Image via CrunchBase I don't get it. Or really, corporate boards and senior management don't get it. There's Apple. And then there's everybody else. Apple is a different kind of company. They think different. They plan their products better and they execute better. It's that simple. They are product marketers first, and figure out which … Read more
eComm founder, Lee Dryburgh, explains in a very passionately written post what’s up with eComm 2011 in a very personal way. I have already promised Lee the support of my agency again to manage the influencer relations sector, and hope others jump in as well to support him where he needs help. eComm is about … Read more
Image via Wikipedia I'll admit, that I love to go to Starbucks as my "get away" from the home office office. Meeting are easy to arrange at their locations, as most people in the technology world know where one is. So of late, after returning from my exhaustive 6 week European business trip and mini-vacation, … Read more
Jaunted is reporting that Skype is testing phone booths in Estonia. But it sounds like it’s part of a more involved plan to further disintermediate the traditional telcos who have seen their revenues from coin operated telephones erode at airports, as most of that traffic has moved to cellular/mobile phones. With Skype Access agreements in … Read more
8×8 keeps chugging along, getting small businesses to sign up as the alternative to Fonality. Now they've bolstered their differentiation by offering cloud based HD Video Conferencing backed by Polycom, which under new leadership is on a sales tear.
The last time I was impacted by a Skype outage I was in Europe on a train heading to Paris from Milan in the middle of a massive snowstorm in December, 2010. Lots of news coverage about it back then, as it was a core meltdown. Yesterday Skype had a redux, though not as massive and … Read more
Image via Wikipedia Skype has the SILK codec but no one in the conference bridge business has incorporated SILK into it.Nothing sounds as good, or works as easily, and since Skype to Skype bridge calls, like those to HiDef Conferencing are free, nothing is as economical. If Skype wants the enterprise market to embrace it, … Read more
A few years ago many companies and developers stuck their toe in the water with Facebook developing calling applications. About a year ago Vonage developed a Facebook app that made it easy to contact friends who are using the social network. Now a new service is trying to do talk plus and the jingle, jangl … Read more
Image via Wikipedia Sprint, the nations third mobile operator in size, but the company that has always been first in mobile and network innovation, has broken ranks with the rest of the mobile operators and embraced the concept of the Over the Top play with Google Voice. While the news will likely get overshadowed by … Read more
In what has to be both a hedge on spectrum and a move to prevent anyone else from jumping up in class,AT&T has made a strategic move to acquire all of T-Mobile in the USA. What they get is similar wireless technology in GSM/HSPA/HSPA+ and LTE, plus they also get Wi-Fi that AT&T can use (or … Read more
