Source: www.voip-news.com

First - what is the VoIP News LinkedIn Experts Group? If you are a VoIP expert and a member of LinkedIn, you can head on over there and request membership in our group. But for those of you coming here because you are ALREADY members, here is a question for you all. Please respond in comments.

How are you planning to integrate mobile devices and applications into the voip services you use and which you are building for your employers or clients? Are you looking for straightforward integration or are you looking to add to the suite of applications the business can employ once you have mobility enabled with voip?

Source: www.voip-news.com

Two tidbits about 8×8 for those that are interested:

• FY2009 First Quarter results will be discussed on a conference call on July 31 at 4:30 p.m. EST. You can connect via webcast or phone. For details, click here.
• The 2008 annual meeting proxy materials are available online. Click here to learn more.

Source: www.voip-news.com

What major company is going to finally reveal what’s going on with them on Monday? Massive layoffs have left a lot of questions . . .

What country has raided and seized a VoIP vendor in an emerging market?

And is your regulatory archival method for VoIP up to snuff? Really?

Find out the answers to these questions and more in this news update from VoIP News.

Source: alanweinkrantz.typepad.com

Source: www.voip-news.com

Mediacom has renewed its contract with Ceon for 3 more years, which extends the agreement to 2010. Ceon began providing service to Mediacom in 2005. Mediacom uses Ceon’s Intelligent Order Manager for its residential  VoIP and high-speed data services.

“As we continue to grow our bundled broadband and VoIP services, we are relying on Ceon to provide the backbone of our service fulfillment architecture,” says Peter Brown, Senior Director of IP Development, Mediacom. “Ceon’s service fulfillment solution enables us be more responsive to customers and allows us to scale our services more efficiently.”

Ceon IOM’s flexible, customizable software can handle advanced order handling and workflow capabilities for VoIP and other IP-based services.

“Mediacom’s contract renewal is a significant vote of confidence for Ceon,” says Peter Burke, CEO of Ceon. “It reinforces our position as a leading provider of operations support systems solutions in the MSO marketplace. We look forward to providing additional value-rich, high-performing solutions and further strengthening our partnership with Mediacom as it continues to rolls out advanced IP-based services to its subscriber base.”

Source: alanweinkrantz.typepad.com

I felt the best use of my time and this blog was to search for, and post what I thought were the best post-iPhone 3G news stories.

Here goes:

Saul Hansell’s BITS Blog summarizes interview with AT&T’s Ralph de la Vega.  The new plan goes up $10 and why current iPhone users may not get the $199 price point.

Om Maliks’s GIGAOm Blog begs the right question:  is 3G Ready for the iPhone Stress Test?  Om also interviews Ralph de la Vega here right after the official launch.

Michael Miller’s Forward Thinking Blog gives the best overview of not only the 3G iPhone, but information and insight on Mobile Me

Eric Zemin’s Over The Air - InformationWeek Blog has a skeptic’s view of why not to buy the 3G iPhone

And just for fun, the Intomobile Blog has FCC documents which it can now release showing Apple’s application for the device.

Source: andyabramson.blogs.com

Counterpath’s FMC comes to Slovenia.

This is not really news, because I heard about this at MWC, but nonetheless shows that FMC is still alive and growing.

Source: alanweinkrantz.typepad.com

Starting today, I will have a monthly column in the Business Section of the San Antonio Express-News. 

I will be writing about various technology issues, innovation, disruption, PR, social media and because of my 3Screens blog, some coverage of AT&T. 

Today’s column, addresses the shaping of AT&T’s new legacy, which you may read here.

If you have ideas for future topics, let me know with an email or
phone call to: alan at weinkrantz dot com or +210-820-3070 ext. 103.

This is a great opportunity to be part of a national news daily; one
that I believe reflects well on the growing and vibrant economy of San
Antonio and the really smart people who make it home.

Thanks for taking a look!

Source: alanweinkrantz.typepad.com

2nd US Starbucks store with AT&T WiFi /Apple iTunes combo now live.

More later tonight….

Source: www.voip-news.com

The group is now up and running and the link to go join is here:

http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/79057/6CCE3E504508

You will need to be a member of LinkedIn as well, but LinkedIn is a great resource for professionals, so you are quite likely to want to join anyway.

Source: www.voip-news.com

VoIP News is forming an experts group via LinkedIn. First off, some basic details so you know what this means.

LinkedIn is a ’social media’ site that connects professionals and their networks of colleagues, peers and business relationships. It has proven to be very successful and many influential people within IP telephony and the VoIP space are members of LinkedIn. One of the ways these professionals can connect via LinkedIn is via professional groups. VoIP News is setting up one of these groups for VoIP experts to connect and help make business relationships.  In this case, because we want to be completely open and to facilitate community within VoIP, we are simply going to say that if you think you are a VoIP expert, then you are one.

Some people will invited directly via email form within the LinkedIn system. The other way to join is via a link to the group. We do not have that today, but we will in the next couple of days and we will post the link here for those who want to join.

Please note: LinkedIn takes professional relationships very seriously as do we here at VoIP News. If you aren’t a VoIP expert then please don’t try to join. LinkedIn relies on members only making connections when there is a real connection there to be made - in other words, don’t build and add to your network just for the sake of having a big network - in the long run you’ll hurt your reputation.

Finally, this is an experiment. It may not work. But if it does it should provide another way for VoIP professionals to connect with one another.

Source: andyabramson.blogs.com

I’m saddened by this report.

If anyone thinks this is good news they’re wrong. It’s not.

While I’ve made an attempt to reach Pulver Media representatives for comment so far at 1115 PM EDT, no response after more than two hours.

I know Jeff well enough that he has more on his mind than to talk to me in a moment like this, so I won’t bother him. But I will publicly offer him my support, as I hope the industry will if he needs it, just like I did for Lee Dryburgh and eComm.