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- EXCLUSIVE: Interview with SunRocket preferred provider TeleBlend distribution partner's CEO
- TeleBlend is one of two "preferred" VoIP service providers suggested by Sherwood Partners, which is handling SunRocket's dissolutionWith more than a week since the shutoff, and former SunRocket customers still transitioning to new homes, I thought it might be interesting to check in with someone on the TeleBlend side for...
- Tags: News, Packet 8, Vonage
- Blog posts 2007-07-25
- SunRocket had a "cheap product and couldn't compete," Vonage spokesperson boasts
- While expressing often-offered analyst opinions that SunRocket's failure shows the competitive odds stand-alone VoIP providers are up against, Ryan Kim's article today in the San Francisco Chronicle has an interesting quote from a Vonage spokesperson.Noting that Vonage picked up some 11,000 new subscribers in the two days (last Tuesday and...
- Tags: Vonage
- Blog posts 2007-07-24
- SunRocket creditors announce two preferred providers: Vonage takes big hit
- As has been rumored ever since SunRocket went belly up Monday, their creditors have signed deals with former SR competitors 8x8 and Unified Communications Corp. to be "preferred service providers" for SR's 200,000 orphaned customers.The deal has to be good for 8x8, and its Packet 8 service. Normal start up...
- Tags: Vonage, Predictions and Observations, Packet 8, News
- Blog posts 2007-07-19
- Vonage to SunRocket orphans: we'll give you two free months
- Vonage says it is offering a way for SunRocket customers to transition their phone number over to Vonage, and also receive the added benefit of two months free service.The benefit kicks in with a signup for the U.S. Residential Premium Unlimited Plan.Vonage reinforces that "qualified" phone numbers- including those once...
- Tags: Vonage
- Blog posts 2007-07-17
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- Novell: Quietly developing some momentum
- Novell's fiscal third quarter was notable for reasons beyond Linux sales and its core product line. Novell's most recent quarter was the sixth consecutive one that topped expectations. That consistency may mark the days where Novell becomes something more than an afterthought. Now it's no coincidence that...
- Tags: Novell Inc., Linux, Operational Accounting, Operating Systems, Open Source, UNIX, Software, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-29
- Patent suit alert: This time, Google and Verizon on the hot seat
- Patent suit alert: This time, Google and Verizon on the hot seatgood for him - stop patent pirates! and "patent" deformdoes this not seem like an appropriate action for an inventor to take? if i copy your article without your permission, do I get a pass? probably not because you...
- Tags: Litigation, Google Inc., Verizon Communications Inc., patent, inventor
- Discussion threads 2008-08-27
- Inventor sues Google, Verizon, others on voicemail
- Inventor Judah Klausner filed a voice mail patent lawsuit on Tuesday against Google, Verizon Communications, and others. Verizon has already sued Klausner over the validity of his patents. SAN FRANCISCO--Emboldened by settlements with Apple and AT&T, inventor Judah Klausner filed a voice mail patent lawsuit on Tuesday against Google,...
- Tags: Google Inc., Phone, Patent, Settlement, Verizon Communications Inc., Voicemail, Litigation, Telecommunications, Business Operations, Reuters, patents, legal, voice mail, Judah Klausner, Klausner, Google, Verizon
- News items 2008-08-27
- One Router to Connect Them All
- One Router to Connect Them AllWives and out of townI have the same problem. I usually get infuriating phone calls where I have to talk her through the whole device reboot process each time, and she forgets how to do it.God awful from where I liveRead my "Harsh reality of...
- Tags: Routers & switches, Network technology, NETWORKING, Broadband Internet, router, cable, Vonage Holdings Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-26
- One Router to Connect Them All
- Sunday afternoons are the few times I actually get some peace and don't have to think about major IT problems. I fire up my Weber smoker, throw on a couple of racks of ribs, fire up a bucket of hardwood charcoal and fruit wood chunks, and I chill for a...
- Tags: Cable Modem, Router, Linksys Inc., Dad, Modems, Cable, Network Technology, Broadband Internet, Networking, Hardware, Components, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-08-25
- It's official: OOXML is a standard
- It's official: OOXML is a standardA right decisionYou can only FUD so much.Now......we get to see who's going to implement it and how much of it will be implemented. Note that if multiple vendors are using the same MS-Windows API to support OOXML, they're not creating independent implementations of...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), Fast Tracking, Office Open XML, oXML, OSI, Microsoft Corp., open source
- Discussion threads 2008-08-15
- Is T-Mobile USA prepping a mobile phone application store similar to the iPhone App store?
