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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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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 – 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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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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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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Skype introduces “slob view cam” via LG and Panasonic TV’s.

January 5, 2010
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Just tweeted that the Skype integration with LG and Panasonic TV’s raises some interesting usability questions and options. LG, Panasonic to Add Skype to TVs – WSJ.com. On further reflection this may be the rise of ‘slob view cam’. Skype Technologies SA has partnered with LG Electronics Inc. and Panasonic Corp., saying the companies will [...]

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Smoke Signals – Is it time to burn our telephone numbers?

November 6, 2009

Just for fun… The Chinese, Greeks, Romans and American Indians all used “smoke” to communicate complex messages. Todayʼs smoke signals may just be Twitter or another micro- blogging service. What implications does this have for mobile communications and escalating the conversation? For sender and receiver? How are our signaling patterns changing? A new type of [...]

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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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Jame Enck – On the Good News (Reality Check) #ecomm

October 28, 2009

James Enck. What are the main themes over the next 30 to 40 years? The Bad News: Today we have stressed national budgets, traumatized consumers. High corporate dept rates, and the recovery rate is 1/2 the historical average. (Glad there is some realism here!) The recovery is about doing things differently. The future will not [...]

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Martin Geddes on Ideas at #eComm

October 28, 2009

“Today we’ve got missed calls, tomorrow the phone will tell you why you should call back.” Martin Geddes, Head of Strategy, BT Design says in his keynote address at Ecomm Europe09, that he will present some ideas (his own).  The era of minutes in telephony is gone. Goodbye minutes, hello moments. When a global business [...]

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