Hat tip to pal Tom Keating who led me to a site devoted towards the Open Source PBX community. TMC has been actively creating a series of these types of groups. In many ways they remind me of the old days of Compuserve which in my mind had the very best forum structure out there. … Read more
Jeff Pulver is on vacation but still blogging. He’s put out a call for companies to be part of something that he seems to be developing, the IP Communications Class of 2007. Between this and the TMC VoIP Developers show, and the Google World Developer Day this looks like a year for lots of new. … Read more
Mike at TechDirt has a very good post on the dunderhead approach to innovation at the global telcos. I call it “roadblocking” based on what he’s written and I also go one step farther to say he’s right. Rather than follow in the inventive forward thinking spirit of the inventor of the phone, Alexander Graham … Read more
It looks like the range of mobile handsets and devices that JaJah works on has grown to include more of the Smartphones according to Gizmodo.
Client Peter Csathy writes on his blog about companies can help the environment by using video conferencing software like SightSpeed more, and having their employees work in the office less. As gas prices rise and as people start to want to live in more outlying areas for a better quality of life, greater use of … Read more
A report in the blogosphere, sniffed out by the GigaOm super-scooper, Paul Kapustka, has Skype getting into the enterprise market with what appears to be an alpha effort leading to beta at this point. Normally, efforts like this to build a trial group are done under NDA and the cloak of mystery, but the Internet … Read more
There is a new beta out for the Mac from Skype. It’s version 2.6 and O’Grady’s PowerPage has the details.
I just had an amazing New Zealand wine experience at Providores and Tapa Room on Marleybone High Street in London, so maybe I’m smitten with the Kiwis. Not only was the wine fantastic, the food was every so great too. Given that, as a regular reader of GeekZone I’m happy to see they launched a … Read more
If one company has emerged from the softswitch wars of the late 90s it is Sonus. To be totally transparent I’m both a minor (very minor) shareholder and my agency has done some project work for them recently, but we’re not at this time and candidly they have really become the next gen carrier’s choice. … Read more
It seems PCMag.com is hot to trot like I am when it comes to UMPCs. I’m anxiously awaiting the arrival of my OQO2 and my Medion UMPC. Both were debuted to lots of hype in January at CES but now the second week of April, neither has cross my doorstep, but the OQO is promised … Read more
