Andy Abramson Give it to pals Peter Csathy and Eric Quanstrom to pick the right time to bring out new technology that solves one of the iPhone’s biggest shortcomings. Video. Sure you can play YouTube videos using a special Apple approved You Tube app, or watch iTunes videos, but producers of content were pretty much locked out … Read more
Client Global IP Solutions, which pretty much wrote the book on voice compression in the IP comms arena, landed Korea Telecom, now called KT, to provide the key piece of technology that will make the new Smartphone based on Windows Mobile sound good. P.S. To keep track of GIPS’s viewpoints on the emerging communications industry, … Read more
When I see a press release on PRWeb, sort of a no cost, low cost distribution service that few people follow compared to Business Wire or PR NewsWire, I always feel someone tried to “hide” the news. That’s the sense I have around the so called acquisition of Jaxtr by the founder of HotMail’s India … Read more
While faxing may be so 20th century, there are still many people and businesses using the technology to send documents back and forth that require signatures, or proof of transmission. But using fax machines over VoIP has always been a challenge, until now. FaxBack has perfected it to work with Microsoft Fax.
Here’s one that slipped by last week in what was a whirlwind week for me, culminating in a trip to the UK on Friday. Back on June 1 Broadsoft and Counterpath released a customize version of Bria, an app I use on my Netbooks regularly. While Broadsoft is touting this, I say this is a … Read more
Move over Smartphone, a new sheriff is in town, and it’s called the Superphone. At least thats the moniker being plastered about via GigaOm’s founder Om Malik, who in an comprehensive overview is describing just what is going on in the smartphone/superphone market. The comment which caught my eye is his closing comment about M&A … Read more
Dean Bubley, a pseudo regular dining companion, from time to time in London (and elsewhere) has two insightful posts about Mobile broadband. The first, and most recent, is a random musing on the subject, while the second takes apart some stats about the subject released by the GSMA. Personally as the owner and user of … Read more
Skype had a very interesting advert on the Virgin Atlantic flight I was on from Los Angeles to London Friday night. It was about Skype Video. What was really cool though was it immediately followed a Virgin Broadband commercial, extolling the virtues of higher speed connectivity. It was a short, 15 second or so spot, … Read more
Pal Rich Teharani may be the only guy I know on the road more than me, and he’s come to a point where I did about 9 months ago. He misses blogging, when travel and meetings get in the way. But, hey, isn’t that what pays the bills? Basically, with things like mobile data cards … Read more
Alec Saunders asks if HD Voice can help reinvent VoIP or light another fire. I say yes, and all you need to do is talk to clients HiDefConferencing or GIPS, as both are experts in the art of delivering voice in HD. HiDef Conferencing is in the business of delivering the best high quality audio … Read more
