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Squawk Box, February 20th

February 20, 2008

We start with a follow-on story from yesterday.  Verizon announced their flat rate voice pricing yesterday — $99 per month for unlimited calling in the US.  Not to be outdone, AT&T and T-mobile immediately announced similar plans.  And Helio, of course, has an unlimited voice and data plan in the markets where they operate.  All [...]

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Squawk Box February 7 – Google Apps, iSkoot + Cisco, and Nokia bid for Yahoo?

February 7, 2008

Google Apps Team edition launched today.  Google Apps Team Edition is a free service that lets people within the same e-mail domain collaborate easily with Google Apps, a package that includes Docs, Calendar, Talk, and Start Page.    Does anyone believe Google's protests that they're not really competing with Microsoft anymore?  We discussed and concluded… This [...]

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Yahoo! Voice: under the radar? or not?

January 22, 2008

Russell Shaw thinks that Yahoo! Voice will probably escape the headsman's axe in the upcoming round of layoffs, mostly because it seems to be flying under the radar. He writes: The first impression I get from this overview of Yahoo!’s priorities is that the company doesn’t consider Yahoo! Voice a precious asset with the potential [...]

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Yahoo to kill voice?

December 6, 2006

Andy Abramson reported a rumor yesterday that Yahoo, as part of its reorg, would kill the voice business, apparently to appease SBC. If true, that’s a terrible idea.  Presence and voice are now inextricably linked.  A choice to kill the voice business at this stage would signal an abdication of Yahoo’s position in the next [...]

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VON: IM and Presence Round Table

September 11, 2006

I’m sitting in the Presence and IM general session at VON.  Kudos to Carl Ford for having organized this.  It’s the dream panel for this topic, which I unsuccesfully tried to recruit twice previously.  The panelists are: Jeff Bonforte, Director of Voice Product Management, Yahoo! Dan Casey, Director, Windows Live VoIP and Messenger Product Management, [...]

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The Next Step Should Be An Open Specification

July 13, 2006

Without diminishing the importance of yesterday’s announcement by Yahoo (YHOO) and Microsoft (MSFT) that their IM clouds now interoperate, none of us should be hailing this as anything more than it actually is — two underdogs teaming up to try to beat the incumbent (in this case, AOL).  Neither Yahoo, nor Microsoft, despite the positioning, [...]

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‘Bumping Uglies’ with PhoneGnome

May 5, 2006

So there I was, bopping through my blogroll, minding my own business, when I came across this beauty titled "E.T. PhoneGnome" ~ he should have called Iotum. Among the gems in it: Remember E.T. that beloved alien, that wanted to do nothing more than ‘phone home’. Well that tearjerking little movie from the 80′s would [...]

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Policing the Thoughts of a Billion People

April 20, 2006

Yesterday, Reporters Without Borders released a copy of the verdict in the case of Chinese dissident Jiang Lijun, who was sentenced to four years in jail in 2003 on a charge of subversion, supported in part by email evidence provided by Yahoo! to the Chinese government.  Here is a PDF translation of the court document, and the press release [...]

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Google: VoIP Strategy is Falling into Place

January 31, 2006

Marketwatch is reporting that Google’s 8K, filed yesterday, reveals a pact with Florida-based VoIP Inc.  According to the documents: Google agreed on Sept. 1 to test voice-over-Internet-protocol, or VOIP, services offered by VoIP’s VoiceOne Communications unit on Sept. 1. Then in October, Google moved into implementation phase, buying VoIP’s services and putting in place direct [...]

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Jeff Bonforte: Yahoo! and Emerging Telephony

January 25, 2006

He starts off with what can only be described, for this audience, as an apology.  Yahoo is committed to openness — open standards, APIs, Interop — but not necessarily open source.  He cites the SMTP fiasco.  Let’s make sure we manage the openness of the network so that we avoid voice SPAM. Yahoo thinks of [...]

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