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Communications Startups Continue to Spread Out.

Communications Startups Continue to Spread Out.

This week, if the alleged ‘Storm of the Century’ allows, myself and many others will be traveling to Miami (where the weather is superb) for a week of networking, fun and a bunch of ‘other’ at the East installment of ITExpo. And for the third time in succession, my partner at Embrase, Phil Telio, and [...]

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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 [...]

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Tick, Tock, Core, Edge

Tick, Tock, Core, Edge

Image by Chris Devers via Flickr My earliest memories involve an Atlantic beach, big waves and Business Week. Way before I went off to school, I recall going to with my mother to the beach every day in the summer. I would play in the sand; she would read Business Week. Earlier in her life, [...]

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Google Targets Skype

Google Targets Skype

Last fall’s acquisition of Gizmo5 gave the Google voice team a nice SIP client. However, they still didn’t have anything to match Skype’s crack team of AV codec developers – the team responsible for SILK, and so many of the other quality innovations that differentiate Skype in the market place. Late last night Google moved [...]

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