Four reasons why Vonage IPO's email and phone pitch is the wrong strategy

Yesterday, IPO-bound Vonage sent out emails and even some voice mails to many of its customers touting its Directed Share Program common stock offering. I got that email, a portion of which I've screen-capped above. Although the Directed Share Program is perfectly legit, and Vonage has every right to keep its customers [...]

Google Trends: Google's HQ city tops for "Skype" news searches

I, like just about every other blogger, have been playing with uh, sorry- RESEARCHING Google Trends results today. Google Trends is the new GoogleLabs tool that parses millions of Google and Google News searches over the last couple of years, and among other capabilities, lets you see a list of US. and world [...]

Google Trends: this city is the "sex" search capital of the U.S.

Back at ya tonight and tomorrow with some serious VoIP stuff, but I try to do at least one "fun" post here a week on Friday. TGIF, ya know. But I don't want to wait. Well, as you know, Google Trends makes it possible for you to look up various search terms, [...]

NSA book author: NSA 'probably' has your ISP, cell records

As a visiting fellow at George Washington University's National Security Archive, who has just completed the first book of a three-volume history of the NSA, intelligence historian Matthew Aid probably knows more about the super-secret National Security Agency (NSA) than anyone outside of the agency.The NSA, of course, is the agency that, as has been [...]

FCC air-ground wireless auction delayed again (Reuters)

Reuters - The U.S. Federal Communications Commission for the third time delayed resuming on Monday its auction of U.S. airwaves for Internet and other communications services aboard commercial airliners, this time until Tuesday.

A man uses a Skype internet phone in Taipei, November 11, 2005. Skype, the Web telephone company, said on Monday it is offering a promotion through the end of 2006 that will allow Skype users in the U.S. and Canada to make free calls to conventional wireline and mobile phones. (Richard Chung/Reuters)

Skype launches free call promotion in US, Canada (Reuters)

Reuters - Skype, the Web telephone company, on Monday announced a marketing promotion that will allow its users in the United States and Canada to make free calls to conventional wireline and mobile phones.

Gee. Something packet 8 Didn't Buy

Packet 8 was playing the product placement game last year with Alias, so I was surprised last monday night when I was watching 24 and the script had a drunk dude asking Chloe O'Brien if she was doing the VoIP...

Where's The Client?

UtopiaOverIp.com has a post this week on the new Mac client being yanked. Hmmm.....Guess I missed that...

Verizon Cutting VoIP Prices

Verizon is having a fire sale on VoIP according to Ben Charny. Frost and Sullivan's Lynda Starr thinks it's an attempt to get some more traction, which I agree with.The problem is that VoiceWing is more of an experiment at...

VoWLAN is A Key To Mobile VoIP

The king of WiFi news, Glenn Fleishman summarizes nicely what is going on with VoIP over the Wireless Local Area Network and more importantly in the standards bodies that are addressing both 802.11e and...

It's A Do Over in Canada

Mark Evans has a very concise recap of the action in Canada yesterday tossing out the decision last year to create a two tier "caste" system for telephony providers. In a nutshell the federal cabinet told the CRTC to "get...

SMC Skype WiFi Phone Coming

Back in January at CES Netgear and Skype revealed a new WiFi phone that has Skype embedded. Now SMC has come up with the same thing.But, that's not the story. The real story is that according to inside Skype sources...

Finally....The Rise of The SoftPhone and What It Means

As some of my longtime friends inside AT&T will attest to I've been a long time proponent of SoftPhones for VoIP and hammered hard on them to add a soft client to CallVantage from day one. Over time I've played...

Vonage Offering Shares to Their Customers

Vonage is offering shares the day trading starts to their customers of record as of February, 2006. It's not the first time I have heard of this concept, but it is clearly a way to make their stock somewhat more...

Is Skype Breaking The Law In South Korea

The Korea Times reports that Skype may be breaking the law in selling an unregistered phone service in South...

Berninger On Net Neutrality

Dan Berninger has an excellent post on the subject of Net Neutrality over on...

Microsoft Live Messenger Does VoIP via Verizon

Microsoft Live Messenger, the next generation of MSN Messenger is using Verizon to power their LiveCall service and Logitech's syncronized audio and video service. This appears to me to be more of a me too product, trying to keep up...

Mino Cool, RockeTalk Hotter

I am looking into Mino, a way around high priced international cell phone calls if you have a data plan like Cingular's Media Net, but Oliver Starr's comments about RockeTalk on MobileCrunch have me beaming. I'm now on the RockeTalk...

SightSpeed Getting Hot

Last week I was with client SightSpeed at the Always On Hollywood conference. Give my longtime pal and now SightSpeed CEO Peter Csathy some credit for haveing the cajones to try a live demo, and succeeding at a conference. The...

Fixed Mobile Convergence Eagle Has Landed

Pal and client with iotum, Alec Saunders is picking up on the same FMC vibe that others of us in the VoIP world are feeling too. Ken Camp's insightful disection of what is causing the excitement is right on the...

AOL Picked Broadwing for AIM Phoneline, Not Level3

Much to a lot of people's surprise, but not mine, AOL's Voice Services team went with Broadwing to power their upcoming new AIM Phoneline product. This couldn't have gone down well with Level3 which powers AOL's TotalTalk platform and was...

In the UK Faster, Not Better Mobile Data, But VoIP, IM are No-No's

I meant to blog this yesterday but just got too busy. Over in the UK, T-Mobile is unleashing a new faster data service using HSPDA and selling it with a flat rate tarrif. But there's a catch.They don't want you...

Another VoIP IPO Coming

IP-PBX maker Mitel has filed their S-1 for a $150 million dollar flotation....

From The You Read It Here First Department of VoIPWatch: Garlinghouse Named Senior VP @ YAHOO

Om is reporting that buddy Brad Garlinghouse of Yahoo has been formally given his well deserved Senior VP stripe. For readers of VoIPWatch, that news is seven weeks old as I told you so back in...

Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is

Of the upcoming tech IPO's the one from Clearwire could be very interesting. Craig McCaw has proven he can be a pioneer in wireless before, so this one i sone to look at very...

... 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 ...

← previous page next page →

Tech News and Articles

Real Estate News