{"id":8780,"date":"2010-08-20T16:38:05","date_gmt":"2010-08-20T16:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/hot_communications_trends_august_20_2010.html"},"modified":"2010-08-20T16:38:05","modified_gmt":"2010-08-20T16:38:05","slug":"hot-communications-trends-august-20-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/hot-communications-trends-august-20-2010.html","title":{"rendered":"Hot Communications Trends August 20, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently received a <span scayt_word=\"TMCnet\" scaytid=\"1\">TMCnet<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/enews\/e-newsletters\/voip-hot\/20100820\/\" _cke_saved_href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/enews\/e-newsletters\/voip-hot\/20100820\/\">What&#8217;s Hot in <span scayt_word=\"VoIP\" scaytid=\"2\">VoIP<\/span> newsletter<\/a> which had a number of stories worth sharing. First off is Comcast who is <a href=\"http:\/\/ip-telephony.tmcnet.com\/topics\/ip-telephony\/articles\/95583-time-warner-cable-losing-us-voip-share.htm\" _cke_saved_href=\"http:\/\/ip-telephony.tmcnet.com\/topics\/ip-telephony\/articles\/95583-time-warner-cable-losing-us-voip-share.htm\">losing <span scayt_word=\"VoIP\" scaytid=\"3\">VoIP<\/span> share<\/a> to competitors but is still moving forward with plans for <span scayt_word=\"WiFi\" scaytid=\"6\">WiFi<\/span> roaming and philanthropy. I have noticed Time Warner <span scayt_word=\"WiFi\" scaytid=\"7\">WiFi<\/span> hotspots popping up all around <span scayt_word=\"TMC\" scaytid=\"8\">TMC<\/span> <span scayt_word=\"HQ\" scaytid=\"9\">HQ<\/span> in Norwalk, CT but have yet been able to connect to the service. If I do, I will keep you posted on my impressions.<\/p>\n<p><span scayt_word=\"Avaya\" scaytid=\"10\">Avaya<\/span> recently received some accolades from <span scayt_word=\"Gartner\" scaytid=\"11\">Gartner<\/span> and made their &#8220;so called&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/voip-phone-service.tmcnet.com\/topics\/voip-phone-service\/articles\/95686-gartner-magic-quadrants-name-avaya-leader-voip-phone.htm\" _cke_saved_href=\"http:\/\/voip-phone-service.tmcnet.com\/topics\/voip-phone-service\/articles\/95686-gartner-magic-quadrants-name-avaya-leader-voip-phone.htm\">Magic Quadrant<\/a> as a leader. <span scayt_word=\"CounterPath\" scaytid=\"12\">CounterPath<\/span> for its part has just upgraded its <span scayt_word=\"Bria\" scaytid=\"13\">Bria<\/span> software to 1.1 and the good news it <a href=\"http:\/\/voip-software.tmcnet.com\/topics\/voip-software\/articles\/95438-counterpath-introduces-voip-software-solution-bria-iphone-edition.htm\" _cke_saved_href=\"http:\/\/voip-software.tmcnet.com\/topics\/voip-software\/articles\/95438-counterpath-introduces-voip-software-solution-bria-iphone-edition.htm\">supports<\/a> multitasking and up to 8 accounts. You can read all about it on <span scayt_word=\"Speedflow\" scaytid=\"14\">Speedflow<\/span> Communications <a href=\"http:\/\/voip-software.tmcnet.com\/\" _cke_saved_href=\"http:\/\/voip-software.tmcnet.com\/\"><span scayt_word=\"VoIP\" scaytid=\"4\">VoIP<\/span> Software<\/a> Global Online Community.<\/p>\n<p>Other interesting news is <span scayt_word=\"Line2\" scaytid=\"15\">Line2<\/span> the <a href=\"http:\/\/voip-software.tmcnet.com\/\" _cke_saved_href=\"http:\/\/voip-software.tmcnet.com\/\">celebrated<\/a> wireless <span scayt_word=\"VoIP\" scaytid=\"5\">VoIP<\/span> software company is celebrating its one-year anniversary and <span scayt_word=\"Damaka\" scaytid=\"16\">Damaka<\/span> has a <a href=\"http:\/\/hosted-voip.tmcnet.com\/feature\/articles\/95947-damaka-launches-cross-platform-video-conferencing-solution-iphone.htm\" _cke_saved_href=\"http:\/\/hosted-voip.tmcnet.com\/feature\/articles\/95947-damaka-launches-cross-platform-video-conferencing-solution-iphone.htm\">new<\/a>  cross-platform video conferencing solution for the iPhone. There is so  much more news about companies like Level 3, Brilliant  Telecommunications, Skype, Hughes and more.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/enews\/e-newsletters\/voip-hot\/20100820\/\" _cke_saved_href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/enews\/e-newsletters\/voip-hot\/20100820\/\">newsletter<\/a> for details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently received a TMCnet What&#8217;s Hot in VoIP newsletter which had a number of stories worth sharing. First off is Comcast who is losing VoIP share to competitors but is still moving forward with plans for WiFi roaming and philanthropy. I have noticed Time Warner WiFi hotspots popping up all around TMC HQ in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166,158,168,178,170,171,179,181,172,1,162,196,163,199,198,189,203,206,118,177,174,190,191],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8780"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}