I’ve been using various desktop tools on the Macintosh that let me send “free” SMS from my laptop, but I haven’t really found a workable solution to sending and receiving from a personal computer. It seems Skype has not either, as the reply has to go back to your mobile phone. Candidly, this may be … Read more
I’ve been playing around with a few “minute stealing” concepts of late including Jajah who just raised a boatload of cash from Intel and a new startup out of Montreal called MobiVox. While Jajah is widely known, Mobivox is just getting known after being around for about a year under the name of VoxLib. What … Read more
Peter Csathy, on his blog today, waxes on about the second Viacom network to add real time video interaction between the show and the video audience. To me this is the radio call in gone the video route, something that never worked well with just voice. From a technical standpoint, Viacom had their choice of … Read more
AT&T CallVantage customers who are not officially where the E911 service is located (i.e. those that lie) are getting served with disconnect notices. I hear the same thing is happening with some AIM PhoneLine customers as well from the AOL exec on the project. This is really about playing it safe and minimizing risk for … Read more
Europeans who use WiFi are likely more aware of Trustive than many in other parts of the world. The hotspot access aggregator is similar to Boingo here in the USA, and has taken aim at the SMB/SME market going after the same customer base that iPass and GRIC have had mostly free reign with for … Read more
When you look at the growing number of hotspots around the world one has to be happy as it means that Working Anywhere is going to become easier and easier.
One of the companies that people fail to realize that had roots in the dot.com era is Sonus. Over time they have overcome adversity and become the go to choice for the telco more and more frequently, as they now are winning business from the top line carriers like France Telecom that was announced today. … Read more
If you use SalesForce.com it maybe worth a visit to AppExchange and the download of the latest Skype for SalesForce.com
One of the companies at Om Malik and Surj Patel’s Launchpad event that I liked was Mig33. It seems they have finally gotten around to announcing their funding from Accel and Redpoint. This tells me a major push is about to happen. Expect new hires, some new deals and lots of buzz around this blended … Read more
VoIP security expert Dan York has written a rather interesting “tale” of what could happen if the BotNets in IRC chat rooms ever got unleashed on VoIP networks.
