January 2007

Google's voice strategy

January 30, 2007

Can Google change the telecom game?  That’s the question Paul Kretkowski asks in Google’s VoIP Strategy.  The thesis is that by combining VoIP and search, a new class of applications will be unleashed.  Imagine voicemail searchable by content, for instance. Skeptics point out that GoogleTalk’s subscribership is not much to write home about.  Moreover, the [...]

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DemoCamp 3 breaks out

January 30, 2007

Yesterday’s Ottawa DemoCamp 3 was a raging success.  Held in the downstairs games room at the ClockTower Pub on Bank Street,  it was an opportunity to show new products and product ideas and network with others in the Ottawa tech community over a pint of beer.  I arrived last night to a standing room only crowd of local [...]

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ADTRAN's Danny Windham to replace Mark Spencer as Digium CEO

January 30, 2007

Tomorrow, publicly traded ADTRAN Inc (NASDAQ:ADTN) will announce the departure of President and COO Danny Windham, effective February 12.  Somehow the news made its way onto the wire services a few hours early!  Windham will be heading to Digium to take the helm of Digium.  According to Nufone’s Jeremy McNamara, Mark Spencer will remain Chairman of [...]

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Thanks for the Birthday wishes

January 29, 2007

It was my birthday Saturday. Thanks to Ken Camp, and all of the folks who emailed good wishes.  I’m now 43.  Although, as my wife tells me, the proper thing to do is to start counting backward at 40 which means that I’m now actually 37.  Or is that just the downside of the hill… [...]

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Another newly discovered VoIP blog

January 29, 2007

Thomas Anglero has been writing Telecom’s Tsunami since 2003, and I’m embarrassed to say that I wasn’t aware of it.  He complains that the VoIP blogging community is closed.  I guess in his position you might think that.  As with any blogger, the quickest way to get my attention is write something that links to [...]

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Conference calls: the new "Meeting"

January 29, 2007

27 Tips for Teleconferencing has the scoop on how to make the best of conference calls.  With advice on everything from “Get a headset” to “An audible toilet flush is never acceptable”, it’s the Miss Manners guide to conference calls.  As organizations become more distributed, more and more meetings are taking place by phone. CIO Insight [...]

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Skype for Business

January 29, 2007

Amongst folks in the PBX industry, the most common criticism of Skype is that it’s not a great business tool.  People cite the lack of common business features — queues, call transfer capability, and so on — as evidence.  Fascinatingly, Skype for Business ignores this criticism, and instead focuses on consolidated billing.  Smart move!  Increasingly, [...]

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Flash based Gizmo debuts

January 29, 2007

Om Malik reports that the Gizmo gang has built a new flash-based client to allow people to make Gizmo calls without downloading software.  Cool!  It looks very good and I’d love to try it, except that www.gizmocall.com resolves to a page requiring a password authorization.

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Dumb, dumb, dumb

January 29, 2007

The winner for today’s bonehead, customer unfriendly move is Microsoft.  Windows Vista Upgrade will only run if Windows XP is installed on the hard disk.  In the past, (at least as far back as Windows 95), upgrade meant that users were being rewarded for prior purchases of Microsoft operating systems by being allowed to buy the new [...]

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Welcome John Roese

January 28, 2007

Nortel’s CTO John Roese has a blog.  Three entries to date, but it promises to be meaty and interesting. Welcome!

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