Source: andyabramson.blogs.com

Jeff explains why he likes his new mobile phone, a Blackberry Curve and is hopeful around his N82 giving him the same benefits at home over WiFi and why he sees no need for a Femtocell.

He’ll enjoy it. I have the same Blackberry Curve and mobil provider, T-Mobile, and I have the TMO HotSpot@HOME service on it, and it works great. Not only at home, but even over my travel routers in most well wired hotels that don’t have multiple NAT issues.

He’ll also enjoy the Nokia N82 he received from ____________ (one guess)…..and client Truphone who he first turned me onto. Over my cable or Covad Bonded T1, both services perform perfectly.

Source: andyabramson.blogs.com

Having spent a considerable amount of time in Europe the last year I can relate to Jeff Pulver’s comment about travel time and the need for in flight WiFi, especially here in the USA. That said, needing access to broadband on the go is key to this mobile/portable/nomadic lifestyle.

I for one miss the Boeing Conexxion service that I used on Lufthansa and SAS in 2005 and 2006. It has made it almost essential that I have broadband access on the ground at airports and access to mobile data and low priced voice calling while on the go.

Here are some of my tips, both old and new that keep making the working life on the road easier.

1. If you’re going to one of the Hutchison 3G serving mobile countries invest in the Skypephone. Buy a prepaid card, toss in the extra money for a pay as you go data plan and make all the calls you want to back home. Every time I’m in the UK I toss 20 pounds on to my phone and buy a top up for the same amount before I leave. The credit doesn’t expire. Figure 15 pounds for unlimited calling back to the states and elsewhere if I need to dial someone, and five pounds for the month or as low as 50 pence a day for the data connection.

2. Client Truphone and a travel router on a Nokia N or E Series phone. Okay, so both companies are clients. And you know what, the combo can’t be beat. I had to spend over 90 minutes last Friday when I was in London on the Nokia E90 with Apple Care over a self inflicted wound caused by a bad install of Meebo/Tokbox and Adobe Flash audio/video that hosed my audio settings so bad a trip to the Apple store had to be booked in Philadelphia on Sunday. Cost. Zero as it was a Truphone WiFi call over my E90’s speakerphone via Truphone.

3. MAXroam–if you’re going transborder this is much easier than flipping SIM cards in and out.

4. CradlePoint-I got turned onto this by MAXRoam’s Pat Phelan. Yesterday Alec Saunders and I had a Skype call over my EvDO connection using Sprint from my house. Basically you create a hot spot anywhere you are and can share with friends. Word of warning, it works best when you do one data transfer intensive action if your having a VoIP call. It won’t easily support video though.

5. Plantronics Internet Phone Booth 480 Headset. Day in and day out this is the best headset and mic combo to use. Its light and sounds great. Need a speakerphone. Nothing beats the Polycom Communicator. When I need a conference call I turn to client VAPPs and their High Speed Conferencing. The sound quality can’t be beat.

Source: andyabramson.blogs.com

In what must have been one of the hardest decisions of his life, this morning Jeff Pulver resigned from the Board of Directors of Pulver Media, the company which now only carries his name, but since the beginning of the VoIP era has embodied his spirit and vision.

Obviously, given the uncertain state of Pulver Media and their investors Jeff is taking good counsel and saying only as much as possible. For the equally transparent and always honest Jeff Pulver this can’t be made any harder.

As a Pulver Media advisory board member, I think I speak for all by saying "thank you" and "your contributions were endless in creating an industry around your beliefs and dreams. We, as a community THANK YOU and hope for your return in whatever form or fashion that may be."

Source: andyabramson.blogs.com

I had fun watching Jeff’s most recent video on what you need for personal social networking. Give it a look.

See those of you who are coming to his Monday breakfast there.

Source: snapvoip.blogspot.com

Jeff and Chris at Fall VON, Boston with Mark Spencer, Loic LeMeur, Bubbe and Avram. Just continuing with filling up for Fall VON

Source: voipcentral.org

Jeff has integrated click-to-call features of Sitofono at the pulver.com home page. Unfortunately, I cannot enjoy the service since it does not take Indian telephone numbers.

First, you need to select your country in the menu, and then enter the fixed telephone number. After that, they must click on the Call for Free button. This service is free.

Developed and powered by Abbeynet, Sitofono is a push button, which can be put in the web pages to receive real time calls from the people on the internet directly on your fixed phone, switchboard, toll free number or automatic responder.

Source: voipcentral.org

Pulvermedia has released the list of 100 companies in the 2007 Pulver 100. This is a complete list figuring the privately-held growth companies that shape the current VoIP industry.

Lets find out the names of these companies.

I personally feel that the comprehensive list will be an easy reference for the users in selecting their desired service provider.

Jeff Pulver, founder and chairman of Pulvermedia says,

The Pulver 100 is the IP communications industry’s first and foremost award listing, and has become an indicator of the leading edge in IP communications, and the companies named to the 2007 Pulver 100 represent the future of the IP communications industry.

Source: voipcentral.org

Jeff has introduced about AllFreeCalls.net that provides free phone calls to the users.

