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Skype + VoIP

Wish @danyork well. He’s working so you have control over your information and content.

September 14, 2011

Congratulations to Dan York! He announced today that he’s taking up a new position at the Internet Society. There’s one line in his announcement that really resonated with me from his post and has been my passion for years too. “single points of failure” and the need for services that are “distributed and decentralized” that [...]

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Sensors and Frames by the end of the decade.

June 27, 2011

Szymon Slupik will talk about the mobile phone  in 2020. 1973 the original… and then 2007 the iPhone and a moment of proliferation. Looking forward am expecting internet glasses to replace the role of the smartphone. In the past the phone was just a phone. Today it is no longer a phone. Voice is now [...]

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Ecomm Intro – First Speaker Richard Nespola

June 27, 2011

I think I’ve attended every eComm that’s been held since Lee Dryburgh began them. Lee’s opening and mentioning the select group that is here. It’s true… and probably the only place in the world you can get the information that will be shared over the next few days.  Let’s hope it continues. I’ll try and [...]

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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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iPhone Users Won’t Care Much About Google Voice

November 22, 2010

Google Voice came to the iPhone last week. After a few posts it was just a little blip. Today it doesn’t feature in most downloaded or what’s hot in the App store and I’m not surprised. GoogleVoice remains US centric and relevant to a small cadre of users. So the big question is… should you [...]

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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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3G Facetime – Does it Change Everything Again?

August 9, 2010
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If you got a new iPhone you will remember your first and perhaps only FaceTime call over WiFi. It was probably with a family member or a close friend. Then you promptly forgot about it. It’s best currently for a call home from a WiFi in the hotel type of moment. So it misses out [...]

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FaceTime and the Enterprise – Apple’s New Threat to RIM and Cisco

August 5, 2010
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I started writing about Facetime quietly a month ago. Now I’m sharing some of those thoughts. Beyond the handset manufacturers and the mobile operators I think the enterprise, and suppliers to the Enterprise like Cisco for example should consider FaceTime and how it works carefully. Even companies like BT that have failed to fire on [...]

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

July 31, 2010
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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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