I’m hearing through the grapevine that there is the strong possibility that as early as tomorrow Yahoo and MSN will be even closer than ever. The two have been getting rather cozy in the area of Instant Messaging. Now it seems within the next days or so the two will announce interoperability between IM clients, … Read more
I saw the USA Today story about AT&T’s new way to insure that nomadic VoIP users stay safe. Overall I have to like the idea on face because when the Vonage 911 fiascos hit I actually suggested something very similar to AT&T’s PR team when I was looking around for other viewpoints on what had … Read more
I have had an Ojo, Motorola’s Video Phone here at the house waiting to be hooked up. The problem had been that in order to use it, one needs both a phone line and a broadband connection versus the Packet8 video VoIP phone that needs only the latter. First problem. My house’s phone jacks and … Read more
I have some very specific thoughts on the recent public spat between Level3 and Cogent. Much of what I think and know was said on the Friday KenRadio World Technology Roundup. Basically I’ll outline them here and then update with links later. 1. Cogent took a page out of the Crisis Management 101 playbook in … Read more
New Beta program for Instant Messenger with enhanced Voice and Video. Supporting SIP, XMPP, AOL, MSN, Yahoo & GoogleTalk! In an effort to build the world’s best IM client Eyeball Networks is reaching out to technically savvy end-users. Those of you who are sick to death of Instant Messenger products which are not interoperable and … Read more
Every time I suggest that Sprint is a possible buyer of Vonage I get laughed at. Well, now Business Week postulates that same idea. Besides customers, the only thing Vonage has is marketing know-how that got them to where they are. That marketing know how is largely based on “SPEND THE MONEY” but there’s no … Read more
Covad announced today they are buying NextWeb giving them an instant entree into three markets, San Francisco, Las Vegas and Los Angeles. Om had everyone beat on this one with some of the details on Sunday. Over the past year Covad has reengineered their acquisition of GoBeam so it works. Now with this acquisition and … Read more
In a late breaking bulletin, SprintNextel has announced a patent infringement suit against Vonage and TheGlobe for VoiceGlo. Sprint alleges that the two entities willfully infringed seven patents relating to voice over packet technology developed by Sprint Nextel. Vonage and TheGlobe have yet to respond. This announcement comes right ahead of VoiceGlo saying they have … Read more
Jeff and his FWD team have been hard at work revamping FWD. I’m expecting great things from this effort as I’m hearing some smart companies are beginning to line up with Jeff and his crew. When you think about it, many of the so called innovations in Skype were pre-dated by FWD (then called Free … Read more
I’ll be blogging less the next few days. Alec Saunders of iotum is coming to visit and give me the low down on their new application and chart a course for future growth around their killer app. I of course plan on sharing my wine collection and show Alec a few of San Diego’s better … Read more
