Today Skype announced the availability of their mobile client for the Android platform. It is available on the Android market for everyone. I just installed it on my HTC Desire running Froyo v2.2 and everything is working fine so far. It looks like it doesn’t work on every phone running Android 2.1, though, since others [...]
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Mobile Video Calls Are Not A Real Need. Period.
Image by BasBoerman via Flickr The recent launch of Apple Facetime, the personal one-to-one video communication service available on the new iPhone 4G, made me think again on whether video communication is really a need for the “avarage” Joe (i.e., the “normal” user). Facetime offers a very high quality service over Wifi only, that means [...]
To Do Or Not To Do, That Is The Question
Image via Wikipedia Today Skype hit the news because Dan Neary, Skype’s Vice President for the Asia/Pacific region, during a conference told attendees that Skype won’t be developing anything for the new upcoming Windows 7-based mobile phones. MobileTechWorld looked into this statement and realized that what he actually said was not really “no Skype for [...]
Is Realtime Communication Crucial For You?
Image by the weed one via Flickr I have to admit it, I am a “realtime communicator“. I’m a heavy users of various IMs, voice over IP services, BlackBerry messenger, Twitter and, last but not least, email. Moreover, I’m kinda obsessed with the ability to keep up with everything and to give responses and feedbacks [...]
Rich Calling For SMBs Now Possible
For many reasons, last but not least the volcano’s ash cloud that is blocking Europe these days, I couldn’t attend eComm America, taking place these days near San Francisco. However, I’ve been following the Twitter stream coming from eComm‘s attendees and speakers and took a look at some new services launched during the show. Ringio [...]
VoIP on BlackBerry… What’s Next?
Image by liewcf via Flickr Yesterday I was reading an announcement about the new SDK developed by a european company, fgMicrotec, which lets developers write new VoIP applications for the Blackberry platform. In a nutshell, it’s a java engine that facilitates the interaction between new third party apps and the BB’s engine. I haven’t found [...]
Five Reasons Why We Should Say “Thank You” To Skype
Image via Wikipedia For me it’s a no brainer, Skype has been the most disruptive thing that has happened to the telephony industry in the last decade. Since its launch, six years ago, Skype has taught us a lot of important lessons and there are many reasons why we should say “thank you” to the [...]
Ten Years And A Dream
Ten years ago today I started my adventure in the incredible and exciting world of IP communications and I thought there was no better place than Voyces to blow out the candles, sharing this event with the other five heavy names in the IP communications space who contribute to this new adventure and all the [...]
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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...
