Archive for September 2nd, 2008
Chrome: Nice, But Not a “Killer” Browser Just Yet
Over on OStatic, Sam Dean has put Google’s open-source Chrome browser (available for Windows users), through the paces. Deeming it “clean and complete for a beta version,” Dean dishes up an in-depth review: As promised, Chrome is focused on web applications and is tricked out to handle them nicely. While it may not be ready to act as a complete OS just yet, it lets you create shortcuts for your favorite web apps and run them — even if Chrome is closed. Like lots of Goog...
Chrome Hands-On Review
OStatic has put Google’s new open-source browser, Chrome, through its paces. While it found Chrome to have a clean interface — and to deliver on its promise of working efficiently with numerous tabs open — OStatic notes the power Firefox still gets from the large collection of useful extensions with which it works. Chrome is built to be extensible in interesting ways, but it will need to play catch-up with Mozilla. ...
Google Browser Puts the Cloud To Work
It was nearly a decade ago when a then-young Marc Andreessen, the wunderboy founder of Netscape Communications, first talked about the concept of the browser pushing the operating system into the background. With the release of Google’s experimental browser, Chrome, we have come full circle. A lot has changed in the past 10 years. For one thing, the cost of hardware and network infrastructure has declined sharply. Such a decline has led to what’s known as cloud computing, whereby compa...
Broadband Price Wars Could Hurt Consumers
Today the Wall Street Journal drills into another aspect of the maturing broadband market: price wars. But instead of being good for consumers, in the end these may actually end up hurting them — by enticing them into capped services from cable providers or tying them to plans with early termination fees. With fewer new customers signing up with DSL or cable providers, we’ve tracked the side effects of maturity such as negative advertising and the boosts in speed offered to prospect...
Flashphone adds Adobe AIR VoIP app
Regular readers of the VoIP & Gadgets blog will recall I’ve written about Flashphone several times. In theory, Flashphone, like Phweet (a Flash-based VoIP app) should work on Aircell’s airline Internet service. Until of course, Aircell blocks it of course. (See Andy’s post about doing VoIP over Aircell) The most recent Flashphone news was the addition of flash-SIP/VoIP-to-video calling. Now today, Flashphone has released an Adobe AIR version of Flashphone. Many Flashphone ...
Luca’s New Blog - Bigger and Better - More Analyst 2.0
Back to work everybody! Lots to do, and I wanted to get a quick shout-out here for fellow blogger Luca Filigheddu. He’s got a great blog that I’ve been following for a while, and I’m really looking forward to meeting him again at the IT Expo in two weeks. My message here is to let you know that Luca announced his new and improved blog on Friday, and I haven’t seen much buzz - so I’m doing my part to make sure you know about it. Luca has taken a bold and ambitious ap...
VoIP Supply Named to CRN’s Fastest Growing Retailers - Proof VoIP a Fast Growing industry
Garrett Smith from VoIP Supply emailed me this morning expressing his excitement that “A VoIP pure play keeping up with a who’s who of America’s top retailers.” Specifically, the company Garrett works for was named to CRN Magazine’s Fastest Growing retailers listing VoIP Supply’s retail business amongst the big boys like Best Buy, New Egg and PC Connection. Out of the 15 companies listed, only one company posted better growth numbers then VoIP Supply. A hearty...
Office Communications Server 2007 R2 beta released
Well if the cat wasn’t out of the bag already over the naming convention (OCS 2007 R2 vs. OCS 2009) for the next release of Office Communications Server 2007, we can put that to rest. It will be indeed be called Office Communications Server 2007 R2. In fact, just a few days ago, Microsoft shipped the beta for Office Communications Server 2007 R2, “in record time after shipping OCS 2007 last year.” Kintan Brahmbhatt, a Program Manager at Microsoft writes, “It is a great a...
iPhone Challenges Symbian, but Symbian Fights Back
Symbian has released data for the first half of the year and the second quarter of 2008 that shows it has met the iPhone challenge and is still on top. That’s what happens when you have 249 devices shipping with the Symbian OS and are the primary operating system for Nokia, which has 39.5 percent of the handset market. For the second quarter of the year Symbian launched on 19.6 million devices, up only 5 percent from 18.7 million for the same period the year before. The first generation i...
friends of fring
fring is offering a limited number of “friends of fring” with exclusive access to news, and features before general release. I like to call fring the “Swiss Army knife of mobile VoIP” supporting SIP, Skype, MSN Messenger, Yahoo, ICQ, Google Talk, Twitter, and AIM. I have it installed on my Windows Mobile 6.1 phone. As a “friend of fring” you can also provide feedback. My first suggestion should I be a FoF would be DTMF support, which I wrote about last week. A...
