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Avaya Developer Day

If you have a hankering to develop voice apps for the enterprise market next week’s TMC VoIP Developer event in Santa Clara, CA you can score a free admission to Avaya’s Developer Program. While this won’t get you into the rest of the conference, it will be a worthwhile starting point.

Will You Get a DWT?

If a few states have their way, drivers who like to drive and text will be given DWT (Driving While Texting) citations and fines according to a New York Times story. This means services that have IVR with Speech to Text capability and Text to Speech are going to be very big. This will help … Read more

Will You Get a DWT?

If a few states have their way, drivers who like to drive and text will be given DWT (Driving While Texting) citations and fines according to a New York Times story. This means services that have IVR with Speech to Text capability and Text to Speech are going to be very big. This will help … Read more

Cheaper SMS Via Skype

I’ve been using various desktop tools on the Macintosh that let me send “free” SMS from my laptop, but I haven’t really found a workable solution to sending and receiving from a personal computer. It seems Skype has not either, as the reply has to go back to your mobile phone. Candidly, this may be … Read more

MobiVox Does It Right

I’ve been playing around with a few “minute stealing” concepts of late including Jajah who just raised a boatload of cash from Intel and a new startup out of Montreal called MobiVox. While Jajah is widely known, Mobivox is just getting known after being around for about a year under the name of VoxLib. What … Read more

More Use of SightSpeed by Viacom Networks

Peter Csathy, on his blog today, waxes on about the second Viacom network to add real time video interaction between the show and the video audience. To me this is the radio call in gone the video route, something that never worked well with just voice. From a technical standpoint, Viacom had their choice of … Read more

AT&T Playing It Safe

AT&T CallVantage customers who are not officially where the E911 service is located (i.e. those that lie) are getting served with disconnect notices. I hear the same thing is happening with some AIM PhoneLine customers as well from the AOL exec on the project. This is really about playing it safe and minimizing risk for … Read more

Trustive Grows Their Portfolio

Europeans who use WiFi are likely more aware of Trustive than many in other parts of the world. The hotspot access aggregator is similar to Boingo here in the USA, and has taken aim at the SMB/SME market going after the same customer base that iPass and GRIC have had mostly free reign with for … Read more

Sonus Keeps Winning Business

One of the companies that people fail to realize that had roots in the dot.com era is Sonus. Over time they have overcome adversity and become the go to choice for the telco more and more frequently, as they now are winning business from the top line carriers like France Telecom that was announced today. … Read more