8 deal with BellSouth was really just … Read more
Taking a page from Dr. Seuss today, Jeff rhymes in with a ditty on the merger.
Om has a post this morning about the flurry of fund raising going on in VoIP right now. My sources tell me that TelTel raised the money late last year and just got around to announcing things choosing to make some deal announcements. TelTel is one of those interesting companies that if they can pull … Read more
It has taken Cisco a while to finally get around to making CallManager SIP compliant. First they had to by Dynamicsoft (a former client actually back in 2001) and then they had to integrate it all into their existing code base. What’s ironic is their subsidiary, Linksys, was SIP compliant from the time they bought … Read more
