Fring and Boingo Get Cozy

Source: andyabramson.blogs.com

One has to wonder how Skype and NetGear feel now.

After a two year lead or so on the race to be on the Boingo network, Boingo has opened up to Fring as a mobile VoIP provider.

This is great for Boingo as it puts more users into Boingo hot spots and broadens the demographic of users who become more Boingo centric.

Published on April 5th, 2008 under ,


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Cisco Becomes Skype’s Biggest Partner in SIP

Source: andyabramson.blogs.com

I love being right when I write.
Om’s post last night about Cisco going with Skype for SIP was what I said back when Skype and ShoreTel hooked up.
They’ll be more of these announcements…

Published on September 23rd, 2009 under , , , , , ,

Contingency Response Communications System Uses, VoIP, Wireless Internet to Connect Agencies

Source: www.voip-news.com

-news.comDevMar Associates are now a distributor for AAR’s Contingency Response Communications System. The communications system is intended to provide local, state and federal agencies wit…

Published on June 19th, 2009 under , , , , , , , ,

Wednesday Links: Google Voice Gets Local Number Portability, Skype Videoconferencing on A Smartphone

Source: www.voip-news.com

-news.comVoIP Watch says that Google Voice is going to support local number portability. YAY! That’s a good move on their part.
Smith on VoIP wonders which you’d prefer: good service or…

Published on June 17th, 2009 under , , , , , , , , , , ,

Marines Getting Communication Upgrades from General Dynamics

Source: www.voip-news.com

-news.comThe U.S. Marine Corps’ Combat Operations Centers will now have Internet-like capabilities from General Dynamics C4 Systems. General Dynamics will also be upgrading the Marine’s…

Published on June 15th, 2009 under , , , ,

Google Android Users Get VoIP

Source: andyabramson.blogs.com

The company behind PBXes, i-p-tel of Germany has developed and released a VoIP client for the Google Android, called SipDroid. It takes advantage of the WiFi stack and the recently made availab…

Published on June 13th, 2009 under , , , , , ,

Speakeasy Gets Aggressive

Source: www.voip-news.com

-news.comSpeakeasy is using an innovative way to get noticed by more customers: offering a Starbucks gift card to potential business customers who fax over their phone bill to find out how muc…

Published on June 11th, 2009 under

The Kansas City Star Upgrades to Managed Voice and Other Services

Source: www.voip-news.com

-news.comAdd newspapers to the ever-growing list of companies that have transitioned to a managed voice, Internet and data networking solutions package. The Kansas City Star in Kansas City,…

Published on June 9th, 2009 under , , , , , , ,

Going Soft? Get BroadWorks Softphone from Counterpath

Source: andyabramson.blogs.com

Here’s one that slipped by last week in what was a whirlwind week for me, culminating in a trip to the UK on Friday.
Back on June 1 Broadsoft and Counterpath released a customize version…

Published on June 8th, 2009 under , , ,

You Can’t Get Away From Skype

Source: andyabramson.blogs.com

Skype had a very interesting advert on the Virgin Atlantic flight I was on from Los Angeles to London Friday night.
It was about Skype Video. What was really cool though was it immediately followed…

Published on June 7th, 2009 under , ,

Twitter Conferences Are The Rage

Source: andyabramson.blogs.com

Last week TwitrCon was in SF was viewed as a hit, more because of the people in the room, than what was necessarily said on stage.
Upcoming in this month is Jeff Pulver’s 140 Conferenc…

Published on June 4th, 2009 under , , ,

Technology Is Only As Good As Your Knowledge

Source: www.voip-news.com

-news.comA new technology is only as good as the knowledge of the person who is using it. In other words, if you can’t figure out how to authenticate your login when FireFox, Vista and fingerprint…

Published on June 3rd, 2009 under , , ,

NETGEAR and Network-1 Settle Patent Dispute

Source: www.voip-news.com

-news.comNetwork-1 Security Solutions, Inc. has agreed to settle its court battle with NETGEAR. NETGEAR was accused of infringing on Network-1’s Remote Power Patent.
Under the settlement,…

Published on May 29th, 2009 under , ,

GoGo Mixed Reaction To My Virgin Voyage

Source: andyabramson.blogs.com

Let me start off by saying that in flight WiFi can’t be beat, but lousy customer service for a new product can kill it off.
This past Wednesday I boarded Virgin America flight 404 from…

Published on May 29th, 2009 under , ,

GoGo Mixed Reaction To My Virgin Voyage

Source: andyabramson.blogs.com

Let me start off by saying that in flight WiFi can’t be beat, but lousy customer service for a new product can kill it off.
This past Wednesday I boarded Virgin America flight 404 from…

Published on May 29th, 2009 under , ,

Great Coverage of HD VoIP Summit

Source: andyabramson.blogs.com

One of the challenges of growing my business is being everywhere at once.
Sometimes its at conferences and other times its being with clients working on the next big thing. Last week when Jeff…

Published on May 27th, 2009 under , , , ,

ActiveMine Gets More Orders

Source: www.voip-news.com

-news.comGood news for Active Control Technology, the company that created ActiveMine – the wireless voice, tracking and data network for mines. One of the company’s customers has ordered…

Published on May 26th, 2009 under ,

Get A Life! I Mean, Get a Number In Second Life

Source: andyabramson.blogs.com

Well it seems that just like in the gaming world, where Microsoft’s X Box Live has been racking up voice minutes for years, has seen Second Life roll out voice services to a point wher…

Published on May 26th, 2009 under

Rich Tehrani "Gets" Airborne WiFi

Source: andyabramson.blogs.com

I’ve been busy playing catchup on my blog reading after what amounts to almost a full week of being in conferences and meetings in San Francisco.
The long weekend gave me time to catc…

Published on May 25th, 2009 under , ,

The Real Time Web Brings Challenges In A Good Way

Source: andyabramson.blogs.com

I am taking the position that ripping off content is a bad thing, and Google led the pack by initially permitting all kinds of content into YouTube until such time as they could understand t…

Published on May 22nd, 2009 under , ,

Get a Clue

Source: andyabramson.blogs.com

While I’m not a developer I can’t help but sing the praises of the annual ClueCon conference, held each year in Chicago. I was there last year and had a blast, but alas this year…

Published on May 22nd, 2009 under
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