The 5 Ms of Communications From Martin Geddes
Martin Geddes keynote is a blockbuster here at eComm in Amsterdam. He clearly and crisply defined and described the 5 Stage Evolution of Comms as Messages, Minutes, Megabytes, Media and Moments.
New Counterpath Bria Softphone Adds SMS
If you ever wondered why you can’t SMS easily from your laptop without going through hoops, it’s time to forget all about that. If you’re an SIP based softphone user, you’ll be rejoicing, as Counterpath just announced at the Broadsoft Conference SMS within Bria for Broadworks users. Good move as this adds a very useful … Read more
VoipWatch Report #6 October 27 2009
Using Truphone, Skype, UMA Voice and 3G Data all from Barcelona
Samsung Offers Big Money To Developers in Contest
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.
VoIP Over 3G in Canada on the iPhone?
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
Rebtel Is a Call Bridging App, Not VoIP over 3G
Rebtel provides user a valuable service. Cheap calls. But it isn’t VoIP. Now it’s available in the Apple iPhone App Store. Basically what the new app does is call set up. This is not really different than GoogleVoice’s ability to do the same thing, other than it’s in the App Store.
Will Mobile VoIP Impact Carrier Revenues?
Will Mobile VoIP Impact Carrier Revenues? In-Stat seems to think so. In what has become the flavor of the year, and with good reason, over at In-Stat, their coverage of the Mobile VoIP market continues to reflect what the market looks like. This time they have laid out what the impact will be to the … Read more
Om Malik on the Nokia N900
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
Sign of The Times-Layoffs at The Gray Lady
The New York Times is announcing staff reductions. This is a clear sign of the times that Print is Dead. Back in 2004 I made that prediction when I lectured at Temple University based on the decline the previous year in the print advertising lineage in the adult media market. It looks like that barometer … Read more
Google Wave Made Easier
Waveboard is a new Mac application that makes Wave more easier to manage and takes it out of the browser. As a Wave user now for about a week I find the concept interesting and evolving, but I’m not addicted to it yet like I could be to Twitter or Facebook. What I do like … Read more