Filipino’s Looking At VoIP

The Philippines, one of the heaviest users of SMS my be one step closer to legally receiving VoIP. Certainly, the broadband online crowd would be looking forward to VoIP as right now only congressionally approved carriers can offer voice services there.

California May Terminate PSTN

A report making the rounds in California’s state capitol suggests that Governator Arnold switch to open source and VoIP. In an era where being a good corporate citizen is such an important thing, I don’t get why such outspoken leaders like John Chambers of Cisco, Scott McNealy of Sun, Dr. Irwin Jacobs of Qualcomm, Carly … Read more

Om On Outage

Om Malik’s GigaOm, my favorite blog to read for candid and witty insight that deeply views IT, Telecom and the impact on both society and finances looks at Vonage and says…. I published my thoughts on his comments board, but at the end of the day, Vonage needs to solve this problem.

Wall Street Journal On Take That VoIP and Go

Here’s a story I can relate to in the Wall Street Journal. It’s about taking your VoIP with you, something I think I was one of the first to document and prove last November when I did the daily “World Technology Roundup” from my broadband enabled hotels in Paris and London, a Vonage ATA and … Read more

Vonage Down, What Happened

According to Brooke Schulz, VP, Corporate Communications at Vonage here’s what happened today: “A facility went down that serviced a few areas: Boston, Milwaukee, Greensboro and Pittsburgh. I was told by our engineers it was affecting inbound calls to those areas only. Our website was failed over to another carrier as well. People were getting … Read more

CNET On Port Blocking

CNET has followed up on my post a few weeks back about Port Blocking. My gut says port blocking is a bigger issue than people know, and many chalk it up to their own lack of tech knowledge. Last year Cox Communications blocked Port 25 to combat spam. It really didn’t work, as Cox servers … Read more

Business Week on Skype

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

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