Why go to VON? The people. Jeff Pulver has been able to breathe life back into the conference industry, which is no easy feat. So while the Red Sox winning the ALCS has taken the town over, the people who have come to VON have made this a great event for me. Bloggers. Clients. Former … Read more
Computerworld has an article on the changing telecom business focusing on Skype. When you add in companies like Popular Telephony who were profiled in Business 2.0 by Om Malik, you begin to see a new concept coming alive. It’s not disintermediation of the telephony. I call it reintermediation. Here’s why. These companies are not seeking … Read more
Phone Plus has a report about the rapidly growing VoWiFi market. First there may be something new about the Net2Phone WiFi handset compared to the Pulver Innovations unit and the Zyxel Presige that has been out for over six months. According to one of the Net2Phone folks the the firmware is different. As a service … Read more
Just read it This is better than I could have done given my time was all taken with meetings. I am so happy Martin captured the essensce of what is going on, being said and how VoN looks.
I can’t see the Sun. There’s no Apple in my eye. Guess neither have a VoIP play. Yahoo is all over the place with a few ranking executives. Macromedia is here too walking the floor. But AOL who is going to roll out a dial up VoIP product via Level3 is nowhere to be heard….
Hiawatha Bray, technology pundit for the Boston Globe is working on a story about Jeff Pulver and the growth of VoIP. I wish Hiawatha would have asked me for the skinny on Jeff. My sidekick on the World Technology RoundUp Ken Rutkowski used to host an online radio show with Jeff called Voices On the … Read more
Back in what was the Spring or Early Summer I posted that Speakeasy was going with the Level 3 solution over Covad’s Go Beam based platform. Seems I was early, but right on given today’s announcement.
I could spend all day at VoN and get nothing done while at the same time get so much accomplished. It’s the kind of show where one meeting leads into another, some unexpected and others necessary. I spent the morning with Wall Street Journal Asia Contributing Editor Jeremy Wagstaff walking the floor of VoN. A … Read more
The folks at Pulver.com have released the public version of the Pulver Communicator. Based on my trials of the beta this is a rather useful and easy to use product. The blending of Free World Dial Up with Instant Messaging across platforms is very valuable.
Jonathan found a red hot item that is really blue, but called black. It seems RIM is adding VoIP their next generation of Blackberry PDAs…..YES !
