Dumping IM for Skype
Alec Saunders has given up all other IM’s for Skype. I’m close behind with a big ***** but. I’ll explain. For starters I have too many friends and business colleagues who are NOT ON SKYPE. Enter Palringo, a client, and an aggregator of IM networks that does more and easier messaging for me. Plus I … Read more
Jumping To A Conclusion
Apple prices computers and never really lowers them. For the most part the price of Apple computers have remained pretty static while the prices for Windows based PC’s keeps dropping. So when reading about Apple price drops and then the viewpoint of what may be next it’s easy to figure that Apple has a Netbook … Read more
How The Other Half Travels
I admit, I travel alot and usually better than most. I learned years ago from my friends in TV that if you have to be “on” after landing that going more than 4 hours is draining, and when taking an overnight flight, it has to be business class or better. Long gone are my days … Read more
Cool App Department: Fusion Visual Voice Mail for Android
I admit, I like cool apps. This one is interesting and is from friends at PhoneFusion. They recently debuted it at UnderTheRadar this month, but I was busy checking out client iotum’s Alec Saunders introducing another cool app, Calliflower for the iPhone. What’s good about this? For starters, it’s the only visual voicemail application available … Read more
How The Other Half Travels
I admit, I travel alot and usually better than most. I learned years ago from my friends in TV that if you have to be “on” after landing that going more than 4 hours is draining, and when taking an overnight flight, it has to be business class or better. Long gone are my days … Read more
Making Sense of Wideband Audio for Softphones
GIPS CTO Roar Hagen has an informative and educational post about the difference in wideband audio that gets put inside softphones which appeared on their new blog that launched just a week ago. It’s rewarding to see clients take to the blogosphere the way the team at GIPS is taking to it and how their … Read more
VideoChat Is Getting More Mainstream
I caught a bit of Oprah yesterday at my mother-in-laws where we had Turkey Day a day early here in Silicon Valley. One of the segments features their use of Skype. Today a story appears tied to ABC News about iChat and the use of it in video conferencing. Another story in the International Herald … Read more
Luca’s Must Have Apps
Luca, my pal on the island of Sardinia, has highlighted a series of applications that make your life easier and which have VoIP as a core component. He updates us on what’s new with each in his usually very mindful of what’s important style. In the post he’s written about Calliflower, Palringo, Truphone, Fring and … Read more
Stay Local, Look Global
Recently one of my online pals was looking for something I was looking for. International DID’s that anyone can buy without being a carrier who buys via client VOXBONE. So he found one, and I found one. These numbers work great and what I’m doing is making my GrandCentral number globally reachable so I can … Read more