Om Busts Another One, Keating Add More

Adobe has been not so quietly making the rounds about how they are taking Breeze, which they acquired from Macromedia, and beefing it up. I rememeber hearing something about it over dinner in an Indian joint a few weeks back with Om when one of the Adobe fellows told us something was up. I guessed … Read more

How Not To Make A Video Call

PhoneBoy has drawn a lot of attention to the SightSpeed Guy, Peter Zottolo’s Tip Of The Month about How Not To Make A Video Call. It is must see IPTV! P.S. VoIP Gurl gets the props though..so, is it PhoneBoy or the SightSpeed Guy who will steal her heart! My vote is for SightSpeed Guy…he’s … Read more

It’s Alarming

Garrett (The Blog Ranker) Smith has an interesting post on Alarm.com and SunRocket. What’s interesting is he also mentions a company I’m quite fond of, NextAlarm. In the sake of transparency, NextAlarm has been talking to me about becoming an agency client, so it’s always rewarding to know going in that others I respect recognize … Read more

AT&T Announces SoftPhone To Customers

AT&T is letting subscribers know about their new softphone, from CounterPath, that works with CallVantage. Here is the message I received today from AT&T to my CallVantage Voice Mail. To me this is using the medium. The voice mail ends up in people’s email. It is about voice. I can hear it. Nice move Chris … Read more

Microsoft Jumps Onto their own Video SoapBox

With all the hype and hoopla last week at VON about Video, Microsoft chose to sit back (some would say pull out) of the noise that got made in Boston and instead came out this week to stand on their own SoapBox. With SoapBox Microsoft is going after the same space as YouTube and Time … Read more

VoIP Catch Up

I’m on the road this week for a few days working away on a non VoIP project and other stuff. That said, there were two very interesting developments in the blogosphere. Bruce Stewart at O’Reilly’s Emerging Telephony takes a well deserved poke at Skype for the Mac and proclaims client SightSpeed better (but we knew … Read more

WiFi Making Fresno Hot

Fresno is going WiFi and the response according to this news report has been very positive. Like most communities that add WiFi they end up seeing an upsurge in people getting out of their houses and working in coffee shops, bars and restaurants. Starbucks, which helped set this trend has to be concerned. The coffee … Read more