The Comunicano Daily for Monday February 3, 2014

    The Comunicano Daily       Last week's IT Expo was exciting to attend. Crowds were up, the number of exhibitors were up and even the panels seemed to have more speakers. This bodes well for the next couple of TMC events including WebRTC World and this August's Hot event IT Expo-Fall Summer … Read more

Thoughts on Standards Call Centers, Call Routing, VoIP Codecs, Port Blocking and Transit of Voice

Let's face it. We live in a very connected, always on world where being reached is essential. As a global nomad of the nth degree i rely on my various communications providers like SimpleSignal and a string of services ranging from GoogleVoice, Skype, Calliflower, WebEx, GoToMeeting, UberConference, Voxeet, Truphone and various mobile operators to keep … Read more

Thoughts on WebRTC and OTT Services

Just about two weeks ago I was attending the ITU Telecom World where I joined Dean Bubley's panel and then moderating the TADS Summit in Bangkok, Thailand. Bangkok is an interesting place and my mobile experience, not only with a SIM but seeing how mobile centric that part of the world is, even more than … Read more

Some New Services To Keep Tabs On

WebEx logo used by WebEx as an independent company (Photo credit: Wikipedia) We’re constantly seeing new entrants into the market to help keep the global worker who crosses boarders more connected. Three entering global roaming market, and each with what appears to be well thought through value propositions are: GigSkyGlobalGigFogg In the voice, video and … Read more

The Changing Face of Collaboration with WebRTC and More

While the standards bodies and heavyweights (Google, Microsoft, Firefox) all duke it out on the WebRTC standard the developers and visionaries of how work will get done in the future are not standing still in attacking the collaboration space at all. And its just in time as I'm tired of traveling and am finding that … Read more

WebRTC News for Thursday June 27 2013-Early Edition

Image via CrunchBase The "news" is slowing down, but it's clear that WebRTC is heating up. Last night I gathered up a bunch of folks in town for the conference and invited them to a dinner of what I named the "Like Minds Group" here in Atlanta. Companies represented included leading execs from AT&T, Amdocs, Cisco, … Read more

TokBox Launches OpenTok with WebRTC For Customer Service

Breaking News–On the second day of WebRTC World in Atlanta, TokBox, now owned by Telefonica Digital, has made some news with a customer service oriented play called OpenTok, reports TechCrunch. This is no surprise, not from them, or the category that TokBox is attacking, as customer service with chat boxes tied to web pages are … Read more

WebRTC News for Wednesday June 26 2013-Early Edition

WebRTC's roadmap (Photo credit: Tsahi Levent-Levi) So WebRTC World opened yesterday and it was a developer's dream event. The day brought back memories of the old days, when TMC and others organized developer conferences, and where new companies showed off their dreams, established companies told us how they were going to change, and how the … Read more

WebRTC News for Tuesday June 25 2013-Midday Edition

The big news of the day comes from TechCrunch which is reporting that Firefox 22 now has WebRTC in it , and with the release, it becomes the first stable version of the popular browser that supports the WebRTC protocol. In looking at the update the very first item is WebRTC, clearly showing that the developers are playing … Read more