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.
TokTumi’s Peter Sisson thinks that RIM may be in for some dark days and that the Blackberry is doomed.
Over the weekend Samsung began a contest for applications developers by offering $330,000 in prize money to develop applications for its Omnia II (I8000) and is open for applications in English and Italian.
Erik Lagerway thinks VoIP over 3G is a when, not an if on the iPhone up in Canada. This is of course not going to happen until Apple updates their developer’s Terms and Conditions. Right now Apple’s T’s & C’s that the iPhone developers are working under are not yet written to enable the applications … Read more
Om gives the N900 (something I have on order from Amazon) a 6 out of 10. That’s barely a passing grade. Granted he reviewed pre-release software, but what I like about it is the “optimized for the T-Mobile network” on which I currently run an Android based MyTouch3 from T-Mobile. Hopefully, by the time I … Read more
If you have to Fly and want to stay connected, Virgin America and Google are giving away free WiFi for the holiday season. Now, what’s good here is if you use Google Voice you can at least receive your messages as transcribed text. Then again, maybe they’ll let us use Google Talk voice and video…hmmmm
