Monday, February 5, 2007

by alec on February 5, 2007

Tom Howe weighed in over the weekend on this whole debate around where the Voice 2.0 apps are.  Aside from the very nice things he had to say about iotum, his view is worth reading.  He says:

I believe that the real game for Voice 2.0 is the integration of voice into the business process. Businesses want to do it because it saves them money with a more efficient process and fewer staffing requirements. Customers want to do it because it means better customer service. There’s no education requirements for the customer. No habituation. All the customer sees is that text message on their cell phone saying the plane at 4PM is canceled, and when they press the send button, the operator answers the phone saying “I’ve booked a seat on the 5 PM flight, Mr. Howe, if that’s OK with you.” And that would be OK with me. And the people who write the web sites for Jet Blue will use Phone Gnome, and that’s where the Web 2.0 developers are.

Nailed it.  You can read the full text of the article on Tom’s blog. 

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The Kensington WiFi VoIP phone

by alec on February 5, 2007

Now THIS is smart.  The folks at Kensington have created a WiFi VoIP flip phone that charges in the PCMCIA slot of your laptop.  3 hours of talk time, and 30 hours of standby. $90, when finally available.

Forget about those silly VoIP keys, and such that others are marketing.  This is the real deal!

Kensington VoIP Phone

 

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Heading to Toronto for DemoCamp 12

February 5, 2007

I jumped on the train a few minutes ago at Fallowfield Station in Ottawa.  Heading to Toronto for DemoCamp 12, where organizer David Crow has agreed to give me a short spot for an iotum Talk-Now demo.  Thank you David! The really cool part? Right now I am sitting on the train, logged into Via’s [...]

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"Marketing" writ small

February 5, 2007

A long time ago, in a place far far away (called Redmond Washington) I learned the skills of planning and launching products. The 4P’s – product, positioning, promotion, and packaging.  Distribution strategy – retail, OEM, web … and so on. I don’t have an MBA from a fancy business school. In fact, I revel in my [...]

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HD VoIP?

February 5, 2007

Leanne asks what HD VoIP is, and PhoneBoy responds that it probably doesn’t mean much.  Wideband CODECS have been around for ages, but because most calls terminate on the PSTN where the standard is 64k G.711 encoded at 8 bits, the fact that a PC-based client can generate and receive wideband audio is meaningless.  I’ve sent [...]

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Abbeynet takes a page from Jajah

February 5, 2007

Mobile is “where the action is” these days.  This morning, Luca Filigheddu announced that Sitofono is going mobile, first with a web based client, and then with a coming Symbian 60 client.  Congrats!

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