Cisco loves to play Monopoly. So while the Justice Department a few years back was going after Microsoft, I regularly said on the KenRadio World Technology RoundUp that the company Janet Reno and her team should have been studying and investigating was Cisco. The more I see, the more I read, and the more I … Read more
VoIP uber Evangelist, Jeff Pulver in his personal blog explained that Marketing will be the key effort that the carriers will need to put behind their efforts to convert customers to Voice over IP. Give Pulver credit for taking on the cause. His FreeWorldDialup which enables free calls to other FWD subscribers and as a … Read more
Ken Rutkowski, with whom I co-host the daily “World Technology RoundUp” on KenRadio pointed me to a story today in Nikkei Electronics Asia quoting Louis Holder of Vonage on the subject of E911. While basically rehashing what Vonage has been saying on this subject since it began offering a method to reach the emergency services … Read more
Dennis Berman in the December 29th Wall Street Journal (subscription required) explains that the current VoIP offering from the USA based legacy carriers is really not much more than hype, as all the carriers are offering is dial tone and basic services over IP vs analog. Berman accurately points out that the carriers have only … Read more
Uber blogger and Business 2.0 correspondent Om Malik has drawn attention to the next wave of rural broadband in his blog today. I tend to agree with him, as rural America represents a huge underserverd market. Add together Fixed Broadband like was done on the island of Maui by Maui Sky Fiber with Voice over … Read more
Xeni Jardin in Wired Magazine’s, January 2004 edition provides a very entry level review of some of the Voice Over IP Services that are out there but leaves out some of the players and totally excludes how to get the Voice onto the Internet. By lumping Vonage, Sipphone, Skype and Free World DialUp together and … Read more
I’ve been playing with the softphones that are out there with the carriers I’m currently subscribed to. Overall, the easiest to use are from Vonage. Delta Three’s iConnectHere service or Jeff Pulver’s Free World Dial Up’s customized softphone client, X-Ten Light. All that said, the X-Ten Pro softphone may provide the most functionality of all. … Read more
It seems Vonage is quietly developing some newer technology that enables third party development of tools to make their service even more useful, according to the BroadbandReports.com web site. While we’ve yet to validate the service, it sure sounds like their development group is trying to stay ahead of the competition. New players are about … Read more
