Taqua, Inc., today announced that Clear Rate Communications has deployed the Taqua 7000 Switching System to provide advanced voice services to its growing business and residential customer base in Illinois, Michigan, and Ohio. “With the unique architecture of the...
Reuters is reporting that MySpace and Skype are working together to offer MySpace members free Internet calling services, in a bid “to expand their base of users and revenue.” The deal is set to be announced tomorrow. The...
Well at last it’s finally here. The Quickening! Ok, Ok.. now I sound like Tom with his Braveheart quotes. For those who recognize it, I was referring to the original Highlander movie… No. What I’m really getting...
I’m out at the Broadsoft Connections conference in Phoenix, AZ and I’m trying to stay as productive as possible while meeting with senior-level executives at a number of Broadsoft’s partner companies. The event kicked off with an introductory keynote...
I’m visiting Dallas, Texas this week, and I was lucky enough to have a meeting with Huawei Technologies’ Edward Qian and Steve Hill at the company’s U.S. headquarters in Richardson (a suburb of Dallas). We spoke about a number...
Back in April I had the good fortune to visit with Interactive Intelligence CEO Dr. Don Brown, senior vice president of worldwide marketing Joe Staples, and director of product management, Rachel Wentink. They shared with me their plans regarding...
Next Wednesday, October 10, 2007, join TMC for a Webinar featuring speakers from Speakeasy and Polycom. The event will take place at 11:00am PT (2:00pm ET). The Webinar, entitled Making Money with VoIP — Selling to IT Decision Makers...
Back in March, Microsoft announced a small business phone system named Response Point, and said the system would be generally available to manufacturing later this year. Well, it’s now “later this year.” Today, Microsoft is announcing the general...
Paul Budde Communication has released a report entitled, 2007 North America — Telecoms, Broadband and Mobile Statistics providing information on North American telecommunications. Below are several stats from the report’s executive summary focusing on Canada and the U.S. ...
ShoreTel and Black Box announced an agreement today, whereby Black Box will sell, install, and support ShoreTel’s IP telephony solutions to its large enterprise customers across the United States and Canada The two companies have already completed several large...
Skype has announced that there have been more than 10 million downloads of Skype Extras since the Extras Manager in Skype™ 3.0 for Windows was launched in late December 2006. Extras are plug-ins written by independent third-party developers that let...
Alcatel has posted higher-than-expected revenue growth for the second quarter thanks to higher than expected revenue growth resulting from strong momentum in IP routing and optical transmission, mobile communications, and enterprise solutions.Announcing figures today, France-based communications gear maker reported Q2 revenues...
According to Wikipedia, YATE (or Yet Another Telephony Engine) is a free software telephony server that can be used for applications like PBX, Gateway and IVR solutions. The software is written in C++ and will support scripting in various programming languages.Sangoma...