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Skype Adds Xobni Integration

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:05:59 +0000

Source: andyabramson.blogs.comAccording to my sources the first choice of which IM client for XOBNI to integrate with was Skype hands down as Skype was far and away the most used Instant Messaging platform that the XOBNI users are on. Unfortunately with no Mac version in sight, I can only drool over pal Jeff Bonforte’s company’s [...]

The Softphone Market

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 06:56:59 +0000

Source: andyabramson.blogs.comMichael Graves has what he calls a rant on softphones. I call it a good recap on the state of the sector that is just begging for a winner. While he omitted Gizmo5 from SipPhone, he sure gave CounterPath’s EyeBeam the Texas style whoopin’ they deserve. Despite starting out as the best and most [...]

Something New For GrandCentral Users

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 02:50:59 +0000

Source: andyabramson.blogs.comI was whipping through my TweetDeck Tweets last night when I came across a random note about a new app from Google’s Code, a place where Google developers hang out and put out all kinds of things. What caught my eye was something that seems so simple one has to wonder why it took this [...]

Virtual PBX: Offering Best of Both Worlds?

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:39:59 +0000

Source: www.voip-news.comThe company Virtual PBX offers SMBs the cost-effective traits of traditional hosted PBX services and VoIP technology. Customers can choose a VoIP Network, softphone, handset and more to meet their specific needs. “Virtual PBX is making a market-leading move here,” said Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst of the Enderle Group. “Hosted PBX services are [...]

PIKA WARP Now Compatible with FreePBX

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:32:59 +0000

Source: www.voip-news.comPIKA WARP the Appliance is now compatible with the Asterisk-based FreePBX Graphical User Interface. The WARP product began shipping in June. “We are very pleased to have supported the effort to adopt the FreePBX application to run in the PIKA Warp environment,” said Terry Atwood, vice president of sales, marketing and customer care at PIKA [...]

Telstra Adds Video Conferencing To Enterprise Offerings

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 04:31:59 +0000

Source: andyabramson.blogs.comVideo conferencing is being added by Telstra as part of their enterprise and government offerings, reports IT News. This makes me think that Telstra has to also be taking a very close look at consumer grade video conferencing services (possibly ooVoo or SightSpeed) to roll out as well.

XO Partners With VIXXI Solutions for E911

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 23:52:59 +0000

Source: www.voip-news.comXO Communications has inked a deal with VIXXI Solutions. Under the agreement, XO will refer their customers to VIXXI Solutions for their E911 needs. According to XO: “VIXXI was chosen because their IP-based, geospatial technology is ideal for VoIP vendors who are required by the FCC to provide their customers with an E911 Solution that [...]

Bell Launches Managed VoIP Solution

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 23:50:59 +0000

Source: www.voip-news.comVoIP Managed Services is now available from Bell, the communication and information technology provider in Canada. According to Bell: The suite of services includes VoIP device surveillance, sophisticated incident diagnosis and problem solving, as well as access to the specialized bilingual expertise of Bell IP technical support staff around the clock. “With the largest installed base of [...]

LocalTel Deployes Integra5 Solution

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 23:45:59 +0000

Source: www.voip-news.comLocalTel Communications has launched Integra5’s TV Caller ID application in Washington state. The service is powered by i5 Converged Services Platfor,. LocalTel offers VoIP, video, and high-speed internet as well as HDTV and DVR services. “One of the many reasons we selected Integra5 for our converged service rollout was the large number of positive references we [...]

Ribbit’s New Platform Launched

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 10:02:59 +0000

Source: andyabramson.blogs.comRibbit has launched their new platform at Adobe Max today. Mashable has the details. My take: Open platforms are becoming more and more the new way of doing business. Open networks on the other hand don’t yet exist really, other than the public internet. While carriers "speak" open, they really are not that "open." And for [...]

Vapps Bought By Citrix is Number 15 for Me

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 07:37:59 +0000

Source: andyabramson.blogs.comMy colleague, valley legend and master of the message, Bill Ryan, calls the what we do, "groom to flip" and the New York Times has the state of the industry pegged perfectly when they wrote up the recent VAPPS acquisition of by Citrix. Nowadays companies that are venture backed are no longer IPO candidates [...]

