Andy Abramson Comunicano CEO Interviewed at IT Expo 2014 Las Vegas
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VoIP
Faster Speeds at Home and On Mobile-But Where’s the Beef?
A few news items passed my eyes this morning, and it got me thinking about a conversation that Truphone Founder and CTO James Tagg and I had last week during IT Expo in Las Vegas. James, who invented mobile VoIP and the touch screen technology we all use at airports and other kiosks, remarked that … Read more
Skype on 3 Again in Hong Kong
3 the original 3G carrier with operations in Hong Kong, the UK and elsewhere has once again made a move with Skype, following their efforts in the past to make Skype an integral part of their service offering. In Hong Kong, for $69 HK Dollars a month, or $8.90 USD, under a new collaborative agreement with … Read more
AT&T’s Cascade Sounds like Grand Central and iotum Take 2
Today I read in re:Code about a new AT&T Foundry experiment, called Cascade. In reading through description I couldn't help but think about it being the second coming of Grand Central, the company started by Crag Walker and Vincent Paquet who now are the team behind UberConference. Cascade is at the core just really find … Read more
Are Skype’s Days Numbered?
Every day I see Yet Another WebRTC based service come to life. Today its "ROOM" which has a very simple beta list signup going on where if you tweet their existence you get immediate access to the beta. Services like Slack, Hall, HipChat, Vobi and many others are offering what I'm calling Skype Takeaway Service (STS) often for free, often even richer in experience … Read more
Finding Your Way With WebRTC
Pal Dean Bubley gets it. So do a few others. But sadly not everyone does. The "what" is WebRTC and the who are the telcos. Read Dean’s post and get a great lay of the land. Last week at WebRTC World in Atlanta a lot of companies demo’d something’s new, somethings derivative and other concepts and … Read more
The Comunicano Daily for Tuesday May 27, 2014
The Comunicano Daily Imagine if Qualcomm or Intel bought out T-Mobile in the USA? That's potentially what's going on in Taiwan where Foxconn is looking to broaden their business interests and vertically consolidate their holdings by putting a stake into a Taiwanese mobile operator. Given their ties to companies … Read more
The Comunicano Daily for Wednesday May 21, 2014
The Comunicano Daily Our client Truphone has turned the mobile world on its head today with the launch of Truphone World literally made the most traveled parts of the world one country. Add in local numbers in eight of those, really competitive rates for calls, text and data … Read more
The Comunicano Daily for Tuesday May 20, 2014
The Comunicano Daily There's all kinds of news coming out in all sorts of sectors as the USA warms up for a three day Memorial Day Weekend the our cousins in the UK do the same with a Bank Holiday this weekend. Clearly Apple is in the middle of a make over … Read more
Is The ChromeBook Your Next Desk Phone?
Is the Google ChromeBook about to become your new communications device? Is your slightly older Mac or Windows PC that can run the latest Chrome Browser able to step in and be the new desk phone? What about the Android tablet which runs Chrome and WebRTC rather well these days? While some are predicting the … Read more