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Late last week, we crossed another milestone with Calliflower.  As customers have discovered the tremendous savings Calliflower can deliver for international conference calls, plus the rich and engaging Calliflower feature set, they have driven demand for new points of presence. We’ve been only too happy to comply, adding local dial numbers wherever we can in conjunction with our partner Voxbone. 

Today’s news is that Calliflower is now available in 30 countries, and more than 100 cities around the world.  As of today, we are providing dial-in access to Calliflower in Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bahrain, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway, Pakistan, Poland, Romania, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States.  To see the full list of cities, visit the Calliflower website.  In many countries the service is an ordinary local dial call.  However, in some instances we’ve had to deploy a “national” number, which carries a premium charge.

Calliflower’s flat-rate conference call model just makes sense for international calls. For many customers it’s also the most cost effective for domestic conference calling as well.  For details, check out What are the real costs of free conference call services? on the Calliflower blog.  You might be surprised by what you learn. 

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No Skype on iPhone for Canadians

by alec on March 31, 2009

I was a little irritated at all the Skype for iPhone news that popped up over the weekend.  After all, Skype usually at least gives me the courtesy of a heads-up, and the opportunity to test drive their new software. Not a peep, however. 

And then last night, at around midnight, the first twitter reports started to emerge that Skype for iPhone was available on the App Store.  No joy for me.  I couldn’t find it.  I put it down to Apple or Skype choosing a rolling launch – not an uncommon strategy.

But this morning?  Well, the IM nets and twitter were all alive with reports that Skype for iPhone was available globally… just not here in Canada.  And the culprit?  A lot of fingers pointed at Rogers Wireless, but in fact patents are the real reason.  TMCNet’s Tom Keating was able to eek a little more information out of Skype, including the details that the patent problem is codec related

There have been, over the years, a number of very sharp vendors of codec technologies in this country. It’s not surprising that some unique intellectual property has been deeveloped here.  It is surprising, however, that a patent might have issued in Canada, but not elsewhere, unless that patent is fairly recent.

And it’s irritating to be cut off from yet another piece of technology that everyone else in the world can access over intellectual property issues… again.

Humbug.

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Calliflower’s Free Conference Call service goes ad funded.

March 18, 2009

iotum today announced that the free conference calling version of the Calliflower service will add advertising. Calliflower Premium will remain advertising free, but Calliflower free conference calls will now be advertising funded.

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Calliflower on iPhone releases.

February 3, 2009

Calliflower on iPhone releases today. It reamains faithful to the Calliflower experience on the web, while taking full advantage of the iPhone experience giving users the hands down BEST mobile conferencing experience ever.

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CATA makes Calliflower available to 28,500 members

February 2, 2009

The Canadian Advanced Technology Alliance has announced today that they have adopted Calliflower as part of their Web 2.0 Office. As part of the agreement,  not only will CATA use Calliflower for its own calls, CATA will also market Calliflower to its 28,500 members, becoming the first official reseller of Calliflower.  This is our first [...]

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Calliflower conference calling service updated.

January 28, 2009

Major changes in the Calliflower web architecture now expose all public Calliflower calls to search engines, allowing content to instantly be searched and indexed.

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Windows 7. The Vista “dot” release

January 11, 2009

At 6:00 AM yesterday morning I started downloading the Windows 7 x64 release. By 9:30 AM I was installing it.  Yes, I admit it, I’m a keener. I’ve used every Windows beta since Windows 3.1 in 1992, and I still find it a thrill to be on the bleeding edge of new technologies.  I also [...]

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Using Social Media to raise $5,000 for homeless kids and promote eComm ‘09

January 4, 2009

What do you do if you’re trying to: Help homeless people. Test the effectiveness of social media awareness campaigns. Promote an upcoming conference. Well, if you’re Lee Dryburgh, you craft an experiment.  Lee’s trying to construct an opt-in mailing list for the eComm 2009 conference.  He’s calculated the cost of buying and filtering an opt-in [...]

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Nokia unveils iPhone competitor

October 2, 2008

Nokia today unveils their real iPhone and iTunes competitors. Throws down the gauntlet with UNLIMITED downloadable music.

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Skype 4.0 beta 2

September 30, 2008

This evening Skype has Tomorrow Skype will release the second beta of Skype 4.0.  Skype 4.0 is an ambitious attempt by the company to redesign the Skype UI to better expose the features of Skype to end users, and to reduce confusion around how to use those features. After studying feedback from over 350,000 users, [...]

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