Using AllFreeCalls.Net, the US customers can make VoIP calls to nearly 30 countries including Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil,Canada, China, Christmas & Cocos Island, Cyprus, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, UK and USA. Few more countries would be added in the list very soon.

Its application is very simple but versatile. Seems like an ordinary working telephone, AllFreeCalls.net does not require any special software for international calls.

To go with it, simply dial +1.712.858.8094. When it is connected, enter 011, then the country code, and then the number that you want to contact.

For better understanding, the users can follow the instructions given in English and Spanish languages.

Source: snapvoip.blogspot.com

A blog Game started by Jeff Pulver a few weeks ago, running around the blogsphere. Many a people have made their own and I like what Dave Gale at hitting the wire has done. I will play both!. If you you want you can follow the Jeff’s version or Dave’s version, links are below. SOlOSEO keeps tag on these, tracks the Daves version and invites you to upkeep Jeff’s tag tracking.

Five things about me;
1. My first love is Physics, not VoIP
2. I play solo Orchestra, in my studio, even though I skipped my Piano classes
3. In 2001, I bought and sold about 15000 minutes of Voip a week, until a bad man cheated me.
4. I have been in all the continents of which about 20 countries more than I spent more than 3 months per visit.
5. I speak and write in about 7 languages, non of them properly!

I tag these hero’s of VoIP and technology;
Jeff Pulver, Andy Abramson, Jo Ito, Ken Camp, David Gale You are it!

Links;
Jeffs game of Blog-Tag
Dave’s version of Blog-tag
SoloSeo Blog-Tag Track

Source: snapvoip.blogspot.com

A blog Game started by Jeff Pulver a few weeks ago, running around the blogsphere. Many a people have made their own and I like what Dave Gale at hitting the wire has done. I will play both!. If you you want you can follow the Jeff’s version or Dave’s version, links are below. SOlOSEO keeps tag on these, tracks the Daves version and invites you to upkeep Jeff’s tag tracking.

Five things about me;
1. My first love is Physics, not VoIP
2. I play solo Orchestra, in my studio, even though I skipped my Piano classes
3. In 2001, I bought and sold about 15000 minutes of Voip a week, until a bad man cheated me.
4. I have been in all the continents of which about 20 countries more than I spent more than 3 months per visit.
5. I speak and write in about 7 languages, non of them properly!

I tag these hero’s of VoIP and technology;
Jeff Pulver, Andy Abramson, Jo Ito, Ken Camp, David Gale You are it!

Links;
Jeffs game of Blog-Tag
Dave’s version of Blog-tag
SoloSeo Blog-Tag Track

Source: voipcentral.org

Jeff Pulver as I know is one of the smart bloggers of the current IP industry. I went through his 2007 predictions for IP Communications Industry. In fact, Pulvers predictions are based on minimal of biasness or no bias.

Jeff has strongly argued,

While the hype surrounding Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC) will grow during 2007, the FMC marketplace will continue to stagnate until such time that software becomes widely available for dual model phones that offer seamless roaming across unaffiliated wifi/wimax hotspots.

Highlights

1.Enterprises to amalgamate their communication networks

2.Growth will persist in IP Peering between service providers.

3.The PSTN to turn into the IP-based public communications network of the future.

4.Cable Operators to apply new solutions to connect their voice subscribers to 3G Mobile Networks

5.Rise of Independent voice over broadband service providers

6.IP TV will dominate year 2007.

7.Legal hassles in the field of digital rights and copyright protection seems to be resolved

In conclusion Jeff says,

Although regulators and legislators will begin to better appreciate the power of IP technology to dramatically improve emergency response and disabilities access capabilities, Lobbyists and Policymakers and traditional telecom and video providers in the US will continue to try to apply legacy rules and regulations on Internet based applications, be it voice, television or radio. See the first significant regulator attempts to regulate indecency and other content on the Internet.

Source: snapvoip.blogspot.com

In all, the U.S. has to date issued 2,049 patents related to Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), a technology that enables low-cost or free calling using the same method that zips e-mail around the Internet.
So where are the battles? They are coming but I think we should find out who and what these patents are? NO, If you knew about the patent you are in violation. Hmmm.
Don’t take my advise, I am not a lawyer (IANAL).
But here is the story, According to Businessweek article,

The Patent & Trademark Office is approving patents aplenty for Internet-based calling. On Nov. 14 alone, it handed out a patent on what IBM calls a "conversations computing system," and granted chip maker Intel a patent for a computer-based phone "eliminating the need for a telephone set."

Those were among dozens of patents granted on two separate days in November to companies including Texas Instruments (TXN), Motorola (MOT), and Nokia (NOK). In October, the PTO gave an additional 76 patents to the likes of Qualcomm (QCOM), Nortel (NT), Broadcom (BRCM), Time Warner’s AOL (TWX), and NTT DoCoMo (DCM) of Japan.

Patent Battles

As I said they are coming and the article lists some of them already in the process. But Our own Pundit, Jeff Pulver said that
"Chances are, many patent battles will be fought outside the courtroom. Patent holders are likely to use their intellectual property portfolio to extract concessions on cross-licensing deals, where one company may share its VoIP expertise in exchange for use of another company’s patented technology, It’s certainly going to be something somebody could use against somebody."

Links;
VOIP Patent article on Business week