Archive for the ‘Skype’ Category

MagicJack to Offer SIP Service With New MagicTalk Product

Thursday, July 22nd, 2010

Look out Skype, Magicjack is getting ready to kick your behind. Magicjack’s creator, Daniel Borislow, is coming out with a new product next month, called MagicTalk. MagicTalk will be a SIP service like Skype, and will make it so that millions of people will have access to MagicJack’s service, without having to actually buy the MagicJack device.

MagicJack’s creator, Daniel Borislow, merged his company YMAX, with the VoIP company VocalTec last week, which means that MagicJack now belongs to a publicly traded company. I know that a ton of telecom professionals have made fun of the MagicJack over the years, but I’ve always though it was a cool product, and I’ve should know, since I have one in my office. With a move to the NASDAQ, MagicJack should have more clout, and should finally get the respect it deserves.

eBay™ to Take Skype™ Public

Thursday, April 16th, 2009

FierceTelecom popped a story today that said that eBay was going to do an IPO on Skype next year. What’s interesting is if they said that to get a higher price from the old Skype owners, who are trying to buy it back, or because Skype has over 400,000,000 users. (And that’s a whole lot of potential customers that somebody ought to be able to figure out how to make money with…)

You can read the story at FierceTelecom.com.