It seems Rich has been talking to someone who doesn’t know better. Most merger negotiations carry with them an intended high degree of confidentiality, especially if one of the companies is publicly traded. In revealing the fact that he’s hearing from an associate of an investment banker involved in the negotiations Rich has put this … Read more
Pal and CEO of client iotum Alec Saunders has not one, but two outstanding reviews about PhoneGnome. Now that I’ve purchased some new cordless phones to hook up to mine I know my usage will increase a lot. I’ve been using the PhoneGnome with Junction Networks as my ITSP, but recently the PhoneGnome folks signed … Read more
Mobile Mag has a review of the Zyxel Prestige 2000. Overall, after using one for a few months I tend to agree with the report. My main concern has been battery life and sound quality. While better in both worlds than the original release, there still is a long way to go for these devices … Read more
Client Popular Telephony scored a nice mention about Peerio in a story in Internet.com’s VoIP Planet today. As the VoIP 2.0 story starts to unfold I think you will see more of Peerio and what it is able to do, how it works and who’s lining with Popular Telephony.
Glenn, who knows all about WiFi has an interesting post today comparing the views of the Wall Street Journal and New York Times on that subject. I’ve added my thoughts for you to hear via Slawsome. BoingBoing also has some thoughts on the matter.
Months ago I speculated to a Wall Street sell side analyst that Vonage’s ideal suitor was Bell South. Everyone told me I was nuts. Then in mid summer Rich Tehrani speculated Bell South was going to buy Vonage. People started saying he was nut. Even I began to question it. Now Om is weighing in … Read more
Jeff Pulver is wondering why now for the Yahoo/MSN IM interoperability.
The official announcement of the YAHOO/MSN IM interoperability moved over the wire earlier today. According to the conference call things like one single ID between both services will be all you need and yes, it will provide VoIP calls between both IM client’s users. Initially this is going to be PC to PC according to … Read more
It seems Linksys likes to eat away at the Cisco business at every chance they can. First they bought Sipura, a move which I’ve heard has caused some internal indigestion. I’m also hearing from some of my Enterprise business contatcts that Linksys may have plans on the drawing board to release a PBX like system … Read more
A new Nokia mobile phone, the E60, has an embedded SIP client in it. That’s great news for companies like BridgePort Networks, as they are out promoting the idea of mobile network traffic being easily routed over an IP network that can terminate on a SIP endpoint. Phones like the E60 will likely be hot … Read more
