The last few days were rather quiet on the Skype Hype front. It seems my first gut reaction about Skype Was right and only over thinking caused a shift. I still view the Skype team as master marketers who played the game to the fullest and have won with eBay making the acquisition. A payout … Read more
With everyone getting into VoIP I don’t know why there isn’t any effort on Apples part to embed SIP into iChat. Already the iSight is one of the best mics (forget the video which is the best out there) and the PowerBook is so easy and audio friendly that it makes total sense. Erik points … Read more
On Thursday I presented to about 150 people at a large household name that shall remain nameless. One of my comments seems to have leaked out as pal Alec Saunders seems to be on the same wavelength about video phones.
News reports from around the globe point to China Telecom reportedly blocking Skype Out. Port blocking remains in my mind one of the biggest challenges all new technology providers have as the incumbents still have the ability and power to try and stop them.
LightReading and Om seem to have the scoop as best of anyone on the day plus SunRocket outage. I’m a bit skeptical about the growth and demand causing the outage as that kind of stuff was AOL circa the mid nineties and network folks seem to plan for those type of things now ten plus … Read more
I posted early yesterday on the Ebay/Skype rumor asking if eBay was buying Skype. As I thought it through more during my morning with a company I was presenting to I realized just what may have been going on. Michael Bezeley of the San Jose Mercury News caught me between meetings by phone and I … Read more
Users of VoIP via a softphone may want to stay at Hilton’s in the UK. It seems they have put broadband in every room and made the public areas wireless. One of the key reasons seems to be VoIP.
It seems AOL and now Sony want to get into the same space as XTEN, iNeen, Yahoo and Sightspeed with desktop video all before Skype does. While I think there is a place for desktop video, I don’t think videophones are a hot sector. At $35 a month the Sony offer is a bit pricey.
Google Grabs Vin Cerf. Internet News has comments and an interview.
If IP service providers and carriers ever wanted a friend to drive more content through their dumb pipe they may have found it in Skype. In what should start of a feeding frenzy between bandwidth carriers wanting to have more of the traffic that Skype will generate, today’s announcement about a Voice and Content Marketplace … Read more