Event: Breakfast with Jeff Pulver and Friends in NYC on September 10th
On Wednesday, September 10th I will be in New York City and hosting another edition of Breakfast with Jeff Pulver (and Friends) in NYC at Friend of a Farmer, 77 Irving Place, from 8-10AM. Readers of my blog are invited to join us. To RSVP, please visit this event on Facebook. Everyone attending this breakfast will receive a “Personal Social Networking Toolkit as described below: — Readers of my blog are invited to join me on both twitter and Facebook. Tags: breakfast, Perso...
New 3CX VoIP Phone SIP Softphone
In late July, 3CX launched a new SIP-based VoIP client called 3CX VoIP Phone, with a fully-featured dialpad, and it allows for easy call transfers. It also features history of calls, the ability to put calls on hold, and the ability to accept, reject or ignore calls. Best of all 3CX VoIP phone is completely free and works with most popular IP PBXs and VoIP providers. It even sports multiple SIP profiles support for registering with multiple SIP accounts. As I wrote back in July, 3CX VoIP Phone ...
The leading edge of Internet creativity
It is becoming clear that Internet leadership is a shrinking U.S. prerogative. If you’re looking for the leading edge of creativity, a very good guess would be Picnic’08, to be held in Amsterdam, NL, September 24-26. It is no accident that Amsterdam is now home to one of the best, fastest, richest-connected fiber optic networks in the world. The theme of Picnic this year is “Collaborative Creativity.” The list of speakers includes friends like Clay Shirky, Ethan Zuckerman...
The leading edge of Internet creativity
It is becoming clear that Internet leadership is a shrinking U.S. prerogative. If you’re looking for the leading edge of creativity, a very good guess would be Picnic’08, to be held in Amsterdam, NL, September 24-26. It is no accident that Amsterdam is now home to one of the best, fastest, richest-connected fiber optic networks in the world. The theme of Picnic this year is “Collaborative Creativity.” The list of speakers includes friends like Clay Shirky, Ethan Zuckerman...
Next, Google Should Buy Wordpress
If Google’s decision to get into the browser business can be read as a bold/aggressive move to cement its online domination, then maybe it should acquire Wordpress. Here’s the thinking behind such an audacious statement: If you look at the GBrowser (aka Chrome), it has the potential to be yet another will-use/must-use Google service (a la search, GMail, Google Earth, Docs, Google Maps, YouTube, etc.). By launching Chrome, Google will not only have an ever-growing portfolio of servic...
Former BT CEO To Head Alcatel-Lucent
Ben Verwaayen, former CEO of BT Group is coming home - so to speak. He is going to replace Alcatel-Lucent CEO Patricia Russo and Chairman Serge Tchuruk. The Franco-American company has proved to be a corporate mismatch that makes the unlikely pairing of Kid Rock & Pamela Anderson seem normal (Hat-tip: Jesse Kopelman.) The news was reported by The Wall Street Journal. Philippe Camus, a French executive will be the new chairman of the Franco-US telecom maker, and will be based in New York. Ve...
Why is Google Releasing a Browser?
Updated Analysis: Google in a blog post on their website has acknowledged the existence of Google Chrome, a browser that the company will be releasing tomorrow. Kara Swisher has confirmed the existence of Google Chrome, a browser developed by the Mountain View, Calif.-based search company. The rumors of the browser were reported earlier on Google Blogoscoped, which received a comic book that outlined the key features of the browser. * It is based on Webkit and will include Google Gears. * It h...
Mozilla Not Worried About Google Browser
In response to today’s news that Google is releasing its own browser, code-named Chrome, I decide to call John Lilly, CEO of Mozilla Corp., the folks behind the fast growing Firefox browser. My intention was to find out what he thought about this development especially since they have been viewed as close personal partner of Google. Who Is Impacted By Google Browser Most? Obviously Microsoft Mozilla Firefox Opera Apple’s Safari Others The open so...
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