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Ooma Dialog

I wrote a blog entry titled Ooma Hysteria a few months back. A point I made in the entry is that ooma calls can potentially be tapped by users. Others commenting in the blog agreed. The company’s Chief Technologist Jeff...

Posted on October 20, 2007 4:58 PM

AT&T Sues Vonage

Vonage can’t catch a break. There seem to be companies standing in line to take numbers to sue them. It must be a very difficult time at the New Jersey based Internet telephony leader. AT&T is the latest company to...

Posted on October 20, 2007 6:33 AM

Vonage Resellers Concerned

I just heard through the grapevine that a major retailer has told a VoIP provider that if there is any more bad Vonage news they will pull the Vonage boxes off shelves and replace them with another company. I haven’t...

Posted on October 9, 2007 4:53 PM

Packet8 Win

I have to admit, the press release (see bottom of page) I received this morning from Packet8/8x8 may be among the most unique I have ever received as it details how Packet8 is the service provider of choice for a...

Posted on September 26, 2007 9:05 AM

Vonage Loses to Sprint Nextel

These are mighty difficult times for Vonage as the incumbent providers have ganged up against them and have decided to compete on patents as opposed to technology. A federal jury has ruled that Vonage has to pay $69.5 million in...

Posted on September 25, 2007 5:31 PM

SCO Bankrupt

In the 1980s I was MIS Director here at TMCnet. In case you aren’t aware I introduced desktop publishing to TMC around 1986 or so and we were one of the first publishing companies to standardize on PCs instead of...

Posted on September 17, 2007 2:38 PM

Polaris IP

Polaris IP is a company you probably never heard of but they have a patent on an e-mail routing system and are using it to sue the Internet’s largest companies. In particular, Google, Yahoo!, Amazon, A9, Borders, AOL and IAC/Interactive...

Posted on August 29, 2007 9:22 AM

Apple vs. SP Technologies

Can you imagine a world where iPhones didn’t have access to touch screen technology? Well a company called SP Technologies has a patent on what seems to be the keyboard mechanism on the Apple iPhone. Will this mean Apple is...

Posted on August 7, 2007 3:29 PM

ShoreTel/Mitel Patent Lawsuit

Here is the latest on the ShoreTel/Mitel patent lawsuits from TMCnet’s Spencer Chin. I haven’t had a chance to examine the respective companies’ patent portfolios but one would imagine Mitel has a larger number just because they have been around...

Posted on July 31, 2007 6:01 PM

Voicemail Transcription Patent

I Get by with a Little Help from my Friends   Here is a patent on voicemail transcription from one of the founders of SpinVox who I met with some months back. The patent does describe having live operators listen...

Posted on July 12, 2007 9:12 PM

Voicemail Transcription Patent

I Get by with a Little Help from my Friends   Here is a patent on voicemail transcription from one of the founders of SpinVox who I met with some months back. The patent does describe having live operators listen...

Posted on July 12, 2007 9:12 PM

ShoreTel IPO

ShoreTel hit it big with an IPO which jumped 27.5% on it’s opening day. The IPO was derailed last week as a result of a lawsuit filed by Mitel. The company closed the day at $12.15, after the company priced...

Posted on July 5, 2007 9:01 PM

Broadcom Defeats Qualcomm

Today’s jury decision seems to seriously injure Qualcomm based on this TMCnet story written by Spencer Chin. The dollar values so far is a hair under $20 million and further damages looks like they will be awarded. In addition, Broadcom...

Posted on May 29, 2007 7:01 PM

Vonage Has Better Quarter

While the NJ based VoIP company had a better quarter than a year ago, they are still working on the “workaround” which will keep them from infringing on the Verizon patents.   "We believe we have workable designs for the...

Posted on May 10, 2007 12:27 PM

Vonage Free to Compete

Vonage has launched a grassroots campaign to ensure the company’s customers realize Verizon is using the courts to cease innovation. The lynchpin of this activity is a tongue in check website which reads, “Al Gore invented the Internet and...

Posted on April 25, 2007 11:53 AM

Andy Abramson on Verizon Patents

I just came across Andy Abramson’s post on Verizon’s VoIP patents which discusses the fact that 3COM may be one of the companies sitting on a VoIP patent eerily similar and earlier than one of the Verizon patents being used...

Posted on April 20, 2007 11:15 AM

Bad Vonage News

Many of my readers have been contacting me regarding recent Vonage quality and customer service issues. Tom covered some of these problems yesterday. There are also reports of potential Vonage bankruptcy related to the Verizon patent issues in case you...

Posted on April 20, 2007 8:05 AM

More on The VoIP Patent Mess

A number of people in the telecom industry tell me they have looked at the Verizon patents being used against Vonage and they say they have been doing the things that are claimed in the patents before Verizon filed. My...

Posted on April 20, 2007 7:13 AM

Vonage Has No Workaround

Apparently the Verizon patents are sufficiently broad as to not allow Vonage to have a workaround. This according to the USA Today. I was wondering myself how a workaround could take place on these patents as they seem to cover...

Posted on April 16, 2007 2:23 PM

New 8x8 Patent

8x8 the parent company of Packet8 announced today they have been awarded U.S. Patent No. 7,202,884 which focuses on the processing of images from a communications system to a computing system. This patent is important as technology companies need a...

Posted on April 13, 2007 10:23 AM

Vonage CEO Shuffle

I know I have been writing about Vonage a great deal lately and I am not sure whether to apologize about this fact or not but it is worth pointing out that Vonage and Sprint may reach some sort of...

Posted on April 13, 2007 5:28 AM

Is Vonage the New Google

Now hear me out. I realize the title of my article is baffling and your brain is already calculating all the different ways you will flame this piece with negative comments.   You may be thinking of all the differences...

Posted on April 12, 2007 4:36 PM

VoIP Patent Mess

Daniel Berninger at GigaOM has a good summary of the VoIP patent mess worth reading. Dan thinks the Verizon patents are overly broad and goes on to explain more about the future of patents. Unfortunately he also points out that...

Posted on April 9, 2007 9:27 AM

Quoted in St. Louis Post-Dispatch

I was quoted in today’s edition of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch regarding the Verizon Vs. Vonage case. As you can likely tell I had a busy day yesterday and I received quite a few calls from reporters regarding this issue....

Posted on April 7, 2007 6:02 PM

Quoted in Los Angeles Times

I was quoted in today’s edition of the Los Angeles Times regarding the Verizon Vs. Vonage case. I had a busy day yesterday and I received quite a few calls from reporters regarding this issue. I already blogged about the...

Posted on April 7, 2007 5:14 PM