Vonage recieved real nice exposure in US News and World Reports this week and writer Mary Kathleen Flynn really got the story right. What’s good about this story is that Flynn got it. She went past the fact that it is about price, and explained the features, and provided breezy, easy to understand analysis of … Read more
As a journalist, (I even have my degree in Journalism from Temple University), I hate seeing stories like the one today in the Akron Beacon-Journal. It reminds me of the line my first mentor, the Wily Old Veteran, Sy Roseman, sarcastically told me when I was 16 and learning the craft of media relations from … Read more
It looks like Utah is looking closely at VoIP. While on the surface a harmless exploration, given Michael Powell’s feelings that VoIP should be unregulated, to see states get involved only will make it harder for the new telcos to emerge easily. What we could end up with, if the states each enact their own … Read more
I actually have held off on writing about Firefly despite having had an account and actually tried it when I first started this blog back in December. The reason I held off is I have been pretty much focusing on SIP as the protocol that I’ve been covering. Rather than being accused of being narrow … Read more
Ted Rogers is the king of cable in Canada. He’s Rupert Murdoch and John Malone all rolled into one, only a tad more controlled. He’s planning to get the cable company into VoIP but has learned from the past. In this Toronto Star article one fact comes through. They know they own the customer already. … Read more
Audio (and video) conferencing will get a huge shot in the arm with VoIP. Earlier in the week Raindance and Level3 made nice and annouced a VoIP based conferencing system. Now, it seems a UK company with expertise is jumping in. Like most conferencing, this one uses an ASP model, and is marketed through the … Read more
I’m not surprised that AOL has decided to dance in the telephony space, again. If you recall years back as they were growing in subscribers they offered a telephone service to subscribers at cheaper than cheap rates by reselling AT&T and handled the billing. Now they are going into Canada with a VoIP service that … Read more
It looks like even retailers are getting into the VoIP game, as CompUSA has added a test program with Viper Networks for their vPhone. This is a logical extension for CompUSA. They already sell PC’s and Cell Phones, plus home phones. Now to sell a service, even if it doesn’t carry their brand will expose … Read more
This almost slipped by. It’s a way to enable PC-to-PC based conference calls over the net using one of the most popular contact management programs around, ACT!. Given it’s large user base, the folks at Voice Now have created a plug in that enables ACT to be the front end for voice conference calls. This … Read more
If Match.com or Love@AOL ever had a partner made in heaven for them, it has to be this web site. Imagine with bundled VoIP service, now a potential suitor can at least get an answer, even if it’s not the yes they’re looking for. The service, which is about to be bundled by some of … Read more
