The idea of Click2Call is on face a good idea, but when they become the starting point for wrong numbers, or unwanted calls from total strangers, someone is paying that cost not so much in dollars, but in time, and its not usually the call originator. Markus’ post brings that point home, and is one … Read more
VoIP New’s Robert Poe has picked some 25 or so very cool and innovative companies who have come up with innovation in the VoIP universe for 2007. The list is far flung and includes the likes of Fonality, Microsoft, Ooma (with a mention of PhoneGnome –again), Polycom, Digium, and others, including two agency clients, Junction … Read more
It looks like the new year will bring some late holiday cheer to VoIP loving iPod touch users. A web site is making the claim that come New Year’s Day a SIP capable client for the Apple iPod Touch will be out.
Even though the O’Reilly folks chucked eTel, without any real public rationale that would sooth most VoIP developers, Lee Dryburgh has picked up the slack and is seeking to pull off a real “people’s event” called eComm 2008 that continues in the spirit of eTel and goes one better for three days, March 12-14 in … Read more
Dean Bubley asks what is up with BT’s Fusion, their Fixed Mobile Convergence play. Last night in Madrid I presented on the concept of Mobile VoIP, going over who the players are/were and may well be. One company I failed to mention was BT, though thanks to some input from Dean and a cadre of … Read more
Verizon announced a list of ten hot trends that will be favored by business in 2008. Many, if not all of them, leverage IP based communications. While it is nice to talk about trends, what I’m not seeing is how Verizon plans to integrate all of this together, especially between their wireline and wireless sides … Read more
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Don Thorson tipped me off that Ribbit is going live on Monday after a long awaited period of “what are those guys up to.” This comes on the heels of their Developer event last week in the Bay Area. In a nutshell Ribbit is developing some proof of concept applications that leverage their API’s and … Read more
The folks at client iotum and a former VH1 producer, Fred Graver, have cooked up one ingenious concept for using the power of social media, the web and VoIP to ring in the New Year. It’s the New Year’s Eve Conference Call application which Alec Saunders unveiled last night. It’s pure genius and works on … Read more
Over the past few weeks I’ve been receiving emails from PR firms representing traditional print media which have online content and are looking to draw attention to stories that are written and published on their web sites. In my book they are taking a page out of what TV networks have done for years where … Read more
