Pal Rich Tehrani likes the ring of RingCenral’s new features and some look like they are worth a try. Personnaly I have to wonder I really want/need another softphone and Unified service? Between the combos of GrandCentral, PhoneGnome and SipPhone’s Gizmo Project I can have all that they are offering it would appear. A ton … Read more
First Cisco bought WebEx. Last month IBM purchased client Web Dialogs. Now AT&T has made a “me too” type of acquisition with the purchase of Interwise. Clearly this bodes well that the online collaboration space is hot and that the big companies want to be able to offer the full suite of services. In my … Read more
A big management change at Skype has occurred with Niklas Zennstrom resigning as CEO and Henry Gomez returning to eBay. This tells me a few things. First that the eBay leadership is not happy with the direction Skype has been going and is looking for a leader who can really run the company globally as … Read more
Dan York sums up a problem that many of us RoadWarrior types experience. I’ve run into similar issues and thanks to Dan now see how to resolve them.
PhoneBoy reports about more JaJah around the world. This news comes out at a time when many think JaJah’s moment in the sun is fading. On the subject of Jajah, marketing guru Don Thorson has split from Jajah to go over to another Silicon Valley startup.
A post on the Consumerist takes another shot at Comcast. Honestly, this post makes the phone company look good these days. But its more than Comcast that needs to retool how they deal with their customers. A recent experience with a new defective Blackberry 8700 and RIM had me spending more time in hours to … Read more
I spent a large part of Thursday afternoon with the dynamic duo of Skype Journal, Phil Wolff and Jim Courtney discussing Skype, the Skype Eco-System and Skype Journal. The combination web site, blog and advice for Skype users/developers that comes out of those two is a real key to Skype’s future as it provides the … Read more
Esme Vos has great taste. Whether its restaurants, hotels, travel tips or what’s proper, I tend to use the MuniWireless Diva’s insight and take to hear her opinions. Her view on Pudding Media is dead on. Even after their DEMO at DEMO last week I still see little value in the idea. There remains better … Read more
Hat tip to pal Jon Arnold who led to my discovery of a new newsletter focused on the telecom action in Canada. With companies like iotum, Mobivox, Lypp and EQO in the spotlight more and more from the realm of startup, to companies like EyeBeam, Nortel and other “public” companies all making Canada home, this … Read more
Dean Bubley’s view point on Fixed Mobile Convergence is one I have been following closely for the past few years. His recent post on FMC and how it relates to the Enterprise is one for the books and needs a read. Dean points out that the favorable bucket of minutes in the USA and the … Read more
