I just learned that Fonality, a company that has been very silent and off the radar for months has named a new CEO. He David Scult and came from Microsoft, where he served as GM, of Office 365, Microsoft's cloud implementation of it's market leading productivity suite. Fonality seems to be taking a page out of so many other telcos and making a claim to embrace the cloud, much like client Telesphere which really has with their approach to overall cloud based unified communications. Read more »
Two Weeks with Ooma: Quasi-Free Phone Service
Two Weeks with Ooma: Quasi-Free Telephone Service Which brings us to the notion of "free home phone service," that the folks at Ooma like to marketplace their Telo Voice-More than-IP product with. Could it be that this product really gives free residential phone services? The answer of course isn't that simple … Read a lot [...] Read more »
Should Google Voice Open Up?
Image via CrunchBase I was around just after Craig Walker and Vincent Paquet created and launched GrandCentral, which became post acquistion by Google, GoogleVoice. We worked with the two and helped make it a known qualtity, and to this day, my GV number is the number that makes me so easily reachable. But in over four years since Google snagged the service, not much has really happened on the services side, while most of the work has been done to keep it scaling and integrating into the Google way of doing things. Basically, I have no complaints, as the service... Read more »
Changes at the Top of 8×8
8x8, Inc. (Nasdaq:EGHT), today announced it has some changes at both their board and management level. Mansour Salame was named to its Board of Directors, effective January 2, 2012. The Company also announced the resignation of Donn Wilson from its Board of Directors, effective the same date. But the really big news is that that Kim Niederman, 8x8's Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales, has been promoted to President, overseeing the Company's sales, customer service and network operations teams. It looks like 8x8 is heading on a path of Internation growth. The company, which has been making moves in the... Read more »
Inventive Use of WiFi to Attract Customers
Image via Wikipedia The Japanese are very inventive and now they're dispensing WiFi via vending machines. And the price, well it's free. What this really is all about is the data in the machines being sent back to the distribution centers over an Internet connection, but the machine at the location can do more than dispense candy, soda or other items. Give how companies like Best Buy have installed vending machines in airports this could be a meaningful proposition to get people closer to them. Related articles Japan Gets Wi-Fi Dispensing Vending Machines (techcrunch.com) New Wi-Fi Dispensing Vending Machine (japantrends.com) Read more »
Inventive Use of WiFi to Attract Customers
Image via Wikipedia The Japanese are very inventive and now they're dispensing WiFi via vending machines. And the price, well it's free. What this really is all about is the data in the machines being sent back to the distribution centers over an Internet connection, but the machine at the location can do more than dispense candy, soda or other items. Give how companies like Best Buy have installed vending machines in airports this could be a meaningful proposition to get people closer to them. Related articles Japan Gets Wi-Fi Dispensing Vending Machines (techcrunch.com) New Wi-Fi Dispensing Vending Machine (japantrends.com) Read more »
Dean Bubley-The Preditor
Pal Dean Bubley is one of the more pragmatic analysts out there in the wireless world and today he posts his predictions, winners and losers for 2012. If you look at it and read through it you'll find a tone of frustration, dismay and depression, none his own, but of the industry. With so much "advancement" Bubley has pretty much nailed the fact that the telcos sit in a world of fear, self imposed isolation a lack of willingness to accept the reality that's hitting them in the face. That reality is all about the user really needing and wanting... Read more »
Dean Bubley-The Predictor
Pal Dean Bubley is one of the more pragmatic analysts out there in the wireless world and today he posts his predictions, winners and losers for 2012. If you look at it and read through it you'll find a tone of frustration, dismay and depression, none his own, but of the industry. With so much "advancement" Bubley has pretty much nailed the fact that the telcos sit in a world of fear, self imposed isolation a lack of willingness to accept the reality that's hitting them in the face. That reality is all about the user really needing and wanting... Read more »
New eVoice iOS App Transforms iDevices Into Feature-Packed Phone Systems
New eVoice iOS App Transforms iDevices Into Function-Packed Telephone Systems You can also pick the way calls are placed or received with an the app's "on" or "off" VoIP calling feature. "Smart phones and tablet devices are becoming a lot more powerful every single day and are beginning to replace desktops and laptops as the [...] Read more »
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