If you have to Fly and want to stay connected, Virgin America and Google are giving away free WiFi for the holiday season. Now, what’s good here is if you use Google Voice you can at least receive your messages as transcribed text. Then again, maybe they’ll let us use Google Talk voice and video…hmmmm
Phil Wolff has a great post on how voice becomes more than cheap calling via Skype. Larry Lisser writes up why voice is back in vogue. Alec Saunders gets under the hood and shows just what AT&T may be up to in the battle around free conference calling and more. The Wall Street Journal reports … Read more
I’ve had a day to reflect on the rumor of Skype buying Gizmo (actually they would be buying all of Sipphone) and why it’s more than just good for the VoIP industry. For starters, just the fact that Skype is thinking of SIP as the alternative to JoltID is a good sign. It brings all … Read more
One of the things one learns is that one can often be right without saying much. For months as the JoltID suit has been rearing its ugly head I’ve been saying Skype is a brand not a technology and they would simply go all SIP. That opens the door to a lot of potential moves, … Read more
In a move that Fierce VoIP is calling a limited release by Comcast, the nations largest cable operator, of HomePoint, a converged VoIP/Router, it would appear that finally, after making all the needed in network (e.g. getting all the hardware and software to be the same in all markets) infrastructure work completed, Big C is … Read more
It will mean being on a contract (for now) but if you sign up in the UK to a monthly contract for what T-Mobile UK is calling it’s Mobile Broadband Extra package for 30 Pounds a month, about 45 dollars, you’ll be able to take advantage of speeds up to 7.6 megs a second and … Read more
Danger-Your Data Is Not Really Secure With Microsoft Servers —that could be the headline in tomorrow’s Wall Street Journal, and it would grab a lot of attention. Another could be: The Danger of Online Storage Or another Danger In The Cloud Danger Phones Now Have Amnesia You see, redundancy doesn’t have mean you’re fired. Unless … Read more
I just learned that Cloudvox is launching this week and it got me thinking. Cloudvox is one of the companies like client Voxygen, Voxeo, Twilio and also client ifByPhone and Ribbit which has grasped the power of voice APIs and made them available to just about everyone. What does all this mean? Well for starters, … Read more
I have to laugh when I read that the FCC is investigating Google over not terminating calls somewhere that costs more money and where the reciprocal compensation model isn’t really “reciprocal.” To me, it’s a big waste of the money the FCC has to do far better things with, like working to get broadband in … Read more
Let’s get the facts straight about Voice over 3G here in the USA as I’m growing tired of the story being about AT&T and Apple when for the past few years Voice over 3G on Nokia N and E series devices worked. I’ve been using my agency’s client, Truphone from time to time that way … Read more
