The MiFi from Novatel Wireless, one of San Diego’s leading technology companies, is hands down my product of the year. As an avid road warrior, their MiFi Pocketspot has become my hotspot anywhere I need Internet access, not only in the USA, but around the globe, as I have both an unlocked GSM device and … Read more
Gary Kim, who has been in and through the VoIP wars has a very interesting take of How Not To Sell Hosted Voice. In many ways this is Sales 101, and it highlights what I like to call the “engineering sale” vs. the “marketing sale” that plagues many a VoIP company. Too often the sale … Read more
Ian Bell’s commentary about SIP being Skype’s savior (or not) is worth a read, especially on a lazy Sunday like today. Worth checking out if you want something cheaper than Skype comes from a San Diego company that was started by my neighbor and his sons. TelCentris operates VoxOx, and they just announced some new … Read more
Somewhere far, far away, in the heavens above my parents and two of my first two mentors in business, Sy Roseman and Ken Gesner, are smiling and hoisting back the finest 1959 wine they can find, because as of Friday, I now run an “award winning communications agency” called Comunicano, which that afternoon in Amsterdam … Read more
Let.s face it, if you use GoogleVoice like I do, you have the benefit of a very reliable, easy to use, one number solution with voice mail, message transcription, with an elegant call back solution that offers convenience and capabilities not currently offered by any on the US local carriers or mobile operators in one … Read more
After a year not much is really new at BT and Ribbit other than some shuffling of the deck chairs on the Titanic, despite the title changes and some granting of authority in new places, my sources tell me that BT is still trying to figure out how to get the Ribbit assets into the … Read more
Client Voxygen took the raps off something I’ve known about for quite some time at eComm yesterday. It’s a Voice 2.0/next generation “click to call” application that has the all the trappings of a winner according to pal Alec Saunders. What makes the app so special is how the application gathers up data from the … Read more
A few weeks ago one of my favorite video experts, David Spark, was asking me what application or plug-in would work with Skype well. My reaction was “not much.” Then the very next day, into my inbox came a note from longtime Skype application/Extras developer Jeremy Hague, letting me know about his new app called … Read more
To all the nay-sayers who were quick to pronounce that voice was dead, the rumors of its demise were clearly premature. According to Infonetics Research, and a post from Om Malik, the market size is $20.7 BILLION dollars. This is before you add in all the non-revenue minutes from services like Skype, Gizmo, Yahoo Messenger … Read more
Alec Saunders just wrote the Voice 3.0 manifesto.
