Over the last years, few conversations have gone by without someone pondering when the ‘roll-up’ would inevitably start in the hosted voice space. But in 2009, while many may have poked around, the opportunities were more so to pick off distressed properties than to invest in real scale or product line expansion. People were nervous, [...]
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Let the Good Times Roll: BroadSoft Connections 2010.
There is little glamor in business travel these days. Airport security is like checking into prison, the planes are all packed and there always seems to be someone ahead of you in the upgrade line. But every once in a while your work takes you somewhere that makes the grind seem worth it. For me, [...]
All I wanted for my birthday was a lousy phone call.
Yes, I must be old if that’s all I wanted. But this year (and rest assured that while it may seem this way, this post is not about my birthday) when it was all said and done, a good old-fashioned phone call is the one thing I came dangerously close to not getting. Now, this [...]
Voyces descend on LA for Cloud Comm Summit, StartupCamp
Voyces is a collaborative effort of several independent working stiffs from the emerging comm industry. The upside of this – at least the intended one – is that we bring from-the-field perspective to our writing. The downside is that our respective businesses often get in the way of a consistent posting schedule (note the erratic timelines below). [...]
Early Stage Funding comes to Social Telephony.
Hackathons put on by the likes of TechCrunch, StartupWeekend and others have spawned new products – and sometimes companies – literally overnight. Such is the way in the world of open-source, open API’s and cloud computing. While many outputs end up as little more than fodder for Friday night drinks, some catch adequate fire to [...]
Video Comm for Micro-business: Easy & Productive…or forget it.
While my office certainly doesn’t qualify as a product review lab (any vendor mentioned here, please take note), I am a typical ‘micro-business’ — those defined as companies between 1-5 people and often with many if not all working from home. And like many consulting businesses, my clients, partners and colleagues seem rarely to be [...]
Cloud-Comm Channels for a Cloud-Comm World?
Image via Wikipedia As a recent convert to Gmail (yes, I know I’m late on that one), I decided to have a peak at what if anything goes on inside Buzz. The first post I came across from was from industry friend Peter Radizeski, who made an observation about the growing popularity of the Hosted IVR [...]
Breaking News: The ‘other’ Mobile VoIP company snags $16M.
Congratulations are in order for CEO Tanveer Sharif and his team at their upstart Danish Mobile VoIP company. Sources tell Voyces that Vopium has secured over $16M worth of new expansion capital, all from international telecommunications investor Raghuvinder Kataria. Wow. How quickly times change. Not long ago – mid-2009 – anything VoIP (even Mobile) had become a dirty [...]
Will there be a Voice Conferencing 2.0?
I have long envied those in the voice conferencing business. Hell, even while the perceived value of a long distance call stands at almost zero and with mobile minutes rapidly following suit, the conference call rambles on as a voice service many expect – and seem ok – to pay for. In spades. Free conference [...]
Innovator: Sweden’s Freespee CEO, Carl Holmquist
While Sweden has produced recognizable telecom entrepreneurs – namely one who started a company called Skype, as well as Rebtel’s founder Hjalmar Winbladh – one can’t be faulted for thinking cars and cold, and not voice startups, when Stockholm’s on the screen. So when a little-known Swedish startup called Freespee started following my feed on Twitter, I was instantly [...]
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Skype: Lost focus or an exit-play after all?
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Mobile Video Calls Are Not A Real Need. Period.
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Google Targets Skype
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Will there be a Voice Conferencing 2.0?
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Microsoft Contacts Next of Kin
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Rich Calling For SMBs Now Possible
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Skype: Lost focus or an exit-play after all?
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Is the Cloud Safe?
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Lessons in Phone History.
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Telecom may be old; but no boring.
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Will video go the way of voice mail?
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Eugene Liu: Happy belated birthday, Larry!!! (Add "1 blog c...
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yossi.v: "Calls to Skype users are free, and to most other ...
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Mathieu: Google has Android and Voice come pre-install on 2...
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Danielle Morrill: Go Twilio developer community, go!...
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Chema: Yes, it is difficult for people to find value in p...
