Archive for July 29th, 2008
Catching Up: iSkoot Gets Third Party Recognition
Over the past few months there have been a few Skype Journal posts about iSkoot and how they provide mobile device access to Skype’s services. Of course, iSkoot also provides the software behind the Skypephone on the 3 network in nine countries. Recently iSkoot has been getting some accolades from third parties: Nokia named iSkoot for Skype as a featured Application of the Week earlier this month on both the Nokia site and the S60 site. iSkoot loads your Skype contact lis...
What a Difference a Cert Makes
Digital certificates are one way we know to trust someone online. Most of us use them without even realizing it; every time we visit a secure web site, our browser checks a certificate that’s been signed and dated by a trusted third party. Other servers, such as those used to send email, rely on certificates, too. But certificates, as they did for Google today, sometimes go stale. Given the number of people who use Gmail with their desktop mail application, this means desktop users were ...
VoSKY launches T1/E1 PBX-to-Skype Gateway
VoSKY today launched a high-density T1/E1 PBX-to-Skype Gateway. Who needs SIP trunks when you can have 23 or 30 simultaneous Skype trunks? Though I’d like to see a 100% software-based gateway solution for IP-PBXs, since like Skype, they run on the IP network already. Still for traditional PBXs with T1/E1 interfaces, getting a PBX-to-Skype gateway to migrate away from expensive per minute charges on the traditional PSTN makes a lot of sense. Often the biggest cost of migrating to a 100% V...
Navigata Shows Small Business Phone System Provider ‘Linksys One’ The Door
Word on the street is that Navigata (a subsidiary of Sasktel) is shutting down it’s Linksys One offer and is giving it’s customers until the end of October to get off their Linksys One network. Since Response Point provides some great features and offers the best of the VoIP and analog phone word, it is looking like it could be a good fit for some of those customers looking to get off the Linksys One platform. The good news is that the SIP trunks that we make available via SMBPhoneS...
Introducing The Ifbyphone Lead Distributor
Just a few days after launching the Ifbyphone Voice Broadcast app for the iPhone, today we are introducing the Ifbyphone Lead Distributor. Basically, the Ifbyphone Lead Distributor allows Ifbyphone customers to establish a virtual call center without any start-up expense. As an excerpt from our press release states, The Ifbyphone Lead Distributor offers a host of productivity benefits for small- and medium-sized businesses already taking advantage of Ifbyphone’s ability to integrate Web and te...
Front Page Of The Chicago Sun-Times Business Section
The Chicago Sun-Times, one of the two major newspapers in Chicago, featured us today on the front page of the business section. Click on the title below to read the article, or you can also find it in our press room. Skokie telecom hopes to create a buzz with phone solutions The Chicago Sun-Times also cited Jon Arnold’s comments about Ifbyphone in the article: Jon Arnold, principal of J Arnold & Associates, a Toronto-based telecommunications analyst, said Ifbyphone’s mashups of...
4b needs tweaking: Cimex Usability Study on Skype 4.0 Beta 1
How do you discover what people really do with your software? Our behavior often differs from what we think we do. The human-computer interaction research method eye tracking can reveal where a user’s attention goes when they use a product. Two days after Skype launched the Skype for Windows 4.0 Beta in June 2008, Cimex, a British firm with a usability and accessibility lab, spent a day watching people use Skype. Then wrote them up. I’m including the full text of their report...
IfByPhone’s iPhone Application: Updates
The launch of our Voice Broadcast application for the iPhone went very well. The application is rapidly climbing in popularity, and we’ve listened to the feed back from our users. To that end, we’re making some changes. Our iPhone accounts will now work forever (instead of the previous 6 months before signing up for a package). Users can use the 100 free minutes and not pay a thing. You can sign up here. We will be adding a way for you to enter your credit card information i...
Astricon, Win $100, and Party Hardy at ITEXPO
Came across DIDx (DIDXchange) CEO Suzanne Bowen’s blog today, where she mentions that DIDXchange is sponsoring the Code Zone Reception on Tues PM Sept 23 at Astricon and also “giving a lightning talk with some of you on DIDX and IAX2.” She includes a sign up link to http://www.didx.net/astricon2008/, but the link doesn’t work. Anyway, she’s offering an interesting survey with the chance to win a $100 gas card or $100 American Airlines voucher. “Whether you a...
