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Google Voice for iPhone–FINALLY IN APP STORE

Dear Prudence, It was a Long and Winding Road, but today Apple decided they could just Let It Be. Yes I know. the service’s application that almost started a Revolution and wasn’t available Yesterday has surfaced today for real, and nobody had to hold a Revolver to anyone’s head to make it happen. I mean, … Read more

Nimbuzz Learns Open Is The New Closed

IntoMobile is reporting that Nimbuzz had to drop another Instant Messaging platform, ICQ which is owned by AOL. Previously Nimbuzz dropped Skype under threat of legal action from the Skype attorneys. I’m not surprised and would expect to see similar noise from Yahoo and Microsoft at some point in the future, not because I agree, … Read more

Web Conferencing on Android Tablets

FuzeBox, the company formally known as Callwave, has rolled out Fuze for Android Tablets, bring VoIP based conferencing to the newest flavor of the month with the new and shiny set.. According to Walt Mossberg in this weeks AllThingsD and the Wall Street Journal: It’s a serious alternative to the iPad and one that will … Read more

Phone.com Says “Speak To Me”

Phone.com has announced they’re now supporting automated speech to text translation services. The new service would be slightly different than PhoneTag, which was purchased in 2009 by Ditech Networks, as PhoneTag is reportedly combining automated transcription with some level of  human intervention to insure accuracy. Regardless whether its all automated or has some human help, more … Read more

Talk Like An Egyptian

As a fan of HD audio and video, it’s always heartwarming to see how HD Voice is making its impact around the globe. Over in Egypt, Mr. HD Doug Mohney reports, that Orange is rolling it out on their mobile services. That means the French can call the Egyptians, demo them some more new Mirage … Read more

Hosted VoIP and UC to Grow

When you see reports like these two, the first from ABI Research and then another from Infonetics you can understand why cBeyond purchased client Aretta Communications last week as the market for both hosted VoIP and Unified Communications are only going to grow. This then has to be viewed as only good news if you … Read more