Why Truphone's new flatrate prices might be a bad idea
Truphone announces new flatrate prices. Gigaom had the news first, but my comment doesn't show up. So I answer with a blog post. I am afraid that this is a bad move of Truphone.TruUnlimited for...
View ArticleWhy Skype maybe right about killing its Extras developer program and being...
So Skype kills its Extras developer program and everyone in VoIP and his dog is up in arms. I am not to happy either, but I think I understand the VoIP market leader: Skype has to be very careful...
View ArticleSkype buying Gizmo5 would finally bring the necessary growth to SIP
Andy Abramson wrote a really nice blog post on "Why The Gizmo Sale to Skype Rumor is Good For The Industry". I couldn't agree any more with him. Andy is just right, Amen to that.Dear Skype, please buy...
View ArticleDailyplaces will share location and recommendations. Sounds familiar?
[Germany] Ah, the Appstore approval process. It can destroy the news cycle. A week ago, our “Dear Leader” Mike Butcher started to ask startups on several occasions to come up with a worthy Foursquare...
View ArticleeasyMobile is dead again
Do you remember last year when Rebtel snapped up the brand name easyMobile from Stelios Haji-Ioannou? CEO Hjalmar Windbladh sounded very enthusiastic then."Sir Stelios and easyGroup are our kind of...
View ArticleSad day in VoIP: Voxalot R.I.P.
This weekend started with a very sad message for VoIP tinkerers like me:Dear Voxalot User,We are sorry to inform you that due to the rising cost of operations, we have been forced to discontinue the...
View ArticleWhy I am disgusted with Plaxo Pulse
I don't like Plaxo Pulse. It feels scary and gives me a sense of lost privacy. For years Plaxo was just an address book service in the internet. I could store my friends' address data and access them...
View ArticlePhone company Jajah enters wholesale business
The VoIP company Jajah is entering more and more markets and now they are gearing towards the wholesale business. That's what I learned at Barcelona's Mobile World Congress, where I met a company which...
View ArticleTruphone's new pricing not as I thought
I have to admit that I was wrong in my last blog post about "Truphone's new pricing". I had bet that Truphone would offer free calls for another two months, as they always did when their free offer...
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Watch Qik mobile live videos on your cell phone!
Qik is the latest favourite gadget of famous video bloggers like Robert Scoble, Jeff Pulver, Steve Garfield, Loren Feldman, Laura Fitton, Cali Lewis and others. They can simply switch on their mobile...
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Call Skype contacts from a mobile phone's browser with Hipsip!
Hipsip is a nice and easy mobile VoIP service which let's you call Skype and SIP contacts from a normal cell phone without a Wifi or 3G data connection. In the last weeks I could try out the service as...
View ArticleFinally an own country code for VoIP, as I always wanted
I feel quite visionary, now that Voxbone has announced their iNum service. That's a new initiative to make worldwide portable VoIP telephone numbers available under the new virtual country-code +883....
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A free bridge from Skype to phone
Do you remember my blog post "A SIP address for Skype? Better the other way around!"? This mission has now been accomplished. As of yesterday you can call me on Skype and I will answer this call on my...
View ArticleMarkus in The Industry Standard and TMCnet
Yesterday was a very good day for my small blog. I got quoted in The Industry Standard, VentureBeat, TMCnet and the Voxeo blog with my findings about Hipsip and the free bridge from Skype to phone....
View ArticleBoxbe anti spam filter – a cure worse than the plague
To all my friends who received annoying marketing email messages from a miserable Silicon Valley internet startup called Boxbe: I beg your pardon.After I signed up to Boxbe, more than 500 of my email...
View ArticleFinally Truphone Anywhere comes out and proves me right
Truphone finally makes it public: According to fellow VoIP blogger Alec Saunders and the UK site Techworld, Truphone is set to announce Truphone Anywhere, a service that lets you acccess the Truphone...
View ArticleeasyMobile comes back, but the calls aren't free as Stelios had announced
The British phone company easyMobile is back, 18 months after it had to shut down. But this time the brand name doesn't stand for a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO). The Greek serial entrepreneur...
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Craving for Android
Some say that Google's Android is losing its mojo after it turned out this week that only the contest winners of Google's Developer Challenge get the latest SDK, while all the others have to use an...
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How Vodafone and Nokia compete on a mobile social phonebook with GPS
I see a very interesting competition developing between Nokia and Vodafone. All signs indicate that they are in a race to present the first social phonebook on cell phones which makes use of GPS. The...
View ArticleWhy Truphone and Gizmo5 applaud that Nokia turns it's back on mobile VoIP
Om Malik has asked "Is Nokia Turning Its Back on MobileVoIP?", pinpointing to the fact that the new Nseries devices N78 and N96 lack an own SIP client, while Nokia before embraced mobile VoIP on it's...
View ArticleNokia leaves Asterisk users in the cold
A commentator to my last post "Why Truphone and Gizmo5 applaud that Nokia turns it's back on mobile VoIP" doubts my argumentation by asking:I thought Truphone is based on the built-in SIP client? Then...
View ArticleO2 Germany unblocks Rebtel
Just a fast news break: O2 in Germany is not blocking the phone numbers of Rebtel anymore. Their blog says "Victory! Rebtel is officially back in town and we’re planning on staying for a loooong time...
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Finally Fring reveals how it wants to make money
Many people were wondering during the last two years how the Israeli mobile VoIP company Fringland Ltd. wants to make any money. Their versatile software works on virtually every platform and supports...
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WARNING: Android devices are NOT open
The world is excited about Google's new operating system for mobile phones. But I am not such a big fan anymore since I talked to Rich Miner, Head of Mobile Platforms at Google. We met yesterday in...
View ArticleEx OpenMoko Lead System Architect takes on Android's lack of openness
Two days ago I centered my frustration about the lack of openness in mobile handsets with Google's new operating system, like the T-Mobile G1, in the headline "WARNING: Android devices are NOT open"....
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