Thursday, June 8, 2006

Great Inc for Iotum

by alec on June 8, 2006

Bad puns aside, Inc Magazine has a great article called VoIP Comes Calling in the current issue.  They name six companies doing great things with VoIP, including this piece on iotum:

Iotum 

Cool features: Iotum’s software lets your phone know which calls you want to take and which you don’t. It also takes the pain out of setting up conference calls by ringing all participants automatically. 

In action: Ray Vilis was in a sales meeting when his cell phone started ringing. Damn, he thought to himself, as he mumbled an embarrassed apology. Vilis, vice president of product management and business development for Versatel Networks, doesn’t have that problem anymore. Vilis uses Iotum to manage his calls. It monitors his calendar and automatically knows not to ring any of his six phone numbers if he’s in a meeting–except for callers he specifies. “Iotum gives me back the switchboard operator, only it costs a lot less,” he says.  Price: $5 to $10 per user per month

Woo hoo!

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Intel Announces FXS Card. Eh?

by alec on June 8, 2006

This past week Intel (INTC) announced the Intel 600SM PCI Phone Adaptor.  Billed as a means to allow you to talk using PC VoIP clients, but be “untethered” from your PC, it was hard to figure out exactly what this device was.  After digging through the marketing spin, it quickly became apparent that the 600SM PCI card is in fact, nothing more than a common-a-garden FXS card, bundled with some software to let it be controlled by and control various popular PC softclients like Skype, CounterPath XTEN and so on.  Dan Warne provides more details.  It’s an ATA, controlled by proprietary software, on a PCI card.

Dumb?  Maybe not.  Coming to you straight from the Department of Rampant Speculation… Available only to PC OEMs, and not to the end user, this may be the precursor of an initiative to put an ATA on every motherboard.  That would change the landscape.

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Windows Vista Beta 2: First Impressions

June 8, 2006

Microsoft (MSFT) announced today that Windows Vista Beta 2 is available for general download. If you want it, head to the beta site, sign up, and start downloading.    The code today is the same build as was distributed to MSDN subscribers a few weeks ago, and I’ve been using it with varying degrees of success around [...]

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