During the fall VON I was asked by Jeremy Wagstaff, Far East Asia columnist for the Wall Street Journal, to give him some insight about VoIP. Since I’m a regular reader and sometimes comment poster on Jeremy’s blog, LooseWire I was elated to be able to be the authority in his story. Once the WSJ … Read more
Port-of-call: Libretel’s flat-rate incoming 1-800 service Leonardo has a note about Port Of Call, the service from one of Jeff Pulver’s companies. I’ve actually used PoC to retrieve voice mail when I’m in London from my CallVantage Voice Mail service. It works as advertised. Just remember when using a cell phone to have DTMF turned on.
I have installed an interesting application – BlogJet. It’s a cool Windows client for my blog tool (as well as for other tools). Get your copy here: http://blogjet.com What I like about it most of all is that BlogJet actually includes a Spell Checker. I admit, I’m not the best typist, and sometimes my proofreading … Read more
Everyone who has asked me about Vonage rolling out in the U.K. can now rest easy. Given they have linked with Tesco, a large supermarket retail operator, they have fired a shot for global telephony branding in the right direction.
Of late I’ve had the blogging blahs…there is so much out there, but given the holiday season, it’s a bit slower for me and I’m a tad distracted. I’ve also had a back up system failure. The reliable Mirra box seemed to develop a bug, my system last week was hit by a Virus that … Read more
Covad has announced that they have service available in more than 900 cities nationwide. Given their footprint they are sure to become a bigger player next year.
HTC, considered the best assemblers of tiny devices like the PDA phone that is marketed by many wireless carriers really wants to piss off their customers in the cell phone business–THE CARRIERS. They want to bundle in Skype with Microsoft Smartphones. I think Microsoft may be concerned too, but not that much. For Skype to … Read more
Packet8 gets to the heart of the matter this holiday season. Kids. And they’re making sure that the kids who find themselves inside Childrens Hospital in cities around the United States don’t miss the chance to virtually see Santa Claus thanks to their videophone service. My view though remains that if companies which are thinking … Read more
The IT Observer asks if Skype is the Google of VoIP. I say it’s the eBay of Voice with all that is springing up around Skype.
Could an alliance between AT&T and Intel be world changing? When you think about it, Intel has chips inside just about everything that is Technology. Sure they have competition from TI, Broadcom and Qualcomm to name a few in the telecom space, but while none of those companies have an alliance with a state of … Read more
