I saw the Motorola Ojo during CES and compared to the Packet8 Videophone it was an advancement in home and office video phone technology. The call quality was far better than P8 and it had a sharp design, and the marketing muscle of Motorola. That said, I kept going back to the primary line of … Read more
Tom Evslin has another interesting post about the way to create a new network. I like his comment about ICQ. According to folks in Israel who know the founders, they had to settle for 400 million from AOL. They were running out of cash on their side and had no way to keep the servers … Read more
Did Cisco make a blunder when they bought leading SIP developers Dynamicsoft? That’s the indication if you read between the lines beneath Austrian ENUM pundit Richard Stastny writes in his post he may be onto to something. A few weeks back I said that companies should not be religious about their technology. The same goes … Read more
Ex Frost and Sullivan Analyst Jon Arnold has some final thoughts on VoN Canada, with a focus on Telus. On the subject of analysts, I keep hearing rumors that Probe Research has died a quiet death. One of my favorite VoIP analysts, and sometimes wine drinking pal, Danny Klein has left Yankee Group. Seems right … Read more
The unconfirmed Qualcomm aspects of this post in Gizmodo aside, Firetide, whose mesh WiFi technology is second to none of what I’ve seen and used, has invaded Europe and the VoIP aspects of having FireTide in the network makes for a hot concept. Firetide is one of those companies that makes technology that works. When … Read more
James at the end of a post about a Skype install/uninstall issue, has drawn attention to a novel idea, Skype On a Stick. VoIP on a Stick isn’t a new idea, and actually, I’ve had conversations with other telecom folks on this exact subject with client Popular Telephony. In my mind, and I’m sort of … Read more
When Skype Journal started out it was just Stuart and then he added other writers. So when Martin Geddes, who is in the top five of “he’s too darn smart” category of VoIP bloggers, took a look at a recent post over there he just mashed it. In many ways Martin is correct. Features that … Read more
Hat tip to Tom Keating at TMC and Internet Telephony magazine for this one. There is no doubt in my mind that Clearwire plans to introduce a phone service. The question is what they introduce and when. If you recall, Clearwire founder Craig McCaw’s roots are in mobile phones with what became AT&T Wireless and … Read more
When everyone gets excited about Vonage and their half a million subscribers, they don’t hold a candle to the world’s largest Broadband Phone company. What’s really interesting in the story is how the folks over in Japan marketed and got people hooked on IP telephony, long before it was in vogue on a global basis. … Read more
In a post that could turn into a battle of the blog titans, Om “The Bombay Bomber” weighs in against “Knight of Newcastle” Martin Geddes in differing views of Skype versus SIP. But as the Skype world gets bigger at some point some telcos better start to take them seriously. While Martin’s points sort of … Read more
