Light reading to overcome SuperBowl hype prior to the actual game:

Garrett Smith interviews Ted Wallingford,"an enterprise systems consultant, a writer, a blogger, and an authority on Voice over IP", with comments on enterprise use of VoIP:

Smith: Do you think a service such as Skype will ever be suitable as a primary form of business communication for small medium businesses?

Wallingford: Not in its present form. It still has the fundamental drawback of being tied to a PC or Mac, in most cases. Plus, it's too secretive to become pervasive. There are no Skype techno-enthusiasts out there evangelizing it because Skype is keeping all its dirty secrets to itself. The inner-workings of Skype would have to be exposed in order for widespread business use to become common. If we knew how it worked, we could provide QoS measures, and then it would be an acceptable primary telephony solution for businesses. (They do have call-transfers now, with 3.0, which would've been mmy other gotcha...)

Read the entire post for Ted's interesting advice on implementation of VoIP into the enterprise.

Technology plays to watch: Andy has the scoop on the launch of Gizmo Call:

What makes this something cool is that you can make calls today and in the near future receive calls in a browser. That means you don't have to at YOUR computer, you can be at ANY computer.

More insight from Garrett Smith and GigaOm.

Remember eBay's announcement about working with Google and the speculation on how Skype and Google Talk would interoperate?. Not much heard lately but Paul Kretkowski theorizes on Google's VoIP Strategy; can Google be a game-changer?

If Charlene Li's speculation bears fruit and future Google Talk revs both capture and search voice traffic, this little IM client potentially changes the telecom business forever. Here are a few ramifications of digitally recorded, searchable phone calls:

Enjoy the SuperBowl (even if your country's cable regulations overwrite the SuperBowl ads with local content).

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