Details are slowly leaking out about Yahoo Messenger’s new features and more importantly pricing. As intimated yesterday the new package goes right down the throats of rival eBay’s Skype offering. Ovum, a UK based telecom analyst firm has take a slightly different spin, questioning Yahoo’s direction. In reading the closing paragraph it seems the author, … Read more
Earlier this week I was part of a group of bloggers who were briefed after the journalists were informed about the upcoming–no official date-release of the next phase of the Diallpad acquisitions integration into Yahoo Messenger and what it means. Yesterday I received a few calls about this from reporters sniffing around. How they knew … Read more
I actually discussed this exact subject last week with Skype USA GM Henry Gomez. Gomez feels eBay’s past and present practices with Adult content will let them manage this type of content. I’m not so sure. The Skype community is global, all ages and encrypted. The fact that it’s encrypted means no one can (or … Read more
In all fairness, Mark Evans started the Skype questioning going. Others, including me, have just picked up the ball. Today the Globe and Mail makes a comment about the current state of affairs.
SunRocket has announced a very low price to gain customers. Less than $10.00 a month. But you get what you pay for. In the past Sun Rocket has had network capacity and infrastructure issues. In fairness to the marketing driven company, those issues were caused more by the lack of capacity on the network side … Read more
Vonage has announced their plans for CES and in the media advisory that went out today indicated that they’ll enable attendees to make free phone calls in 13 phone booths set up throughout the Las Vegas Convention Center (LVCC). Vonage is claiming the “distinction of being the first company to set up phone booths at … Read more
The Detroit Free Press’ Mike Wendland has some viewpoints about Skype, Skype Video and VoIP. One of the issues I think Mike’s seeing and commenting on is the state of what is called broadband in the USA. I’m beginning to call it shared bandwidth or to make it more graphic, the party line of broadband. … Read more
I had a very enlightening chat with new Skype GM-USA Henry Gomez. This guy is sharp. Don’ sell him short folks. He’s got really good instincts, is well spoken and wants to grow the business if given the tool and the time. He also energetic about the task at hand and having basically a start-up … Read more
Om Malik has made a lot of outstanding points in this post about Skype in a slightly critical manner. The last few days I’ve been spending a lot of time talking to past, current and very closely aligned Skype people. The assembly and assimilation of facts isn’t pretty. First a well seasoned investment banker, from … Read more
Om blogs insightfully about the takeover of 2Wire, a significant move that seems to be led by the AT&T/SBC crowd and Alcatel. My guess is ex Probe research analyst lead Hilary Mine was a part of this play. She’s always had good insight about the way Carlos Slim, SBC and now that she’s at Alcatel … Read more
