More SIP Support For the iPhone
Media 5, a Quebec based company, is planning on releasing a SIP based client for the Apple iPhone via the App store in July. I was tipped off to this via About.com’s Nadeem Unuth.
VoIP and Wi-FI
Another One Bites The Dust-Foonz
Alec Saunders has a very good analysis on why free conferencing call service Foonz has bitten the dust. Long time readers (and listeners of KenRadio’s World Technology Roundup) will know well my views on FREE. It simply doesn’t work. We’ve all heard the expression “there’s no such thing as a free lunch.” Well in the … Read more
Cisco Gets Smaller
Never to be accused of standing still in any type of economy, networking giant Cisco is “getting” smaller. After years of struggling with what their mobile strategy will be, the company is figuring out how to take some of its core assets like WebEx and others and migrate them from the desktop to the mobile … Read more
It Sounds Like A Audience Looms For HD Voice
The just announced survey results regarding HD Voice, the subject of Jeff Pulver’s conference this week, that was conducted by client GIPS, shows a market that is ripe for the technology. No surprise but HiDef conference calling figured high on the list, but so did the use in call centers, as part of where respondents … Read more
HD Voice Summit This Week in NYC
Jeff Pulver is back into the VoIP game, sort of. He’s hosting a conference this week in New York City which I wish I was attending, but client commitments and another event here on the west coast this week are keeping me “closer to home.” The HD Voice Summit promises to delve into the aspects … Read more
Joe Sharkey on Video Conferencing
Travel satirist Joe Sharkey has penned a piece about Video Conferencing that ran in the New York Times. This type of coverage supports the theory that video conferencing is now at the mainstream level. Now, if Skype would only handle multi-party calls like SightSpeed, we’d have something really, really big.
Welcome to the New Balkans
When I first heard about Verizon, the landline telco, starting to go into the business of offering WiFi, I thought, “here we go again” as we’ve already seen them start, then stop deploying hotspots in their service markets. Back in 2003/2004 Verizon did to WiFi the same as AOL did to VoIP. They bent over … Read more
Broadband From The Skies Promises VoIP
One of the problems with most of the consumer satellite broadband offerings has been the issue of latency. Well it sounds like Europe and the UK will be the first to experience a new form of Satellite broadband that’s good enough for streaming media and VoIP. The service called Tooway is due to roll out … Read more
Skype Winning With 3? Actually It’s 3 Winning With Skype
Two posts this week about Skype and mobile operators by Om Malik and Rich Tehrani underscores why playing with your competition makes sense. What’s interesting is neither has had any first hand experience (that I know of) using the 3 Skype service in the UK as I have. If they did, they would have been … Read more
Passion Pours Out About AT&T CallVantage Getting Hung Up
Ever since I wrote about my interest in learning more about T-Mobile @ Home experiences a few weeks back, I’ve been getting notes via email from many a reader who like me has had AT&T’s CallVantage service. I’ve also seen blog posts like this one, from others who were part of the early testing programs … Read more