WiFi on The Water In Washington via Boingo

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 05:43:59 +0000

Source: andyabramson.blogs.comLast week it was airports being added by Boingo. This week they’ve added ferries and ferry terminals in Washington State. As PhoneBoy points out, the costs have been lowered and subscribers immediately gain access to the entire Boingo network around the globe. The official announcement is here while the maven of all things WiFi, Glenn Fleishman [...]

Another Week, Another Conference

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 23:07:59 +0000

Source: andyabramson.blogs.comThis week is a busy week, and there’s no relief in sight. That’s a good thing as this Wednesday and Thursday in San Francisco is the Open Mobile Summit. It’s really shaping up to be something of interest to me, as the idea of Open seems to have many definitions. It’s sort of like [...]

Hyatt Business Plan Brings Civility To The Road Warrior

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 08:09:59 +0000

Source: andyabramson.blogs.comOver in London I enjoy staying in the Andaz, a hotel property of Hyatt that was designed by the famed Terrance Conran. It’s a converted hospital less than a 100 yards from Liverpool Street Station. At the Andaz I get free coffee, free laundry for essentials, refreshed water, free broadband and a few other [...]

Motorola WiFi Only Phones For Enterprise Based On Windows Mobile

Sat, 15 Nov 2008 19:03:59 +0000

Source: andyabramson.blogs.comMotorola is clearly not just thinking about cellular phones these days. They’re busily moving into a full blown WiFi VoIP handset that works with a very robust server and lots of security features.

HTC WiMax Phone Comes to Russia

Sat, 15 Nov 2008 19:01:59 +0000

Source: andyabramson.blogs.comTouting both GSM and WiMax for Mobile, HTC has launched a new phone in Russia that will provide up to ten megs of connectivity, plus be able to view 23 TV channels tat will be sent over the WiMax network. Not unexpected, VoIP will be part of the dual mode phone when on WiMax.

Friday Links: VoIP Blocking?

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 23:44:59 +0000

Source: www.voip-news.comOfficials in the European Union are looking into carriers who are believed to be blocking VoIP on their systems. More on VoIP Watch. Nimbuzz is blurring the lines between social network and outside communication. Read about it on VoIP News of the UK. Smith on VoIP has been working in the VoIP field for five years. [...]

VoIP is Globally Local

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 23:36:59 +0000

Source: www.voip-news.comForget the traditional definition of local. Local has gone totally global. After all, that’s why a person with a San Francisco phone number can live in Philly and work in New York. Globally local. iNum is letting VoIP users get even more globally local with a new service where users can use the new VoIP [...]

Drone for VoIP

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:50:59 +0000

There is a new plug and play VoIP and Bluetooth stereo USB adapter from Callpod, Inc. The Drone is for both PCs and Macs. It’s made of die-cast zinc and high impact polycarbonate making it both strong and druable. And it has the ability to operate within a range of 100 meters. According to Callpod: The Drone [...]

Evangelyze Releases SmartVoIP

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:37:59 +0000

Source: www.voip-news.comEvangelyze Communications has released a SmartVoIP solution with Quintum. SmartVoIP allows organizations to integrate Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 and Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 with IP phone system Microsoft Response Point. “We are incredibly proud of this achievement and the opportunity that this solution brings to organizations with remote and branch office communications needs. Through [...]

Who’s Tops in Phone Service?

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:48:59 +0000

Source: www.voip-news.comKeynote Competitive Research just released its latest VoIP Service Provider Study. The study compared performance for AT&T’s landline service and six broadband VoIP providers, AT&T CallVantage, EarthLink trueVoice, Lingo, Packet8, Verizon VoiceWing and Vonage, as well as two cable voice service providers-Time Warner Digital Phone and Comcast Digital Voice-for the month of October. “We’ve been [...]

Reflections on the Ecomm Dinner

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 08:04:59 +0000

Source: andyabramson.blogs.comMr. Mashup 3.0 Thomas Howe was in the room. Alec Saunders, the man who gave us Internet Explorer and now is pushing the envelope to enable active conversations with Calliflower was there. Frederik and Paul of Jajah were there too, as was Dr. Don Thorson and a few of his Ribbiteers from Ribbit. Dan [...]

