Business Week on Skype

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Business Week has a detailed story about Skype. Largely a rehash of what is already known and written about here and on GigaOm.

VoiceGlo Update 2.0

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VoiceGlo is seeking to be the world’s largest PBX. Today they announced new features to GloPhone, the web based application that lets people make calls. While this is ultimately a stock play for the major investors, you have to give credit to the GloPhone folks for trying to get traction and build a major proof … Read more

voipreview.org sells VoIP

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A site called VoIPReview.org is seeking to gain traffic to drive customer towards VoIP adoption. Some of the good features it includes community tools where users of many VoIP services can interact with one another in the forums, and where they can critique the services. The most valuable feature is the comparative features section which … Read more

ZD Net On Covad’s Future

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ZDNet/CNET have a very detailed view on Covad’s future, much of which is being pegged to their VoIP rollout tied to their GoBeam acquisition. The all stock deal that happened last spring provided Covad with a voice play to take to their business customers. So why is Speakeasy.net, one of Covad’s largest resellers pushing the … Read more

Cox and Time Warner Merge Ad Sales In San Diego

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Yesterday Cox Communications announced the creation of an ad sales interconnect in San Diego with Time Warner Cable. What they didn’t announce is that Time Warner Cable late last week reportedly informed their San Diego cable ad sales staff that they were no longer needed and was shutting down the entire ad sales operation in … Read more

Talk About Burn Rate

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GiagOm Malik drew my attention to this AdWeek story about Vonage and their pursuit of new marketing services agencies. If I do the math right, given current numbers and if the proposed budget is correct, Vonage is expending $375 per customer in marketing expense before you add in the cost of the ATA and shipping, … Read more

Eurotelcoblog on VoIP Adoption in Europe

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James Enck in his excellent blog on the Euro Telco scene has reported on the rapid uptake of VoIP in Amsterdam. For the company that is getting a better than one in five conversion from PSTN to VoIP that is clearly the harbinger of things to come.

Covad’s PBX Serving More Markets

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If any company is seeking to establish their place in the PBX replacement market using VoIP it has to be Covad with their announcement today of number of markets sold. The product they are offering is a result of their acquisition of GoBeam. Given their business penetration with DSL this is looking more and more … Read more

AT&T Has Olympic Dreams for Call Vantage

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In what is not a surprise to me (I commented on this months ago on KenRadio.com’s World Technology Roundup using our Crystal Ball and the Wayback Travel Machine) AT&T is using their position as a global sponsor of the 2004 Olympics to propel CallVantage into the family market. When the Olympics begin so too will … Read more