January 2007

Announcing a-Phone

by alec on January 31, 2007

The team at This Hour Has 22 Minutes has a new phone coming to market… the a-Phone. With its revolutionary digital interface, music features, and sophisticated calendaring capabilities, it’s bound to be a winner!

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iotum Talk-Now update

by alec on January 31, 2007

Blackberry Cool just published a short piece on iotum Talk-Now.  Thank you guys!  They’ve been saving it to time it with the update that went out today.  For this release we focused on two areas:

  1. Installation and setup.  The installation process and updates are now smoother for new users, including the contacts you invite to join Talk-Now and yourself.
    • A progress dialog appears when contacts are uploaded
    • Explanation and content have been added in both the setup wizard and the myiotum dashboard
    • You will be prompted automatically for updates as they become available.  Talk-Now will know when it needs to be updated, and offer to do so, rather than you having to update via email. 
  2. Blackberry Integration
    • minor bugs have been fixed (eg. dialogue boxes not behaving properly)
    • Talk-Now integrates more deeply into the call log, resulting in a more seamless experience.  Among the many things which it does is automatically offer to add a person to your Talk-Now list after a call which ends in voice mail.

We’re incredibly focused on customer input at this time.  You should expect new releases every few weeks which incorporate your feedback, and fixes for the bugs which you discover.  In the next release, for instance, you can expect more efficient data transfer, relieving both your data plan and your batteries. We are also working directly with RIM to solve some data transfer issues preventing some people from joining the Talk-Now technology preview.

And, if you’ve got a late model Blackberry and want to join the Talk-Now technology preview, head on over to www.iotum.com/blackberry.  We’d love to have you participate.

 

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Where ARE the Voice 2.0 Developers?

January 31, 2007

David Beckemeyer asks “Where are all the Voice 2.0 developers?”  Indeed.  The PhoneGnome platform has an open API which can be used by developers to plug directly into the call-path.  TellMe has used it this way, as has iotum.  But as David notes: “We keep hearing that it’s time to sell on features rather than [...]

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BBHub to cease publication

January 31, 2007

From the BBHub site: For a variety of strategic reasons, AOL is consolidating several “niche,” topic-specific blogs into some of its most popular blogs with daily readership totals that would make your eyes pop. BBHub is one of those blogs. Effective at the end of the day tomorrow, BBHub will cease publication of new entries. [...]

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Comments are broken

January 31, 2007

I know… working to fix it.

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Rich Tehrani: VoIP Ambassador

January 31, 2007

How do you know when someone enjoys their job?  You can usually see it on their face.  Check out this little photo essay by (Ambassador) Rich Tehrani as he tours around the latest ITEXPO chatting with various industry people.

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Listening to the Digium press conference

January 30, 2007

I had to miss this afternoon’s press conference with Mark Spencer and new Digium CEO Danny Windham.  Pauline at MRB (Digium’s PR company) called as I was heading into the security checkpoint for my flight home.  Tom Keating, however, recorded the entirety of the call.  Others have commented on what this means, and generally speaking [...]

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Ticked off at Flickr

January 30, 2007

When Yahoo! bought Flickr, they kept the old Flickr with the old accounts that the initial supporters of Flickr had purchased intact.  Your account name was your email address, and that was that.  Anybody who had a Yahoo ID was just another account name, but you could still be a Flickr member as before. Today [...]

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SPIT to make up 70% of calls?

January 30, 2007

BusinessWeek reports that NEC has been

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Nuvoiz launches at DEMO

January 30, 2007

Nuvoiz caught my eye as they announced at DEMO today.  Positioning themselves against Skype, they are a standards based softphone (XMPP and SIP) with enterprise features like call hold / transfer, and the usual assortment of voice and IM.  Accompanying the softphone, the enterprise would also buy the Nuvoiz Network Controller, which handles NAT traversal.  [...]

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