Wednesday, December 14, 2005

Iotum is Expanding

by alec on December 14, 2005

Located in Ottawa?  Iotum has a couple of job openings.  We need software developers, and a program manager.  If interested, please check out these listings.

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SIPPhone to Offer Free US Phone Numbers

by alec on December 14, 2005

Buried in all the excitement over 1 cent per minute calling yesterday was an even more exciting announcement.  Michael Robertson’s SIPPhone will offer free US Phone Numbers as well, in the new year.  Phone numbers have traded for about $.05 to $.10 per month on the market for the last year or so. They are basically free already, which means that the carrier charging you $2.99 / month for a phone number is making a gigantic profit on them.  By offering them free, SIPPhone is exposing them for the commodity that they really are.  Telephone numbers are to telephones, what IP addresses are to computers.  Nothing more.

Under the SIPPhone plan, telephone calls will become true pay-as-you-go services.  Michael says the average person should expect to pay about $6/month for voice with SIPPhone.  That sounds about right.  Before the price reduction, I have been paying about $10/month.

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OCRIRadio: Live

December 14, 2005

The Ottawa Carleton Research Institute (OCRI) now has podcasts and blogs online at OCRIRadio.  Go check them out.  Subscribe if you’re interested in keeping up to date on Ottawa high tech. 

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Bonfire of the Portals! Yahoo fires the first shot in the VoIM price wars.

December 14, 2005

The much predicted voice price wars are finally under way, thanks to Yahoo!, and SipPhone.  Not a moment too soon!  When the giants are done duking it out over commodity minutes, real value can emerge in the form of new services, and new applications for communications networks. Facts worth noting: Speculators are suggesting that Yahoo! [...]

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