The decision by British Telecom to buy internet telephony service Ribbit for $105m in 2008 drew out plenty of questions. Three years later the criticisms have come full circle, with news that the most visible part of the business is being shut down.…
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Ringio: Sophisticated Phone and Customer Management
The developers call Ringio a "new approach for call collaboration." When a call comes in, users are presented with a real-time popup showing data about the caller, so that one can decide to take the call, redirect the caller to voicemail or to another team member.…
Read MoreRibbit Mobile's Launch Shows BT's Strategy Isn't Just All Talk
BT’s Ribbit is taking on Google (s goog) Voice with a cloud-based service that combines Internet voice, smart call routing and voicemail…
Read MoreWith Ribbit, BT Is Rethinking Its Voice Business
When BT, formerly known as British Telecom, splurged and bought Mountain View, Calif.,-based Ribbit for $105 million some 15 months ago, I…
Read MoreVoicePHP: Indian Startup Marries Voice with PHP
Marrying web applications with voice has long been seen as the proverbial pot of gold: easy to dream about but hard to…
Read MoreGreen Gorillas Shows Kids How To Save The Planet
This week brought the release of Episode 2 of Gorilla in the Greenhouse, an animated educational series from SustainLane. Like the Earth…
Read MoreNew MacBook HDCP Impairing External Displays
In what seems like another addition to a long list of examples of how when you rent digital content, you’re actually renting…
Read MoreWhy IntelePeer Snagged $18 Million in Funding
IntelePeer, A San Mateo-Calif-based Voice services provider raised $18 million in Series C funding. Vantagepoint Partners led the round along with participation from existing investors.…
Read MoreMy DEMO Rant and 5 Cool Products
We tell you about our picks and pans from DEMO 2008.…
Read MoreBT Buys Ribbit for $105 Million
BT (British Telecom) has acquired Silicon Valley-based Ribbit for roughly $105 million, according to various news outlets. Rumors of the deal first…
Read MoreBT Buying Web 2.0 Call Manager Ribbit For $105 Million In Cash
BT (NYSE: BT) has confirmed a deal to buy Ribbit, a Silicon Valley outfit with impressive features for web-based voicemail handling. The pr……
Read MoreBT Buying Web 2.0 Call Manager Ribbit For $105 Million In Cash
BT (NYSE: BT) has confirmed a deal to buy Ribbit, a Silicon Valley outfit with impressive features for web-based voicemail handling. The pr……
Read MoreIs There Money in Voice APIs?
The promise of APIs is that they make it easy to integrate different services — even those provided by different vendors — into a single application. But is simply providing an API to your telephony infrastructure enough to prompt the world to beat a path to your door? Don’t count on it.…
Read MoreWas Ribbit Sold? Maybe, Maybe Not
Ribbit, a Mountain View, Calif.-based company that is pushing a VoIP platform that marries web with voice is subject of acquisition rumors…
Read MoreJajah Gives Yahoo Voice, AOL Wants Others to SIP AIM Voice
Jajah, one of the many callback service providers, is slowly trying to transform itself into a voice platform, offering others the ability…
Read MoreRibbit Shows its Own Web/Voice Service
Ribbit, the Mountain View, Calif.-based startup aiming to help developers unite voice with web applications, is scheduled to announce its own voice-web…
Read MoreCan Ribbit Finally Bring Web & Voice Together?
VoIP insiders have recently started talking about taking a platform approach to the convergence of web and voice, an approach for which startup Ribbit is offering perhaps the most audacious (and equally risky) strategy.…
Read MoreCat Got Adobe's VoIP?
Updated with more details: Adobe Systems has become the underpinning of the online video revolution. But when it comes to melding voice…
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