Cleantech Investors Back Obama Over McCain
Presidential hopeful Barack Obama’s green energy platform has gained him fans among that industry’s most powerful players — its investors. According to a presidential campaign donation database, the investors backing cleantech companies are backing Obama as well, putting six times the amount of money into his coffers vs. those of John McCain. Read the full story on Earth2Tech.com ...
HP, Yahoo and Intel Create Compute Cloud
At long last Hewlett-Packard is stepping up with an answer to cloud computing by creating a partnership with two other big technology vendors and three universities to create a cloud computing testbed. Through its R&D unit, HP Labs, the computing giant had has teamed up with Intel, Yahoo, the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA), the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany. The cloud...
The Stuff That Dreams Are Made of …
Buck Rogers and James Bond used jetpacks, and since the 1960s, several real jetpack designs have been built from metal, plastic and propellant. None has flown more than a minute. Now a New Zealand inventor, Glenn Martin, plans to unveil today what he calls “the world’s first practical jetpack” at the EAA AirVenture, the gigantic annual air show in Wisconsin. It’s personal flying taken to the very personal level. Martin, who has spent 27 years developing the device...
BT Buys Ribbit for $105 Million
BT (British Telecom) has acquired Silicon Valley-based Ribbit for roughly $105 million, according to various news outlets. Rumors of the deal first emerged on Venturebeat, though company officials vociferously denied any deal. Our sources say that the delays were mostly due to internal issues at Ribbit. Michael Boustridge, President, BT Americas said: “The Ribbit platform makes it simpler, cheaper and faster to build communications functionality into applications, enabling developers to intro...
Alcatel-Lucent CEO and Chairman Out
During its second quarter earnings call earlier this morning telco gear maker Alcatel-Lucent said its chairman Serge Tchuruk and its CEO Patricia Russo would step down. Both said they were stepping down because the consolidation after their 2006 merger was complete, and now the company needed someone to take it in a new direction. Russo will leave at the end of the year or sooner if the board finds a replacement and Tchuruk will leave Oct. 1. Russo especially had faced demands for her departure...
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Tangible vs. Digital
Even though Cottage Country is going digital with the sad but staedy penetration of high-speed Internet access and satellite TV, it is still pretty much an analog world. If you look around many cottages, you’ll see tangible, non-digital things such as books, magazines, newspapers, a TV that, if you’re lucky pulls in the CBC, and a radio. And if you’re wondering where VCRs and all those VCR tapes go to die, many of them will be found in Cottage Country. Without the Web and a 5...
Discovering YOUR Voice
Do you ever find yourself having a conversation with someone and all you end up saying are words which in effect say you are agreeing with them? Even if inside you really dont? This used to happen to me often and I didnt know why. It took me a long time to realize it was because I just felt uncomfortable sharing my ideas and thoughts with that person. I was afraid to freely speak my mind and wasnt comfortable saying something which may have not been in sync with the person with whom I wa...
Get Ready For NewTeeVee Pier Screenings
It is summer and it is time for NewTeeVee Pier Screenings, which return for the second run on July 31st, kicking off the series in San Francisco at the fabulous Pier 38 on Embarcadero at Townsend. (Map) This year we are doing something different - we are taking Screenings on the road. In August we are going to take the Screenings to Los Angeles and September we are heading to New York before coming back to San Francisco in October. You can find more details here on the Pier Screenings Website. ...
The Cloud Will Force Networking Vendors to Change Their Stripes
When a company builds a web site in the real world, they assemble servers, routers, switches, load balancers and firewalls, wire them up, configure them and go live. But when that application moves into a cloud environment, things change. In a cloud model, the customer isn’t dealing with physical equipment. So who handles all the wiring? And more importantly, how do networking vendors get paid? Many operational clouds still require their customers to corral their own machines, however vir...
FCC Rules Against a Baby Bell
Not only did the FCC decide on Friday to berate Comcast for messing with P2P traffic, but apparently it showed no love to Qwest, either, denying Qwest’s request for forbearance in four cities. Qwest had sought the right to stop charging competitive telecommunications carriers wholesale rates for access to its network in Phoenix, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Denver and Seattle, saying the area was now competitive. Kevin Martin, chairman of the FCC and the carrier’s biggest fan, disagreed. M...
The Skype Dance
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