I just learned that Skype is going to be working with SpinVox on converting and delivering voice mail messages that are received by Skype users. SpinVox will convert the voice messages to text in four languages: English, Spanish, French and German. The messages are then sent by Skype as an SMS text directly to a … Read more
Let’s face it, the baby Bell type telcos never really were in love with VoIP. For those telcos here in North America who tried it, specifically AT&T with the likely soon to be mothballed Call Vantage, Verizon’s extinct VoiceWing and now from Canada the cancelled WebCall service from SaskTel, we’re seeing a pattern. The pattern … Read more
If I ever had a question about how to grow a business that can be built for something bigger, one of the first friends I’d reach out to would be former SightSpeed CEO Peter Csathy. As both an advisory board member with SightSpeed, and then as their agency of record, I got to work and … Read more
Hotels are being attacked by users who are demanding better, and more robust bandwidth in their rooms and conference facilities. They are reacting by blaming things like Peer To Peer file sharing which for some funny reason is cutting into their Pay Per View revenue, services like You Tube where the content is fee and … Read more
Back in January I crafted my Telco 2.0 scouting report. It included the people whom I felt were the some of the brightest minds in telco who were “available” in the “draft” because the were either not aligned with any one company or they were about to become “free agents” in the same way that … Read more
This is more of a fast and quick “observation” note about Vidtel, something I’ve been trying to play around with for a few months, but anything that involves connecting to my new and improved network here at the house I wanted to wait to do until the team from Xceptional Networks got things to a … Read more
Alaska Airlines is the next to to bring us WiFi in the sky.
Skype continues to work in the direction of getting more people to dial out via their service. Now they have opened the lightly used Skype to Go service to all PAYING users, meaning those that have Skype Out credit in their account. Basically this is a credit card calling replacement or a way to compete … Read more
I got a note this morning from Lee Dryburgh reminding me that the early bird pricing for eComm ends today. eComm starts on March 3 and looks set to be hot. It’s a whole day affair for three days and in reality it’s the equal of at least five days. The schedule is packed and … Read more
Yesterday after flying out first thing from London to San Francisco on Virgin flight 19, leaving just before 10 AM London time the weather finally caught up with me again. I had gone two months without a weather delay, but this Sunday the luck ran out, as SFO was under heavy fog. I wasn’t worried … Read more
