Cisco is broadening their compatible market for web conferencing with the ability to work with Jabber protocol. In my view this is all part of Cisco taking their TelePresence platform and extending it in many, spider like, directions. Once they bring it all the way down to the Linksys level watch this be a game … Read more
While a lot of attention is being paid to all the activities at CES, and there are a lot, we can’t but notice two very significant news items out of the UK that impact the VoIP scene. First BT is making WiFi a part of their Fusion service and aiming it towards the business market … Read more
There’s a new Jangl web site with some new features for users. The hot news. You can text to JANGL and get your JANGL number to make a call with. My guess is you text someone’s JANGL ID to Jangl and it sends you back their number. Yahoo Messenger for Vista also debuted today. What … Read more
A lot is being written about what is being called Mobile Video and we have two different concepts of what Mobile Video is now making the rounds in the press and blogosphere. Late last week, AT&T announced their version of Mobile Video which will let users see one another on their mobile handsets and engage … Read more
With all that is going on this year at CES, an event I’m going to for the next few days, it’s going to be the independent news sources, not the main stream media where a lot of the so called “breaking news” and more interesting stories are told. With blogging, podcasting and video blogging happening … Read more
HP and Tandberg, two giants in the enterprise video conference space are working on making their video platforms interoperable. This is very important as Balkanized technologies won’t survive. What made the telephone work was that all phones work with other phones. The same has to happen with video.
With all that is going on this year at CES, an event I’m going to for the next few days, it’s going to be the independent news sources, not the main stream media where a lot of the so called “breaking news” and more interesting stories are told. With blogging, podcasting and video blogging happening … Read more
Check out the ZDNet post from Avi Schecter, founder of Fring, and his views on Mobile VoIP and how it will come of age this year.
Upstart Talqer has added Skype as one of the voice IM clients that you can make cheap calls from. Previously they announced this with GoogleTalk. The value of this seems to be more talk for less bread internationally while the USA market seem to be best served by the recent Skype price promotion. This is … Read more
An interesting post, bringing to light the fact that Skype for Business doesn’t include any voice mail. Now that’s one I never heard before.
