Posts tagged as:

telephony

FaceTime – Call it SIP 2.0?

August 2, 2010

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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Our National Parks and Cell Phone Coverage is a National Disgrace!!!

July 31, 2010

National Parks are some of America’s most important assets. Some are quite off the beaten track… others are more accessible. All are spectacular in their own way. All of them seem to SUCK for cell phone coverage. What was your experience this summer? Did you just put up with it too? In the last few [...]

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How Important is FaceTime? Do You Need a FaceTime Strategy?

July 31, 2010

A month ago I circulated some blog post ideas to friends on Apple Facetime. I got some feedback that they were interesting. In the meantime I’ve continued to trace Apple’s FaceTime video solution for iPhone and contemplate the implications. Ultimately, I’m interested in the opportunities FaceTime is likely to create and present. Then what it [...]

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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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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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The Emerging Telecology of Social Networks and the Status Update

November 6, 2009

This time last week I presented at eComm. The title of my talk “The Emerging Telecology of Social Networks and the Status Updates”. A long title for profferring the view that “messaging” and “status updates” are central for the future of telephony. Afterwards I was asked a few questions and I thought I’d add a [...]

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Jajah @call @stuarthenshall service misses the Phweet spot IMHO

September 16, 2009

Daniel Terdiman of Cnet reports that Jajah will enable Twitter to talk. There’s a few hints in their announcement. There’s also material differences in what the experience is likely to deliver vs Phweet which was launched 15 months ago and remains in PublicAlpha as we never believed in giving free calls away to grow the [...]

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Google Voice Replaced My Landline

July 13, 2009

Yes I moved and I used it as the opportunity to get rid of my landline. No more PSTN in this household I said. My daughter had stopped using the landline well before her iPhone turned up over a year ago. Frankly it represented “unwanted calls” from carpet cleaners and the occasional call from family [...]

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No Mr Bell! I want context and your profile! Who’s calling???

March 10, 2009

This is a comment I left on JP Rangaswami’s blog a few minutes ago. He writes a lovely post about Alexander Graham Bell. I read it and thought we need a better way to augment the setting up of voice calls. I don’t see enough focus there. So this is the comment I left. I [...]

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Changing the Twitter Conversation – Adding Talk

July 29, 2008

A good week ago my father said to me I know when you are busy you stop blogging. It’s never really intentional it just gets cut out of my day and each day forward makes it more difficult. For many reasons I’ve also been spending more time on Twitter. When Twitter first launched I thought [...]

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Voice Enabling the iPhone – iAssistant?

March 4, 2008

Wouldn’t it be nice to never dial a number again. What if you could just push one button and call all your friends by name? That in a nutshell is what Mobivox does. She’s a call assistant. “Hi Stuart. Who would you like to call?” My video examples below show how you can voice-enable the [...]

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