Andy Abramson My guess is some ingenious VoIP type will figure out how to mashup making telephone calls using the new form of virtual currency called Kwedit. The story today in the New York Times about the new way to pay could be a key to many a carrier’s future user base.
Ever since the iPad announcement we have seen one company after another make noise that their application is now able to make calls over 3G. First was iCall. Then along came Fring and today we have 8 x 8 making their’s. What I have yet to see though are any real time reviews that this … Read more
Me Too, Me Also….sorry Cisco, you’re not me different. Cisco should just buy Skype or Truphone and stop being so far behind the curve. This iPhone app will be big and Cisco will be a major force to be reckoned with as usual. So, where does this leave Avaya?
Sometimes it isn’t what you say or how you say it, but what you don’t say that speaks volumes. Now this may not ring true, but on the surface it does seem to insiders to be either clear as a bell or simply a matter of not reaching out and touching the right people. In … Read more
In what looks to be a breaking of the ranks at Google, a job posting hints that the Silicon Valley ad serving giant turned hardware manufacturer, will be adding sorely needed phone support. While they’re at it, the Android and Nexus one teams need to get their acts in sync too. And as a consumer … Read more
Back in 1974 I learned what a fax machine was. I used both a Xerox and Graphic Sciences fax machines to send press releases to the sports desks in Philadelphia. In 1976 I bought my first one from Xerox and quickly learned that the paper was the expensive part of the equation. Well a lot … Read more
Hat tip to Phil Wolff about Skype suffering yet another outage on Sunday. This is clearly a growing pains issue. When I see over 21 million users on everyday there’s growth happening, and that’s a good thing. A few weeks back it was an outage tied to the App store where a tick box wasn’t … Read more
Yesterday i participated in a full on demo of VisiMeet, from Chicago based IOCOM, a company I met last week at IT Expo in Miami Beach. In a lot of ways what I saw reminded me of SightSpeed, a company my agency and I helped grow in stature and size (over 6x from when we … Read more
What’s in a name? Well to some who heard the name for Apple’s new tablet/slate/pad lots of emotional hemorrhaging it seems. Sure many of us more evolved men know that some women call their feminine napkins aka tampons or “pads.” There also called rags, plugs and more. But in every case, it’s slang for what … Read more
It remains hilarious how Apple and Google are playing with one another over the GoogleVoice application. Rather than simply agree on how to make it work, the two are having a superpowers (I want to say super poser) standoff. So today, Google updates their web browser based version to offer a smoother and more elegant … Read more
