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Skype + VoIP

Skype is kissing goodbye to P2P. Live Messenger in drag. You are assimilated.

October 22, 2012

. “We have been silently re-architecting basically the entire way Skype works.” This change means Skype is moving away from its historic P2P service into a modern one ready for the mobile-based world. Skype is shifting to Microsoft’s Messenger platform…

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Skype is kissing goodbye to P2P. Live Messenger in drag. You are assimilated.

October 22, 2012

. “We have been silently re-architecting basically the entire way Skype works.” This change means Skype is moving away from its historic P2P service into a modern one ready for the mobile-based world. Skype is shifting to Microsoft’s Messenger platform…

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What is CPNI? Did you get the AT&T email? Could you opt-out? #privacy #PRfail

May 21, 2012

Tweet What is CPNI? Who writes the AT&T garbage AND UNDECIPHERABLE e-mails that end up TELLING me about my account and then when I read very carefully are broken when I try to do something about it? Like opt-out? According to AT&T CPNI is important information about the privacy of my customer information. You read [...]

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Video Conferencing and the Dinosaurs?

May 16, 2012

Tweet   Andy Abramson pointed me to his post and another on the state of the video conferencing Industry this morning. What’s wrong with the Video Conferencing  Industry? and his post “Taking Aim and Telling the Truth”. Fact is, I all but ignore the Video Conferencing Industry now. What I don’t do is ignore video and [...]

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In 2012: Skype is boring @evanwolff sums it up in Skype Journal

January 4, 2012

Skype was fun in 2003 to 2005 as Phil notes. What surprises me is that with the depth of passion that users have shown for it – there isn’t the inventiveness and innovation around it anymore. There are so many things that could be done. When Skype laun…

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In 2012: Skype is boring @evanwolff sums it up in Skype Journal

January 4, 2012

Skype was fun in 2003 to 2005 as Phil notes. What surprises me is that with the depth of passion that users have shown for it – there isn’t the inventiveness and innovation around it anymore. There are so many things that could be done. When Skype laun…

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

September 14, 2011

Tweet 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” [...]

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Sensors and Frames by the end of the decade.

June 27, 2011

Tweet 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 [...]

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Ecomm Intro – First Speaker Richard Nespola

June 27, 2011

Tweet 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 [...]

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FaceTime: VoIP Product of the Year

December 30, 2010
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Tweet 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 [...]

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iPhone Users Won’t Care Much About Google Voice

November 22, 2010

Tweet 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 [...]

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

October 20, 2010
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Tweet 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 [...]

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Let’s Tango – VoIP’s Emerging Mobile Model

October 14, 2010
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Tweet 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 [...]

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Skype 5.0 – Misses another mobile opportunity by focusing on Windows

October 14, 2010

Tweet 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 [...]

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

September 15, 2010

Tweet 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 [...]

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