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NACT Reemerges

April 26, 2010

If you were in telecom in the mid-nineties you remember one of the large players in the space was NACT a company playing in the prepaid and international callback markets. Prior to VoIP these markets were the preferred methods of lowering long-distance bills and back then there was more money to be made as international calling rates were much higher than today. This in turn meant the arbitrage opportunity allowed for much greater profit margins than the current Skype-era of telecom we live with today.

If you ever attended a Computer Telephony Expo back in the nineties in Los Angeles or Dallas you remember the company's major presence at the show.

Posted in 4G, AT&T, Avaya, Blackberry, Broadband, FCC, Financial, IP Communications, Merger/Acquisition, Open Source, SIP, Technology, Verizon, VoIP, Wireless

Android Runs on Older iPhones

April 23, 2010

You have to hand it to hackers... As thanks to their hard work you can now run Android and the Android OS on your 2G iPhone. Expect the 3G version to be out soon, followed by the 3GS which apparently is a harder port. Basically the OpeniBoot loader comes up when you reboot the phone and If you hold the home button during the process, you get Android to run.

The pros are being the only person on the block with Android running on your iPhone as well as being able to run Flash on your Apple device.

Posted in 4G, AT&T, Apple, Blackberry, Communications Developer, Consumer Electronics, Gadget, Google, IP Communications, Open Source, SIP, Skype, Technology, Verizon, VoIP, Wireless

Odin Telesystems Update

April 14, 2010

It has been a while since I met with executives from Odin Telesystems but it all came back to me when I sat down a week ago with company

President & CEO Hanz Johansson to discuss his company's DSP resource solutions which can act as gateways, transcoding devices and PBX building-blocks when coupled with the right software like Asterisk.

I first met the company at a trade show in New York in the mid-nineties and followed up later that year by going to the company's Texas HQ to learn about how they play in the space. At the time, Odin was a relatively new entrant into the US and they were going up against high-flying Dialogic, NMS and Brooktrout - three companies who have been subsequently merged with a bunch more companies added in such as Snowshore, Excel etc.

Posted in 4G, AT&T, Broadband, Call Center, Communications Developer, Consumer Electronics, FCC, Fax, Financial, HD Voice, IP Communications, ITEXPO, Merger/Acquisition, Open Source, SIP, Speech Technologies, Technology, Unified Communications, Verizon, VoIP, Wireless

Skype Founders To Fund Future Disruption

March 22, 2010

Skype founders Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis were no strangers to profiting from p2p-based software which went viral, making them rich in the process. Kazaa was their first blockbuster and the death of Napster's free music service boosted this p2p product tremendously. Their third attempt a blockbuster hit was Joost and this one didn't work out too well. Why?

Posted in AT&T, Apple, Blackberry, E-Commerce, FCC, Gadget, HD Voice, IP Communications, Microsoft, Open Source, SIP, Skype, Smart Ecosystem, Social Networking, Technology, Unified Communications, Verizon, Video, VoIP, Wireless

Google Apps Marketplace Brings Walled Garden to the Desktop

March 10, 2010

Years back TMC launched a magazine titled IMS which stands for IP Multimedia Subsystem - and represented an architecture model allowing carriers to open up their networks to developers who would in turn take a revenue split in exchange for allowingtheir apps to run on the carrier's network. Customers of the service provider would be provided walled garden access to services - they would be pushed to use authorized apps. Fast forward some years and now the app stores are owned by Apple, RIM, Nokia and others. The carriers were just too slow to implement their models and perhaps they were the wrong class of company to be involved in the software business.

Posted in AT&T, Apple, Avaya, Blackberry, Call Center, Consumer Electronics, FCC, Fax, HD Voice, IP Communications, Microsoft, Open Source, Smart Ecosystem, Social Networking, Technology, Unified Communications, Verizon, Wireless

Israel VC Funds Down 92% from High

March 8, 2010

Some of the best technology in the world was invented in Israel. The VoIP market was launched in the country and the biblical land of milk and honey still leads the world in communications and technology. Many US-based companies do much of their R&D in Israel in fact because there is such a strong pool of talent and the Israelis seem to be very inventive.

With a strong track record and in a market where technology seems to be one of the more stable investment areas, it is a bit of a surprise to see that the amount of VC funds raised last year was less than one-tenth of the all-time high of $2.9 billion raised in 2000.

Posted in 4G, Apple, Blackberry, Broadband, Call Center, Cisco, Consumer Electronics, E-Commerce, FCC, HD Voice, IP Communications, Microsoft, Open Source, SIP, Social Networking, Speech Technologies, Technology, Unified Communications, Verizon, VoIP, Wireless

The Microsoftization of Google

February 10, 2010

You have to give Google credit; they seem to want to make the world a better place by opening up the world and making technology and services more accessible. And they are powerful enough to make it all happen - search revenue pours in and is being allocated to services which compete with Amazon and Microsoft among others. In the mobile phone space they go up against Palm, RIM, Nokia and Microsoft.

Yesterday they announced a new social networking initiative called Buzz which is supposed to unseat Facebook and twitter.

Posted in AT&T, Apple, Blackberry, Broadband, Cisco, Communications Developer, Consumer Electronics, E-Commerce, FCC, Financial, Gadget, Google, HD Voice, IP Communications, IPTV, M2M, Microsoft, Nortel, Open Source, Optical, SIP, SaaS, Satellite, Science, Search, Security, Skype, Smart Ecosystem, Smart Grid, Social Networking, TMC Team, Technology, Unified Communications, Verizon, Video, VoIP, Vonage, WiMAX, Wireless, Yahoo

IfByPhone Interview ITEXPO East 2010 Miami

February 9, 2010

I just came across this video of Irv Shapiro at ITEXPO explaining why his company just purchased CloudVox -- the Asterisk-based IVR solution. Now you get the best of a blended open-source premise/hosted combo which is not that different from the Hybrid-Hosted model used by Fonality.

Posted in CRM, Call Center, Conferencing, IP Communications, Open Source, Technology, VoIP

Espionage via APT or Advanced Persistent Threat Widespread

February 5, 2010

Corporate and government secrets are currently being stolen on a grand scale - can anything be done about it?

If you are one of those people not easily rattled, please have a seat and get ready to shake. A new acronym, APT which stands for Advanced Persistent Threat is on the scene and by many accounts is an online threat which is virtually impossible to detect and even worse eradicate. Once your company is infected it seems hackers have access to virtually any and all information on your network.

Posted in 4G, AT&T, Apple, Avaya, Blackberry, Broadband, CRM, Call Center, Cisco, Communications Developer, Conference, Conferencing, Consumer Electronics, E-Commerce, FCC, Fax, Financial, Gadget, Google, Green, HD Voice, IP Communications, IPTV, M2M, Merger/Acquisition, Microsoft, Musings, Nortel, Open Source, Optical, Patent, Personal, Podcast, SIP, SaaS, Satellite, Science, Search, Security, Skype, Smart Ecosystem, Smart Grid, Social Networking, Speech Technologies, TMC Team, Technology, Unified Communications, Verizon, Video, VoIP, WiMAX, Wireless

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