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I’ll be in Florida in late January for the Internet Telephony conference. I’m happy to see the airport I’ll be flying into has free WiFi.

Right now it’s an arms race and if you’re a VC, then you’re an arms merchant. Find the innovative company, offer something different. Give either Yahoo or Microsoft an edge and watch the phone and cash register ring. You see, the market is clamoring for more than “me too, me also.” They want “me different.” … Read more

The Atlanta Journal Constitution ran a story over the weekend, first reported here on VoIPWatch on Friday about the new BellSouth VoIP service being offered that is powered by 8×8’s Packet 8 platform. It seems that BellSouth does not appear to be fully wedded to Packet 8 yet, judging by the comment made in the … Read more

Back in the late summer/early fall David Sparks of eWeek checked in to get my views on Skype. For some reason the story just ran in eWeek. These comments were all given prior to the eBay acquisition of it.

As if Skype didn’t have enough to worry about with Yahoo, now it seems their lack of any real technical infrastructure and their so called “super nodes” an issue in my book. Anyway what I’ve noticed is that of late Skype is not acting like an IM client, but more like a store and forward … Read more

My ninth grade world history teacher, Royal Black, a regal African American if I ever met one, and also an amazing teacher, was the first person to ever use the line to me ‘history always repeats.’ Like my college freshman Economics 1 professor Dr. McKenna who said “short term loss, long term gain” Anyway, in … Read more

Check out PhoneBoy’s comments about this past week’s VoIP news.

Stuart is feeling ready. Stowe wants to be inventive. I’m seeking to redefine how the public and the media are communicated with. We’re all doing it through the concept of blogging first, or in more generic speak, new media communications, and thus we are all modern day communicators.