There is nothing that builds a resume more like an award and if you are a developer, you definitely want to keep an eye on the new Dialogic Innovator Award contest which will not only give you some great bragging...
Travelzoo just sent an email telling the world that JetBlue has fares from Boston to New York City for an amazing $29. Greyhound, the nation's leading bus company costs $20 for the same trip. You need to book quickly to...
If you are in that video mood -- and yes I know some of you are... You will enjoy this new page we have designed to show you the interviews which took place at ITEXPO West 2008 in Los Angeles...
Texas Instruments makes the DSPs which perform much of the heavy lifting in communications devices we commonly use. From cell phones to VoIP gateways, TI DSPs and other processors are likely to be in in the equipment we use.To help...
Two days -- two shows, two cities and two trains which left at dawn. Wow... What a rush. What I picked up from the Channel Partners (Boston) and SpeechTek (New York) shows is the communications market and the call...
Good news: I have noticed plane fares for trips to ITEXPO this September 16-18, 2008 in Los Angeles have dropped by hundreds of dollars in many cases. As a show organizer, nothing makes me happier than having our event more...
I have had a number of positive comments about the fact that we are giving away a Toyota Prius at ITEXPO in LA, September 16-18, 2008. Most of the comments are thanking me/TMC for being environmentally friendly and more importantly...
While perusing the Blackberry Reseller channel on TMCnet I came across this really interesting article about Vlingo's new, free web-based service which allows Blackberry users to utilize speech recognition instead of a keyboard when communicating. While speech rec is not...
I am back from NXTComm, the Voice Peering Forum and my trip to Vancouver. It is good to be home and I have so much to share. A few things you should know about are the fact that TMCnet was...
If you haven't been watching, you may have missed the fact that TMC's CommunicationsDeveloper event has been gaining some major top level sponsors and I have taken an early look at the registration database and there are a good...
Over the years, TMC has worked closely with Avaya to host their DevConnect Developer Conference at TMC events such as Communications/VoIP Developer. I have always found these events to be extremely valuable as Avaya does a great job getting the...
Packet Island Redefine Network Management “It is not just about kbps” is the statement ringing in my head after a discussion I had at TMC’s CommunicationsDeveloper Conference in Santa Clara, CA last month with Praveen Kumar the co-founder...
Cantata's IMG/MSP Speeds Application Delivery Times for Service Providers. Recently I spoke with Peter Vescusi about Canata’s latest IMG roll out… Verison 10.3.3. As you may recall this is a pretty feature-driven release with more SIP methods, SIP and...
I recently had a chance to speak with David Mandelstam at the CommunicationsDeveloper Conference last month in Santa Clara, CA. Sangoma was one of the highlights at the show as the company had produced a few record quarters in...
If you have any doubt the hosted communications market is growing, you need to look no further than RingCentral who tells me their customer acquisition rate has grown at twice the rate of last year. The company does not offer...
Please enjoy the unedited Publisher's Outlook from the July 2007 issue of Internet Telephony Magazine. ------- One of the most colorful characters in the communications space has to be Iain Milnes the founder of Zarak and Zultys. Zarak sold to...
Here is some of the latest news from TMC’s CommunicationsDeveloper Conference which so far has been a tremendous success from the standpoint of attendance quality and quantity. In addition the conferees have been extremely happy with all the sessions....
Global IP Solutions, the company formerly known as Global IP Sound is well known as the company providing VoiceEngine technology. Their products enable communications for millions of users each day as their technology is found in Skype, WebEx and others....
Be sure to come to the CommunicationsDeveloper Conference tomorrow and be part of the Pactolus and Cisco workshops. Why you ask? Because the future of communications is all about ecosystems and companies like Pactolus and Cisco are providing a...
Here is the first show daily from the CommunicationsDeveloper Conference taking place next week. Many have told me they are thrilled TMC is sponsoring such an event as there needs to be a single place the communications industry can...
If open-source telephony is going mainstream as I recently wrote about, then the subsets of open-source telephony are also booming. For example, speech recognition in the open-source world is becoming more and more important. Case in point, a company called...
In the world of natural selection, animals capable of evolving with a changing environment survive while those who do not, perish. As you enter an ice age for example animals with increasingly wooly coats are at an advantage. As you...
I was just on the phone with Voxbone CEO Rodrigue Ullens and he was telling me about a really interesting contest his company will be running for the most innovative application based on his company’s API. Voxbone calls themselves...
I have just received word Kerry Garrison will be speaking at TMC’s CommunicationsDeveloper Conference to take place next month in Santa Clara, CA. Kerry is the Sr. Product Manager at Trixbox and works intricately with the open-source development community....
There is big communicationsdeveloper news afoot as Skype announced over 10 million downloads of Skype Extras. These Extras are in fact software programs designed to integrate with Skype. Collaboration software and call recording are examples of products that...