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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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OpenSky – Gizmo5 to Skype Calls – Some Issues | Some Questions

February 10, 2009

I’ve had an interesting email exchange with Michael Robertson this morning as I asked a few questions about his new OpenSky product.  This new Gizmo5 calling service “OpenSky” creates a gateway so anyone can call a Skype contact from any number. As always with Gizmo they have all the routing capabilities from mobile, from web, [...]

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TringMe’s Beta SMS Solution

January 21, 2009

I’m heading to Bangalore next week and am looking forward to meeting Yusuf Motiwala the founder of TringMe and currently India’s most innovative VoIP company. We incorporated the TringMe flash phone in the Phweet Alpha.  I’ve also made it one of my tasks to look  at “cheap calls” between India and the US. As TringMe [...]

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Jaxtr FreeConnect – Uses Text Signaling Too

January 19, 2009

I’ve been trialing a new program “FreeConnect” launched by Jaxtr in December. I think it is a big hit with the Indian market and means you can call your friends almost anywhere just by dialing a local number. The other party gets an SMS and then both parties are connected for FREE (less the local [...]

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Truphone, the iPhone, India and me

January 19, 2009

India is my favorite testing ground for testing VoIP applications. The savings have always been attractive and years ago I couldn’t have done business here if it wasn’t for VoIP programs including Skype. I thought this would be a good test for Truphone too.   I’d also wanted to get Truphone working on the iPhone. [...]

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Skype Will Never Beat Facebook

January 9, 2009

When a friend starts a post with a “you will think I’m nuts …” I know he’s a real buddy of mine. Luca asks today How Can Skype Become The Next Facebook? I’d have to say no way! My reasons are supported by some of the reasons he provides in his post and some of [...]

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Skype Mac 2.8 Beta – +Sharing – Mood

January 6, 2009

Skype’s taken the wraps off their 2.8 beta for Mac last night at CES and it’s the first time I’ve felt like progress has been made on the overall product in years. Dan York’s was the first review I read and very complete. I’ve also scanned others from Phil and Jim. In the end I [...]

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2009 – We are Talking Emerging Communications Again!

January 1, 2009

Periodically a new buzz arises around VoIP’s future. I’ve just been reading posts by Jeff Pulver, Jon Arnold, Ken Camp, Andy Abramson and Lee Dryburgh. I naturally have my own perspective, both as a user and strategically. My position is simple. It’s about conversations. And if you want to change telecom you must shift power [...]

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Phweet Review – Your Suggestions Wish

December 31, 2008

Some things are Phweet! Ah sweet! At least that’s the play on words I was looking for. I thought a world full of PhweetTalk might make Twitter a more interesting place. So this is my review. 10 things I have learned: We haven’t yet changed the world. People still prefer to make their calls off [...]

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Skype and 14m! – No big deal!

October 20, 2008

There are days when a number brings home the real reality of VoIP and it’s real irrelevance. Should I perhaps too be celebrating that Skype crossed 14 million users concurrently online?  What does this number mean in real terms and is it important? So my point tonight re irrelevance relates to size. 14 million online [...]

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Voice 2.0 Manifesto Reflections and Progress

October 13, 2008

Back on October 21, 2005 Alec Saunders pulled a post together (Voice 2.0: A Manifesto for the Future), that built on many of the VoIP innovations we were seeing at the time. More recently there have been presentations “VoIP is Dead” by Skype’s CEO and questions that lead one to ask whether the Voice2.0 manifesto [...]

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One Phweet Conversation Over AirCell

August 21, 2008

They said it couldn’t be done. AirCell said they would block calls from aircraft. What and who flys and tweets at 35000ft? @Andy Abramson tweeted a little while ago breaking the news that you can talk now on AirCell using Phweet. AirCell had recently announced that WiFi would soon be on all aircraft although no [...]

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I am not a number! I am @stuarthenshall a Twittername

August 14, 2008

I sympathize with Stephanie Booth today. She’s one of the lucky one’s that’s learned that Twitter on the mobile via SMS is ‘instantaneous”, “current” and keeps you abreast in real-time. Here’s a pictorial example of how I see it on my iPhone. Note it looks like a stream just like a Twitter page. Note I’ve [...]

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Why Phweet?

July 30, 2008

Have you ever wished you could just Talk to your Twitter friend? Have you ever wanted to spontaneously set up a Conference Call with your Twitter friends? Have you ever felt irritated that you have to turn on a separate client to accept a Call? Phweet lets you accept calls with one click from your [...]

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Truphone Gets an Upgrade – Dial and Save

May 28, 2008

Truphone moved one step further forward today with a major upgrade that effectively puts Jajah Direct type capabilities onto the mobile without you having to remember all those local numbers. In fact perhaps that’s a simple way to explain it. Imagine an invisible Jajah, something that just exists in the software. The software manages all [...]

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