Dell Goes With Toktumi
If you want to look big, and pay little, that’s the idea behind TokTumi. TokTumi just widened their distribution via Dell, in addition to Staples.
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Skype To Play It Up Big At eComm 2009 In March
Having just seen Jonathan Christensen of Skype at the recent Open Mobile Summit on a panel with Om Malik and a few others last week, I felt it was timely to bring up Skype’s participation at eComm in March. Lee Dryburgh posted a note announcing the news earlier in the week and I wanted to … Read more
Vapps Bought By Citrix is Number 15 for Me
My colleague, valley legend and master of the message, Bill Ryan, calls the what we do, “groom to flip” and the New York Times has the state of the industry pegged perfectly when they wrote up the recent VAPPS acquisition of by Citrix. Nowadays companies that are venture backed are no longer IPO candidates that … Read more
Another Week, Another Conference
This week is a busy week, and there’s no relief in sight. That’s a good thing as this Wednesday and Thursday in San Francisco is the Open Mobile Summit. It’s really shaping up to be something of interest to me, as the idea of Open seems to have many definitions. It’s sort of like “unlimited.”
Under The Radar-Voice Is The Word
In looking over the line up of today’s Under The Radar I’m quite happy to see the number of voice apps there. If Web 2.0 was 2007, it’s clear that in 2008 Voice has become the word of the day, and in 2009 making money is what we will start to see. Companies like Mobivox, … Read more
Mr. Carrier: Did You Block VoIP?
CrunchGear reports that the European Union is looking into the operations of the mobile carriers to see if they blocked VoIP over their networks. The expected end result is, “you can’t do that Mr. Carrier.” This would be excellent news for the mobile VoIP players like client Truphone or others whose service works very well … Read more
Keynote Declares VoIP Merely Audible
Normally we think of the audio of services like Skype to have great audio. I know when I use my Junction Networks OnSip service or VoIP connectivity from inPhonex the audio is fine, easily on par with the winner, CallVantage from AT&T which I also have. Even my tests with Earthlinks’ TruVoice fared well, so … Read more
Big Week Ahead
Lots is going on and this week starts what I am calling “A Might Fine 2009” in VoIP, Video and Telecom. As broadband continues to proliferate, and as faster speeds with Mobile Broadband opens up the world over, many of the dreams and hopes of developers will become a reality. Cloud computing, long thought as … Read more
Raketu Adds Video in 3.0
Raketu, a company we don’t rattle about that much, has added video calling.
iSkoot Raises 19 Million Dollars
Given the economy the raising of an additional $19 million dollars is a feat unto itself. I hear that there is a lot of good things coming from iSkoot so this round will be the round to get them over the top.