- Is T-Mobile USA prepping a mobile phone application store similar to the iPhone App store?T-mobileI quit Verizon so I could use the Hotspot@home feature. It cost me money to leave early and I had to buy a very cheap flip phone to use it. The system worked every other day...
- Tags: Wi-Fi, Telecom & Utilities, Cellular phones, mobile, T-Mobile, wireless, SunCom, phone, ATT, mobile phone application, iPhone App Store, TMobile, iPhone App, cell phone, Apple iPhone
- Discussion threads 2008-08-10
- News to know: Google; Web Olympics; Patch Tuesday; iPhone
- Notable headlines: Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Will the Olympics melt the Internet? Time Warner's Olympic boost, courtesy NBC More worries for Beijing visitors Phil Wainewright: Hello, Google, is anyone in there? Larry Dignan: Google: Our AOL investment is ‘impaired' ...
- Tags: apple iphone, google inc., web, larry dignan, health care, internet, vertical industries, benefits, e-mail, healthcare, microsoft windows vista (longhorn), enterprise software, software, human resources, online communications, operating systems, microsoft windows
- Blog posts 2008-08-08
- Vonage narrows losses: Can it grow?
- Vonage has narrowed its losses two consecutive quarters, but it remains to be seen whether the company can grow. The company reported a second quarter net loss of $7 million, or 4 cents a share, on revenue of $228 million. Revenue was up 11 percent from a...
- Tags: revenue, vonage holdings corp., marketing expense, operational accounting, marketing research, finance, marketing, larry dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-07
- Dell's 'Cloud Computing' and other strange stuff
- and When I took a wee poke at Dell the other day I could not possibly have known that labeling something Hybrid and expecting us to meekly gobble it up was only the tip of what can only be described as an ill-conceived marketing strategy iceberg....
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Hoover, Cloud Computing, Marketing Research, Marketing, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-08-06
- FCC slaps Comcast's wrist over network neutrality; Sets precedent
- FCC slaps Comcast's wrist over network neutrality; Sets precedentif comcast is truly guiltythey should be fine and severely monitor and audit for a period of time . so they walk straight. FCC should make a example out of them so other should fear FCC for realRE: FCC slaps Comcast's...
- Tags: Federal government, Internet service providers (ISPs), NOW HERE, Comcast Corp., FCC, wrist, network neutrality, Internet Service Provider, network
- Discussion threads 2008-08-01
- News to know: Microsoft Midori; Sub $600 PCs; Dell; Neosploit; SOA
- Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: More tech details emerge on Microsoft's 'Midori' What if Apple had conducted the 'Mojave Experiment'? Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Microsoft, In Search Of Itself Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: The 'Mojave Experiment' - Just an exercise in guided clicking or does it...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., PC, Malware, SOA, Microsoft Corp., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, BIOS, Mergers & Acquisitions, Web Services, Viruses And Worms, Security, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Components, Investment, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-30
- Vonage imports marketing mojo with new CEO
- Vonage imports marketing mojo with new CEOHave had Vonage for years...We drop in phone lines next to our big customers. Toll free for those who need it. Soft phone on the lap tops....WOW we'er conected.It's all about customer service!!!Ours to our customers.Vonage WORKS!
- Tags: Marketing research, Telecom & Utilities, Vonage Holdings Corp., marketing
- Discussion threads 2008-07-29
- Vonage imports marketing mojo with new CEO
- Vonage has named Marc Lefar CEO to replace Jeffrey Citron, the company chairman and interim chairman. Lefar had been the chief marketing officer of Cingular Wireless and will be counted on to use some of that sales mojo to increase Vonage's customer base and reduce churn. ...
- Tags: Marketing, Vonage Holdings Corp., Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-29
- FCC expected to rule against Comcast Aug. 1
- The Federal Communications Commission is expected to announce Aug. 1 that Comcast's network shaping of BitTorrent was wrong. According to the Wall Street Journal, regulators are expected to rule that Comcast violated policy by hampering BitTorrent sharing. The FCC has been dropping hints for weeks that Comcast...
- Tags: FCC, BitTorrent, Network, Comcast Corp., Network Neutrality, Federal Government, Networking, Government, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-27
- Q'n'A: Your correspondence to date
- Over the last week or two, I've been inundated with an email. On a serious note, there have been a few questions asked; not that they need clarification as I've already covered these things, I'll answer these anyway. Q. [Email] Open Source ERP5 is now used to...
- Tags: Mobile, E-mail, Public Relations, Online Communications, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
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