I didn’t say it. Leo did. I thought it, and Leo got me really thinking. Skype is thinking already they’re Microsoft when it comes to bug fixes, i.e. they are just fixing them with an update, and not saying anything about it themselves. If they are going to be as aggressive with news and announcements, … Read more
Budding CNBC TV star Om Malik laid the smack down on Siemens today for their masterful PR flub regarding the Skype adapter. It seems his call to Siemens PR yielded the response he posted here. Skype doesn’t have to feel the heat though. Their PR team is pretty good and the news release of November … Read more
If you’re using Skype, it’s sure time to upgrade to the latest version. The folks at Secunia have pegged this a threat, much like the exploits that affect Internet Explorer. Andy says–get the latest version and also, make sure your antivirus is up to snuff.
Tom Keating has a good point about bandwidth shaping. I think that a lot of what is happening so far is done at the network level, with only AT&T’s CallVantage publicly saying they are doing the packet prioritization at the telephone adapter level, which is why they prefer the TA to be in front of … Read more
CallWave, a longtime player in the Voice services business has added Level3 as a key supplier. Level 3 keeps picking up deals like this with customer facing companies. This does not immediately mean that Level 3 will see rapid growth, but to companies like Speakeasy and Callwave it means they can outsource the bulk of … Read more
I think it’s only a matter of time for VoWiFI to really take hold and feel that the biggest sellers of VoWiFI will be one of two types of companies–the cable operators or the mobile operators. Here’s why. Access to the customers. The mobile operators have storefronts, agents and already mail to their customers or … Read more
As someone who wants less devices installed in my house, largely to reduce the cable clutter and the draw on electric power, I’m always happy to see when a company rolls out the production of a combined device like Motorola is out in Taiwan that blends Cable Modem and VoIP technology that’s part of the … Read more
General Dynamics and SAIC are locked in a battle for the US Military’s new Command and Control infrastructure that will be very much IP protocol based. And VoIP will be a part of it according to the sidebar to a story about C&C. Reports continue to swirl from VoIPNuke’s Skibare about Level3 hammering hard for … Read more
Declan McCullugh, CNET’s guy in D.C. has a very good story on the impacts of the recent presidential election, VoIP, the FCC and the reason things are the way the are. In the end he says that the recent FCC was about as good as it could possible get. I agree.
I remember when ICG was a rising company during the height of the dot.com bubble, and then they burst. Well, now, like the Phoenix, they are making their play to grow again. Don’t rule them out because they have experience and a proven platform. Now after shedding some unproductive or non core assets they are … Read more
