In 1999 I was an obscure Product Manager working in the Packet Telephony Division at Cisco Systems. After digging through the SIP specification I realized that, if implemented as I’d hoped it would be, SIP would be a tremendous catalyst for expansion within the...
Skype launched an iPhone client this week, everywhere except for Canada. According to a Skype representative interviewed by Tom Keating, “There are some patent-licensing issues which prevent us from offering it there.” Translation: This is a...
Last week I penned a column for GigaOm which has been picked up by BusinessWeek. Here’s an excerpt: “VoIP is dead,†Skype General Manager of Voice and Video Jonathan Christensen declared at an industry conference a few weeks ago. He spoke...
Telecom has, generally speaking, become a zero-sum game. In fact it probably always was, despite numerous attempts by governments at deregulation. The fact of the matter is that even today, full-duplex voice conversations between two parties is almost entirely...
Tonight at Vancouver’s Launch Party event, Lypp’s Erik Lagerway will be talking about their new service and API. Earlier today I talked about MaxRoam and its game-changing technique to defeat mobile roaming and long-distance costs. Both companies are...
