Image via CrunchBase Yesterday eWeek broke the news about CounterPath and Vidtel announcing interoperability between Bria softphones, including the recently released iPhone client, and Vidtel's MeetMe service. Jim Courtney, who authors VoiceOnTheWeb.biz has been testing Bria and Vidtel for a few weeks chimed in as did the folks over at OnSip.com. In each case effusive with … Read more
I now know how famed Parisian, well actually worldwide, chef Guy Savoy felt when he earned his first every three stars and broke down and cried. I felt the same way this morning after former client and friend Ray Haddow of Nokia forwarded me a link to the first ever review of the 2009 Comunicano … Read more
I just learned that Fonality, a company that has been very silent and off the radar for months has named a new CEO. He David Scult and came from Microsoft, where he served as GM, of Office 365, Microsoft's cloud implementation of it's market leading productivity suite. Fonality seems to be taking a page out of … Read more
Image via Wikipedia Often times the news starts before it breaks. For many years we've subscribed to the theory that beyond the real investigative and beat reporters, very few reporters actually find stories. Stores really tend to find reporters who recognize the news value in them. Case in point is what happens on the D.C. … Read more
Image via CrunchBase I was around just after Craig Walker and Vincent Paquet created and launched GrandCentral, which became post acquistion by Google, GoogleVoice. We worked with the two and helped make it a known qualtity, and to this day, my GV number is the number that makes me so easily reachable. But in over … Read more
Image via CrunchBase Image via CrunchBase A rumor is making the rounds about Microsoft buying Nokia and long time mobile industry watchers over at the Yankee Group are biting. To be fully transparent, as a former agency to Nokia (I devised and my agency managed their groundbreaking and highly successful Nokia Blogger Relations program in … Read more
SkypeJournal reported yesterday that Skype is removing voice conference calling from GroupMe. There likely are a thousand reasons but the reality of this is GroupMe wasn't engineered to use Skype as the voice conferencing engine and for the past few years Skype has had a conferencing platform sitting on the shelf. There's also this teeny, … Read more
On the day that Bloomberg reports client CounterPath announcing video being added to Bria for the iPhone, Slashgear is reporting the demise of Cisco's Umi. Umi was going to be a $600 set up that would deliver Telepresence. There didn't seem to be a lot of takers for Umi, as single purpose hardware is pretty much … Read more
8×8, Inc. (Nasdaq:EGHT), today announced it has some changes at both their board and management level. Mansour Salame was named to its Board of Directors, effective January 2, 2012. The Company also announced the resignation of Donn Wilson from its Board of Directors, effective the same date. But the really big news is that that … Read more
E911 for emergency calls and VoIP have had a love/hate relatiobship for many years, but as Intenet based calling becomes more and more the norm, and as LTE will bring IP based calling (i.e. VoIP) to the mobile world for real, E911 and the problems associated with it will come to the forefront more and … Read more
