Level3 has been conducting consumer and business research to work with their partners (i.e. 8×8, AOL and others) in growing their customer bases. This announcement today is the first step in seeing that research turn into some sort of business strategy. Basically Level3 will start to help identify and open vertical sales channels so their … Read more
For less than $12 dollars Australian you can buy Skype software, Skype out minutes and a headset. Each Skype pack contains: * Voucher for 30 minutes of SkypeOut calling at current Global SkypeOut rate. * Earbud with speaker and microphone to connect to the speaker/microphone sockets on a PC or laptop * Mini-CD with Skype … Read more
A new softphone for Windows Pocket PC/Windows Mobile devices is out on the market. TechWorld has a review.
IOGear, makers of many peripherals have introduced a VoIP speakerphone. Being that I’m on a conference calls a lot this could be something of a help, beyond always using a headset. It connects to the USB, thus this is one more supporting reason for SoftPhones.
I recently updated some of my PC’s to the final version of Yahoo Messenger and saw that Net2Phone is the partner for IP to PSTN termination. Given the acquisition of DialPad I’m a tad misfused about why Yahoo is using someone else’s solution when they now have the technology. My best guess is that NTOP … Read more
Stuart Henshall has an idea to use virtual numbers during a crisis like the one brought on by Katrina. Tom Evslin has some thoughts on why this is a good idea and wonders what’s taking so long. I tend to agree with both. Actually, if I were Sprint or Verizon I’d be loading up the … Read more
Erik writes about the new PC and Windows Mobile SIP client from Nero. I expect to see it at VON in a few weeks.
A must read because it is so relevant to so much that is happening today in Voice.
In the noise associated with Teleo being acquired by MSN and Google rolling out Google Talk, which they think will be their sticky application (does that make it GooGoo) a lot of people seem to forget two other players who are squarely in the woods playing too. AOL and Yahoo. I expect a lot from … Read more
Light Reading today has back to back stories about companies doing the right thing and putting their money where their customer’s mouths have been going for years. Nokia and AT&T are both making large seven figure contributions to the Red Cross, about the most legit place the money can go that insures the contributions really … Read more
