Given how much anti-VoIP, no calling from the skies GoGo has made to date to support American Airlines and other no-call policies I guess some may be surprised about the upcoming Oprah call via Skype. I’m not. Aircell which is the company behind GoGo promotes the VoIP capabilities to their private jet/non-commerical customers all the … Read more
Never to be accused of standing still in any type of economy, networking giant Cisco is “getting” smaller. After years of struggling with what their mobile strategy will be, the company is figuring out how to take some of its core assets like WebEx and others and migrate them from the desktop to the mobile … Read more
The just announced survey results regarding HD Voice, the subject of Jeff Pulver’s conference this week, that was conducted by client GIPS, shows a market that is ripe for the technology. No surprise but HiDef conference calling figured high on the list, but so did the use in call centers, as part of where respondents … Read more
Jeff Pulver is back into the VoIP game, sort of. He’s hosting a conference this week in New York City which I wish I was attending, but client commitments and another event here on the west coast this week are keeping me “closer to home.” The HD Voice Summit promises to delve into the aspects … Read more
VNUNet is reporting that the eagerly awaited Nokia N97 will be shipping in June. The device has WiFi, a VoIP stack, SIP embedded and lots of goodies. It’s lightweight and will be the first Nokia device to seamlessly integrate with the Ovi store, Nokia’s app store. Nokia, which is a client of my agency, has … Read more
I was happy to read this story today about Vishing, a subject I have been pushing our nations banks to become more aware of. Late last year I contacted representative of American Express, Citibank, Wells Fargo and one other bank to ask what they were doing to prevent vishing and to educate their customer base … Read more
A lot of times applications come out for handsets that are in need of testing, but too often the testing is done in house and that leads to all kinds of issues. Two companies I’ve come across of late that offer an interesting virtual model are: Mob4Hire and Nexperience. Nexperience was recently profiled on TelecomTV.com … Read more
Time Magazine has put out a list of the ten biggest technology failures, including such one time hot companies as Gateway and Vonage on the list that also includes Windows Vista. I don’t see Vonage as a failure, rather that it wasn’t a financial success. You have to look at them as pioneers and trailblazers. … Read more
Vonage is the company that I first tried for VoIP. I left, largely because CallVantage simply sounded better. At the end of the day Vonage didn’t sound good enough to be business grade, but AT&T’s product was. Now with the pending mothballing of CallVantage Vonage remains as the mass market alternative that many people will … Read more
Yesterday the buzz in the video publishing business was triggered by Sorenson Media with their new publishing platform, called 360. The name 360 implies complete and full circle, and for the video professional who needs a reliable, stable and trusted platform Sorenson’s new offering is geared to deliver that, something that Streaming Media’s Jan Ozer … Read more
