Vonage received a patent last week on virtual numbers, something that AT&T also used to offer on CallVantage. Basically, they’ve patented the process of using SIP to do what a Foreign Exchange number did for years in the PSTN, that being to have a local number in one place, and have it ring in another. … Read more
Thomas Howe had asked me to write a forward to his well assembled ebook on Cloud Communications. So here it is…. Read this book. Why is it here, and not in the book? Well simple. You don’t put a comment about cloud communications anywhere, but in the cloud…..
No, I’m not referring in the headline to free calling, but free in so many others ways. Like with the opportunity to choose whatever carrier we want to use. Not so, reports Tom Keating, about Egypt. There VoIP is banned which impact Skype, and a host of others.
It appears that the Bordeaux wine world has come to their senses and will be stopping the erratic behavior of making wines to pass the “Parker” test. Personally I gave up what the false prophet of Bacchus has said many years ago, choosing to trust my own palate and those of others in the wine … Read more
In reading the news about Nuance pulling the plug on the consumer business of SpinVox (a company I never believed in) the only thing I can say is PHONETAG! The company, recently acquired by Ditech is poised to pick up the wandering customers who relied on speech to text translation regardless of however the translation … Read more
Thanks to Craig Walker and his team at GoogleVoice, the case of the missing Gizmo In numbers has been solved. It seems that a script error caused the numbers to go dark, and not appear. That problem has been resolved and the numbers are now back in their rightful place. With the users. One note … Read more
I find it amazing how many “new” services either come to me for representation or I read about who choose to position themselves as “another take on GrandCentral/GoogleVoice.” Talk about being super “me too.” Take the About.com recap about PhoneBooth, a new service from Bandwidth.com. The about.com piece screams of messaging and positioning that’s all … Read more
Very quietly, Gizmo5 users in the USA have lost their USA dial in numbers. Without warning and no notice that my USA numbers would not be renewed I have lost my USA numbers assigned to two different Gizmo accounts. That of course leads me to suspect something is up. So here are a few thoughts: … Read more
It was great to be in attendance at the trade tasting portion of the San Diego/Del Mar edition of the 2010 Family Winemakers of California tasting after a hiatus of a few years. The event, which is always packed, showcased a number of wineries from far and near. For me, it was a chance to … Read more
When you look at how low mobile broadband pricing is getting in the UK with a 2 year agreement, you have to just scratch your heads in the USA and wonder why we are being asked to pay so much, especially when the coverage for 3G is so sparse. It seems the USA based mobile … Read more
