I’ve been a fan of GizmoProject for a very long time, and while I’m using it less and less, and other apps more, I still never forget how much innovation resides inside their team. Many people forget that Gizmo was birthed out of SipPhone, and SipPhone has a ton of standards based capabilities and relationships, … Read more
Today’s Wall Street Journal has a story highlighting client Truphone and a few others in the alternative mobile Long Distance biz. Jajah, Mobivox, Gizmo project and a few others are mentioned in the well researched and thorough must read on the subject of Mobile VoIP. From my position Truphone is really much akin to being … Read more
This acquisition by SalesForce.com shows how far reaching their efforts to bring cloud computing to the epicenter of business really is. For companies and developers in the Mashup and Voice XML space this will provide a lot of opportunities, and mean that SalesForce.com’s AppExchange becomes a key driver and promotional vehicle for companies that can … Read more
A Robert Half sponsored survey’s results shows that 16% of CIO’s plan to adopt Video Conferencing in the next five years in the same survey that says 13% plan to adopt Collaborative workspaces. This is huge boon to web cam companies and any of the firms in the video conferencing and web based collaboration space. … Read more
TechCrunch reports that Aircell is launching WiFi in the Sky today. As a person who used to choose his flights by which airlines had Airfone and later which airlines offered the ill fated Boeing Connexion service for International travel, I’m happy to hear this service is now a reality. So, while there’s no VoIP allowed, … Read more
A quick read of a press release from Campbell, CA based research and analyst firm Infonetics shows that VoIP usage and uptake continues to grow the world over. It also points out who the big players are. Comcast in the USA leads the pick up here in the States. Orange in France is selling VoIP … Read more
Uber Analyst, Jon Arnold, is back from vacation and he has his game face on. In a TMCNet post Jon drills down on the reasons why BT was so fast to pay what the did for Ribbit. He then goes on to highlight Mobivox’s moves with Jajah and the reasons why ifByPhone are both companies … Read more
This is the kind of story I like to see, not only because it has direct benefit to clients (Truphone and Boingo) but also because one of the company’s whose advisory board I sit on Agito, is smack in the middle of this whole Voice over WiFi game. Voice over WiFi works. And it works … Read more
Over on DSL Reports is a note that AT&T has stopped putting new customers on their VoIP platform called CallVanatge. While current customers are not affected, it looks like any new additions are a thing of the past for the foreseeable future. As a CallVantage customer, I have yet to have any major issues other … Read more
The Logic House has a post about collaboration and team working over the Internet. As someone who is regularly distance working and making sure things stay on track, the tools are there for us to really work from anywhere. That said, bandwidth remains a key to the whole game. It’s not just download and upload, … Read more
