I've been writing and publishing "The Pulver Report" since August, 1996. The report used to get published at least 10 times a year.

With everything else that is going on, I'm just glad that I was able to get the February 2005 edition published and distributed yesterday morning.

Subscriptions to The Pulver Report remain free. There are around 50,000 subscribers at the moment.

8:11:42 PM    

[Article ID: 1447-6668] By Pike and Fischer. [VoIP Monitor]
8:09:41 PM    

Next week we will be introducing a new software application to help facilitate the transition from being part of a virtual community to being part of a physical community.

My hope is that with the advent of our new social networking tool, members of the Spring 2005 VON Conference Community will be able to accelerate their own face-to-face, business-to-business networking.

8:08:12 PM    

We are starting to see some progress with a few proposed P2P VoIP drafts in the IETF. It will probably take several months but there will be a standard here and that is good news!

With Skype's seemingly immense popularity the business case for P2P VoIP has been already been introduced, albeit nothing new. When we take that model and apply it using Open Standards like SIP [Session Initiation Protocol] the doors fling wide open.

Imagine all of the islands of communication you are used to, e.g. IM, Voice, Video.. all coming together under one roof and a great deal of it is what some would call free! It's coming, sooner than you think and some of those solutions will be using the Xten eyeBeam SDK to do it! Keep your ears to the rails, the trains'a comin :)

7:57:48 PM    

It looks like VoWiFi is making inroads into mobility, this is great news for the IP communications industry.

Excerpt from eWeek...

I-19, the Canamex Interstate Highway, is the home of the "world's first highway Wi-Fi mobile voice and high speed data network," from Rio Rico to South of Green Valley, Arizona according to New Zealand based RoamAD, which supplied the Wi-Fi mesh software used in the network's infrastructure.

more..

7:56:41 PM    

The trickier part was getting it so a cellphone could send an SMS text message to a Skype user, but Connectotel has also worked it out so you can do the reverse, too (yeah, it’s already fairly easy to send an SMS from a PC). Basically you just add “smsgateway” to your user list, type in the number of the person you want to bother, and then enter you message and you’re good to go.

7:43:16 PM    

Can we say how excited we were when we first peeped the i730, Samsung’s new EV-DO capable Pocket PC Phone? We thought we’d finally found what we were looking for—the i730 is only slightly larger than the Treo 650 and sports a 2.8-inch QVGA (240x320) 65,000 color touch screen, 64MB RAM, a 1.3 megapixel digital camera, WiFi, Bluetooth, and a slide-out QWERTY keyboard—but then we played around with it. Yeah, the screen is nice, and the prospect of having EV-DO on a phone like this really, really, really appeals to us, but that slide-out keyboard (which is one of the big selling points) just wasn’t cutting it for us (typing on it wasn’t pleasant). Anyway, not that we care as much as we used to, but apparently the i730 is going to be launched at the big CTIA wireless trade show in March, with Verizon all but guaranteed to be the carrier (it really couldn’t be anybody else now, could it?).

7:29:32 PM    

Last night after a very long wait at the Jacksonville Airport, I finally found a taxi to take to Amelia Island. Given the distance I had to travel, I took out my PC, launched the Verizon EVDO service and used the time to catch up on email and afterwards play a little poker. During the time I was in transit, I thought it was pretty cool that while the taxi was going at least 70 MPH, the connectivity did not miss a beat while I was playing.

Broadband in the back of a Jacksonville taxi...it just works!

7:27:57 PM