In an era where online advertising is being challenged every day, facing uncertainties like its print siblings, PokeTalk out of Israel is trying to reverse the trend and provide calls for ads. I’m not convinced this is a long term business model to market with towards anyone who can afford phone service or is part … Read more
As a disclaimer the team behind Calliflower, Iotum, and specifically Alec Saunders and Howard Thaw are both clients and friends for many years. From the early days of Iotum when Alec and I whiteboarded out the strategy in my home office, to their launch at DEMO, the magic of what is going on inside Iotum … Read more
Broadsoft which last month rescued Sylantro, a company full of promise, sales and no profits, is making moves in the mashup space. When you take stock of the applications and the devices they have developed widgets and apps for you have to realize that developers are having a field day coming up with more ways … Read more
Client GIPS today announced that Citrix, known very well for Go To Meeting, will be deploying the GIPS Voice Engine and the Voice Conference Engine. Last fall Citrix acquired VAPPS, best known for its HighDef Conferencing platform so the move makes a lot of sense. As someone who spends a lot of time on conference … Read more
Moshe Maeir from Flat Planet Phone Company has posted about his newest development, a Least Cost Routing Engine for mobile. LCR has been around for years. Many years. I added LCR back in the 80s when I was serving as the Office Manager for the Philadelphia Flyers and had the pleasure of over seeing their … Read more
Voice Broadcast of messages has always been a promise, that fell short in one area. Delivery. Now client ifByPhone is taking a page out of the Domino's Pizza and Federal Express (FedEx) playbook of successful business practices. They're guaranteeing the on time delivery of broadcast messages. How easy is it to use? Put it this … Read more
Do you have lousy cellular coverage in your home? Is your office in a part of the building where coverage just almost makes it? Never fear, the Femtocells are coming and they’re promising to solve all your problems. We’ll see.
Since September I’ve been saying on KenRadio.com that Google is in for a very rough Q1 in 2009. One doesn’t need to be a genius to know that in this economy, advertising will be down, and given that Q1 is always a slow quarter anyway, the outlook for Google to slow down was obvious (or … Read more
In his post about high def communications, Rich Tehrani lays out a pretty good argument about the need for High Definition in communications. In my business we’ve been using HD audio conferencing from HighDef Conferencing and the comments from my team members and clients is consistent about the experience. The calls are simply better. As … Read more
If you’re a company like AT&T or BT, Telstra or DT you start to look around and say, “in times like these…… what can we do to be better tomorrow.” That means you look inside, assess who’s on First, and What’s on Second, then look outside and say, who should I hire to make my … Read more
