According to ZDNet: Forrester surveyed 1,132 online US households to gauge their awareness and interest in services based on VOIP technology. 43% of our respondents had heard of VoIP before taking the survey, with word of mouth as the biggest driver of awareness at 23%. But awareness did not translate into sales because a mere … Read more
FileForum has a new Skype for Windows. This version supports Skype In. Did you get your number yet? Skype In is a rather interesting value. For 42 dollars roughly a year, you get a PSTN reachable phone number and Skype Voice mail. Thats a huge value. The only rub is you pre-pay. You can also … Read more
Skype’s Help section can be a plethora of information. A loyal reader in the UK sent along a note about SkypeIN. While I have yet to verify that In is Out, certainly the details are emerging. Do a little noodling around Skype’s help and see what I mean. Here’s what he passed on to me: … Read more
Rich had a few minutes to sit in on part of the Blogging Panel at VON. I appreciate the kudos and his recognition of the creative approach I took. I’ll have to come up with a gimmick for the next one, if Pulver’s folks invite me back.
In IP Inferno: VON Panel, the Sequel, ex Wired reporter Dan Brekke provides an excellent summary of the panel I had the pleasure of moderating. I’ll add more later as I’m off to another day of VON.
Vonage has joined up with Verisign to make it easier for law enforcement agencies to listen in on your calls. Oh, can you hear David Bowie singing "1984" and George Orwell saying, "see, I was right." Maybe they need to bring back the Apple Super Bowl commercial.
Level3 didn’t really do much at VON. Sure they offered briefings, but the most striking impression they left me with was the two clowns they had outside the main exhibition hall, one of whom was doing a very bad impression of Max Headroom. And I can judge that, you see, the original Max was played … Read more
LCS…..yawn… I went to the Microsoft booth yesterday, and like so many first releases from Microsoft, the Live Communications Server was a lot of fancy perfume, sexy lipstick and a nice dress, but it was still underage and not ready to play with the boys, even though it really wants to. Nothing was groundbreaking. Nothing … Read more
Om Malik kicked my *** last Saturday over breakfast, right in front of my fiance, saying how I’ve been slacking off. And you know what, he was right. I guess the amount of time I’ve been taking in my personal life, professional life and social life has all amounted to my being less the blogger/journalist … Read more
One of the members of the Blogger Army at VON, who also was on my panel, was James Seng, who brings a very Asian perspective to VoIP and Telco related matters. His coverage of VON is quite extensive. While I’ve been organizing media and analysts briefings (some 20+ in all) for my client over three … Read more
