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Wednesday, Oct 14
Why The Gizmo Sale to Skype Rumor is Good For The Industry
Now lets look at who else this is good for. Companies with rich understanding of APIs like Voxygen and Thomas Howe. Voxex, Cloudvox, Twilio, Broadsoft, etc. The list goes on and on. What's more all the current SIP customers of CallCentric, Inphonex and other Internet Telephony Service Provi...
Monday, Oct 12
Comcast Looks To The Future With HomePoint VoIP
In a move that Fierce VoIP is calling a limited release by Comcast, the nations largest cable operator, of HomePoint, a converged VoIP/Router, it would appear that finally, after making all the needed in network (e.g. getting all the hardware and software to be the same in all markets) infr...
Friday, Sep 25
Using SIP Made Easier, More Simply
Yesterday I made note of Rich Tehrani's video interview from VON with client Mike Oeth at VON which broke the news about the new my.onsip.com web based platform. As they day went on we watched as other veteran observers, who like Rich have been around the VoIP game as long as I have been. We've all...
Sunday, May 3
Welcome to the New Balkins
That would be the surface move. But the real battle is about Balkinization of Wireless. Here you have CDMA players Verizon and Sprint, each advancing in the 4G front and each saying we see new forms of technology that will leapfrog the GSM technology over time. Verizon Wireless, which has bee...
Thursday, Apr 30
What Do Yahoo and AOL Have To Sell That's Worth Buying?
Yahoo has a lot of telephony technology, including Dialpad, which they bought a few years ago. Internationally their IM platform carries a lot of voice ala Skype and it does video (not very well but that could be fixed). With AT&T mothballing CallVantage sometime this year, either the...
Thursday, Apr 23
Passion Pours Out About AT&T CallVantage Getting Hung Up
I don't know when my service ends, but the letters all say sometime in 2009. I'm trying to explore Uverse but there are some issues, most around alarm monitoring and having the telephone wires routed to my new data closet. We'll see how far that goes. Given I have a T1 from Covad and rock solid cab...
Saturday, Apr 18
New Apple Wireless Gear Is Very Very VoIP Friendly
The hard wire network was also tuned up by my friends Chris McKewon and Steven Fairchild and their team at XCeptional Networks. These are the guys whose crews are masters at hotel broadband, like the Hotel 1000 in Seattle and the Intercontinental in Boston. We're talking EXPERTS in network...
Tuesday, Feb 3
First Impressions Of IT Expo East 2009
Last night Microsoft Response Point hosted a dinner with some customers of theirs and a group of bloggers. It game me a chance to catch up with Erik Lagerway who has become a Response Point convert. Eric was for years Mr. Anti-Microsoft, but his newest venture is wrapped all around the newest o...
Thursday, Jan 1
Putting VoIP In It's Place
Marrying these kinds of services together is the era we're entering. It's not about VoIP or SIP or Skype, its about the experience, and that experience is going to be three types. Business, social and personal. Buzzspeak is VoIP, SIP, Skype.
Sunday, Dec 21
Taking Stock of My Accounts
VoIP Skype via a Phillips Desk Phone Skype Truphone on Nokias, iPhone and iPod Touch UK Skype VoIP User Skype Spain USA Skype (3) Mobile Phones USA AT&T iPhone 3G Mobile UK WiFi Access StarBucks Gold WiFi Access DeviceScape logon client Easy WiFi Panasonic with EyeFi WiFi SD Card
Tuesday, Dec 9
What's New In VoIP? Lots with Gizmo, Voxeo and Fonality
Well for starters it's all SIP based as usual, providing all kinds of capabilities with that. Users can call any Gizmo5 user, any SIP device or endpoint, 800 numbers, and if they have Gizmo5 credit they can call anyone in the world. You can also receive calls. It needs Flash 9 or better so runs on...
