Tom Keating picked up on the recent Nimbuzz Mac client announcement which I missed last week. I suspect that we’ll see a lot more in the area of softphones, especially on the Mac. To date most softphones have been designed for PCs and then ported. In the next few months we’ll likely see some native … Read more
I’ve been trying to come up with a name for the cool, pocket size WiFi hotspot creators that are rapidly coming to market, starting with the Novatel Wirless MiFis (of which I now have both CDMA and GSM version-unlocked to boot). Then it hit me..the term is POCKETSPOT. I claim first use of the term, … Read more
Rafe Blandford, of All About Symbian, is someone I’ve gotten to know as a result of the Nokia Blogger Relations efforts over the past few years. He’s someone whose perspective on what is happening on Nokia Symbian based devices combines the understanding of a user, with the insight of an analyst and the why it … Read more
If you subscribe to the Wall Street Journal, either hard copy or online, today’s edition has Walt Mossberg’s review of the new Apple iPhone and OS 3.0. Apple always provides Walt an advance version of the phone, and his review tends to help set the stage for many things. Of what he didn’t like on … Read more
Media 5, a Quebec based company, is planning on releasing a SIP based client for the Apple iPhone via the App store in July. I was tipped off to this via About.com’s Nadeem Unuth.
Two posts this week about Skype and mobile operators by Om Malik and Rich Tehrani underscores why playing with your competition makes sense. What’s interesting is neither has had any first hand experience (that I know of) using the 3 Skype service in the UK as I have. If they did, they would have been … Read more
A UK company, CellCrypt is now offering secure mobile VoIP calling. For years people have always worried if their cell phone calls can be monitored. Those inside the industry know it was always possible. This solution sounds like another step in the right direction to protect your communications, as long as the algorithm includes the … Read more
With the recent announcement by Skype to have an open SIP Gateway (well its in beta) the door is now wide open for a direct route of calls coming to your Google Voice number to be routed directly into the Skype SIP gateway and to ring your Skype ID. All Google Voice has to do … Read more
I have to say it. AOL Voice Team–I told you so. It was at eComm 2008 at the opening night reception when I said AOL and VoIP won’t be around long. Now I read that I was right. Next up on the to be shuttered predictions list is AT&T CallVantage and likely Earthlink’s TruVoice. Makes … Read more
I have to say, with all due respect to other conference organizers that Lee Dryburgh and his band of advisors, led by the likes of Jon Arnold, Dan York, Brough Turner, Phil Wolff, Alan Duric and others really worked hard to make this year’s eComm the best ever. When we ended after three days at … Read more
