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Reading Links for January 4th

January 4, 2012

My del.icio.us links and notes. Why Best Buy is Going out of Business…Gradually | Totally Agree! – I've had the same experiences over the last few years with Best Buy. I once used to shop there (about 5 years ago) and almost never do now. As an ex-retailer who has lived through a similar experience [...]

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FaceTime: VoIP Product of the Year

December 30, 2010
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I’ve been meaning to write a few blogs for awhile. However, this one can’t wait. With the year running out… the question is. WHAT WAS THE VOIP PRODUCT OF THE YEAR? In a year 2010 where there have been real advances in mobile, particularly video calling (FaceTime, Tango, Viber and even Skype Mobile Video and [...]

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FaceTime Beta – Predictions and First Use – Impact on Skype.

October 20, 2010
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The question is… will FaceTime replace Skype as the predominant way of making video calls? When? It wasn’t long after Apple announced FaceTime for Mac that my old Skype buddies were asking me to test it out. Dan York has a good summary with his initial call with Jim Courtney. Phil Wolff generated a scorecard. [...]

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Let’s Tango – VoIP’s Emerging Mobile Model

October 14, 2010
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So is Tango better than Apple’s FaceTime? On the face of it (haha) – today it is. Longer term the question is. Can Tango beat Apple Facetime? Then there’s the usual questions about how will Tango make money. Where’s Tango positioned vs the VoIP gorilla – Skype? etc. So what is Tango? Tango is a [...]

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Skype 5.0 – Misses another mobile opportunity by focusing on Windows

October 14, 2010

Did Skype just miss yet another opportunity? Today they launched Skype 5.0 for Windows. They’d like you to think it is a big step forward. Multi-party video, integration with Facebook and Facebook news feed and more. You can find the details here at Skype Journal and on the Skype Blog or on YouTube. So why [...]

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iPod Touch4 and #FaceTime – This Disruption is Going to Hurt Google.

September 15, 2010

Over the weekend  Andy Abramson received his new iPod Touch 4 in the mail. Apple’s New iPod touch Part One-VoIP on the iPod – VoIP Watch. What he’s yet to reveal is his experience with FaceTime – Apple’s new video call solution which I’ve written a series of posts on. We had our FaceTime call [...]

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FaceTime and Your Email ID – Will FaceTime be Integrated into iTunes?

August 10, 2010
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So who doesn’t have an iTunes account? It’s still a lot of people. Yet what if iTunes brought you free calling – just like Skype? What if iTunes could play the songs and let you have a conversation at the same time? What if all you had to know was their email address or their [...]

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FaceTime – Call it SIP 2.0?

August 2, 2010
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This is a second in a series of FaceTime posts I wrote privately a month ago. I referenced them here. and asked yesterday “FaceTime – Has Apple Suckered the Operators Again?”. I also posted on the “Scramble” this creates. FaceTime – What It Really Means? Apple launched FaceTime video calls with the iPhone4. Most of [...]

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FaceTime – Has Apple Suckered the Operators Again?

August 1, 2010

This is one of three posts I wrote on FaceTime just after purchasing my iPhone4 and mentioned  here. There is a hidden trojan horse story behind FaceTime – Apple’s new video calling solution. This post highlights why it is more than just video and suggests reasons other handset manufacturers should take a closer look. Then [...]

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Reading Links for May 30th

May 30, 2010

Daily update on del.icio.us links with my notes. I also just tweet links @stuarthenshall Skype lied: iSkype 3G breaks "Skype-to-Skype calls will be free" promise | Skype Journal –

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GIPS – once GlobalIP Sound goes to Google. Skype and Strategy

May 19, 2010
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GIPS sells out to Google! Congrats to my friends at GIPS and to Andy and the Comunicano team for he’s been part of a successful exit yet again. What will Google do with it? We don’t know yet. Will it be embedded into Android? What’s the impact re video? What will be the impact on [...]

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Reading Links for April 12th

April 12, 2010

Daily update on del.icio.us links with my notes. I also just tweet links @stuarthenshall YouTube – A Multi-Touch Three Dimensional Touch-Tablet – circa 1985 – 25 years in gestation? – This is an interesting little piece of history. Is this where multi-touch comes from? Videophones, Skype: Why People Don’t Like Video Chatting – TIME | [...]

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Skype and iPhone 4.0 – Watch everyone now scramble….Telecoms and Social Networks

April 8, 2010

For the first time in a long while it almost appears Skype is on a trajectory to really change the world. It took Apple rather than Skype to figure it out. While Apple dragged their feet on early VoIP apps running in the background they built up a user base that can potentially carry Skype [...]

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Reading Links for February 19th

February 19, 2010

Daily update on del.icio.us links with my notes. I also just tweet links @stuarthenshall A post by Todd Carothers on "The Skype Empire" and impact on landlines | Nah… strategically think broader – "In fact many of the executive leadership of Fixed Line and Mobile Operators that I met with back in 2004 saw Skype [...]

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Reading Links for February 6th

February 6, 2010

Daily update on del.icio.us links with my notes. I also just tweet links @stuarthenshall Finally some Nokia Symbian phones get Skype. Not ready for touch applications! – I was a little surprised to see Skype for Symbian finally being released as a limited beta and not being available for the N97. In fact looks like [...]

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