Personal Skype Out

A San Jose company has developed and released a Personal Phone Gateway (PPG) and software that enables automatic routing of Skype to Skype calls to a designated PSTN number, serving as a call forwarding agent for the call recipient with a specified phone number. Geekzone posted it first. But there is more to this PPG … Read more

EuroTelcoBlog on Next Step for Popular Telephony’s Peerio

James Enck who watches everything telco in Europe from his perch at Daiwa Securities points out the ongoing success of Popular Telephony. James has pointed out how Popular Telephony has successfully signed another significant player in the VoIP building block world. His insight from London should be followed closely.

More On Verisign with VoIP

Jonathan points to an expanded viewpoint on the Verisign VoIP play. We all need to watch Verisign closely. They are very smart but have done things before that can be control freak in nature. Google them.

Boingo Your Next Phone Network

Over two years ago a team I was part of approached Boingo with the idea of blending Webley IP with WiFi at Boingo locations. It’s good to see that it took them two years to figure out what we knew then can now work. The key was we were too early and the technology to … Read more

More Support for VoWireless

I use Voice over Wireless all the time, especially when traveling. By making use of the great sound card in my laptop, a quality headset and either the SMC travel router or the Linskys wireless router and a softphone and I make all the calls that way I can from the comfort of a relaxing … Read more

Keating On WiMax

I am full agreement with Keatings view on the whole subject of WiMax and AT&T. If you look at AT&T’s efforts the last year they are migrating away from the traditional telco type business and looking at where access will be in the future in order to keep traffic on their managed network.

Is Telecom Dead?

The folks from Skype would say it is. I say no. It’s evolving via revolutionary companies like Skype, SipPhone, Popular Telephony. All are run by seriel start up visionaries. All seek to change the old way something has been done. That doesn’t mean telecom is dead. Even AT&T is evolving. The move from PSTN centricity … Read more

8×8 Gets Fierce

Congratulatons to the folks at 8 x 8 who made the Fierce 15. For those who don’t know Fierce, they are a news aggregator that puts out annual “best of” lists. They have decided to add a VoIP Fierce report which brings even more legitimacy to the space.