iotum’s Squawk Box conference call has become a daily staple for many participants and observers in the X 2.0 world. Subjects can ranges from new Voice 2.0 services, the wireless communications world, intellectual property and copyright law through to social networking issues. It’s a unique chance to catch up on current developments and discuss them [...]

Over the past three months I have attended two events where PC and Internet security issues were the theme along with a Google presentation on cloud computing where security issues certainly were an underlying theme. While we’re not talking here about the security surrounding Skype conversations, these presentations each provided some key information about keeping [...]

Investors in Skype partner Mobivox hired Peter Diedrich as CEO to fill the vacancy left by Stéphane Marceaux. Diedrich joins board of directors. I’m glad; they need leadership to exploit the Mobivox opportunity and to answer the question: Whither Mobivox? Company news release below the fold.

At eComm 2008 and Spring VON I had the opportunity both to listen to presentations by, and to have personal discussions with, Brough Turner of NMS Communications. If there is one authority on telecommunications infrastructure, back office and the business side of routing calls around the world, Brough is the person. He understands the backhaul [...]

Received an email this evening from Mobivox with the same text as the initial post in this linked forum thread. It probably explains why all the top Mobivox CxO executives have been leaving recently. (Check out the current management team; only one CxO in sight.) Starting in July, because we’re going to be using more [...]

Feedback from my recent post on the Unlimited Calling Plans: turns out that somewhere -unannounced – in a recent version upgrade release, Skype for Windows will now support up to 25 participants on a Skype Conference Call. While the host must be on Skype for Windows, participants can be on any version of Skype or [...]