When companies first launch, they’re often best at focusing in on their mission, on what they do best or – ideally – on the single biggest market problem they can address. Point is, they focus. And while this is often thanks to a strong leader, it just as often can be the sheer force of [...]
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EmergComm Entrepreneurs fire up $45M+ in Q4.
Image by Kevin H. via Flickr What a difference a year can make. Scratch that…comparing 2009 to 2010 is b-o-r-i-n-g. But the closing quarter of 2010 was anything but boring for a growing crop of entrepreneurs in the emerging communications sector. In 2008 I wrote often about the surge of new blood entering the communications [...]
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). [...]
The Doppler Effect: Skype Connect vs Google with free calls.
Yesterday, Skype Connect launched. Skype Connect is the formal release of the program started last fall called Skype for SIP. Ostensibly designed to connect the enterprise PBX to Skype via SIP, Skype touts the fact that vendors like Cisco and Avaya are certified to work with their networks. There is, however, another story here. Skype [...]
Apple iOS4: Multi-tasking, eh?
Full disclosure: the author has a history of selling multi-tasking ever since DESQview was introduced on PC memory expansion boards; my employer of the day, AST Computers, included a copy of DESQview with each “Enhanced” memory expansion board that would take a PC all the way up to 3MB (yes, that’s MB). Techies were enthusiastic [...]
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 [...]
Observations on Technology After A Month In Europe
Image via Wikipedia I’m cross-posting….so you will also find this on VoIPWatch and Working Anywhere. I have to admit, being over here in Europe for a solid month has really changed my perspective on some things related to technology. Here are some observations: Apple, which was never so dominant in Europe five years ago is [...]
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 [...]
Skype for iPhone over 3G: An Industry Benchmark Game Changer for Skype
Late last night I reported over at Voice On The Web on the long anticipated, yet unexpected and previously unannounced (by Skype) release of Skype for iPhone 2.0. I raised some issues, especially in light of the message related to charging a “small fee” for this carrier-agnostic service after September 1, 2010. Let’s just say [...]
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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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