It took a lot of work, but the folks at client VoxBone have worked with OpenBTS to light up the annual Burning Man event with some mobile phone service and SMS. Jim Courtney has the details on the breakthrough that shows how ingenuity is clearly alive and well. By working with OpenBTS Voxbone is able … Read more
I wanted to let everyone know that Counterpath’s EyeBeam is now working under Apple’s New OS, Snow Leopard. It seemed the special build I had received was a custom version and the update needed a different license key. Their support people have been very helpful and I commend them for taking such swift action on … Read more
I received a comment from Counterpath that they updated Eyebeam and mentioned it somewhere in their forum that the softphone application has been updated to work with Eyebeam. They also indicted in their coment that their beta for X-Lite is still in process. Given the losses they keep suffering in management on the software side, … Read more
Sprint’s Blog, SeamlessEnterprise, which is aimed at the Enterprise market has picked out the “7 VoIP Blogs to Watch” on the subject of VoIP and VoIPWatch is one of them. And, I’m in great company with the likes of GigaOm, TMC, Fierce and more as those blogs are written by the people whom I respect … Read more
A few weeks ago I tried to order a Verizon Wireless Novatel Wireless MiFi from Amazon for my wife as a birthday present. I was tipped off to the pricing deal of one cent by Gizmo’s Michael Robertson and felt since I was going to order one for her, the price savings was worth buying … Read more
In burger land they call it “share of stomach” and in the mobile world it should be called “share of voice.” Just a short while ago Information Week rehashed some news from last week about AT&T once again rejecting Google Android phones, this time from Motorola. Here are a few reasons why I think they … Read more
If I wasn’t already committed to matters on the west coast the week of September 14th I’d be heading to New York for the second in a series of conferences on HD Communications put on by Jeff Pulver. While for many, HD communications is a niche, it’s just like VoIP and SIP were ten years … Read more
Last Friday for many was a “SNOW” day. It was the day that Apple launched their updated (and from my testing) better Operating System. It’s smaller, faster and does many things better. In my testing of major Voice applications I found a few things out rather quickly: Good News Department: Skype 3.8 works fine Gizmo5‘s … Read more
After almost six weeks in Europe, with stops to see clients and company executives I advise in no less than four countries (UK, Spain, Austria and France) I feel very good that I was really able to combin both business and pleasure over my much too short two week vacation with my wife. We got … Read more
Skype was sent a warning by Peter Csathy, on his blog this week, explaining why Skype, which is currently using the ON2 codec should be worried after Google acquired them. Google is also using parts of Vidyo and video technology from client GIPS, and sometime back purchased a company with video expertise out of Scandinavia. … Read more
