Take a little bit of GoogleVoice, throw in some Bandwidth.com, hook in some UberConference as the spice and you get—>SWITCH. perhaps the UBERphone for businesses of all sizes and the service that in my mind will wreck havoc with the likes of 8×8 and RingCentral to name a few. Right now it's in private beta and … Read more
I just read the transcript of pal Dave Michels UC Strategies Podcast on the topic of WebRTC and the Channel. Dave did a great job of asking questions that have got to be scaring the pants off of the hardware oriented players. Or at least, that's what Dave's line of questioning did to get me … Read more
Image via CrunchBase Just as we're seeing Over the Top (OTT) in voice and data service impacting the legacy mobile operators and telcos, there's also a movement afoot thats going to challenge the legacy video conferencing providers like BT, Verizon, Glowpoint (I'm a shareholder) and the rest who have been in the business of white … Read more
Image via Wikipedia A few days ago eWeek and a few others picked up on the rumor that Avaya (the spinoff of Lucent and really Bell Labs) from over a decade ago was looking to purchase Radvision, long an inventor of real time communications technology out of Israel and New Jersey. The reason for the … Read more
Former client and CEO at Bridgeport Networks, now a part of client CounterPath, Mike Mulica, has joined OpenWave as CEO. Mulica is known best as a sales guy. My gut says he's there to sell the Openwave business as a whole or to sell of some of their patent portfolio. Broadsoft, in a move to strengthen … Read more
Image via CrunchBase Panasonic, long only thought of as a consumer brand–which they're not only–has entered the cloud communications space with support from Broadsoft. The new entry to the market is simply called Panasonic Cloud. Simply put, the company which once rejected ad great Jerry Della Famina's ad agency to work with them when you … Read more
Image via CrunchBase A report has Polycom working on an iPad client for cloud based video with tests slated to start in October in Australia. This will likely be long after a native iPad Skype client comes out for the Apple tablet, and smart money has Skype including video in that version, as it's a logical extension for them. Polycom's … Read more
Image via Wikipedia I’ve been a fan of Polycom and their logstanding history of making just about the best darn speakerphone on the planet for many, many years. To me, they have been the “gold standard” in quality and reliabilty, so much so, that when we have remote conference meetings in various Regus locations … Read more
