Now that things are back on track, I’ve been cooking up some new interviews:

David Friend, CEO, Carbonite — Carbonite is an online backup storage solution for consumers. For $5/month, you can backup your entire PC with ease! The Associated Press wrote an article recently about them, and they just announced a deal with Microsoft to include their service in Microsoft’s Money 2007. This interview should be posted this weekend.

Alec Saunders, CEO, Iotum — Iotum has built a relevance engine for telephony services and platforms — I like to call it “intelligent call routing” for the 21st Century. This one is coming soon!

Stephen Meer, CTO and Co-founder, Intrado — When you think of “911,” you should be thinking of Intrado. Their technology is the juncture point for most emergency calls in America! Long overdue, but it’s finally here!

As a former Vonage subscriber of more than two years, one thing that irked me most was their failure to “innovate.” While startups and upstarts were steadily adding new, dazzling features to their services, Vonage continued ahead with a feature set that (mostly) hadn’t changed since their introduction. How sad.

Vonage has spent millions of dollars on marketing, and probably won’t break even for the next few years, if at all. And, with Comcast recently claiming 1.7 Million Digital Voice subscribers, there’s even more reasons for Vonage’s top execs to be worried.

How will this play out? Only time will tell, but “leading the broadband phone revolution” they’re not.

While watching CNN American Morning, it was reported that former Enron CEO Kenneth Lay was dead at 64. A few thoughts came to mind:

* Did he commit suicide?
* Fake his death?
* Or die of natural causes?

Right now, reports say that he died of a heart attack — and he probably did. He appeared to be in good health, but what do I know?