Monday, Sep 8
Signs of The Times-VoIP is Here
Unfortunately, there's likely a few writers and reviewers out there who want a perfect experience all the time. Sadly that won't happen. There are still many hurdles, like bad bandwidth, poor in office connectivity from WiFi or even carrier interference. But, for those who have the right k...
Opinion: New VoIP Phone Works Via Bluetooth
It's from Kensington and is the new Buetooth VoIP Internet Phone from Kensington. Now I have yet to try it, so I won't say how good it is, but based on the review and Kensington's track record with other wireless products, this one would seem to be worth taking a gamble on.
Wednesday, Aug 27
From the Department of Stupid Is as Stupid Does-Aircell
I have to thank one of my readers who pointed out to me the fact that Aircell is already in the business of making VoIP work in the skies. It seems they are already marketing SIP based phones for the business aviation market selling against others with similar products.
Thursday, Aug 7
New Cable VoIP Telephony Exchange Passes the Test
By taking this first step, the Dutch cable industry is acknowledging the importance of making sure there's a neutral hub that allows the telephone calls made over one cable MSO to pass to another with all that's necessary to sound good, be completed quickly and to maintain all the functio...
Saturday, Jul 12
High Tech Leaders Work To Make VoIP Standardized In How It's Governed
From the moment I walked in the door at Juveniles Tim said with his Scottish accent, "Well hello Andy. What brings you to Paris at this time of year." After explaining why I'm here (i.e to be in real time interaction with the Truphone iPhone launch while my house goes through the renovation that...
Saturday, May 17
Opinion: Vonage Put Under The Ikeroscope
2) Ditch the "if you leave us it will cost you money." Nothing hurts more than when someone liked you service but for whatever reason chose to cancel. Don't charge them for that. Let them leave on a high note and THANK THEM for having been your customer. Oh, and just try to take your number with you. H...
Cable Telephony Grows @ HOME, BUT WHAT ABOUT @WORK?
The cable industry is showing that it can really play the "takeaway" game when it comes to telephony in the home based on what I'm reading over at IP Democracy this morning. 1) AT&T still has the best quality platform in VoIP with CallVantage, but they're no longer really pushing it. Inst...
Thursday, May 1
More Reflection on AOL and Open AIM VoIP
AOL has been behind SIP for over three years or more. They are not jumping on board now. They are simply using what little they have left to SPIN this. Alec pretty much nailed it here as did Ken Camp. 1) Pricier? 2) One way calling? 3) May not be there in six months?
Friday, Mar 7
VoIP on The iPhone Who's Up First? Truphone Was and Likely Will Be
Yesterday Steve Jobs and the Cupertino Crew took center stage and unveiled the SDK for the iPhone and the world is waking up to the iPhone being a rather good device for VoIP. Let's face it. These plays use VoIP in the middle. But from where I sit there's a lot more here to be exploited, and at risk,...
Wednesday, Feb 27
Walt Mossberg Tests The New T-Mobile @ Home
This new system is not a so-called voice-over-Internet-protocol phone system, such as Vonage. It doesn't carry your phone calls wholly over the Internet, but merely uses the Internet to get them to the T-Mobile cellphone network, which then carries the calls as if they had been made on a c...
Sunday, Jan 27
VoIP In The Sky
Now, for those who don't want to talk and fly, my feeling is there is the need to establish "quiet zones" which would be where people could contemplate their thoughts, close there eyes and sleep in peace. This is what I have found works very well on the Eurostar, on TGV trains and even on the rap...
Tuesday, Dec 25
Is VoIP In The Air?
Maybe we should just ban all talking on airplanes.....? NOT! Rich posts about in flight WiFi and the potential banning of VoIP on the planes. First I'm old enough to remember the GTE Airphone and actually used it a lot in the90's, especially when they had their $1000 a year all you could talk plan. B...
Sunday, Nov 25
Femtocells and VoIP and Mobile Operators
Much has been written about Comcast and their packet sniffing around P2P file transfers. It's also in my view impacting Skype traffic too. Each day Ken Rutkowski and I record a daily news program. For the past few years we have used Skype over Broadband to connect and for Ken to be able to captur...
