It’s not every day that a Canadian company gets acquired for north of $200M, much less one in the telecom space. But it can happen, as evidenced by last week’s announced purchase of Ottawa-based ProtusIP by J2Global for a cool $213M. ProtusIP providers a variety of small business communications services, including fax, email marketing and [...]
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LTE/4G Makes 2011 The Year of the Soft Client
With Verizon rolling out LTE in some 30+ cities and over 60 airports this past weekend the press has been playing off of the download speeds. What they’re missing is the fact that latency will be much, much lower and that means VOICE over IP is going to flourish and as such make 2011 the [...]
RingRevenue Ring$ in the Holidays.
Image via CrunchBase Just in time for the holidays, RingRevenue has completed its next round of financing. A trailblazer in enabling advertisers to profitably integrate phone calls into their processes, today’s news suggests strongly the company has indeed proved out their model. This morning’s announcement reads: Marketing company RingRevenue has rased $4 million in venture capital financing, bringing [...]
Voice M&A Gets Going: Cbeyond, Oracle and others jump in.
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, [...]
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, [...]
Skype For Android is Here
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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...
