Will Skype Make Your Date?
David Evans has a view over at Corante that Click2Call will be a big thing in dating, and Skype will play a big part in that.
Paul White Leaving Delta 3
One of the classiest guys in the business, and a real polished CFO, Paul White is leaving Delta Three to look at other opportunities.
More on SkypeTones
Since news and details are so sketchy, I went out and talked to some friends in the music business and ring tone sector to get some more insight about what this could mean to Skype and the music business. Overall, the feeling is unanimous that there is more to the deal than RingTones and images. … Read more
Skype Goes With Warner Music For Ringtones and Maybe More
Skype has entered into a deal with Warner Music Group and while the deal is announced as for Ringtones, sources say that last week at MIDEM the talk in the hallways and on the luxury ships in the harbor that it was that it’s for more than simply that, with Ringbacktones as likely also as … Read more
Tello Explained
Last week a rocking big story broke in the Wall Street Journal about Tello, a company that has extremely deep roots in VoIP, especially when you realize that the essence of the company is Presence, and the person who has been championing presence almost as long as he has been championing VoIP is Jeff Pulver. … Read more
My Heart Goes out To A Fellow Journalist’s Family
We all think the blog wars and our ever ongoing battle to get news out is tough, but heck, guys like me have it easy. No one’s having us drive over land mines to get stories. I just saw this story and my heart skipped a beat. While we cover stories and deal with PR … Read more
About Skype and Sales Force.com
This is about setting the record straight. Seems I missed the news release on the wires back a week or so or more. The announcement was out on the wires and just not advanced to any of us. For that reason, and a reliance on being advanced news releases by the PR team it got … Read more
Is Skype Trying To Keep Things Secret?
Why in anyone’s mind would a deal between SalesForce.com and eBay/Skype be kept mostly under wraps? No it wasn’t under wraps. I missed it. (see above) and so did a lot of the other VoIP bloggers. The implications of a Skype & SalesForce.com alliance are huge. What’s bigger than Skype getting into the business of … Read more
AOL Widens Broadband Offerings
Taking a page out of Yahoo’s playbook, AOL has announced a series of relationships with DSL providers to help migrate their users from dial up to broadband for as little as two dollars over their dial up package price of $24.95. Expect to see a bundle deal with the MSO’s coming down the pike would … Read more
Progress With Level3
Level3 keeps growing their market reach and network. Today they announced the acquisition of Progress Telecom. In the past I said the WilTel acquisition which is now in integration mode, and from what I hear almost done –read head count reductions coming soon–would yield even more.