Andy Abramson Two good friends have different views on Skype. Ken Camp continues to question its relevance. Jim Courtney shows why it may be getting more relevant. I see both sides, and as long as Skype can politely sit in the background and still allow me to reach others and be reached it becomes another mode of … Read more
Taking a play on words from the old Elvis Costello song “My Aim Is True,” it seems T-Mobile UK is Aiming at Truphone, and potentially other VoIP providers with so called policy efforts that make it hard for people to connect one phone number to another if the carrier decides not to like the other … Read more
Alex Quilici, who was the number two on the Voice team behind my good friend Ragui Kamel at AOL, pinged me recently about his newest venture, YouMail and their new voicemail greeting sharing platform. Like ringtones and ringbacktones, YouMail’s personalization brings a 2.0 offering to the 1.0 mobile phone user’s world. I view YouMail is … Read more
Over the past week logging into GizmoProject has been at best like playing Russian Roulette. Sometimes the service is up, and other times, its down. Jason Droege, President of SipPhone attributes this to growing pains and the increase in users they are seeing. I take this as a good thing in the long run as … Read more
Integration doesn’t work. Its been tried for years in many companies and it takes years to achieve. When I was with a Top Ten Ad Agency’s Integrated Marketing Division our offices adjoined and were inside the mother ships offices. Did the Account Teams work together? No. The ad agency’s clients went to competitors for sales … Read more
Will Your Email Address Be Your Phone Number? If a startup out of Israel called YOOMBA has their way it will. Here’s what I heard from their reps in NYC. Today, online communications offerings like Yahoo, Windows Live Messenger and Skype exist as part of closed networks – in order to communicate with users on … Read more
Network World has a story about the “horror” Marriott’s IT crew went through with the advent of demand for bandwidth inside hotels. The story is very well positioned and contains many points that were brought up to me in a recent chat with a Marriott executive. What this also tells me is that until recently … Read more
Pal Rich Tehrani and I seem to be on the same page when it comes to email, as is his colleague Tom Keating. Since CES I have been using the phrase “email is a broken model.” To me IM and Voice are far better ways to communicate and to know that the other side got … Read more
Phil Wolff has a neat, short, simple and direct feature list of what the next version of iChat from Apple will look like. If you use or care about video conferencing, the list is a must read about what Apple decided are must haves.
Wired reports that high end, room filling Telepresence is rapidly gaining momentum, fueled largely by the likes of Cisco, HP, Polycom and Tandberg. But are they interoperable? If anything is holding back mass adoption of video conferencing its the lack of interoperability. For example. I like to use SightSpeed. Pal Ken Rutkowski likes to use … Read more
