8×8 keeps chugging along, getting small businesses to sign up as the alternative to Fonality. Now they've bolstered their differentiation by offering cloud based HD Video Conferencing backed by Polycom, which under new leadership is on a sales tear.
The last time I was impacted by a Skype outage I was in Europe on a train heading to Paris from Milan in the middle of a massive snowstorm in December, 2010. Lots of news coverage about it back then, as it was a core meltdown. Yesterday Skype had a redux, though not as massive and … Read more
Image via Wikipedia Skype has the SILK codec but no one in the conference bridge business has incorporated SILK into it.Nothing sounds as good, or works as easily, and since Skype to Skype bridge calls, like those to HiDef Conferencing are free, nothing is as economical. If Skype wants the enterprise market to embrace it, … Read more
A few years ago many companies and developers stuck their toe in the water with Facebook developing calling applications. About a year ago Vonage developed a Facebook app that made it easy to contact friends who are using the social network. Now a new service is trying to do talk plus and the jingle, jangl … Read more
Image via Wikipedia Sprint, the nations third mobile operator in size, but the company that has always been first in mobile and network innovation, has broken ranks with the rest of the mobile operators and embraced the concept of the Over the Top play with Google Voice. While the news will likely get overshadowed by … Read more
In what has to be both a hedge on spectrum and a move to prevent anyone else from jumping up in class,AT&T has made a strategic move to acquire all of T-Mobile in the USA. What they get is similar wireless technology in GSM/HSPA/HSPA+ and LTE, plus they also get Wi-Fi that AT&T can use (or … Read more
Image via Wikipedia If you’re a Danger SideKick user on T-Mobile life just got a little stranger for you, becuase as of May 31, 2011 you won’t be using your Sidekick on their USA network any longer. In many ways the Sidekick was the first cloud device that came along. But it’s had its troubles. … Read more
This caught my eye over the past few days. Gradwell, a UK based service provider has secured an MVNO agreement with 3, and married the mobile piece up with a very nifty hosted platform and in essence is now in the FMC (fixed mobile convergence) business for the business market. While they're steering clear of … Read more
Image via Wikipedia Vodafone Italia is clarifying their permitting of VoIP, or when they'll block it. In Spain and France I've noticed how some of the mobile operators were blocking Skype and SIP calls over their date networks. It seems to be impacting the pre-paid market more than the contract market, but in the case … Read more
After all Google went through with Apple to get their GoogleVoice app into the App Store for the iPhone you might have expected some legal department compassion. Nope. Instead they have pulled the PhoneFusion Visual VoiceMail client from the Android Market reports GigaOm's Ryan Kim. PhoneFusion is a former client. They've built a very compelling offer … Read more
