Is having someone else to play against is what draws you to online gaming? What if you don’t have an XBox? Then, you are part of the target audience online gaming startup Power Challenge that just raised an $8 million from Silicon Valley VC firm Benchmark… Read More »
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You can’t buy them yet, but if you are an enterprise IT exec who is kicking the tires on IP telephony offerings you might at least want to take a gander at the wide range of Microsoft-centric IP voice devices — phones, headsets, videocam monitors —… Read More »
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NEWS ANALYSIS: Showing perhaps that they learned the lessons of last year’s net neutrality battles, the Iowa telcos and their Internet-based ‘free-calling‘ partners have formed their own ‘grassroots‘ coalition, complete with its own blog-like website to battle what they call “myths” being spread by big telcos,… Read More »
While they can’t eliminate the actual conference calls themselves, the founders of a new service called Gaboogie want to help reduce the administrative headaches of setting up and conducting conference calls, starting with a feature that calls the participants directly. If Gaboogie’s web-based setup delivers as promised… Read More »
BREAKING: FCC Chairman Kevin Martin said Thursday that the commission told large telcos to stop blocking calls into numbers for the Iowa-based free calling operations, threatening punitive actions if the carriers didn’t comply. While the immediate FCC pressure was a victory for the Iowa telcos and Internet… Read More »
It’s an unconfirmed rumor (but we have it on very good sources) that FCC chairman Kevin Martin was in Mountain View Wednesday, touring the Googleplex and no doubt chowing down on the famous free food. Makes sense, since Martin is scheduled to speak in Silicon Valley… Read More »
When we looked at the back page of Friday’s Marketplace section of the Wall Street Journal, it looked like the delivery person had perhaps taken offense with the Vonage ad campaign about its patent case with Verizon, with what looked like some black-pen editing, the kind… Read More »
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FCC Punts on 700 MHz rulemaking
In a rare late-night version of its monthly open meeting, the FCC Wednesday punted on making any first drafts of important rules for the upcoming 700 MHz spectrum auctions, instead pushing back some of the more-controversial elements to allow for more public comment as well as… Read More »
Grand Central, now Mobile
It’s not officially announced yet but one-number provider Grand Central now has support for mobile devices, allowing Grand Central users to see their in-box, set preferences, etc., as long as your mobile device supports an Internet browser. Read More »
Meeting, Meeting, when’s the FCC Meeting?
With the FCC set to issue the first set of rules for the upcoming 700 MHz spectrum auction, there was plently of interest in today’s open meeting. However, the monthly FCC gathering, scheduled to start at 9:30 a.m. East Coast time, has yet to begin. At… Read More »
Vonage’s Strategy: Buy more Ads!
With a reprieve from the courts, what’s Vonage’s first public step in its patent battle against Verizon? Hire more lawyers? Partner with other patent holders? Nah — instead, Vonage went and bought some newspaper ads, and built a net-neutrality style “grassroots” website designed to enlist public… Read More »
Vonage wins Permanent Stay
Scoring an important win in its ongoing patent battle with Verizon, VoIP provider Vonage on Tuesday won a permanent stay of a previous court’s injunction, meaning simply that Vonage is free to conduct business as usual while it pursues an appeal of the original ruling that… Read More »
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