Whose Got The Power? Not The RBOC’s !

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With all the news about the hurricanes in Florida this one almost slipped by…..but not quite as it’s the kind of story that the RBOC’s hope you didn’t read. You see, The Wall Street Journal’s Peter Grant just blew a lunar crater size hole into the RBOC’s ongoing FUD (Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt) when it … Read more

Another Video Phone Hits The Market

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If you dig gadgits then Engadgit is the site to visit. That’s where I found the news about this new Amstrad videophone. While this phone is not yet ready for broadband, it hopefully will be, and WiFi enabled.

More On VoIP in Canada

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The National Post in Canada has a story about the overall impact of VoIP in Canada. One point they make is that a research company claims VoIP has 15,000 users in Canada. Another is the fear of teh rise of the cable companies as telcos in Canada. Canada is a great market to conduct trials … Read more

Om on IAX vs. SIP

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Om has a very important post about IAX vs. SIP but he should have asked me. A few years back I served as the USA consultant for an Israeli softswitch company, Comgates which has since been acquired by another telephony company. While Comgates didn’t ever reach their vision of founder Jacob Tirosh, one point that … Read more

Aswath on VoIP Forwarding Numbers

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Aswath who regularly posts comments to the VoIPWatch blog and emails me from time to time has an interesting perspective and has done some fact finding out about the new Virtual numbers via VoIP that are popping up all over the place. First, I don’t think the market is as global as it is local … Read more

DingoTel

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Tom Keating and Keith Bare both drew my attention to DingoTel They are being rather cryptic about their efforts but clearly taking a shot at Skype with the line on their software page about P2P telephony where the say “The DingoTel™ Network allows users to connect directly to one another without going through a central … Read more

Business Week on Apple and VoIP

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Give the Skype folks credit for knowing how to weave their way into the media at every angle, but this story is more about the Mac and it becoming a telephony device of major proportion. As a reformed Mac user (i.e. I used to use a Mac) I always enjoyed how easy they were to … Read more