Sunday, Oct 7
Cable Companies Mum On How They Play With Bandwidth
I'm not at all surprised to read that one of the nation's largest cable operators is getting accused of packet shaping. Nor am I surprised that their support folks are being mum on the subject. It seems thought some unhappy Comcast customers are happy to write about their issues which direct...
Friday, Sep 21
News and Notes for September 21 2007
Information Week calls the new RIM Blackberry 8820 as the iPhone for the Enterprise market. It brings VoIP and WiFi to the mobile phone platform that so many business users are already embracing. Markus Gobel writes about Vyke, the Norwegian mobile VoIP company, being ready to acquire a US...
Tuesday, Sep 4
Listen In, Insert Ads, Deliver Free VoIP or Cellular
The idea of ad supported mobile phones has been tried years ago in Italy. It bombed. I think though there is a market for that, but ads based on the context of my conversations...well that's just a bit too much big brother for me. Today I've had two different conversations with people who are talkin...
Monday, Sep 3
VoIP News and Notes - Monday September 2 2007
The Seattle Times writes about VoIP quality being inconsistent and extolling the virtues of Skype Voice Mail. EQO is entering the mobile game with SIM's that offer dual mode mobile and VoIP capability. VoIPBuster now has their SIP based phone service working with the Nokia N and E series de...
Friday, Aug 31
VoIP News and Notes for Friday August 31 2007
Unstrung comments on the issues with Muni WiFi and runs a lot of spin job quotes about mesh networking from Tropos and Cisco, two companies now looking for new places to peddle their wares. If Cisco was so behind mesh why do they still sell other 802.11 solutions that out perform it in the Enter...
Friday, Aug 24
VoIP, Collaboration in the Lotus Sametime Future
These two moves are putting them head to head with Microsoft. Now, the next step. They end up working with Google and use the Google hosted applications package as their mass front end. All that's missing is video conferencing that works well, like SightSpeed does. Why? They need that too. IBM h...
Sunday, Aug 12
Muni WiFi and VoIP
Tropos officials admitted to me earlier this week that mesh as it currently sits is not really ready for VoIP until the voice 802.11 R standard comes along. Other issues impact it as well so while you can use Voice over WiFi in your home or office don't plan on using it as well in muni environment...
Sunday, Jul 1
Tehrani Goes On Vacation With the Nokia N800
Technorati Tags: VoIP, Nokia, N800 Rich Tehrani has hit the road for a summer vacation and has taken his Nokia N800 Internet Tablet with him. Rich is discovering what others in the Nokia Blogger Relations Program have learned about the N800 that with WiFi and...
Saturday, Jun 30
Om Spreading Rumors About SunRocket
I've never been a fan of theirs. Don't ask me why, but it came from my gut. Maybe it was the too good to be true pricing model. Maybe it was their "we're better" attitude. Maybe it was affirmed when their very good PR person, Brian Lustig "left" a few months ago. In VOIP he blew away what Vonage had to sp...
Friday, Jun 8
IP PBX and VoIP Growing In Business
The reason this is good news for those companies which have chosen to focus on the small business and small to medium enterprise markets is the need by businesses to go beyond the one and two line service offerings. Each of these companies makes the road to VoIP easier, providing an almost se...
Wednesday, May 16
Truphone In the UK Press
Starting with their appearance on the BBC and then in the Times, the Mobile VoIP player is generating lots of coverage for WiFi powered voice. Over the last few days client Truphone has been in the news in the UK. Starting with their appearance on the BBC and then Carl Lyons">in the Times, t...
Saturday, Apr 14
New Mobile WiFi Player
Santa Monica, CA area based WiFiMobile has released their platform and it may be worth checking out. VoIP Weblog points us to the new player in the VoIP over WiFi game that GizmoProject and Truphone are already racing in. Santa Monica, CA area based WiFiMobile has released their platform an...
