I got warm wishes holiday video wishes from the folks at Skype. It does make me feel all kindsa special… Thanks ! Here are the words: Let It Snow! Oh, the weather outside is frightful, But VOIP Watch is so delightful, And since we’ve got Andy’s post, Let it snow, let it snow, let it … Read more
The buck stops here. I made an error. Over the weekend the new PR team at Skype in Silicon Valley provided me information they had been supplied by the Skype staff about their new deal with a Linux provider. In the body of the note was their copy which I was supplied under embargo until … Read more
British Telecom, Yahoo’s partner in the UK is taking on the VoIP providers at their own game. Here they conveniently pick on Skype. Poor Skype. Everyone’s picking on them this month.
Om’s got it pretty dialed in and sewn up in the post as to why AOL and Google are getting hitched. He’s missing though the enemy (AOL) of my enemy (YAHOO) is my friend, which applies to both Google and AOL. So, while I guess you can toss in Microsoft in that enemy model, MSFT … Read more
This post by Rich isn’t really new news. It’s been documented before that Skype poses risks inside the Enterprise via the way it punches a hole in the firewall, and also now with it’s API. One would think one of the first things the folks at eBay would do is attack this issue, but eBay … Read more
I downloaded the latest GizmoProject application and found an early holiday present. It’s the GizmoForward feature. While it doesn’t work seamlessly like Skype which first tries the Skype client before forwarding, it does provide you with a manual capability to forward calls to your Gizmo out to mostly any number. I say almost because unlike … Read more
When it comes to being Mac friendly with VoIP no one is as forward thinking as the team at GizmoProject. I came across this little known add in for Adium, the all IM utility for the MacIntosh. After you install the Adium GizmoProject add in, you get almost full GizmoProject functionality. Yesterday Om was omming … Read more
Om has turned me on to a new way to blog. It’s browser based and works with Firefox. I’ll be experimenting with Performancing for Firefox over the next few days and will see how well it works.
Mark Evans has a nice recap on how Vonage raised another 250 million this week. Give the company credit. They sure must have one heck of a road show presentation. And 1.2 million customers is nothing too shabby. Obviously they do something right. While I may question their operating style sometimes, and am skeptical about … Read more
When Packet8 won the BellSouth trial VoIP program, they weren’t the Southeastern US’ first choice. Reports I’ve heard indicate that Broadvoice had the deal pretty much sown up, until some internal changes last summer and other machinations caused BellSouth to take a look elsewhere.
