When stories like this start appearing, you know that the old guard is getting nervous. In PR parlance we call it “depositioning.” The art of trying to shift attention away from the competition and to your position when the other company is “hot.” If VoIP was so far off, why are all of the Telcos … Read more
Walt Mossberg of The Wall Street Journal may be the most influential newpaper writer when it comes to technology. Why? Because when he writes it means volumes in business if he gives it a thumbs up. He did for Vonage. (registaration required)
Plantronics, a long time fixture on the headset market has taken a three tier approach with headsets for VoIP.
Converge Digest has an excellent recap on this week’s Senate hearings on reforming telecommunications in the USA. What is great to hear and read is the number of officials saying….hands off. It appears that the telcos are still wanting regulation, laregely so they can play catch up on one hand, but on the other, they … Read more
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
