VOIP NEWS

Mr. Blog Is Right (Again)

Mr. Blog takes a stance on the Skype pricing plan and goes nose to nose with Russell Shaw in a post a few days back.

He’s right but one reason I would never consider Skype as a replacement for MY phone service is that it doesn’t show Caller ID and that’s an essential part of 2.0 calling. The other reason after spending time on the road using softphones, it was Gizmo Project and SightSpeed that were my primary means of
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My Dinner Meeting With Bob

Last night I had a dinner meeting with long time friend and uber blogger Bob Cox. Bob is best known as being the blogger who outed New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd for misquoting President George Bush and standing his ground against the Grey Lady and winning during his run with The National Debate a blog he has since retired, despite it being one of the best ever from the Blog 1.0 era.

For those of you who don’t
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Click To Call Gaining Steam

Luca and his team at Abbeynet have signed a deal to make Click to Call more available, we have exclusively learned. According to the news release:

myBlueZebra, a start-up company based in New York and founded by Andrea Tessitore and David Freyer selected the technology developed by Abbeynet to complement it’s innovative web based click-to-call services. Abbeynet, based in Cagliari, Italy, will provide its own VoIP technology to myBlueZebra for all European and Asian markets.

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Nokia N93 Video Calling to the Rescue Perhaps?

Luca’s tale of needing to have a hospitalized relative see a grandson is heartwarming.

While he doesn’t go into a verbose detail, he pretty much sums up the future of mobile video.

On a personal note, Nokia is an agency client. It’s very heartwarming to see the imagination that people are putting into using new next generation devices. Another member of the Nokia Blogger Relations Program uses his N93 to lull his baby to sleep.

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Thanks Grand Central!

Lately I’ve noticed a series of calls coming in to my GrandCentral number from off shore. The people call at odd hours or worse when I’m sleeping. Since I rarely turn off my cell phones or soft clients where agency client GrandCentral is routing calls to I am thrilled at the ease of one click and send them to voice mail that GrandCentral lets me do. I do the same with my Webley number via a rule so between the two, I’m not
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Alec On New Presence

Alec Saunders is continuing his theme on how presence is redefined.

His insight, based on experience at building out iotum (an agency client) is not from some armchair quarterback, but from being involved on a day to day basis of how to solve communications problems using relevance as the core.

What Alec is bringing to light is so important, as real time, always connected people need more balance in their lives, and relevance
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VoIP is A Taxing Matter

It seems the folks in Baltimore want to tax Vonage.

The same thing happened a few years back in California so I don’t see this as a battle that won’t stop happening, especially as more and more of city’s tax bases erode with new technology.

For example, the tax revenue generated from coin boxes/pay phones is pretty much a goner due to the cell phone market. All cities are trying to do is recover what they are losing
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Going BK With VoIP By Om

I’m not at all surprised to see this. Bankruptcy is something that occurs in all industries.

It has happened to one VoIP company and will happen to others in VoIP, WiFi, WiMax and more. The economics of business apply to technology all the same. History always repeats. The key is to run your business right, or wind it down the right way.

Reliance On Video Conferencing

It seems that in other parts of the world, where IP communications basically is creating new markets and driving economic growth that Video Communications is growing.

While we often think of the video market for the Internet as IPTV like, it’s very interesting to note that the emerging markets like India are focusing on video as a communications tool, something we’ve been saying is already here via programs like SightSpeed, Skype, Yahoo, Macromedia Breeze and others.

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VoIP and IM to Be Targets for Hackers in 2007

So on the heals of the it’s not a bug, it’s a horse with Skype, the folks at VNU.net have a news account on how VoIP and IM will be the targets hackers and online spoofsters want to go after most in 2007.

Now isn’t Skype a bit of both. You know what they say, why aim small.