The more I use my iPhone as a “weekend” device, the more I am loving the capabilities that developers find they can muster from it. Take the folks at Griffin who have come up with two companion applications, italk, a voice recording program and italk sync which moves the files over WiFi to the Mac … Read more
I admit, I like cool apps. This one is interesting and is from friends at PhoneFusion. They recently debuted it at UnderTheRadar this month, but I was busy checking out client iotum’s Alec Saunders introducing another cool app, Calliflower for the iPhone. What’s good about this? For starters, it’s the only visual voicemail application available … Read more
I caught a bit of Oprah yesterday at my mother-in-laws where we had Turkey Day a day early here in Silicon Valley. One of the segments features their use of Skype. Today a story appears tied to ABC News about iChat and the use of it in video conferencing. Another story in the International Herald … Read more
Luca, my pal on the island of Sardinia, has highlighted a series of applications that make your life easier and which have VoIP as a core component. He updates us on what’s new with each in his usually very mindful of what’s important style. In the post he’s written about Calliflower, Palringo, Truphone, Fring and … Read more
Recently one of my online pals was looking for something I was looking for. International DID’s that anyone can buy without being a carrier who buys via client VOXBONE. So he found one, and I found one. These numbers work great and what I’m doing is making my GrandCentral number globally reachable so I can … Read more
Having just seen Jonathan Christensen of Skype at the recent Open Mobile Summit on a panel with Om Malik and a few others last week, I felt it was timely to bring up Skype’s participation at eComm in March. Lee Dryburgh posted a note announcing the news earlier in the week and I wanted to … Read more
According to my sources the first choice of which IM client for XOBNI to integrate with was Skype hands down as Skype was far and away the most used Instant Messaging platform that the XOBNI users are on. Unfortunately with no Mac version in sight, I can only drool over pal Jeff Bonforte’s company’s email … Read more
Michael Graves has what he calls a rant on softphones. I call it a good recap on the state of the sector that is just begging for a winner. While he omitted Gizmo5 from SipPhone, he sure gave CounterPath’s EyeBeam the Texas style whoopin’ they deserve. Despite starting out as the best and most useful … Read more
I was whipping through my TweetDeck Tweets last night when I came across a random note about a new app from Google’s Code, a place where Google developers hang out and put out all kinds of things. What caught my eye was something that seems so simple one has to wonder why it took this … Read more
Ribbit has launched their new platform at Adobe Max today. Mashable has the details. My take: Open platforms are becoming more and more the new way of doing business. Open networks on the other hand don’t yet exist really, other than the public internet. While carriers “speak” open, they really are not that “open.” And … Read more
