As you may have heard recently, Jeff Pulver issued a call for VoIP companies to provide more than just the old-style telephone service. Jim Courtney over at Skype Journal wrote a lengthy piece about how Skype, along with companies that use the Skype API, have met Jeff’s challenge for innovation.Skype does run on a number […]
My guest this week was Brian Mahony, VP of Marketing at Ottawa-based Espial Group. Espial is one of the leading indie IPTV middleware vendors, and are very much connnected to the market and technology issues around IPTV. Brian provided a great perspective on the IPTV market and some of the better-known deployments.
Espial also just had […]
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Under the agreement, the two companies will work together to integrate Bytemobile’s embedded browser optimization (EBO) technology with the ACCESS NetFront Browser and NetFront Mobile Client […]
It seems that the VoIP providers are just as bad–or worse–than the mobile phone carriers in the United States, which generally don’t let you take your phone to a competing provider. Unlike with US mobile phones, where there are two standards, pretty much all customer premises VoIP hardware speaks SIP, the lingua franca
of VoIP. Just […]
s announced the addition of twenty new Airbus A380 to its fleet, unveiling an state-of-the-art interior and seating to be installed onboard its new aeroplanes from August 2008.
Qantas Executive General Manager John Borghetti said the airline’s fleet would be configured with 450 seats - 14 in First, 72 in Business, 32 in its new Premium […]
Generally speaking, the VoIP industry has done whatever they can to replicate the telecom networks of old. Feature for feature, function for function, it works the same way with a VoIP provider as it does on a normal landline. The only difference is the price and the reliability. It’s one of the reasons this particular […]
If anybody knows about innovation and disruption in the VoIP space, it’s the man who hosts my blog, Jeff Pulver. A nice confluence of events led a post from Jeff today, which is basically an offer to possibly make some of his personal seed capital available to someone who can show him something truly different […]
Regular readers of this blog may wonder: who the heck is this guy writing now? Of course, instead of introducing myself as I should have when Creative Weblogging announced a new blogger was taking over, Instead, I just jumped right in and started writing.Then again, a bunch of you probably already know who I am. […]
Ashton Kutcher–keep your day job as an actor. After my initial negative reaction to Ooma–more negative than I’ve had for a product in a long time–I still think this product is dead-on-arrival, but I have slightly different reasons than before. The crux of my hatred centered around their “Peer-to-Peer” method of making phone calls. Basically […]
Yesterday, Ooma had its official launch, and at face value, is being touted as a game-changer. I’ll steer you to blog posts that explain the details, but basically this is a device-based solution to give consumers a better VoIP experience, and an alternative to the fledgling pureplays like Vonage and 8×8. I’d include SunRocket in […]