Vonage gets its stay, launches astroturf site

It's been a big week for Vonage--and at last some of the news is good. A federal appeals court stayed a trial court's injunction that would have prohibited the company from signing up new customers. The stay will remain in effect until an appeal of the Vonage's patent loss to Verizon heard. That appeal will happen sooner rather than later: June 25, which is legal terms is practically tomorrow. Vonage is also trying to rally public support, kicking off freetocompete.com, a corporate site designed to get its side of the patent story out. (The term for this kind of corporate-sponsored grassroots effort, by the way, is "astroturfing." It's not a complimentary term.) The only sign that Vonage is backing this--aside from the obvious one-sidedness of the content--is a small copyright note at the bottom of the web pages. And lastly, Vonage unveiled Vonage Text, which translates voicemails to text, which it then e-mails to you.

For more about Vonage's court win:
- read this article from the San Jose Mercury News
- see this website for more about Vonage's astroturfing
- read this article from Voxilla for more about Vonage Text

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