Jonathan Greene who blogs on many things digital has a viewpoint on his blog about Skype complainers. For the record Jonathan and I had a Skype call last night, first on my laptop with a Labtec mic, then on the Pocket PC using Skype 1.0. The quality on both was fine, with the laptop near … Read more
Now this is cool. It’s not VoIP related but this is so, so sweet. The folks who make TypePad, Six Apart and Nokia have teamed up to enable Mobile blogging easily. So yesterday after seeing the demo at DemoMobile 2004 I rushed to the booth and had a chat with Nokia’s Charlie Schick and Mena, … Read more
A spokeperson from Skype indicated that video is one of the directions Skype is looking. A second direction, with a more humanitarian view is finding a way to create a cashless economy that enables some nationals (i.e. China) to be able to use the Skype Out service without the ability to use their own currency. … Read more
XTEN’s EYEBEAM Video over VoIP is now live according to SipThat, a blog from the XTEN founder. I think it would be cool to have XTEN be interoperable with Packet 8’s Video Phone.
This is truly FUD. Maybe it works in Hong Kong, but it won’t fly here. VoIP causing outages. Okay. An so do routers. Sleeping engineers. Rats chewing up cables. Or just someone pulling the plug out. Does anyone really beleive that this is all PCCW being asleep at the switch and letting competitors out the … Read more
This isn’t VoIP but Good Technologies Goodlink 3.0 showed the XDA 3 from HTC. Reports are Siemens will remarket the XDA 3 if Cingular opts to carry it. Hopefully T-Mobile grabs it. The product, which features WiFi would be a much better Skype or Vonage Softphone platform to work from.
Om Malik on his newly relaunched VoIPDaily has a note about Lingo offering 7 digit dialing. The key is if it recignizes caller ID for call return. That’s a pet peeve I have with many of the VoIP carriers. I can call the long distance caller back, but the local person in my area code, … Read more
Skype is at DemoMobile 2004 in La Jolla today. They passed out a press release in the press room about Skype on the Pocket PC featuring WiFi and SkypeOut so calls can terminate to PSTN. The key is the aspect that Skype Out will be part of the 1.0 release. Add Skype out to a … Read more
A report from the Dell’Oro shows VoIP revenues increasing all along the food chain. Clearly this is just the start of the VoIP explosion as more countries begin to allow it, and more carriers embrace it.
Yak has introduced a VoIP service platform to compete with the likes of Vonage. What I’m most interested is how the price of $19.99 a month seems to be where most of the carriers are landing. I think that’s about right and fully expect to see add-ons down the road being added to the price … Read more
