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- Packet8 shows profitability is achievable in pure-play VoIP
- Arguably, the three highest profile, full-fledged VoIP services to flash across our radar screen in the last year or two have been SunRocket, Vonage, and 8x8' s Packet8 service.SunRocket, of course, is gone. Vonage, which traded yesterday at an all-time-low of $1.86 a share, is a money loser with a...
- Tags: Vonage, Packet 8
- Blog posts 2007-08-03
- 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
- Here's where many of those orphaned SunRocket users will go
- Now I know why SunRocket instituted their $199 a year plan. Perhaps not so much as a clever competitive marketing strategy but as a desperate move to raise cash.Not enough cash was raised to sustain operations, or even to capture the interest of a lender or buyer.With the shutdown of...
- Tags: Predictions and Observations, Packet 8
- Blog posts 2007-07-17
- I'm finding Forrester correct about VoIP's complexity for non-tech types
- TMCNet reports that A study conducted by Forrester Research entitled "The VoIP Customer Experience: Work in Progress" finds that VoIP setup and related user interfaces are too complicated for many consumers. "Value, trust/security, presentation, and navigation are the key problems identified by this new study," writes...
- Tags: yahoo, Packet 8, General
- Blog posts 2007-04-09
- Alexa mashup site alexaholic lets you compare VoIP provider site traffic over time
- Ive been having a little fun with alexaholic, a type of Alexa mash-up that lets you compare estimated page view totals and traffic patterns for several websites over specific lengths of time.Lets compare relative page view rankings for Skype, Vonage, Packet 8, Gizmo Project and SunRocket site views over a...
- Tags: Web site development, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, VoIP, Alexa Internet Inc., mashup
- Blog posts 2006-11-17
- SunRocket's discount price: clever marketing or desperate move?
- SunRocket's discount price: clever marketing or desperate move?Could not disagree moreSunrocket has been growing at a very fast clip. They are now the second-fastest growing "standalone" VOIP provider with about 10,000 customers added each month. Adding the $9.95 plan is the natural expansion of SRs successful business...
- Tags: Telephony, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, marketing, Packet 8, SunRocket, VoIP
- Discussion threads 2005-12-12
- While some VoIP providers scratch their heads, Packet 8 expands E911
- While some VoIP providers scratch their heads, Packet 8 expands E911Packet8 rocks!For whoever is consider a VOIP phone service, DEFINITELY check out Packet8! I've been with them for several months, and my Insight broadband and it perform outstandingly day in and day out. Best of all, it's like $20 a...
- Tags: TELECOMMUNICATIONS, VoIP, Packet 8, Packet8, Lingo, E911
- Discussion threads 2005-02-18
- While some VoIP providers scratch their heads, Packet 8 expands E911
- While other VoIP providers are trying to figure out E-911, Packet8 is actually doing something about it. That's because Packet 8 has technology in place that automatically routes emergency calls and provides visual "screen pops" of caller information to emergency personnel stationed at E911 dispatch centers.TMCnet.comreports that Packet8 has just...
- Tags: Packet 8, E911
- Blog posts 2005-02-18
Additional Resources
- Four obstacles to implementing VoIP [video]
- Voice over IP is growing in popularity because companies are attracted to its potential for saving money on long distance and international calls. Still, fewer than half of all businesses are using VoIP because of a few drawbacks. This episode of Sanity Savers for IT Executives discusses the biggest obstacles...
- Tags: Video, Telephony, VOIP, Telecommunications, Networking, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-12-05
- News to know: Layoffs at AT&T, Adobe, Real; AMD warns; $99 iPhone
- Larry Dignan: AT&T cuts 12,000 jobs, will cut capital spending Jason D. O'Grady: Adobe lays off 600; skips Macworld Expo Sam Diaz: Next up for layoffs: Real Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: AMD warns of 25% drop in Q4 sales Larry Dignan: AMD:...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Adobe Systems Inc., Layoff, Larry Dignan, AT&T Corp., Health Care, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-12-05
- Turn your iPod touch into a VoIP phone with Truphone
- I've talked about the Truphone VoIP solution here on this blog a couple of times in the past and have had it on my iPhone for several months. Now that my ZDNet Smartphones & Cell Phones blog focuses on phones you may be asking why I am posting about a...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Phone, Apple iPod, Apple iPod Touch, VoIP Phone, Fring, Digital Music, Telephony, Digital Media, Telecom & Utilities, VOIP, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Networking, Consumer Electronics, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-12-04
- iPod touch gets VoIP, steals some iPhone thunder
- The 'funnest' iPod ever has kicked it up a notch. Bam! Thanks to a microphone adapter and some free software called Truphone, the second-generation iPod touch is now capable of courting consumers as a VoIP mobile phone, in the most literal of senses (just...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, VoIP, Apple iPod, Call, Apple iPod Touch, Truphone, Truphone Application, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-12-04
- Hi Def Voice: Cool Sounding, But Do You Care?
