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VoIP

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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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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Skype Developers Long Ago Moved On. — We are looking for the next thing.

September 11, 2009

When Skype was sold in 2005 I effectively turned my back on them. More than most I’d put in hours working on my business and theirs. I was effectively an unpaid Skype evangelist before Skype blogs, before people even realized the power of blogs and social media. Social Networks hardly existed at the time. Helping [...]

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Panel on Innovation through Observation and Design #Mobilize

September 10, 2009

Some interesting comments although few examples provided. As always, good research and design is a mix of talented people and the result of powerful conversations. Schedule Innovation through Observation and Design Some of the best products and designs of the last 10 years have been derived from the study of human behavior. Landmark companies like [...]

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Monetizing Mobile Apps Panel at #Mobilize

September 10, 2009

My general takeaways. The internet browser will come roaring back. That while we are discovering the power of apps on the iPhone it is only when they are interconnected and social (between people using different phones) that it becomes really interesting. Schedule 8:25 Monetizing Mobile Apps … This panel maps the mobile revenue landscape by [...]

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GizmoVoice – Who’s paying for the calls?

August 4, 2009

I spent some time last week playing with GizmoVoice. It’s been written up in many places and its not hard to figure out. GizmoVoice is a mashup of GoogleVoice (now being rolled out) and Gizmo5. The Gizmo team have used GoogleVoice to achieve free calling from any SIP endpoint and then presents the call using [...]

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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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What could Apple see in Twitter? Are Tweets – MobileMe 3.0 Notifications? Is Apple really David?

May 7, 2009

I keep reading Apple + Twitter stories and no-one seems to have a clue why it might be a good idea… or a very bad idea… or simply unnecessary. What almost no one does… is tell me a story of why it might be a good idea. This is a crude little thought experiment. An [...]

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iPhone Skype Freeing Me from PC Tyranny

April 15, 2009

Not had much time or quiet to complete posts recently. Of course I downloaded Skype for iPhone on the first day! It works with 3.0 installed and I’ve had the time since to play with it. It is very very good. All the reviews have been written so I won’t review them or refer to [...]

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Truphone talks iPhone 3.0 – comments that I’ve not seen elsewhere

March 19, 2009

It may be from a Truphone PR link but sometimes it is nice to NOT have to write anything. A business commenting on changes to an operating system doesn’t come very often. Truphone is banking on 3.0 to open up further opportunities. Their points and perspective. Via Gmail – Truphone Cheers the VoIP Goodies Apple [...]

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eComm Presentation – No Numbers and My CallerID #ecomm

March 3, 2009

I wrote a post a long time ago suggesting that presenters be prepared to put up their presentations quickly after a presentation.  When I was putting this together I recorded it using Keynote. It’s made me realize the ease and opportunity to do things a little different in future. I’ve done some other demo type [...]

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Ocarina Serenade for eComm?

February 18, 2009

Here’s another reason to come to eComm on March 3-5. and why it is shaping up to be the telecommunications conference this year. We’re going to have the opportunity to listen to, talk and play the Ocarina. It could be the first conference with an Ocarina orchestra. Lee? All I know is I will now [...]

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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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