As a remote workers and road warriors, there are certain tools in our toolbox that are indispensable. The ones that take some of the remoteness out of being located away from your teammates and colleagues. IM is great for quick conversations and email is fantastic for […] Read more »
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. […] Read more »
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 […] Read more »
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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 […] Read more »
While James is up earlier than normal in Vegas, I’m sitting at the Philadelphia International Airport reading about BenQ’s mobile Internet device. According to MobileWhack, we’ll get our first peek at this handheld gateway to the web at CES which is expected to have various connectivity […] Read more »
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 […] Read more »
[qi:090] 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 […] Read more »
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 […] Read more »
Our first-ever NewTeeVee Live conference is less than a week away. Still haven’t signed up? Darling, everyone’s going to be there: Quincy Smith, President of CBS Interactive Ralph de la Vega, Group President, AT&T Steve Chen, Co-Founder, CTO of YouTube Mika Salmi, President of Global Digital […] Read more »
[qi:086] 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 […] Read more »
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The beleaguered VoIP provider Vonage (VG) has been taking it on the chin for so long that even a marginal bit of good news is worth noting. The company said today it has “settled its pending patent dispute with Sprint (S)” and has “entered into a […] Read more »
[qi:86] James Seng, a fellow VoIP blogger from Singapore, was in town last week. We met up one afternoon for coffee, and my first question to him was: Why are you blogging less about VoIP these days? He expressed dismay at the lack of excitement in […] Read more »
CBS blew us away with a groundbreaking new idea for TV syndication on the net this week. The network will make its entire 60 Minutes show available as a free podcast. As an audio podcast, to be precise. Now some of you might ask: Why on […] Read more »
Google’s Blogger blogging service is finally catching up with the times. It is now adding video uploading to the service, making it easy for folks who use Blogger to add video to their blog posts. On their blog, the Blogger team explains how this is going […] Read more »
Alright, so while the title of this post is more or less accurate, the polish and full suite of capabilities are not there. But Jing certainly does a nice job of combining the power of Snapz Pro X‘s video capture abilities with the simplicity of Skitch […] Read more »
Alumnus of The Apple Blog, Chris Holland, is back to ranting about his tech-mistress, SIP. And although the concept may sound far-fetched at the onset, the idea at the core is pure genius, and in this writer’s opinion, has Apple written all over it. Chris postulates […] Read more »
Say what you may about the new 47.6 million subscriber strong Cingular Wireless, it has to feel good to be the #1 player in the fastest growing cellular market in the developed world. Who cares soon Verizon will kick their behind and overlap them, purely because […] Read more »
iPod Aftermarket is how Jeff Nolan describes the whole ecosystem that has cropped up around IPod. It is nice to hear that the editors of Business 2.0 were not alone in spotting this after market, “In the consumer hardware world you know you’ve hit it big […] Read more »
Broadband by the beach: Nantucket, Hermosa Beach, Cocoa Beach all go WiFi A billion dollar playout for Bill Gates Bill Gates will get roughly a billion dollars, since he owns 5.7 percent of Cox, reports MSNBC. Another Vonage Outage? Another BPL experiment Bites the Dust in […] Read more »
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