The long rumoured SKYPE API has been announced. My gut says a cottage industry of Skype add ons will be springing up, much like what has occured around eBay. Already I hear of VoiceMail service in place (I think I signed up for a trial) and other advanced features. The key here is who makes … Read more
Om got the friendly jump on this unsettling story about two California cities trying to impose tariffs on VoIP and get some money from them. The folks at VoicePulse, a company I like, have a right to be concerned. I’m planning on digging into this more but don’t be surprised if the cable companies or … Read more
The always enjoyable to read PaidContent.org has a interesting series of posts related to how confusing the media and telco markets are about to become. For a long time I’ve said that the next media powerhouses are the RBOC’s, once they figure out how not to be caught up in utility think. If they look … Read more
In what is another entry in the converged device universe, Linksys and Vonage have announced the release of a combined WiFi, router, access point and Vonage telephone adapter. This appears to be the same product with a different product code that BestBuy already offers from CallVantage. I’ve e-mailed Vonage spokesperson Mitchell Slepian to ascertain if … Read more
Another leading online etailer, Buy.com has jumped on the VoIP sales train with CallVantage. CallVantage now has Amazon.com, TigerDirect and Buy.com selling the service as well as a direct sales model online, in addition to some of the better retailers. The relationship works in both directions as the links above show that you can find … Read more
Give Jeff Pulver the credit he deserves, he clearly looks out for more than himself in VoIP. While Pulver’s company develops their own services and solutions in addition to VON, he clearly gets that being interested in what’s best for everyone in the VOIP space is more important than just his business. Today he brought … Read more
Yes, that is me next to Microsoft Blogger Robert Scobble. What, did you think I would be next to an PSTN telco dude? Searles blog has more photos from BloggerCon. My pic for coolest babe at the BloggerCon…Mia from SixApart. She’s smart, hot and knows how to MoBlog.
Tell me what readers don’t already know. As a long time believer that the future is WiFi handoff by cellphones when the connection is better, I’m not at all surprised to see the ongoing development of interoperability and interaction. Already the products are arriving ahead of the standards and the carriers are deploying them or … Read more
When AT&T announced they were downsizing and heading to VoIP Wall Street noticed. So now SBC has done the same thing but instead of being smart like Dave Dorman was and say they have a VoIP strategy to head towards, SBC just blames the new emerging technology as well as cellular as reasons why customers … Read more
South Africa has been one of the coutries that has been fighting the arrival of VoIP for many years. While the country has a very advanced wireless community, the incumbents have been keeping PSTN rather closed off. Well, times are changing. Smart business executives are bringing VoIP to the bottom of the dark continent and … Read more
