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WYDE Voice Debuts Better Conferencing Solution
A new product was just announced today and I cannot be more excited as it shows innovation is very alive and well in communications. WYDE Voice is a new start-up venture backed by Free Conferencing Corp. founder and CEO...
Posted on March 12, 2008 6:57 PM
Paul Reynolds Joins XConnect Board
Sarah Hofstetter is a VoIP veteran as she was the head of PR for Net2Phone since the 1990s and has been in the IP communications space longer than just about anyone else out there. The reason I point this out...
Posted on March 12, 2008 5:40 AM
A New IP Communications Portal
Some of the brightest minds in IP communications have teamed up to launch a new site called IP Communications Insights. Readers of this blog no doubt know Marc Robins and Jon Arnold as I have discussed them both often...
Posted on March 11, 2008 6:00 PM
Not Your Father's Phone Service
If you thought callers exhibit the same behavior regardless of the type of technology they use, you would be wrong. In fact, callers on VoIP lines make many more long distance calls. Of course it is not the underlying technology...
Posted on March 11, 2008 11:08 AM
Comcast Gets Kevin Martin's Wrath
Kevin Martin seems to be genuinely upset at Comcast and the fact they weren't forthcoming about their traffic shaping of BitTorrent traffic. "A hallmark of what should be seen as a reasonable business practice is certainly whether or not the...
Posted on March 10, 2008 6:28 AM
Aspect Brings Unified Communications to the Contact Center
In 1997 TMC decided to launch a magazine titled Internet Telephony to cover what we hoped would become a huge IP communications industry. A few years later, contact centers saw the technology as a great way to take advantage of...
Posted on March 9, 2008 8:54 AM
Jaduka's New Products
Jaduka has a suite of new products/services which allow IP communications to enter the realm of web 2.0. The company has a suite of services in fact and they are worth discussing individually... dukaDIAL lets you make phone-to-phone calls to...
Posted on March 7, 2008 11:31 AM
Sun Unified Communications Solutions
Sun is getting into the unified communications game with the aid of Mitel. This is great as IBM is big player in the space and having an alternative vendor like SUN is great for companies who are looking for options....
Posted on March 6, 2008 7:40 PM
AT&T U-verse Improves
Today I was perusing a press release from AT&T touting the new HD channels they will be offering in Fairfield County, Connecticut as part of their U-verse offering. This release was of special interest since this county is where...
Posted on March 3, 2008 9:56 AM
Tech Moving From Hardware to Software
As I sit in more and more meetings with companies in the IP communications hardware space I keep hearing that these companies are moving from hardware to software because that's where the money is. In fact, at a recent conference...
Posted on March 1, 2008 3:40 PM
Vonage Spent $1.4 million on Lobbying
Vonage spent $1.4 million dollars lobbying last year but some think this may not be enough to counterbalance the huge telcos who have been at this lobbying game for far longer. More from the AP and Russell Shaw...
Posted on March 1, 2008 8:43 AM
David Yedwab Live on TMCnet
You may know David Yedwab as one of the leading analysts in telecom. If you aren't aware of him, then I am glad to let you know that David is now writing for TMCnet and his columns can be found...
Posted on February 29, 2008 2:16 PM
Senate Passes new 911 Bill
The Senate just passed the IP-Enabled Voice Communications and Public Safety Act of 2007 which amends the Wireless Communications and Public Safety Act of 1999 to impose on IP communications service providers engaged in interstate or foreign communication a requirement...
Posted on February 27, 2008 2:53 PM
NEC Targets Mid-Tier for IMS
Above: NEC's View of IMS NEC is targeting mid-tier providers with its new IMS products. The company's new Service Convergence Integrated Platform or SCI-P is a 'starter' framework for IMS, and bundles carrier-class call processing quality, blade-server architecture, a...
Posted on February 25, 2008 8:01 PM
The US Entrenched in the Communications Third World
A year ago I wrote an entry titled Living in the Third World of Communications and boy, I must have been really pissed off on that day because I usually don't tell politicians they need to be sure they...
Posted on February 25, 2008 2:38 PM
More SMB Communications Growth
Yesterday I discussed how well the SMB space is doing in the communications market and today there is more evidence of competition in the space as WhaleBack Systems is expanding deeper into the mid-Atlantic region. Three companies, Schultz Technology Solutions,...
Posted on February 22, 2008 7:11 AM
Cbeyond Sees Massive Growth
What can you say about Cbeyond? Like HP they hit the cover off the ball with their earnings. The company which provides voice, broadband and mobile service to the SMB space had strong fourth quarter growth with revenues of $76.9...
Posted on February 21, 2008 5:43 PM
HotSpot @Home Talk Forever Home Phone
T-Mobile is at it again. They are now starting trials of a new service called HotSpot @Home Talk Forever Home Phone in Dallas and Seattle. Interestingly this service is actually backwards looking allowing customers to plug their landlines into...
Posted on February 21, 2008 7:25 AM
Jon Arnold on Vonage
Jon Arnold has done a great job of analyzing how Vonage is doing and according to the Arnold, the latest quarter had some ups and downs. Jon spells out why Vonage may not make it into 2009 and I for...
Posted on February 19, 2008 6:25 PM
Sony's VoIP Headsets
Sony may be a decade or so late to the game but certainly it is better to be late than not in the game at all. So welcome Sony to the world of VoIP headsets. The top of the range...
Posted on February 18, 2008 5:20 PM
Intel's Skulltrail Motherboard
I just have to wonder if Intel's latest motherboard code named SkullTrail will be useful beyond the gaming market. The device can be outfitted with two quad-core processors and multiple graphics chips from AMD (yes, AMD) and Nvidia. Obviously the...
Posted on February 18, 2008 3:41 PM
BT Has New Wireless VoIP Plan
Of course this is not the first time a wireless carrier has allowed customers access to VoWiFi but BT's new WiFi telephony service costs only of £5/month when you subtract out the bundled Office Anywhere service which costs £5 as...
Posted on February 18, 2008 2:51 PM
Aastra Acquires Ericsson's Enterprise Business
Ericsson has divested itself of its Enterprise communications business and this move reminds me a great deal of Lucent spinning off its enterprise division in 2000 or so. For Ericsson the logic behind the move is sound as it wants...
Posted on February 18, 2008 10:40 AM
Quickorder for Starbucks
Check it out... I was scanning engadget and came across Quickorder software which enables the iPod Touch to let customers order their coffee at Starbucks without human interaction. I think this is a great idea and in many areas of...
Posted on February 18, 2008 3:22 AM
SMBs Embrace FMC
Huge news comes from Nortel as they recently commissioned a survey which found SMBs are more technically savvy than some might have imagined. SMBs seem to be screaming for FMC solutions and unified communications -- especially as it relates to...
Posted on February 17, 2008 6:40 PM
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