Dean Bubley has a nice thought provoking piece about branded mobile handsets vs. the plain vanilla versions. In the USA it really doesn’t matter as few people really need the unlocked versions since AT&T and T-Mobile are the GSM players and if you’re a happy domestic customer going global with an unlocked phone simply means … Read more
Mike Bartlett has written a very personal update to the beta users of SKype 4.0. I like the tone and direction, as it shows under Josh Silverman Skype is actually listening to users (including bloggers.) The comment about a compact mode was my initial reaction when Josh took me through the details a few weeks … Read more
Engadget suggests that more Asus EEE PC’s are on their way. As a happy owner of the 701 and 900 (actually two of each) I find these to be the perfect toss in the bag and carry around or leave in the car for when you need more than a Blackberry. I’m using the Linux … Read more
Dan Berninger, now with Free World DialUp, Jeff Pulver’s Purple Minutes foray into VoIP/SIP and all things 2.0 that was light years ahead when it started, and now more a VoIP club the way the ARRL is for Ham radio, as a proving ground for all things VoIP and SIP, has a great post to … Read more
This applies to whomever is really running Vonage (a company I predict will get bought by private equity in the next 18 months). This post from Duct Tape Marketing about lifetime value of a customer is dead on the money. If you add up all the former Vonage customers who have left it likely now … Read more
The WiFi Alliance is now certifying devices for VoIP over WiFi as part of a new standard 802.11r that’s coming to us in the future. While this is good, it’s too little too late. Earthlink tried to have VoWiFI with some devices that pals David Elgas and Steve Howe actually had built for them. While … Read more
I’m supposed to be on vacation, but I feel the obligation to bring some news items or stories of note to light. GIPS is providing Baidu their VideoEngine to have real time video chat inside the Baidu Instant Messaging platform. GIPS has new leadership as well now so maybe we’ll see a kindler and gentler … Read more
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The world of audio conferencing keeps getting brighter, and with the price of gasoline, as well as air travel services like GoToMeeting are seeing the light and adding VoIP to their platform. Technorati Tags: Andy Abramson, IVR, VoIP