Eavesdropping Protection for VoIP

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 04:20:59 +0000

Source: www.voip-news.comVoIP eavesdropping is a big concern, so Sipera Systems’s UCSNIFF comes none too soon. The free application allows companies to discover if their VoIP networks are vulnerable to eavesdropping. “UCSniff is an assessment tool that helps demonstrate vulnerabilities in VoIP design and implementation. It was born from the concept of combining targeted attacks against VoIP [...]

Wednesday Links: VoIP Capital, Video Conferencing, Keynote

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:44:59 +0000

Source: www.voip-news.comThere is still money to be raised and used in telecom and VoIP, says Andy Abramson. And he points to a recent round of fundraising to illustrate that. Read about it on VoIP Watch. Interested in inexpensive video conferencing? There is a new, cheap service that leverages on Skype. Read about it on VoIP News [...]

Microsoft and VoIP Vulnerabilities

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:35:59 +0000

Source: www.voip-news.comVoIPshield Laboratories says that there are some serious security vulnerabilities in VoIP and Unified Communications (UC) systems that affect applications using media stream protocols like RTP (Real-time Transport Protocol). Among the impacted products are Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007, Office Communicator and Windows Live Messenger. “Most of the attention in enterprise VoIP/UC security has been [...]

Ralink Using MIPS Tech Core

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:34:59 +0000

Source: www.voip-news.comMIPS Technologies, Inc.’s synthesizable MIPS32 24KEc processor core is powering Ralink’s RT3052 and RT3050 802.11n Single Chip Access Point/router SoCs. The core allows the devices to process things like broadband routing, Ethernet to Wi-Fi bridges, VoIP, online gaming and home entertainment. “Our new 802.11n AP/router SoCs are highly integrated to meet market demand for smaller [...]

Under The Radar-Voice Is The Word

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 07:18:59 +0000

Source: andyabramson.blogs.comIn looking over the line up of today’s Under The Radar I’m quite happy to see the number of voice apps there. If Web 2.0 was 2007, it’s clear that in 2008 Voice has become the word of the day, and in 2009 making money is what we will start to see. Companies like Mobivox, [...]

Google Mail Goes Video

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 06:01:59 +0000

Source: andyabramson.blogs.comThe folks at Google keep innovating, adding video conferencing to Gmail on both the Mac and the PC. Just as soon as I can find someone on my chat list who is also using Gmail on the Premier side of the fence, I’ll try it.

Aswath Rao Launches His "Dream"

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 05:50:59 +0000

Source: andyabramson.blogs.comMy longtime blogger buddy, who I always have said is one of the smartest engineers I know has launched his dream, enthinnai and he’s looking for feedback.

Mr. Carrier: Did You Block VoIP?

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 05:37:59 +0000

Source: andyabramson.blogs.comCrunchGear reports that the European Union is looking into the operations of the mobile carriers to see if they blocked VoIP over their networks. The expected end result is, "you can’t do that Mr. Carrier." This would be excellent news for the mobile VoIP players like client Truphone or others whose service works very well [...]

IP-Based Messaging Solution Now Available

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 23:32:59 +0000

Source: www.voip-news.comIP SMSC Converged Messaging is now available commercially from Mavenir Systems. The solution for mobile operators delivers cost savings as well as increased capacity for SMS networks. According to the company: The IP-based solution offloads the traffic from SMSC and SS7 transport networks to cap the investments in legacy systems. Mobile operators get a system capable [...]

Optimus Using Broadsoft Solution

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 21:30:59 +0000

Source: www.voip-news.comOptimus Telecomunicacoes of Portugal will be using BroadSoft, Inc.’s BroadWorks(R) VoIP application platform for a new residential VoIP service that will combine mobile services with web-based social networking features. According to BroadSoft: Optimus also uses BroadWorks to offer voice services to enterprises through business trunking. “After our success with deploying BroadWorks for our enterprise consumers, we [...]