Posts Tagged ‘VoIP’

Beware of Employees Tossing ‘Roses Where You Walk’

Chris Lyman, Monday, March 3, 2008 at 8:46 AM PT Comments (0)


Editor’s Note: Chris Lyman is the founder and CEO of the enterprise VoIP service provider, Fonality, in Los Angeles. He’s also one of our favorite bloggers, penning candid and humorous essays on the many challenges he faces at his Janitor’s Blog. See Startup Math: 1 + 1 = 1/2, The Power of “I Don’t […]

Ribbit Shows its Own Web/Voice Service

Paul Kapustka, Monday, January 28, 2008 at 5:01 AM PT Comments (7)

Ribbit, the Mountain View, Calif.-based startup aiming to help developers unite voice with web applications, is scheduled to announce its own voice-web entry Monday, a service called Amphibian that will give users the ability to blend traditional telephony services with a wide range of web-based options.

Due out in the second quarter of 2008, Amphibian is […]

Dell Thinks Small Biz is Big Biz for VoIP

Carleen Hawn, Wednesday, January 23, 2008 at 10:14 AM PT Comments (7)

Dell begins bundling Fonality’s open-source software with its enterprise servers today, its latest gambit to compete in the already-crowded VoIP market — this time targeting companies with 125 employees or fewer.

This is fertile ground: Analyst Alan Weckel of research firm Dell ‘Oro Group estimates annual PBX revenues, including those from VoIP phone systems, will […]

How the ‘CEO-Janitor’ Cleaned Up With Dell

Carleen Hawn, Wednesday, January 23, 2008 at 12:40 AM PT Comments (0)

Chris Lyman, the founder of the VoIP startup, Fonality, blogs under the moniker Janitor— which he prefers to his other title: CEO. Chris has shared some of his management ideas with us here, too including Startup Math: 1 + 1 = 1/2 and The Power of “I Don’t Know.” We also recommend you […]

Jaxtr’s Challenge: Turn Try It Into Buy It

Anne Zelenka, Tuesday, December 11, 2007 at 12:01 AM PT Comments (18)

VoIP startup Jaxtr said today that it has attracted 5 million registered members, up from 500,000 users 140 day ago, making the company “the fastest-growing Internet communications service in history — ahead of Skype, Hotmail and ICQ,” according to its press release.

But where is the money?

You might think that scaling to meet the needs of […]

On Facebook, VoIP Has a Sore Throat

Om Malik, Tuesday, November 20, 2007 at 6:45 PM PT Comments (24)

The VoIP community, like so many others, got swept up in the Facebook platform euphoria. Not a day passed without some startup or another unveiling their Facebook application amid much fanfare. Well, the party is over, and it has become clear that VoIP apps have lost their voice on Facebook.

This was first noted by […]

Jajah’s Hypothetical IPO Delayed Another Year

Om Malik, Thursday, November 8, 2007 at 2:08 PM PT Comments (6)

Jajah, the VoIP callback service provider that shifted from paid to “free” and was dreaming of an initial public offering in 2007, has pushed back its IPO plans until the second or third quarter of 2008, co-founder Roman Scharf told Reuters. The timing seems about right — the way everyone is going nuts here […]

Is That Voice in Your App?

Om Malik, Tuesday, November 6, 2007 at 1:30 AM PT Comments (20)

Things have been tough as of late for plain vanilla VoIP service providers, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that voice over IP is over as a technology. As my good friend Andy Abramson points out, the focus in the future is going to be on adding voice to apps.

This was one of the trends […]

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