The New York Times has a very nice write up about patents being awarded in the VoIP realm. It’s good to see invention is not dead, and that taking ideas that worked in the past, are going to impact the future. My question, what’s so different about a switchbox in VoIP and one used by … Read more
In streaming media Acacia Research in California is seeking the courts help to get their piece of the action. Now we’re seeing the same thing happen in VoIP, with a lawsuit filed by another company. The big issue here is more than what was filed. It has to do with both the patent office and … Read more
It looks like the idea of private labeling telephone service is upon us. Now Morpheus is jumping into the VioIP space with their announcement earlier in the week, which I somehow missed. What we have here is once again histroy repeating itself. First the railroads came along then Ma Bell strung telegraph wires. Well today, … Read more
Uber Blogger Stuart Henshall writes about the upcoming SKYPE conferencing capabilities in his blog, Unbound Spiral. Earlier in the week I thought about the concept of Serial Disruptors. Who are they. Well certainly the folks who invented SKYPE, as before they did the same to the music industry with Kazaa. Michael Robertson who first founded … Read more
I don’t spend enough time writing about SKYPE, what I call the ICQ for VoIP. Muniwireless.com has a good summary of what having SKYPE on a PDA can mean. I’ve played with other VoIP clients on my HP iPaq and, even with the 400 mhz processor, the voice quality still is lacking. Until more powerful … Read more
Techworld has a nice write up on why VoIP is becoming more accepted. While likely not news to readers of this blog, it does point out a lot of essential facts and presents a good case as to why the usage and the number of minutes are heading northward. Andy
First Packet8 announced they can handle video, now Cisco delivers a solution that brings your picture to someone far away. Promising television like video quality, the new application from Cisco is the first step for them that seems to differentiate VoIP from PSTN/POTS.
If VoIP is the killer app for broadband , then we’re living in the dark ages. Voice over the Internet is not new. It has been around for a while. The real killer application for boradband is marketing, or I should say, the proper marketing of the services and applications that can run on broadband. … Read more
According to a recent report it seems YahooBB, the VoIP carrier in Japan keeps growing. They’re now up to 3.6 million customers. I’d say Vonage has a lot of catching up to do.
For Jeff Pulver yesterday was very sweet. He’s clearly drawn first blood over the old line telcos in scoring an FCC victory when it comes to the regulation of VoIP. Based on the ruling, calls which stay on Net like Pulver’s Free World DialUp, are not subject to regulation. But, what will follow from the … Read more
