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January 4, 2005
3COM Embraces Speech
3COM and iVoice have teamed up to provide a speech-enabled auto-attendant for
the NBX, IP PBX.
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January 4, 2005
Can a telephone system be sexy? Well that is the argument of TMCnet Channel author Greg Pisano who writes
Telephone Systems Can Be Sexy. I have to admit, this caught my attention. Quite a headline. But can they really be, um, you know... Sexy? The article talks about the future telephony with drag and drop GUI interfaces for conference calling and the like. I believe that telecom systems will become utilized more than ever as GUI interfaces proliferate. Most people without a GUI cant conference two people together and this is such a basic telephone feature that many of us need. There are so many other features that will be accessible to us as VoIP based systems allow us to use the the features we cant access today and even better, the ones that are yet to be invented. So can telephone systems be sexy? Feel free to read the article and decide for your self.
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January 4, 2005
Talk about digital divide!
The Pew Internet & Life Project released a recent study saying that
6 million Americans get their news via blogs, a 58% increase! The flipside is that 62% of Americans don't know what a Blog is! Oh yes and another 8 million people are creating blogs.
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January 4, 2005
Recently engadget reported that
Vonage has a WiFi phone, the F-1000. I expect a number of WiFi telephony announcements to come from CES. I recently blogged about
new WiFi telephony chips which will make designing WiFi telephony devices as easy as ever. WiFi telephony will really become a hit when every cell phone can jump on a WiFi network. The question remains, what will the traditional wireless carriers do about WiFi telephony. Companies like Verizon Wireless have already shown that thy will
disable phones such as the Motorola V710 that run on their network so they can sell more minutes. So will Verizon ever let a WiFi enabled phone on their network. the answer is if they can somehow charge for it.GSM is another story as SIM cards allow you get on a GSM network easily and you can purchase the device yourself. Still, the threat of further industry consolidation makes me nervous about how open these wireless networks will be in the future.
More Vonage news. As I was blogging this, I received a TMC RSS Alert on Vonage and TI working more closely together on product development.
Here is another story on Vonage and UTStarcom working together to deliver portable WiFi handset. This story mentions the F-1000. It will work on 802.11b networks and be available nationwide in the spring/summer of 2005.
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