I was trying to figure out why this particular announcement was news. In fact, this was discussed on Friday's Squawk Box call about 23 minutes in. Who cares what backend services platform...
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Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Ryan LaneJaduka originally released their APIs for their telephony platform over a year ago, which can easily be used to integrate with other applications. Open the...
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From hardware PBXes like Jazinga, we move to a PBX that runs on Windows. 3CX sent me a press release about version 6.0 of their Windows-based PBX. They made a big deal out of adding 10 features in 20...
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I got a piece of hardware from UPS on Monday from a company called Jazinga. It's a Wifi-enabled router with a PBX that promises to make it possible to have a PBX up and running without an IT...
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I am excited to see my friend Alec Saunders launch his latest baby: Calliflower. They have taken the Free Conference Calling application on Facebook, which has more than 200,000 users, and brought it...
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The folks at SightSpeed continue to quietly amaze. As I mentioned last week, SightSpeed was going to announce 9-way video conferencing, and they did exactly that for their SightSpeed Business...
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My pal Alec Saunders got a major score for his Free Conference Call service on Facebook: a call with William Shatner! This coming Thursday from 6:30PM to 8PM PDT, Allan Hunkin will spend 45 minutes...
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Every once in a while, I have to exercise my responsibilities as one of Creative Weblogging's "network bloggers" (i.e. I blog on a series of CW's tech-related blogs). This time,...
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© ToastyKen Not only do users enjoy unlimited mobile calls between other users when connected to the Internet they can also have low rates for calling any fixed-line or moblie phone. With SIP-enabled...
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Peter Csathy, the CEO of SightSpeed, posted this picture on his blog today along with the following message: "While others don't even have multi-party video chat, we decided to up the ante to...
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Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Daniel SteinWhile many U.S.-based voice over IP service providers already provide access to 911 service thanks to an FCC ruling requiring them to do so, it comes with a...
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Skype recently released a 4.0 beta version of their VoIP and instant messaging client for WIndows. It incorporates a new user interface that seems to focus more on video than on the IM or voice...
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Rom Feria over on Tech Without Wires finds an interesting application for the iPhone by a company called A company called iCall. He describes it as similar to the TMobile's Hotspot@Home service....
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Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Image# 5747813The past few weeks have been challenging for me on a number of fronts. As far as challenges related to this posting go, I managed to drop my personal...
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Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Vitaliy PakhnyushchyyIt's funny, we hear a lot about free calls on different services. While that's great for the end user, those free calls cost someone and...
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Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Andrew ManleyMarcelo Rodriguez over at RingFree took issue with a number of other product announcements that use a phrase similar to "True VoIP for the...
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Last week while I was in Ottawa, I had lunch with Alec Saunders. While I certainly hear from Alec on a regular basis thanks to his Squawk Box calls, I rarely get one-on-one time with Alec-especially...
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This might be old news by now, but the folks at Vonage have a website with their ads along with user-submitted ones called Vonageland! Here's one of the ads Vonage produced: The site also has a...
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In a recent post, I posited that it was possible to take the entire bandwidth of a copper line and instead of making it voice, make it data and run VoIP over the top of it. That was just a......
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© anomalous4I remember when I went through buying and selling real estate last year. Lots and lots of faxing. I tried desperately to use voice over ip solutions to send faxes. For the most part, they...
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