May 2006

VentureWire on Vonage: Harsh Commentary

May 25, 2006

VentureWire dropped their assessment of the Vonage IPO in my inbox this morning.  They described it as the worst IPO debut in two years.  Some of the most interesting commentary was at the end of the piece, in these two paragraphs: Citigroup provided what is known on Wall Street as “support” for the deal, which essentially means [...]

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Windows Media Photo: Does Anyone Care?

May 25, 2006

Microsoft debuted Windows Media Photo at WinHEC yesterday.  This new format is apparently capable of squeezing more detail and color into files half the size of today’s omnipresent JPEG format. Moreover, files can be rotated and partially decoded without having to decode, and re-encode the entire file.  My first reaction?  Sounds a lot like WMA vs [...]

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Voice Mashup Platform “Abbeynet VOW” Debuts

May 25, 2006

AbbeyNet CEO Luca Filigheddu writes, this morning, about Abbeynet VOW, “a suite of APIs and SDKs to easily create your own web-based VoIP service in a few hours”.  His vision?  To add voice to every portal and website out there.  The APIs allow for the creation and recharge of user accounts, and the control of [...]

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THUD: There Goes the Vonage IPO

May 24, 2006

CNet News.com reports that Vonage shares dipped 4% to $16.25 in trading this morning.  The reality is less pretty.  As this chart from Nasdaq shows, Vonage shares opened at $16.50, below the $17 they were initially priced at, and have continued to fall.  It looks as if there was a mass of trading at the [...]

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Streamcast Adds EBay to Skype Suit

May 24, 2006

Streamcast filed an updated complaint Monday morning, in their ongoing suit against Skype and 21 other companies.  Andy Abramson first reported on this last March, and I wrote a summary of the suit at the time, from the faxed copy which Andy had uncovered.  Monday’s update: Adds EBay to the suit.  No surprise.  EBay is [...]

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SIPQuest Becomes First Hand, Raises $7 Million

May 24, 2006

LinkedIn updated two of my contacts this morning — Vish Raju, and Peter Brockmann.  The reason?  SIPQuest has just raised a $7 million C round, and changed it’s name to First Hand Technologies — a name more reflective of their mission to “enable enterprise communications everywhere”. It’s been quite a transformation for SIPQuest over the [...]

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Plaxo’s New Voice

May 24, 2006

Bet you didn’t know Plaxo had a blog, didja?  Me neither, until yesterday that is, when I stumbled on this entry: Ta-Dah! It’s Jajah.  Yesterday Plaxo announced a partnership with JaJah to provide a new service: Plaxo Click to Call.  Plaxo has placed itself squarely in the maelstrom of Voice 2.0, where the monetizable assets are [...]

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CommuniGate Pro From Voxilla

May 24, 2006

Yesterday our friends at Voxilla announced the availability of the Communigate Pro application server.  Communigate Pro is really the first applications server built specifically for SMBs. The package includes CommuniGate Pro application server software and a Dell server with two Intel dual-core CPUs, as well as IP telephones, adaptors and networking hardware. Initially launching on either [...]

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Dusting Off Another Old Post

May 24, 2006

While we’re on the topic of old blog postings, Martin Geddes has written one of the best descriptions of the problem iotum solves in a post titled: Da Bling Is In Da Ring.  He wrote it in the summer of 1994.

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OCRI Radio on Patents

May 24, 2006

Troll or Edison: that’s the question OCRI Radio asks in their monthly podcast.  They have some great guests on the show, including Kent Ledwell who does iotum’s patent work.  Worth a listen as the parties discuss whether NTP was a troll or a legitimate inventor. 

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