I have to thank one of my readers who pointed out to me the fact that Aircell is already in the business of making VoIP work in the skies. It seems they are already marketing SIP based phones for the business aviation market selling against others with similar products. They’re also selling a voice ready … Read more
It’s hilarious that the mainstream media is saying that using Adobe’s Flash and Apple’s Safari is “hacking” in the recent matter of my calling Laptop’s News Editor Joanna Stern via Phweet and TringMe “hacking.” If that’s hacking, I guess Apple and Adobe make hacker tools? Somehow I don’t think so. For the record, I offered … Read more
Business Week’s Olga Kharif writes a very good summary article about Mobile VoIP, which includes client Truphone. Olga’s points about Mobile VoIP and who the players are makes a nice compendium. What this means is that Mobile VoIP has gone well beyond the blogosphere and is now going to become more mainstream. Sadly, the carries … Read more
Dan York has a very lengthy post about the VoIP packet traffic that Phweet and Tringme uses. In his very knowledgeable way describes why long term the attempts to block VoIP are futile. I agree, especially since it took me, a non-hacker, using a regular application called Flash from Adobe. Instead of all this we … Read more
I’ve been a fan of GizmoProject for a very long time, and while I’m using it less and less, and other apps more, I still never forget how much innovation resides inside their team. Many people forget that Gizmo was birthed out of SipPhone, and SipPhone has a ton of standards based capabilities and relationships, … Read more
Today’s Wall Street Journal has a story highlighting client Truphone and a few others in the alternative mobile Long Distance biz. Jajah, Mobivox, Gizmo project and a few others are mentioned in the well researched and thorough must read on the subject of Mobile VoIP. From my position Truphone is really much akin to being … Read more
This acquisition by SalesForce.com shows how far reaching their efforts to bring cloud computing to the epicenter of business really is. For companies and developers in the Mashup and Voice XML space this will provide a lot of opportunities, and mean that SalesForce.com’s AppExchange becomes a key driver and promotional vehicle for companies that can … Read more
A Robert Half sponsored survey’s results shows that 16% of CIO’s plan to adopt Video Conferencing in the next five years in the same survey that says 13% plan to adopt Collaborative workspaces. This is huge boon to web cam companies and any of the firms in the video conferencing and web based collaboration space. … Read more
TechCrunch reports that Aircell is launching WiFi in the Sky today. As a person who used to choose his flights by which airlines had Airfone and later which airlines offered the ill fated Boeing Connexion service for International travel, I’m happy to hear this service is now a reality. So, while there’s no VoIP allowed, … Read more
A quick read of a press release from Campbell, CA based research and analyst firm Infonetics shows that VoIP usage and uptake continues to grow the world over. It also points out who the big players are. Comcast in the USA leads the pick up here in the States. Orange in France is selling VoIP … Read more
