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- Why did SunRocket talk to Vonage more than a month BEFORE they went under?
- Last Thursday, I reported that SunRocket LLC,, the entity that is liquidating former VoIP provider SunRocket, is suing Vonage over what the entity believes is the improper way Vonage acquired some names of former SunRocket customers.To recap, the suit says that in early June, "SunRocket and Vonage entered into a...
- Tags: Vonage Holdings Corp., SunRocket, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-08-27
- From the grave, SunRocket sues Vonage over customer list
- Yes, there is a "ghost of SunRocket." That'd be some legal entity called SunRocket LLC, formed to preside over the dissolution of SunRocket's assets.Assets presumably, principally being, the late VoIP-ers 200,000 strong subscriber list.SunRocket LLC isn't pleased with what they view as the "illegal" way in which Vonage obtained a...
- Tags: Vonage Holdings Corp., SunRocket, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-08-24
- Vonage CEO:"shocked" by SunRocket's rapid demise
- During yesterday's quarterly conference call with analysts, Vonage founder-chair-interim CEO Jeff Citron was asked what he thought of SunRocket's rapid demise, and how it was handled."I was shocked to see the company go from having capital troubles to not signing up new customers and closing its doors," colleague Maggie Reardon...
- Tags: Vonage Holdings Corp., Demise, SunRocket, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-08-10
- SunRocket orphans: selling our contact info to Vonage violates SR Privacy Policy
- A number of orphaned SunRocket customers indicate they have reason to believe that SR asset liquidator Sherwood Partners has sold their contact info to Vonage.That would be in addition to perceived sales to Packet8 and TeleBlend, both of which were publicly identified by Sherwood as preferred providers.Many of these reports...
- Tags: Vonage Holdings Corp., Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-08-08
- 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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- 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
- Magna Charta: Welcome Back, Ross Perot
- So, EDS is gone again, subsumed by HP. But, lo and behold, H. Ross Perot is back, just in time for the presidential elections. Now, you can view his slides about the dangers of the federal deficit and debt online, any time you want. Or, hear him posit...
- Tags: Ross Perot, Electronic Data Systems Corp., Productivity, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-08-26
- 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
- Highest-paid US public company executives
- Associated Press published a list of highest-paid public company executives out of S&P 500 index. Larry Ellison, Oracle Corp. ORCL, $84.6 mln John Thain, Merrill Lynch & Co. MERPO, $83.1 mln Leslie Moonves, CBS Corp. CBS, $67.6 mln Richard Adkerson, Freeport-McMoran Copper & Gold Inc., $65.3 mln Bob Simpson,...
- Tags: Company Executive, CBS Corp., GPS, Financial Accounting, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Finance, Hardware, AM
- Blog posts 2008-08-21
- Open source and the 'fear factor' mentality
- Open source and the 'fear factor' mentality....Look, our resident troll is back! ]:)OK everybody!Shut everything down. Open Source doesn't work. Go back to proprietary because they never have any security breaches. How many repositories are we talking about? You site one breach and declare the Open...
- Tags: open source, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2008-08-20
- Yahoo: TV widgets and pondering a Disney takeover
- If Yahoo's battle with Google has taught us anything it's that the company isn't run by engineers. Sure, Yahoo is tech savvy. Sure it has an open platform. And sure it'll do things like plan a Widget Channel with Intel and tout it at a developers conference. But Yahoo is...
- Tags: Disney Corp., Yahoo! Inc., Widget Channel, Minyanville, Harrison, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- Microsoft, Novell bolster Linux partnership
- Microsoft and Novell said Wednesday that the software giant will invest more into the companies' SUSE Linux partnership. As part of the agreement, Microsoft will buy up to an additional $100 million in SUSE Linux support certificates. The partnership all posts between Novell and Microsoft kicked off...
- Tags: Novell Inc., Partnership, Microsoft Corp., SuSE Linux, SuSE, Linux, Business Structures, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- 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
- 3D HD cellphone video: a killer app for next decade storage
- Terabyte notebooks are coming in a couple of years. But what will we fill them with? Glad you asked. How about 3D HDTV cell phone footage? Don't laugh. It's coming. Flashback When I bought my first external hard drive - 30 MB for $300 - I...
- Tags: 3D, Phone, Killer Application, Storage, Cell Phone, Video, Terabyte Notebook, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-08-14
- Campaign 08: H1-B questions for candidates
- Robert Meltzer, CEO of VisaNow offers this guest blog post on the questions we should be asking the candidates on the ever-contentious H1-B issue. Consistently throughout U.S. history, immigration has been a divisive topic. Cultural biases, misconceptions, racism and fear continue to influence both opponents and...
- Tags: U.S., H-1B Visa, Immigration System, H-1B, Government, Human Resources, Labor Relations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-08-13
- 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
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