First came the news that Skype’s senior executives were fleeing the company as fast as they could. What did they anticipate? Now thanks to Phil Wolff and Om Malik, we have some details on the latest drama, a new round of Skype firings:About 40 of the 516 folks working at Skype worldwide are affect…

Dropped calls, unreliable signal quality, weak signals, battery draining, legal issues. To sum it up, the New York Times’ Matt Richtel says that WiFi phones just aren’t ready yet for primetime.I find myself agreeing with him. Though I strongly support attempts to converge voice, details, video an…

Verizon’s press release branch must have been working overtime that past weekend in order to pump out all that news:Tyler, Texas: Tyler Residents Can Now Enjoy High-Speed Wireless World Wide Web, E-mail, Mobile Music and GamingLongview, Texas: Customers Can Now Get High-Speed Wireless Web and E-ma…

1. PhoneGnome Goes VoIP 2.0Tons of upgrades since the last version. Now it has free membership and is free-to-call within the PhoneGnome member community. The hardware now becomes optional, and is being offered cheaper. There’s no software due either, as all calls are initiated to your phone from…

Thanks to both Dan and Jonathan by at The VoIP defense Podcast for the warm welcome. that is the first day The VoIP Service Blog has been mentioned in their podcast, with a reference to my scoop on the FTC and SPIT.It was actually pointed out that the article’s humorous title, “New FTC rule to put …

Skype and 3 Group have announced the launch of X-Series, a collaborative effort to supply mobile broadband at flat rates, a key requirement for mobile VoIP and other services.3 Group will reveal new pricing plans for documents usage on their mobile networks. It seems that X-Series will only work wi…

Gotalk deserves minimal praise for this piece of news. It’s nice that they’re trying to think of innovative products, but $50 for a 128MB flash drive doesn’t precisely get me excited, even whether it does launch a softphone application when you stick it in a PC. I don’t think it’ll be on my Christ…