Archive for January, 2009

Flat Planet Phone introducing innovative mobile calling solution

My friend Moshe Maeir just let me know that his company has something special to announce at next week’s ITExpo in Miami.
[We will] be introducing a unique LCR (low cost routing) engine for the mobile market … this solution together with our successful hosted VoIP platform for resellers (set up your own phone company […]

Free call recording now available through Fonolo!

I’m happy to announce that today we made call recording available to all users of Fonolo. All you need to do is sign up for a free beta account.
After you’ve logged in, you can preview the phone menu from any of the hundreds of companies in our database and click on any point in that […]

Truphone and iSkoot - AppStores of the future?

A number of companies including Truphone, iSkoot, mig33, Fring, Eqo have all built mobile applications with the intention of providing low-cost calls to their users. Now, margins on that business model are shrinking, and pressures to make money are growing. So the question is: How can those guys leverage their install base and technology to […]

Thoughts on Jott’s de-freemiuming

In the second half of 2006, a slew of start-ups in the space that would come to be called "Voice 2.0" were very much in vogue and attracted an impressive amount of VC funding. GotVoice, Jajah, Snapvine, Jangl, GrandCentral, Jaxtr and others raised over a $100m from A-list firms like Draper Fisher, First Round […]

Speaking at Pacific Northwest Wireless Summit next week

I am looking forward to attending the Pacific Northwest Wireless Summit in Vancouver on Monday. It looks like the organizers have put together a good program. Getting to visit one of my favorite cities is a bonus.
I will be on a panel discussing the impact of the iPhone on wireless carriers, a topic I’ve […]

Ontario government funds 8 start-ups

Well, VC activity in Ontario might be cooling off (as I wrote here) but the provincial government has shown that it means business with its Innovation Accelerator Fund. Last week they announced that 8 start-ups would get up to $500k in funding. The premier of Ontario, Dalton McGuinty, made the announcement himself. You can […]