- Who doesn't hate a bad phone connection, but just how bad does a connection have to be before you're willing to pay for a really good one? That's the question telephony vendors are wondering, as they deliver hi-def...
- Tags: Phone, Voice, Codec, Voice Channel, Telecom & Utilities, Dave Greenfield
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- AlertPay hit by a large scale DDoS attack
- AlertPay hit by a large scale DDoS attackThey make devices that quickly mitigate DDOS attacksThe fact that they failed to impliment them, means they are not serious about protecting their business.If i ran a payment processing system, i would have every protection available running on my systems and network. ...
- Tags: SECURITY, distributed denial of service, denial of service, AlertPay
- Discussion threads 2008-12-01
- Clearwire-Sprint make it official, pave way for WiMax rollout
- Clearwire-Sprint make it official, pave way for WiMax rolloutWhere's rogerramjet? This is the wireless steamroller.. its coming!I hope they can finally kill the two phone networks in this country and use one medium that will allow me to use any provider i want. Sorta like long distance.VOIP wont...
- Tags: Wi-Fi, WIRELESS, Telecom & Utilities, Clearwire Corp., WiMAX, Sprint Communications
- Discussion threads 2008-12-01
- From Chapter Three: The Windows Culture
- From Chapter Three: The Windows CultureYou forgot to mentionany bit of the Lotus 1-2-3 stories and the whole memory problem (expanded memory cards, EMS, HMS)And the IPX stories (Novell's Internetwork Packet Exchange).Internet or intranet?By December, 1995 there were still only 16 million internet users. That number wouldn't support a...
- Tags: Operating systems, IBM OS/2, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows NT, IBM Corp., Internet
- Discussion threads 2008-11-21
- Live Webcast: Using VoIP to Cut Costs in a Slowing Economy
- Businesses of all sizes are now realizing the need to not only cut costs but continue to provide infrastructure and tools to grow their businesses. Business VoIP technology has proven to lower costs while providing improved business communications. Nevertheless, there are still those who remain skeptical,...
- Tags: Webcast, Business Communication, Telephony, VOIP, Telecommunications, Networking
- Webcasts 2008-11-20
- HomePlug revival continues with new Netgear Powerline gear
- Remember when, not so long ago, home networking using power lines seemed down for the count due to slow throughput rates, especially as Draft N wireless devices entered the market? Thanks to improved technology, the HomePlug standard is staging a comeback, with big-name brands like Linksys...
- Tags: NetGear, Powerline, HDXB111, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2008-11-18
- Mobile industry calls for RFID payment push
- Mobile industry calls for RFID payment pushyet another way to hack into your wallet!Invisibly with no pain at all, your bank account can now be drained even more efficiently, and the phone and credit card companies will only charge you yet another fee for the "convenience". To them, that is...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, RFID, RFID payment, Mobile Industry, mobile, payment, phone
- Discussion threads 2008-11-18
- News to know: Jerry Yang, MLB.com, Mark Cuban, USB 3.0
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Sam Diaz: Jerry Yang to step down as CEO, back to Chief Yahoo Larry Dignan: With Yang out as Yahoo CEO, Steve Ballmer licks chops ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Jerry Yang, MLB, Larry Dignan, Richard Koman, Information Technology, Dana Blankenhorn, Mary Jo Foley, Mark Cuban, Microsoft Corp., Matthew Miller, USB, CEO, One Laptop Per Child Project, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Strategy, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-11-18
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