In case you’re not getting enough VOIP information and insight here, Techcentralstation.com has launched VOIPCentral, a news and opinion aggregation site. While it’s got a nice format, I much prefer Om Malik’s VoIP Daily. Not only does he link back here from time to time but he gets the stories I miss. His candor and … Read more
8×8 NASDAQ: EGHT), the parent company of Packet8, has regularly been the subject of e-mails to me from some shareholders who feel that their marketing is rather anemic in light of all that Vonage and AT&T are doing. I tended to agree, for they have not really reached out to the media and embraced them … Read more
While this post has nothing to do with VoIP, it does have everything to do with mobility, as in my mind, the two are interrelated. Yesterday morning, I boarded an AMTRAK train north to Santa Barbara from suburban San Diego’s Solana Beach station. The journey, about five hours, is no more in time than driving … Read more
The battle over whether or not VoIP is a service or an application delivered over the Internet is gearing up in the United States’ Congress. eWeek’s article provides a nice backdrop and helps clarify a situation that will only get murkier. Here’s why. First the FCC is really not making decisions around VoIP, despite the … Read more
While I’ve never jumped on the Linksys bandwagon, I do own one of their wireless routers that I use when I travel to Europe as it has the European adapter. I’m anxiously awaiting their entry into the VOIP space, which as the CNET interview points out, is something they are clearly aiming for. With their … Read more
Reports in BoardWatch are that Skype is working with the current parent of Kazaa to integrate a file sharing on a P2P basis. Ouch. That could be the fastest way to get the regulators into the fray once copyrighted content starts being moved back and forth, in my opinion.
Yesterday the FCC issued a very narrow decision effecting AT&T (NYSE: T). Given all the hype about VoIP and AT&T’s new service, AT&T CallVantage(sm) Service which is consumer broadband phone service (VoIP), it would be easy to link the FCC’s decision and apply it to AT&T CallVantage. That would be totally, wrong! The decision is … Read more
A coalition of academics and librarians have taken a “friend of the court” approach to the FCC when it comes to the ever advancing desires of the FBI and other law enforcement organizations to be able to wiretap. It should come as no surprise, as the community is largely liberal in heart and mind, providing … Read more
Analysis Research says VOIP is hot and it will grow. So to tell us something we may not know they go out on a very fat and sturdy limb and make a projection: According to Analysys forecasts, by 2008, VoIP penetration is expected to reach 17% of broadband-enabled households (growing from under 1 million at … Read more
Net2Phone (NASDAQ: NTOP) a long time pioneer in the VoIP space, and a company which always has innovated, has become the first of the SIP based VoIP companies to firmly say, we’re playing in the WiFi space with their announcement today. While much of this is saying “we can do this” rather than “we are … Read more
