Andy Abramson Jaunted is reporting that Skype is testing phone booths in Estonia. But it sounds like it’s part of a more involved plan to further disintermediate the traditional telcos who have seen their revenues from coin operated telephones erode at airports, as most of that traffic has moved to cellular/mobile phones. With Skype Access agreements in … Read more
8×8 keeps chugging along, getting small businesses to sign up as the alternative to Fonality. Now they've bolstered their differentiation by offering cloud based HD Video Conferencing backed by Polycom, which under new leadership is on a sales tear.
Image via Wikipedia The other night a good friend and I went to Roy's La Jolla with three bottles of wine from my cellar. The 2005 Il Prove Blanc de Blanc, from Corsica, was perfect. A golden colored hue, with a bouquet of fresh sea air and hillside grass. It was smooth, and so different … Read more
Image via Wikipedia Sprint is about to get into a battle with the FCC and the MICC over texting, or rather what can be texted. The MICC, which stands for Mobile Internet Content Coalition, has alleged that what Sprint is about to do on April 1st is "to restrict the content that consumers can receive in … Read more
Image via Wikipedia So my Verizon LTE Samsung 4G LTE modem arrived today. Unlike my iPad2, the "need it now, want it all the time" feeling isn't quite here with the new way to "stay connected." While I have no "buyers remorse" my initial feelings are sorta like, this. "It's nice. It's faster than 3G. … Read more
The last time I was impacted by a Skype outage I was in Europe on a train heading to Paris from Milan in the middle of a massive snowstorm in December, 2010. Lots of news coverage about it back then, as it was a core meltdown. Yesterday Skype had a redux, though not as massive and … Read more
The phone call is dead. Long live the call. Do you call someone or phone them? Well, that depends. It depends if you’re using a telephone or something else to make the call. Lately in discussions with clients we’ve been moving them all away from the use of the phrase “phone call” and over to … Read more
Image via CrunchBase Vidyo, whose video conferencing technology offers a cloud based solution has added Chungwa Telecom's business group to their growing list of customer wins. Vidyo is on a roll of late and has been cranking out the news of customer wins, new SDK's that work with the tablet world. Their solution works and … Read more
Image via Wikipedia Skype has the SILK codec but no one in the conference bridge business has incorporated SILK into it.Nothing sounds as good, or works as easily, and since Skype to Skype bridge calls, like those to HiDef Conferencing are free, nothing is as economical. If Skype wants the enterprise market to embrace it, … Read more
Image via Wikipedia A few days ago, Ken Rutkowski, with whom I co-host the World Technology Roundup on KenRadio.com, called me on Skype to tell me that his cable company, Time Warner, had a new iPad app, and that he could watch TV on it. Today, the Wall Street Journal points out that the television … Read more
